Academic Staff
Dr. Benjamin Carrion Schaefer (Associate Professor)
Graduate Students
Chaitali Gajanan Sathe (PhD candidate 2021 – UTD) – Hardware Security
Baharealsadat Parchamdar (PhD candidate 2023 – UTD) – Approximate Computing
Sabrina Ahmed (PhD candidate 2023 – UTD) – Sustainable-aware Hardware Design
Victoria Gammenthaler (PhD candidate 2024 – UTD) – Machine Learning in EDA
Daksith Chandrasekera (PhD candidate 2024 – UTD)
Undergraduate Students
Omar Abioye (UTD, 2025)
Dearly Departed
Md Imtiaz Rashid (PhD UTD 2024) – Modernizing HW Assets.
Qilin Si (PhD UTD, 2023) – Design and Optimization of Behavioral ASIPs.
Prattay Chowdhury (PhD UTD, 2022) – From Single Component to System-Level Approximate Computing.
Zi Wang (PhD UTD, 2021) – Efficient High-Level Synthesis Design Space Exploration.
Bo Hu (PhD UTD, 2021 – UTD, co-supervised Prof. C. Sechen) – Thermal-aware Placement and High-Level Synthesis for Hardware Security.
Anjana Balachandran (PhD PolyU, 2020) – On the Robustness of Behavioural Circuit Design: From Fault-Tolerance to Hardware Security.
Jianqi Chen (PhD UTD, 2020) – Leveraging the Advantages of High-level Synthesis: From Hardware Security to Low-power Design.
Zhiqi Zhu (PhD UTD, 2020) – Reducing the Complexity of Fault-tolerant HW Accelerators.
Farah Naz Taher (PhD UTD, 2019) – Fault Tolerance in HW Accelerators: Detection and Mitigation.
Siyuan Xu (PhD UTD, 2019) – Towards Robust Approximate Computing.
Shuangnan Liu (PhD PolyU, 2019) – Design and Optimization of Behavioral Data Flows.
Anushree Mahapatra (PhD PolyU, 2018) – On Abstraction Methodologies for RTL-based VLSI Designs to Maximize High-level Synthesis Design Space Exploration and Applications.
Nandeesh Veeranna (PhD PolyU, 2017) – Behavioral Intellectual Property (BIP) Protection.
Yidi Liu (MPhil, PolyU 2015) – Multi processes HW accelleration. HW/SW Co-design.
Valliyappan Senthilkumar (MS UTD, 2023) – ANN Design and Optimization
Amir H. Torabi (MS UTD, 2023) – Automatic Measuring the Quality of HLS
Santosh Shetty (MS UTD, 2020) – Behavioral SoC Generation.
Akshay Raju Krishnani (MS UTD, 2020) – In-situ Implementation and Training of CNNs on FPGAs.
Yiheng Gao (MS UTD, 2020) – Effective High-Level Synthesis Design Space Exploration through a Novel Cost Function Formulation.
Rohit Sreekumar (MS UTD, 2020) – Bespoke Behavioral Processor.
Himanshu Patra (MS UTD, 2019) – Behavioral Language Converters to improve HLS Quality of Results.
Maheshwaran Ramesh Babu (MS UTD, 2019) – FPGA acceleration of Hardware Diversity Computation.
Songseok Choi (MS UTD, 2018) – Automating FPGA-based Hardware Acceleration.
Vinay Nagarad Dasavandi Krishnamurth (MS UTD, 2018) – Approximate Computing through bitwidth Optimization.
Monica Jayasheel Gowda (MS UTD, 2018) – High-Level Synthesis Design Space Exploration.
Mihir Shah (MS, UTD, 2018)- Flexible Partial Reconfiguration Based Design Architecture for Dataflow Computing
Susmitha Gogineni (MS, UTD, 2017)- Efficient Hardware Acceleration with OpenCL
Siyuan Xu (MSc, PolyU, 2015) – HW/SW Co-design
Zhendong Gao (MSc, PolyU, 2015)- Speech visualization using FPGAs
Jieshi Chen (MSc, PolyU, 2015) – HW-based feature detection
Yu Li (MSc, PolyU, 2014)-FPGA based gaming console
Xiaotong Li (MSc, PolyU, 2014) – Temperature triggered HW Trojan Detection for BIPs
Michael Asher Nelson (UTD, 2017/2018)
Chung Kit Ng (BEng, PolyU, 2016)- Internal FPGA temperature measure and display
Chun To Lam (BEng, PolyU, 2016)- FPGA board peripherals control through GUI
Gordon Yeung (BEng, PolyU, 2016)- FPGA based Artificial Neuronal Network
Ka Kit Kwan (BEng, PolyU, 2016)- Online High-Level Synthesis
Jian Su (BEng, PolyU, 2016)- FPGA based cellular automata
Yujian Xiao (BEng, PolyU, 2016)- High-Level Synthesis Design Space Exploration
Shanqi Lu (BEng, PolyU, 2015)- High-Level Synthesis Design Space Explorer
Po Ping Wong (BEng, PolyU, 2015) – HW Acceleration with FPGAs
Yingxi Chen (BEng, PolyU, 2015) – Web based High-Level Synthesis
Qixuan Zhang (BEng, PolyU, 2015) – FPGA based face detection
Yunlei Zhang (BEng, PolyU, 2015) – HW-based Feature Detection
Sylvain Chan (BSc, PolyU, 2014)-Personal Management Tool/Eisenhower Matrix
Runming Chen (BEng, PolyU, 2014)-Internal FPGA temperature monitoring