Faculty

Dr. Aleksandar Milenkovic, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Grad students

Ranjan Hebbar, PhD Student

Prawar Poudel, PhD Student

Undergrad students

Ethan O'Quin

Grad alumni

Ranjan Hebbar (PhD, Summer 2021; first job: VmWare, Palo Alto, CA)

• Dissertation: PMU-Events-Driven DVFS Techniques for Improving Energy-Efficiency in Modern Processors

Prawar Poudel (PhD, Spring 2021; first job: IBM, Austin,TX)

• Dissertation: Exploiting Physical Properties of Flash Memories for Enhancing Security and Energy-Efficiency of Embedded Systems

Igor Semenov (M.S., Summer 2020; first job: Cepton, San Jose, CA)

• Thesis: An Implementation of ChaCha20 Stream Cypher in All-Programmable SoCs

Mounika Ponugoti (PhD, Summer 2019; first job: Qualcomm, San Diego, CA)

• Dissertation: Hardware Data Value Tracing in Multicores

Ranjan Hebbar Seethur Raviraj (M.S., Spring 2018; continues with PhD studies)

• Thesis: SPEC 2017: Performance, Energy, and Event Characterization on Modern Processors

Prawar Poudel (M.S., Spring 2018; continues with PhD studies)

• Thesis: Using NOR Flash Memory in Microcontrollers for Generating True Random Numbers

Mounika Ponugoti (M.S.,Fall 2016; continues with PhD studies)

• Thesis: Techniques for Capturing and Filtering Data Value Traces in Multicores

Armen Dzhagaryan (PhD, Fall 2016; current job: Dynetics, Huntsville, AL)

• Dissertation: A Framework for Optimizating Data Transfers Between Edge Devices and the Cloud Using Compression Utilities 

Amrish K. Tewar (MS, Spring 2015; first job: MathWorks, Natick, MA)

• Thesis: Experimental Evaluation of Techniques for Capturing and Compressing Hardware Traces in Multicores

Albert Myers (MS, Spring 2014; first job: AMRDEC, Huntsville AL)

• Thesis: A Binary Instrumentation Tool Suite for Capturing and Compressing Traces for Multithreaded Software

Mladen Milosevic (PhD, primary advisor: Dr. Jovanov, Summer 2013, first job: Philips Research North America, Briarcliff, NY)

• Disseration: Energy-efficient Distributed Wearable Physiological Monitoring: Framework and Implementations

Armen Dzhagaryan (MS, Spring 2013, first job: Gleason Research Associates, Huntsville, AL)

• Thesis: Performance and Energy Efficiency of Common Compression/Decompression Utilities: An Experimental Study in Mobile and Workstation Computer Platforms

John Stenmark (M.S., Spring 2010, first job: Dynetics, Huntsville AL)

• Thesis: Program Execution Trace Compression Analysis Tool

Vladimir Uzelac (PhD, Spring 2010; M.S., Spring 2008; first job: Tensilica, San Jose, CA)

• Dissertation: Algorithms and Hardware Structures for Real-Time Compression of Program Traces
• Thesis: Microbenchmarks and Mechanisms for Reverse Engineering of Modern Branch Predictor Units

Austin Rogers (PhD, Spring 2010; M.S., Fall 2007; B.Sc., Spring 2005; first job: Dynetics, Huntsville, AL)

• Dissertation: Designing Cost-Effective Secure Processors for Embedded Systems: Principles, Challenges, and Architectural Solutions
• Thesis: Low Overhead Hardware Techniques for Software and Data Integrity and Confidentiality in Embedded Systems

Richard Tuggle (M.S.; Fall 2007; first job: People Tec, Huntsville, AL)

• Thesis: Multiple Path Management Protocol For the Real-time Distributed Control of Sensors and Effectors

Chris Otto (M.S., Fall 2006; primary advisor is Dr. Jovanov; won 2nd award at Alabama Launchpad 2007; first job: Cofounder, President and CEO of Halo Monitoring, Huntsville, AL)

• Thesis: An Implementation of a Wireless Body Area Network for Ambulatory Health Monitoring

Milena Milenkovic (PhD, Spring 2005; first job: IBM, Austin, TX)

• Dissertation: Architectures for Run-time Verification of Code Integrity

Undergrad alumni

Jacob Walsh

Ryan Lindquist (Auburn University student)

Sunny Patel (B.Sc., 2014; 2014 Outstanding Undergraduate Student of ECE and COE; first job: Intergraph, Huntsville, AL)

Wil Gilmore (B.Sc., 2013, first job: Lockheed Martin, Huntsville, AL)

Armen Dzhagaryan (B.Sc., 2011, first job: Adtran, Huntsville, AL)

Fasil Mulat (B.Sc., 2011, first job: graduate student at Auburn University)

Nason Tackett (B.Sc., 2011; won the best Senior Design award; first job: Quantum Technologies Inc, Huntsville, AL)

Jim Marks (B.Sc., Summer'06 undergraduate researcher; won UAH SURF award; first job: Raytheon, Huntsville, AL)

Elise Haley (B.Sc., Summer'06 undergraduate researcher; won CoE SURF award; first job: Boeing, Huntsville, AL)

David Wachira (B.Sc., Summer'05 undergraduate researcher; won CoE SURF award; first job: Adtran, Huntsville, AL)