People

Director

Younghyun Kim

Assistant Professor
ECE Grainger Institute for Engineering Faculty Scholar

Research Assistants

Jingjie Li

Ph.D. Candidate
ECE Chancellor’s Opportunity Fellow ('19)

Tianen Chen

Ph.D. Candidate
NSF GRFP Fellow ('20-'24)
ECE Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellow ('18)

Farheen Asif

Ph.D. Student
ECE Chancellor’s Opportunity Fellow ('22)

Omkar Prabhune

M.S. Student
NCR-SARE Graduate Research Grant Winner ('22)

Alumni

Ph.D.

Kyuin Lee, Ph.D. 2022
Dissertation: “Secure, Usable and Practical Authentication for the Internet of Things”
First position: Assistant Professor at the University of Houston, Houston, TX

Setareh Behroozi, Ph.D. 2022
Dissertation: “Energy-Quality Scalable Hardware and Software Solutions for Energy-Efficient Approximate Computing”
First position: Teaching Faculty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

M.S.

John Rupel, M.S. 2021
Project: “A Low-Power Wearable Device for Dairy Cow Eating Behavior Classification”
First position: Embedded Electrical Engineer at Genus PLC, Windsor, WI

Aishwarya Lekshimi Chithra, M.S. 2022
Project: “Hardware Acceleration of Homomorphic Encryption by Improving the Cache Locality”
First position: Senior Design Engineer at Qualcomm, Santa Clara, CA

Students' Awards and Honors (Select)

NCR-SARE Graduate Student Grant, Omkar Prabhune, 2022
GHC Student Scholarship, Aishwarya Lekshmi Chithra, 2022
Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship, Alexander Ulate, 2022
CPS Rising Star, Kyuin Lee, 2022
CPS Rising Star, Jingjie Li, 2022
DAC Young Fellowship, Hien Vu, 2021
DAC Young Fellowship, Aishwarya Lekshmi Chithra, 2021
DAC Young Fellowship, Omkar Prabhune, 2021
IWSL Programming Contest 1st Place, Tianen Chen, 2021
Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Finalist, Jingjie Li, 2021
IEEE Micro Top Pick, Jingjie Li, 2021
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Tianen Chen, 2020
Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Finalist, Tianen Chen and Setareh Behroozi, 2020
Foxconn Smart Cities-Smart Futures Competition Final Winner, Tianen Chen, Jingjie Li, Setareh Behroozi, John Rupel, and Taylor Kemp, 2020
DAC Young Student Fellowship, John Rupel, 2020
DAC Young Student Fellowship, Taylor Kemp, 2020
Foxconn Smart Cities-Smart Futures Competition Final Winner, Jingjie Li, Setareh Behroozi, and Tianen Chen, 2019
DAC A. Richard Newton Young Student Fellowship, Tianen Chen, 2019
DAC A. Richard Newton Young Student Fellowship, Kyuin Lee, 2019
Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Finalist, Jingjie Li, 2019
ISLPED Low-Power Design Contest Award, Setareh Behroozi and Jingjie Li, 2018
DAC University Demo Best Demonstration Award, Kyuin Lee, 2018
GHC Student Scholarship, Setareh Behroozi, 2018
DAC A. Richard Newton Young Student Fellowship, Jingjie Li, 2018
DAC A. Richard Newton Young Student Fellowship, Setareh Behroozi, 2017

Awards During Internship

Adobe Intern Project Expo 2022 Winner (Digital Media Organization), Omkar Prabhune, 2022
Intel Distinguished Invention Award, Tianen Chen, 2020

Companies Where Graduate Students Have Held Internship or Co-op Positions

Adobe

AMD

GE Healthcare

Intel Corporation

Max Planck Institute

Past Undergraduate Students and Visitors

Past Undergraduate Students

Alexander Ulate (Hilldale Undergraduate Research Fellow), Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023
Surya Santhan Thenarasu, Spring 2023
Lujain Al Juma, Fall 2022
Lia Sudjana, Spring 2022, Fall 2022
Eric Dubberstein, Spring 2022
Walt Boettge, Fall 2021, Spring 2022
Victoria Schrimpf, Fall 2021, Spring 2022
Yao Yao, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020
John Wang, Fall 2020
Taylor B. Kemp, Fall 2019, Spring 2020
Dong He, Fall 2019
Olivia Li, Fall 2018, Spring 2019
Lily Ong, Spring 2019
Jackson Melchert, Summer 2018, Fall 2018
Jesse Pakula, Fall 2018
Anapat Chairithinugull, Summer 2018
Fang Qin, Summer 2017
Edgar Gomez, Summer 2017

Past Visiting Scholars

Professors

Hoeseok Yang, 2020
Dong Kun Noh, 2018

Graduate Students

Jieun Joo, 2022
Hyunji Kim, 2022
Sujin Kim, 2022
Sungyoung Park, 2022
Jeonggyu Jang, 2020