Students
Current students
Kerem Arikan (PhD, co-advised with David Liu)
Williams Zhang Cen (PhD)
Abraham Farrell (undergraduate)
Adam Wilson (undergraduate)
Ali Eker
Dissertation: "High-Performance Parallel Discrete Event Simulation on Knights Landing Processors",
December 2020.
First job: AMD.
Barry Williams
Dissertation: "Scalable Parallel Discrete Event Simulation on Manycore Clusters",
May 2020.
RPA Electronics
Daniel Townley
(co-advised with Lei Yu)
Dissertation: "Hardware-Software Co-Design for Low Overhead System Security",
May 2020.
First Job: Perspecta Labs
Dmitry Evtyushkin
(co-advised with Nael Abu-Ghazaleh)
Dissertation: "Securing Systems with Isolated Execution",
August 2017.
Recepient of Binghamton Graduate Student Award for Excellence in
Research.
First job: Assistant Professor, The College of William and Mary.
Jesse Elwell
(co-advised with Nael Abu-Ghazaleh)
Dissertation: "Securing Systems with Non-Inclusive Memory Permissions",
August 2016.
Recepient of Binghamton Graduate Student Award for Excellence in
Research.
First job: Perspecta Labs.
Ketan Bahulkar
(co-advised with Nael Abu-Ghazaleh)
Dissertation: "Partitioning and Clustering in Distributed Systems",
December 2016.
First job: Assistant Professor at VIT Pune, India.
Mehmet Kayaalp
(co-advised with Nael Abu-Ghazaleh)
Dissertation: "Architectural Techniques for Protecting Systems Against Emerging Attacks",
August 2015.
Recepient of Binghamton Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research.
First job: IBM T.J.Watson Research Center.
Current job: Assistant Professor, University of New Hamphsire (from Fall 2017)
Meltem Ozsoy
(co-advised with Nael Abu-Ghazaleh)
Dissertation: "Architectural Support for Efficient Malware Prevention and Detection",
January 2015.
First job: Intel Security and Privacy Lab.
Jingjing Wang (co-advised with Nael Abu-Ghazaleh)
Dissertation: "Parallel Discrete Event Simulation on Multi-core Systems", August 2014.
First job: SyncSort, Inc., currently at Hulu.
Jason Loew
Dissertation: "Improving Sequential Code Performance in Parallel Architectures", December 2012.
First job: Assistant Professor, Valdosta State University.
Currently at Lehigh University.
Joseph Sharkey
Dissertation: "Resource Management
Techniques for Performance and Energy-Efficiency in Multithreaded Processors", May 2007.
Recepient of Graduate School Award for Student Excellence, Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research, and the
Winner of the Distinguished Dissertation Award.
Current job: Vice President and Senior Principal Scientist at Siege Technologies.
Deniz Balkan
Dissertation: "Exploiting Short-Lived Values
for Performance and Energy-Efficiency in High-Performance Microprocessors", .
May 2007.
Current job: Senior Hardware Engineer at Apple.
Former MS students
Joseph Sharkey (M.S. Thesis: "Dynamic Instruction Scheduler Designs for Power and Complexity-Aware Microprocessors")
Balaji Vijayan (M.S. Thesis: "Accurate and Efficient Detection, Prediction and Exploitation of Program Phases". First Employment - Intel Corporation)
Robert Laduca. (M.S. Thesis: "Hiding Communication Delays in Clustered Microarchitectures". First Employment - BAE Systems.)
Jason Loew (M.S. Thesis: "Quantifying the Impacts of Disabling Speculation and Relaxing the Scheduling Loop in Multithreaded Processors", now a PhD student at SUNY Binghamton)
Ameya Vasani (M.S. Thesis: "Novel Placement/Replacement Schemes for Increased L2 Cache Efficiency in Chip Multiprocessors"
Bharathi Masilamani (M.S. Project: "Throttling on a Cache Miss: Reducing Datapath Power in Superscalar Processors". First employment - Amazon.com)
Arun Balan (M.S. Project: "Architectural-Level Power Estimation Toolset for Superscalar Microprocessors". First Employment - Marlabs Inc.)
Faiz Siddiqui (M.S. Project: "Cache Organizations for Clustered Microarchitectures". First Employment - Doubleclick Inc.)
Krishna Gurram (M.S. Project: "Dynamic Set Remapping for L2 Caches". First Employment - Texas Instruments)
Amol Panchabhai (M.S. Project: "SDF GEC Compression Algorithm". First Employment - Amazon.com)
Ehab Ababneh (M.S. Project: "Improving Redundant Execution through Value Prediction". First Employment - Doubleclick.com)
Andrew Yurkiv (M.S. Project: "Wireless Data Logging System". Currently at BAE Systems)
Prashant Srinivasan (M.S. Project: "Combining Address Correlation and Delta Correlation Prefetching Using a Global History Buffer")
Kapil Ghodake (M.S. Project: "Cache Sharing in Multithreaded Processors", now at Flextrade )
Ameya Vasani, M.S Thesis, 2009
Xiushan Zhang, M.S Thesis, 2009
Igor Schmachkov, M.S Thesis, 2009
Deepak Jagtap, M.S Thesis, 2013
Atsuko Shimizu, M.S Thesis, 2020, now at IBM Research