#  Past Students 

 

 



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 **[Emma Wang](https://yuemmawang.github.io/),** Ph.D. 2019  
*“Performance analysis for Machine Learning Applications”*

 Software Engineer, Google

 **[Sam Xi](http://www.samxi.org/),** Ph.D. 2018  
*“Advancing System-Level Analysis and Design of Specialized Architectures”*

 Software Engineer, Google

 [**Brandon Reagen**](http://brandonreagen.com/), Ph.D. 2018  
*“On the Design and Optimization of Specialized Hardware with Applications in Deep Learning”*

 Research Scientist, Facebook

 **Mario Lok**, Ph.D. 2016  
*“Power Electronics Design for an Insect Scale, Flapping Wing Robot Using High Voltage Integrated Circuits”*  
Hardware Engineer, Apple.

 **Sae Kyu Lee**, Ph.D. 2016  
*“High Efficiency Power Delivery for Chip Multiprocessors Using Voltage Stacking”*  
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard.

 **Svilen Kanev**, Ph.D. 2016  
*“Efficiency in warehouse-scale computers: a datacenter tax study”*  
Software Engineer, Google.

 **Hyunkwang Lee**, M.S. 2016

 **Yakun Sophia Shao**, Ph.D. 2016  
*“Design and Modeling of Specialized Architectures”*  
Research Scientist, NVIDIA.

 **Kevin Brownell**, Ph.D. 2015  
*“Architectural Implications of Automatic Parallelization with HELIX-RC”*  
Software Engineer, Google.

 **Tao Tong**, Ph.D. 2015  
*“Improving SoC power delivery with fully integrated voltage regulators”*

 **Michael Lyons**, Ph.D. 2013.  
*“Toward a hardware accelerated future”*  
Software Engineer, Dropbox.

 **Wonyoung Kim**, Ph.D. 2013  
*“Reducing power loss, cost and complexity of soc power delivery using integrated 3-level voltage regulators”*  
Founder and CEO, Lion Semiconductor.

 **Judson Porter**, M.S. 2012  
Software Engineer, Google Inc.

 **Michael Karpelson**, Ph.D. 2012.  
*“Power electronics design for a flapping-wing robotic insect”*

 **Krishna Rangan**, Ph.D. 2011.  
*“Hardware-based thread scheduling for power-efficient and variation-resilient chip multiprocessors”*  
Intel Corporation.

 **Ankur Agrawal**, Ph.D. 2010.  
*“Design of high speed I/O interfaces for high performance microprocessors”*  
Research Staff, IBM Research.

 **Vijay Janapa Reddi**, Ph.D. 2010.  
*“Software-assisted hardware reliability: Using runtime feedback from hardware and software to enable aggressive timing speculation”*  
Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Austin.

 **Meeta Gupta**, Ph.D. 2009.  
*“Variation-aware processor architectures with aggressive operating margins”*  
Researcher, IBM India Research Labs.

 **Mark Hempstead**, Ph.D. 2009.  
*“Accelerator-based architectures for wireless sensor network applications”*  
Assistant Professor, Drexel University.

 **Benjamin Lee**, Ph.D. 2008.  
*“Statistical inference for efficient microarchitectural analysis”*  
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Duke University.

 **Xiaoyao Liang**, Ph.D. 2008.  
*“From uncertainty to opportunity: Joint architecture and circuit resilience to mitigate the impact of process variations”*  
Professor, Shanghai Jiaotong University.