Principal Investigator
Tushar Krishna is an Assistant Professor in the School of ECE at Georgia Tech since 2015. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT (2014), a M.S.E in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University (2009), and a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi (2007).
Before joining Georgia Tech, Dr. Krishna spent a year as a post-doctoral researcher at Intel, Massachusetts, and a semester at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology.
Dr. Krishna’s research spans the computing stack: from circuits/physical design to microarchitecture to system software. His key focus area is in architecting the interconnection networks and communication protocols for efficient data movement within computer systems, both on-chip and in the cloud.
Contact: tushar <at> ece <dot> gatech <dot> edu
PhD Students
Hyoukjun Kwon received the B.S. degree in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and Environmental Materials Science (EMS) from Seoul National University (SNU) in 2015.
He joined Georgia Tech as a CS Ph.D. student in 2015.
His research interests include communication-centric DNN accelerator designs, DNN algorithm-compiler mapping-hardware co-design of DNN accelerator systems, and interconnection networks.
Contact: hyoukjun <at> gatech <dot> edu
Mayank Parasar received the B.Tech (Hons) in Instrumentation Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur in 2013.
Following his bachelors, Mayank worked at NVidia India, Bangalore Design Center performing architectural validation of NVidia’s in-house CPU for 2 years. He joined Georgia Tech as an ECE PhD candidate in 2015. He is also the recipient of “Otto & Jenny Krauss Fellow” award at Georgia Tech.
Mayank received the M.S. degree from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech in 2017.
His research interests include Network on Chip (NoC), memory systems and system software/application layer co-design.
Contact: mparasar <at> gatech <dot> edu
Ananda Samajdar received a B.Tech. (Hons) in Electronics and Communication engineering from Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Allahabad in 2013. He also worked in the CHiPES lab at NTU, Singapore in the final semester of his undergrad.
Following his bachelors, Ananda worked at Qualcomm India, Bangalore Design Center in the SoC integration and power teams as a front-end VLSI engineer for 3 years.
He joined Georgia Tech as an ECE PhD student in 2016.
His research focusses on computer architecture, with an emphasis on interconnect networks and accelerator design for machine learning workloads. He is also highly interested in deep learning algorithms and VLSI design.
Contact: anandsamajdar <at> gatech <dot> edu
Eric Qin received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University (ASU) in 2017.
He joined Georgia Tech as an ECE PhD candidate in 2017.
Eric’s research interests include interconnection networks, deep learning accelerators, machine learning, and computer architecture.
Contact: ecqin <at> gatech <dot> edu
Sheng-Chun (Felix) Kao
Sheng-Chun (Felix) Kao received his B.S and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 2017.
He joined Georgia Tech as an ECE Ph.D. student in 2018.
Felix’s research interests include deep learning accelerators, machine learning, computer architecture, interconnection networks, and VLSI design.
Contact: felix <at> gatech <dot> edu
Saeed Rashidi
Saeed Rashidi received his BS from Shiraz University in 2015, and his MS from Sharif University of Technology in 2017, both in Computer Engineering. He joined Georgia Tech in Spring 2019 to start his PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering.
His research interests are DNN Training/Inference Accelerators, Scalable Training HW/SW co-design, ML algorithms and Domain-Specific accelerator design in general.
Contact: saeed <dot< rashidi <at> gatech <dot> edu
Matthew Denton
Matthew Denton received his B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Auburn University in 2018. He joined Georgia Tech as a ECE Ph.D. student in 2018, joining Synergy in 2019. He’s the recipient of Georgia Tech’s Presidential Fellowship, and was selected as the 2019 ECE Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant.
His research interest is DNN training and its architecture-level acceleration.
Contact: matthewdenton <at> gatech <dot> edu
Geonhwa Jeong
Geonhwa Jeong received a B.S. degree in Creative IT Engineering (CiTE) and Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in 2019. He joined Georgia Tech as a Computer Science (CS) Ph.D. student in 2019.
His research interests include hardware-software co-design for emerging DNNs, accelerator design, heterogeneous architecture, and interconnection networks.
Contact: geonhwa <dot< jeong <at> gatech <dot> edu
William (Jonghoon) Won
William (Jonghoon) Won received his B.S. degree in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) from Seoul National University (SNU) in 2019. He joined Georgia Tech as a Computer Science (CS) Ph.D. student in 2019.
His research interests include DNN accelerator designs, DNN software-hardware co-design, machine learning, big data analytics, and interconnection networks.
Contact: william.won <at> gatech <dot> edu
MS Students
- Yehowshua Immanuel (BS-MS, ECE, Expected: Summer 2020)
Undergraduate Students
Visitors
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- Jan Moritz Joseph (PhD, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany) – Fall 2019 to Spring 2020
- Roberto Guirado (BSc, UPC Spain) – Spring 2019
- Sachit Kuhar (BTech, IIT Guwahati) – Summer 2018
- Zhongyuan Zhao (PhD, Shanghai Jiaotong University) – Fall 2017 to Spring 2018
Alumni
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- Vineet Nadella (BS + MS, ECE, 2020)
- Thesis: Investigating Opportunities and Challenges in Modeling and Designing Scale-Out DNN Accelerators
- First Employment: Amazon
- Fei Wu (BS + MS, ECE, 2019)
- Winner of Georgia Tech President’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) for Summer 2017
- First Employment: Microsoft
- Parth Mannan (MS, ECE, 2018)
- Thesis: Exploring Opportunities and Challenges in Enabling Neuro-Evolutionary Algorithms in Hardware
- First Employment: NVIDIA
- Srikant Bharadwaj (MS, ECE, 2017)
- Thesis: Scaling Address Translation in Multi-core Architectures using Low-Latency Interconnects
- First Employment: AMD Research (GPU Micro-architecture)
- Brian Lebiednik (MS, CS, 2017)
- First Employment: Instructor, Army Cyber Institute, West Point
- Aniruddh Ramrakhyani (MS, ECE, 2017)
- Thesis: Deadlock Recovery in On-Chip Interconnection Networks
- First Employment: Apple
- Vineet Nadella (BS + MS, ECE, 2020)
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Collaborators
Academic
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- Sergi Abadal (UPC, Spain)
- José L. Abellán (UCAM, Spain)
- Manuel E. Acacio (University of Murcia, Spain)
- Abhishek Bhattacharjee (Yale University)
- Paul Gratz (Texas A&M)
- Swati Gupta (Georgia Tech)
- Natalie Enright Jerger (University of Toronto)
- Nachiket Kapre (University of Waterloo)
- Sung-Kyu Lim (Georgia Tech)
- Mikko Lipasti (Univ of Wisconsin, Madison)
- Joshua San Miguel (Univ of Wisconsin, Madison)
- Saibal Mukhopadhyay (Georgia Tech)
- Umakishore Ramachandran (Georgia Tech)
- Vivek Sarkar (Georgia Tech)
- Madhavan Swaminathan (Georgia Tech)
- Kamakoti Veezhinathan, G S Madhusudan, Neel Gala, Rahul Bodduna (IIT Madras Shakti Project)
Industry
- Brad Beckmann (AMD Research)
- Dipankar Das (Intel)
- Abhishek Jain (Xilinx)
- Angshuman Parashar (NVIDIA Research)
- Michael Pellauer, (NVIDIA Research)
- Srinivas Sridharan (Facebook)
- Sudarshan Srinivasan (Intel)
- Sree Subramoney (Intel)
- Paul Whatmough (ARM Research)
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