Post-Docs and Students at Our Embedded and Digital Systems Lab

Current Post-Docs, Research Fellows, and Research Interns

  1. Raghavendra Kumar Chunduri, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, started in February 2021.
  2. Anurag Rana, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, started in December 2023.
  3. Ray Torres, Research Intern, started in May 2024.

Current Graduate Students

    Ph.D. Students

  1. Muhammad Ali Khaliq, started in 2021.
  2. Mokhles Mohsin, started in Fall 2022, Recipient of the "NSF Funded Graduate Research Assistantship (GRA)" from Fall 2022 to Spring 2025; and "CU PhD Tuition Grant" in 2022-23 and 2023-24.
  3. Shivani Sharma, started in Fall 2022. Recipient of the "Graduate Teaching Assistantship (GTA)" from Fall 2023 to Spring 2025; and "CU PhD Tuition Grant" in 2023-24.
  4. Sanjeev Kumar Guduru, started in Fall 2023. Recipient of the "CU PhD Tuition Grant" in 2023-24.
  5. Ahmed Alrasasi, started in Spring 2024.
  6. Naif Alanazi, starting in Fall 2024.
  7. Shiju Abraham, starting in Fall 2024.

    8. M.Sc. Students (Research Option)

  8. Kommon James Ousley, started in 2020.
  9. Richard Wallace, started in 2020.
  10. Cory Sanders, started in 2021.
  11. Kayce Serafin, started in 2022.
  12. Patrick Ward, started in 2022.
  13. James Dehne, started in 2023.
  14. Christopher (Chris) Tota, started in 2023.
  15. Anderson (Andy) Worcester, started in 2023.

    16. M.Sc. Students (Project Option)

  16. Earl Watkins, started in 2020.
  17. Josh Vernon, started in 2024.

Former Graduate Students

    Ph.D. Students

  1. Arkan Alkamil (Ph.D. in May 2021), Title of the Dissertation is "Dynamic Reconfigurable Architectures to Improve Performance and Scalability of Cryptosystems on Embedded Systems". This research work has led to 2 journal publications and 2 conference publications (2 under review). He was the recipient of the "Mentored Doctoral Fellowship" in 2020-21. Arkan is an excellent student. He was taking care of his family, throughout his PhD journey. I am very proud of his accomplishments. He is currently working at the IBM in New York.
  2. Srikanth Ramadurgam (Ph.D. in May 2021), Title of the Dissertation is "Optimized Embedded Architectures and Techniques for Machine Learning Algorithms for On-Chip AI Acceleration". This research work has led to 2 journal publications and 2 conference publications (2 under review). He was the recipient of the recipient of the "Graduate Teaching Assistantship (GTA)" from Fall 2016 to Spring 2018, and the recipient of the "Mentored Doctoral Fellowship" and "Graduate Research Fellowship"in 2018-19. He is currently working at the Xilinx.
  3. Anne K. Madsen (Ph.D. in December 2020), Title of the Dissertation is "Optimized Embedded Architectures for Model Predictive Control Algorithms for Battery Cell Management Systems in Electric Vehicles". This research work has led to 3 journal publications and 1 conference publications (2 under review). She was the recipient of the "Mentored Doctoral Fellowship" in 2016-17. Anne is indeed an excellent student. She has been working full time and taking care of her family, throughout her PhD journey. I am very proud of her accomplishments. Anne is the recipient of the "Outstanding PhD Student Award" in 2020-21. She is currently working at the SpaceForce, Air Force Research Lab in Colorado Springs.
  4. Seyed Navid Shahrouzi (Ph.D. in December 2018), Title of the Dissertation is "Optimized Embedded and Reconfigurable Hardware Architectures and Techniques for Data Mining Applications on Mobile Devices", This research work has led to 3 journal publications and 4 conference publications. He was the recipient of the "Graduate Research Assistantship (GRA)" from June 2015 to May 2018. He was also a recipient of the "Mentored Doctoral Fellowship" and "Graduate Research Fellowship"in 2015-16. Navid was an outstanding student, and I am really proud of his accomplishments. Navid is also the recipient of the "Outstanding PhD Student Award" in 2018-19. He currently works as a Senior Electrical Design Engineer at the "Infineon Technologies" (formally known as "Cypress Semiconductors Inc.") in Colorado Springs.

    5. M.Sc. Students (Research Option)

  5. David Abillar (M.Sc. in May 2024), Title of the Thesis is "An FPGA-Based Linear Kalmann Filter for a Two-Phase Buck Converter Application", David did the M.Sc. Thesis Research Option. He currently works as an Engineer at Analog Devices, in Colorado Springs.
  6. Jeremy Graf (M.Sc. in May 2022), Title of the Thesis is "Optimizing Density-Based Ant Colony Stream Clustering Using FPGAs", Jeremy did the M.Sc. Thesis Research Option. Jeremy is the recipient of the "Outstanding MSEE Student Award" in 2021-22. He currently works as an FPGA Design Engineer at a Company in Colorado Springs.
  7. Jordi Perera Miro (M.Sc. in May 2020), Title of the Thesis is "FPGA-based Accelerators for Convolutional Neural Networks on Embedded Devices", Jordi did the M.Sc. Thesis Research Option. He currently works as an Engineer at an Embedded Systems Company in Spain.
  8. Laura Homet Garcia (M.Sc. in December 2019), Title of the Thesis is "An FPGA-Based Hardware Accelerator for Sequence Alignment by Genetic Algorithm", Laura did the M.Sc. Thesis Research Option. She currently works as an Engineer at the Algo-Logic FPGA company in San Jose.
  9. Mokhles Mohsin (M.Sc. in December 2017), Title of the Thesis is "An FPGA-Based Hardware Accelerator for K-Nearest Neighbor Classification for Machine Learning", Mokhles did the M.Sc. Thesis Research Option, and currently works as an Electrical Engineer in an Oli Company. This research work has led to an IEEE Conference paper publication, and received the "Best Poster Paper Award". Mokhles is the recipient of the "Outstanding MSEE Student Award" in 2017-18.
  10. Mong Tee Sim (M.Sc. in May 2017), Title of the Thesis is "Interoperability between Operating Systems and Microprocessors on Embedded Platforms", Mong did the M.Sc. Thesis Research Option, and currently works as a Principal Engineer at Cobham Semiconductors and Space Solutions.
  11. Ramprasad Raghavan (M.Sc. in May 2016), Title of the Thesis is "A Fast and Scalable Hardware Architecture for K-Means Clustering For Big Data Analysis", Ram did the M.Sc. Thesis Research Option, and currently works as an IC Design Engineer at Google in San Fransico, Bay Area. This research work has led to an IEEE Conference paper publication.

    12. M.Sc. Students (Project Option)

  12. Kevin Young (M.Sc. in December 2023), Title of the Thesis is "GPS Signal Image Feature Extraction Using Embedded FPGA", Kevin is currently works as an Engineer in Colorado Springs.
  13. Ian Atwell (M.Sc. in May 2023), Title of the Thesis is "HDL Code Variation: Impact on FPGA Performance Metrics", Ian is currently works as an Engineer at Analog Devices, Colorado Springs.
  14. Lidiya Pilli (M.Sc. in May 2021), Title of the Thesis is "FPGA-based design for Viterbi Algorithm for Software-Defined Radio", Lidiya did the M.Sc. Thesis Project Option. She is currently working at the MicroChip, in Colorado Springs.
  15. Kreshma Nair (M.Sc. in May 2016), Title of the Thesis is "A Survey of Classification Algorithms in Data Mining", Kreshma did the M.Sc. Thesis Project Option.
  16. Harsha Sajja (M.Sc. in May 2016), Title of the Thesis is "An Embedded Microprocessor-Based Design for a Medicine Reminder Box", Harsha did the M.Sc. Thesis Project Option.
  17. Tanweer Saleem Lnu (M.Sc. in May 2016), Title of the Thesis is "An Embedded Systems Design for Biometric-Based Anti-Rigging Voting Scheme", Tanweer did the M.Sc. Thesis Project Option. Tanweer was the recipient of the "Student Achievement Award" in 2016.

    18. B.Sc. Students

  18. Jordi Perera, (Spring 2018). He received a Balsell schorlship from Spain to pursure his BSc final senior design project with me.

Students' Defenses

David defended his M.Sc. Thesis in April 2024

Kevin defended his M.Sc. Project in December 2023

Jeremy defended his M.Sc. Thesis in March 2022

Jeremy's Defense, Spring 2022

Srikanth defended his Ph.D. Dissertation in February 2021

Srikanth's Defense, Spring 2021

Arkan defended his Ph.D. Dissertation in February 2021

Arkan's Defense, Spring 2021

Anne defended her Ph.D. Dissertation in August 2020

Anne's Defense, Fall 2020

Jordi defended his M.Sc. Thesis (Research Option) in May 2020 remotely/online, due to the Coronavirus Pandemic. Thus, no pictures.

Laura defended her M.Sc. Thesis (Research Option) in December 2019

Laura's Defense, Fall 2019

Navid defended his Ph.D. Dissertation in November 2018

Navid's Defense, Fall 2018

Mokhles defended his M.Sc. Thesis (Research Option) in October 2017

Mokhles's Defense, Fall 2017

Mong defended his M.Sc. Thesis (Research Option) in December 2016

Mong's Defense, Fall 2016

Ram defended his M.Sc. Thesis (Research Option) in April 2016

Ram's Defense, Spring 2016

Ph.D. Dissertation and M.Sc. Thesis Committee Chair/Member

I have been serving as a Chair/Member on Dissertation/Thesis Committees for 77 graduate students after joining UCCS. These details are under University Services.


Message for Future Graduate/Undergraduate Students

I am always looking for highly motivated and qualified graduate and undergraduate students, who are interested in working in any of the major research areas of our Embedded and Digital Systems Lab , depending on available funding.

Check our graduate programs and the admission requirements


Message for US Students

For US students, who are interested in pursuing graduate studies with me, I strongly encourage you to apply for the Graduate Research Fellowship from NSF. The applications have to be submitted within the first year of your graduate studies. Do contact me as soon as possible, so we can discuss and decide on a suitable graduate project.

Check the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program


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Last updated on 15th June 2024