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Faculty

    Prof. Swarup Bhunia

    Email: skb21@case.edu

    Tel: (216)368-5550

   Swarup Bhunia received his B.E. (Hons.) from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India in 1995, and the M.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur in 1997. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University, IN, USA, in 2005. Currently, he is an assistant professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University.

He has worked in the semiconductor industry on RTL synthesis, verification, and low power design for about three years. He has received 2005 SRC technical excellence award as a team member, Best paper award in International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 2004), Best paper award in Latin American Test Workshop (LATW 2003), and Best paper nomination in Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2006). Dr. Bhunia has served in the technical program committee of Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE 2006-2009), Hardware Oriented Trust and Security (HOST 2008), IEEE/IFIP International Conference on VLSI (VLSI-SOC 2008), Test Technology Educational Program (TTEP), International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED 2007-2008), IEEE/ACM Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures (NANOARCH 2007-2008) and in the program committee of International Online Test Symposium (IOLTS 2005).

Personal Homepage: http://vorlon.case.edu/~skb21/skb.html

 

Current PhD Students

 

   Somnath Paul

      Email: sxp190@case.edu

      Tel: (216) 368-0265

 Somnath Paul is now pursuing his Ph.D. degree under Dr. Swarup Bhunia in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University. He received his B.E. (Hons.) in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India in 2005. Prior to admission in Case, Somnath has worked as a Design Engineer in AMD IEC. His research interests include i) Testing and development of robust digital systems for improved yield, ii) circuit design methodologies for nanoscale technologies and iii) exploring possibilities of hardware acceleration through memory-based reconfigurable frameworks. He is an ardent music lover and likes to remain updated on current affairs

 

  Rajat Subhra Chakraborty

    Email: rsc22@case.edu

    Tel: (216) 368-0265

   Rajat Subhra Chakraborty is now pursuing his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University. He received his B.E. (Hons.) in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India in 2006. From 2005-06, he worked as a CAD Software Engineer in National Semiconductor at their India Design Centre in Bangalore. In Fall 2006, he joined Case as a Research Assistant to Dr. Swarup Bhunia. His research interests are Hardware Security including Hardware IP Protection, Low-power VLSI and Nano Circuit Design Methodologies. During his spare time, Rajat likes to read, listen to music (especially to soulful Bengali songs), and follow cricket on the Internet.

 

    Seetharam Narasimhan

    Email: sxn124@case.edu

    Tel: (216) 368-0265

  Seetharam Narasimhan is now pursuing his Ph.D. degree in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University. He received his B.E. (Hons.) in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India in 2006. His current research interests include the design of new techniques for signal processing of neural recordings and the development of low-power and robust bio-implantable circuits for the same.

Homepage: http://vorlon.case.edu/~sxn124/index.htm

 

    Xinmu Wang

    Email: xxw58@case.edu

    Tel: (216) 368-0265

  Xinmu Wang is now pursuing her Ph.D. degree in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University. She received her B.E. in Microelectronics from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China in 2008. Her current research interests include hardware security including Trojan detection and high temperature VLSI design.


 

    Anandaroop Ghosh

    Email: axg468@case.edu

    Tel: (216) 368-0265

  Anandaroop Ghosh is now pursuing his Ph.D. degree in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University. He received his B.E. (Hons) in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India in 2008. Prior to admission at Case, he has worked as a Research Consultant at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India for one year. His current research interests include i) exploring possibilities of hardware acceleration through memory based reconfigurable frameworks and ii) exploring efficient modeling and circuit design techniques in order to design an on-chip sensing scheme for a collection of DNA molecules utilizing silicon nanopores. He is an ardent lover of sports and loves watching cricket and soccer in his spare time.

 

Current MS Students

  

       David Stalter

    Email: dts8@case.edu

    Tel: (216) 368-0265

  David Stalter is now pursuing his Masters degree in Computer Engineering in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at Case Western Reserve University as part of an integrated BS/MS program.  His bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering will be completed in May, 2008.  David's research interests include nanometer architecture and circuit design, FPGA architecture, and NEMS devices.  Outside of academics, David enjoys playing the piano and expanding his knowledge on a diverse range of topics.

Keerthi Keerthi Kunaparaju

Email: kxk239@case.edu

Tel: (216) 368-0265

  Keerthi Kunaparaju is pursuing her Masters in Computer Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University. She received her BTech degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University(JNTU),Hyderabad, India in 2007. Her areas of interest include Circuit design for nanometer VLSI and emerging Memory Technologies.

Dongdong

    Dongdong Du

    Email: dxd213@case.edu

    Tel: (216) 368-0265

  Dongdong Du is now pursuing his Masters degree in Computer Engineering in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at Case Western Reserve University.  He received his B.E. in Automation from the College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, China in 2005.  His current research interests are hardware security including hardware Trojan detection and low-power VLSI and circuit design.

Lei

    Lei Wang

    Email: lxw185@case.edu

    Tel: (216) 368-0265

  Lei Wang is now pursuing his Masters degree in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, at Case Western Reserve University. He received his B.E. in Communication Engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China in 2007.

Graduated Students

  • Matthew Holtz, Keithley Instruments (M.S. Dec 2007)


  • Yu Zhou, Marvell Semiconductor (M.S. Sept 2007)

Homepage: vorlon.case.edu/~yxz77


  • Lawrence Leinweber, PhD student at Case (M.S. May 2007)

 

Collaborators

  • Prof. Hillel Chiel    
    Biology and Neuroscience        
    Case Western Reserve University

  • Prof. Carlos Mastrangelo   
    Electrical and Computer Engineering
    University of Utah

  • Prof. Mehran Mehregany
    Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    Case Western Reserve University

  • Prof. Kaushik Roy
    Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Purdue University

  • Prof. Saibal Mukhopadhyay
    Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Prof. Christos Papachristou
    Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 
    Case Western Reserve University


                        Last Update Oct 20, 2009