Chen-Yu Lee (2013-2015) Current Position: NOAA Research Conducted: Ontologies for privacy and security
Litong Song (2002-2004) Mediatek, San Diego, CA Research Conducted: Compiler optimizations for SDF
Roberto Giorgi (1999-2001) Current Position: Department of Information Engineering, University of Siena, Siena,
Italy Research Conducted: Evaluation of SDF architecture
Hong-Shik Kim (1998-2000) Current Position: Department of CSE, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea Research conducted: Decoupled Multithreaded Architectures, SDF simulator
Doctoral Students
Fernando Ferrandiz Mosquera, Graduation Date: May 2024 Dissertation Title: A Study of Mitigation Methods for Speculative Cache Side-Channel
Attacks Current Position: University of North Texas
Rohit Yanambaka Venkata, Graduation Date: December 2021 Dissertation Title: Simon: A Domain-Agnostic Framework For Secure Design And Validation
Of Cyber Physical Systems Current Position: Nokia Bell Labs, New Providence, NJ
Shashank Adavally, Graduation Date: Aug 2021 Dissertation Title: Improving Memory Performance For Both High Performance Computing
And Embedded/Edge Computing Systems Current Position: Micron Technologies, Austin, TX
Mahzabeen Islam, Graduation Date: May 2019 Dissertation Title: Memory organizations for 3D DRAM and PCM systems Current Position: AMD Research
Marko Scrbak, Graduation Date: May 2019 Dissertation Title: Energy models for 3D DRAM and PCM systems Current Position: AMD-Research
Patrick Kamongi, Graduation Date: December 2018 Dissertation Title: Ontology-based security threat assessment and mitigation for cloud
systems Current Position: Sodigm, Sacramento, CA
Charles F. Shelor, Graduation Date: August 2018 Dissertation title: Dataflow processing in memory achieves significant energy efficiency Current Position: Consultant
Srujan Das Kotikela, Graduation Date: August 2018 Dissertation Title: Secure and trusted framework for virtualized workload Current Position: Texas A&M at Commerce, Texas
Chia-En (Paul) Lin, Graduation Date: May 2014 Dissertation Title: Performance engineering of software web services and distributed
software systems Current Position: McDaniel College, MD
Tomislav Janjusic, Graduation Date: August 2013 Dissertation Title: A framework for evaluating dynamic memory allocators, including
a new equivalence class based allocator Current Position: NVIDIA, Austin, TX
Wentong Li, Graduation Date: December 2007 Dissertation Title: High Performance Architecture using Speculative threads and dynamic
memory management hardware Current Position: Airebroker, Inc (previously at Yahoo, Admovate, Turn Inc)
Afrin Naz, Graduation Date: August 2007 Dissertation Title: Split Data Caches Current Position: Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, West Virginia University
Wenming Li, Graduation Date: August 2006 Dissertation Title: Group-EDF - a new approach and an efficient non-preemptive algorithm
for soft real-time systems Current Position: Principal Software Engineer, At&,T, Plano, Texas
Mehran Rezaei, Graduation Date: May 2004 Dissertation Title: Intelligent memory manager: Towards improving the locality behavior
of allocation intensive applications. Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
Dejan Raskovic (co-Advisor with Dr. Emil Jovanov). Graduation Date: Aug. 2003 Dissertation Title: Personal Wireless Network for Medical Sensors Current Position: Assoc. Professor, Dept. of ECE, University of Alaska - Fairbanks
Mohamed Aborizka, Graduation Date: May 2002 Dissertation Title: A Framework for the Specification, Modeling and Analysis of Agent-Oriented
Real-Time Intelligent Software Systems Current Position: Dean of College of Computing and Information Technology, Arab Academy
for Sciences, Technology and Maritime Transport, Cairo, Egypt
Joseph Arul, Graduation Date: Aug. 2001 Dissertation Title: Design, Implementation and Evaluation of the Scheduled Dataflow
Architecture Current Position: Associate Professor, Computer Science, Fu Jen Catholic University,
Taipei, Taiwan
Frederick T. Sheldon. Graduation Date: May. 1996 Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN Dissertation Title: Specification and analysis of stochastic properties for concurrent
systems expressed using CSP. Current Position: Professor, University of Idaho
T. Makphaibulchoke, Graduation Date: May 1992 Dissertation Title: DISTIL: A specification, design and implementation language for
reliable distributed computing Current Position: Hewlett-Packard, Ft. Collins, Co
Akshay K. Deshpande, Graduation Date: Aug. 1990 Dissertation Title: A framework and a proof system for concurrent processes Current Position: Diseased
Deng-Jyi Chen, Graduation Date: May 1988 Dissertation Title: Stochastic dataflow graph models for reliability analysis of communication
networks and computer systems. Current Position: Diseased
Edward Walter Banios, Graduation Date: December 1986 Dissertation Title: A conceptual model for inter-process message passing Current Position: Diseased
University of North Texas 
