People

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

• 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