# Team (preview B: HTML block)
We are fortunate to work with an amazing group of students, post-docs, and staff.
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## Principal Investigators
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### [David Brooks](/people/david-brooks)
Haley Family Professor of Computer Science
### [Gu-Yeon Wei](/people/gu-yeon-wei)
Robert and Suzanne Case Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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## Staff
Sort### [Glenn Holloway](/people/glenn-holloway)
Research Staff
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## Post-docs
Sort### [Matt Adiletta](/people/matt-adiletta)
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2026–present
Ph.D. 2026
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## PhD Students
Sort### [Nestor Dario Cuevas](/people/nestor-dario-cuevas)
Ph.D. Student, 2021–present
### [Mariam Elgamal](/people/mariam-elgamal)
Ph.D. Student, 2021–present
### [Alicia Golden](/people/alicia-golden)
Ph.D. Student, 2022–present
### [Jennifer Zhou](/people/jennifer-zhou)
Ph.D. Student, 2023–present
### [Kevin Kim](/people/kevin-kim)
Ph.D. Student, 2024–present
### [Haebin Do](/people/haebin-do)
Ph.D. Student, 2025–present
### [Kevin He](/people/kevin-he)
Ph.D. Student, 2025–present
### [Lauren Malek](/people/lauren-malek)
Ph.D. Student, 2026–present
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## Former PhD Students
Sort### [Matt Adiletta](/people/matt-adiletta)
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2026–present
Ph.D. 2026
### [Yuji Chai](/people/yuji-chai)
Ph.D. 2025
Now: Co-founder / Chief AI Officer at Stochastic AI
*Thesis: Resource Optimization of Emerging Machine Learning Workloads on Edge Devices*
### [Yunho Jin](/people/yunho-jin)
Ph.D. 2025
Now: Software Engineer at Google
*Thesis: Memory-centric AI: Optimizing for Memory System in Large-scale AI*
### [Samuel Hsia](/people/samuel-hsia)
Ph.D. 2024
Now: Research Scientist at Meta (FAIR)
*Thesis: Architecting Efficient, Large-Scale AI: An Algorithm-System Co-Design Approach*
### [Max Lam](/people/max-lam)
Ph.D. 2024
Now: Apple
*Thesis: Systems and Algorithms for Efficient, Secure and Private Machine Learning Inference*
### [Iulian Brumar](/people/iulian-brumar)
Ph.D. 2023
Now: Senior AI Compiler Engineer, Qualcomm
*Thesis: Early-Stage Non-Conventional Hardware Accelerator Discovery via Optimization Methods and Compiler Analysis*
### [Siming Ma](/people/siming-ma)
Ph.D. 2023
*Thesis: Device, Circuit, and Algorithm Co-Design for Efficient Neural Network Inference in Hardware*
### [Thierry Tambe](/people/thierry-tambe)
Ph.D. 2023
Now: Assistant Professor, Stanford University
*Thesis: Architecting High Performance Silicon Systems for Accurate and Efficient On-Chip Deep Learning*
### [Udit Gupta](/people/udit-gupta)
Ph.D. 2022
Now: Assistant Professor, Cornell University
*Thesis: Enabling High Performance, Efficient, and Sustainable Deep Learning Systems At Scale*
### [Lillie Pentecost](/people/lillie-pentecost)
Ph.D. 2022
Now: Assistant Professor, Amherst College
*Thesis: Enabling Emerging, Heterogeneous Memory Systems*
### [Emma Wang](/people/emma-wang)
Ph.D. 2019
Now: Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
*Thesis: Performance Analysis for Machine Learning Applications*
### [Brandon Reagen](/people/brandon-reagen)
Ph.D. 2018
Now: Assistant Professor, New York University
*Thesis: On the Design and Optimization of Specialized Hardware with Applications in Deep Learning*
### [Sam Xi](/people/sam-xi)
Ph.D. 2018
Now: Staff Software Engineer at Google
*Thesis: Advancing System-Level Analysis and Design of Specialized Architectures*
### [Svilen Kanev](/people/svilen-kanev)
Ph.D. 2016
Now: Software Engineer at Google
*Thesis: Efficiency in warehouse-scale computers: a datacenter tax study*
### [Sae Kyu Lee](/people/sae-kyu-lee)
Ph.D. 2016
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016–2017
Now: EnCharge AI
*Thesis: High Efficiency Power Delivery for Chip Multiprocessors using Voltage Stacking*
### [Mario Lok](/people/mario-lok)
Ph.D. 2016
Now: Skydio
*Thesis: Power Electronics Design for an Insect-Scaled Flapping Wing Robot with High Voltage Integrated Circuits*
### [Yakun Sophia Shao](/people/yakun-sophia-shao)
Ph.D. 2016
Now: Associate Professor, UC Berkeley
*Thesis: Design and Modeling of Specialized Architectures*
### [Kevin Brownell](/people/kevin-brownell)
Ph.D. 2015
Now: Staff Software Engineer at Google
*Thesis: Architectural Implications of Automatic Parallelization with HELIX-RC*
### [Tao Tong](/people/tao-tong)
Ph.D. 2015
Now: Co-founder, Kolmostar
*Thesis: Improving SoC Power Delivery With Fully Integrated Switched-Capacitor Voltage Regulators*
### [Michael Lyons](/people/michael-lyons)
Ph.D. 2013
Now: Staff Software Engineer at Dropbox
*Thesis: Toward a Hardware Accelerated Future*
### [Wonyoung Kim](/people/wonyoung-kim)
Ph.D. 2012
Now: Co-founder/CEO of Lion Semiconductor, acquired by Cirrus Logic
*Thesis: Reducing Power Loss, Cost and Complexity of SoC Power Delivery using Integrated 3-Level Voltage Regulators*
### [Michael Karpelson](/people/michael-karpelson)
Ph.D. 2011
Now: Senior Staff Electrical Engineer – Robotics, Harvard SEAS
*Thesis: Power electronics design for a flapping-wing robotic insect*
### [Krishna Rangan](/people/krishna-rangan)
Ph.D. 2011
Now: Systems/SoC Architect at Meta
*Thesis: Hardware-Based Thread Scheduling for Power-Efficient and Variation-Resilient Chip Multiprocessors*
### [Ankur Agrawal](/people/ankur-agrawal)
Ph.D. 2010
Now: Hardware Engineer, Google
*Thesis: Design of high speed I/O interfaces for high performance microprocessors*
### [Vijay Janapa Reddi](/people/vijay-janapa-reddi)
Ph.D. 2010
Now: Professor, Harvard University
*Thesis: Software-Assisted Hardware Reliability: Enabling Aggressive Timing Speculation Using Run-Time Feedback from Hardware and Software*
### [Hayun Chung](/people/hayun-chung)
Ph.D. 2009
Now: Associate Professor, Korea University (Sejong)
*Thesis: Design considerations for high-speed backplane transceivers with digital adaptive equalizers*
### [Meeta Gupta](/people/meeta-gupta)
Ph.D. 2009
Now: Founder, Shumee
*Thesis: Variation-aware processor architectures with aggressive operating margins*
### [Mark Hempstead](/people/mark-hempstead)
Ph.D. 2009
Now: Professor, Tufts University
*Thesis: Accelerator-Based Architectures for Wireless Sensor Network Applications*
### [Xiaoyao Liang](/people/xiaoyao-liang)
Ph.D. 2009
Now: Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
*Thesis: From Uncertainty to Opportunity: Joint Architecture and Circuit Resilience to Mitigate the Impact of Process Variations*
### [Benjamin Lee](/people/benjamin-lee)
Ph.D. 2008
Now: Professor, University of Pennsylvania
*Thesis: Statistical Inference for Efficient Microarchitectural Analysis*
### [Ruwan Ratnayake](/people/ruwan-ratnayake)
Ph.D. 2008
Now: Senior Principal Engineer, Marvell Semiconductor
*Thesis: A High-Throughput Maximum a posteriori Probability Detector for Iterative Detection*
### [Amber Tan](/people/amber-tan)
Ph.D. 2006
Now: Marvell
*Thesis: Design of Noise-Robust Clock and Data Recovery Using an Adaptive-Bandwidth Mixed PLL/DLL*
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## Former Post-docs
Sort### [Abdulrahman Mahmoud](/people/abdulrahman-mahmoud)
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021–2024
### [Devashree Tripathy](/people/devashree-tripathy)
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021–2022
### [Jeff Zhang](/people/jeff-zhang)
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020–2022
### [Alex Hankin](/people/alex-hankin)
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022
### [Chun-Feng Wu](/people/chun-feng-wu)
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021–2022
### [Sai Qian Zhang](/people/sai-qian-zhang)
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022
### [Tianyu Jia](/people/tianyu-jia)
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020–2021
### [Glenn Ko](/people/glenn-ko)
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018–2021
### [Georgios Zacharopoulos](/people/georgios-zacharopoulos)
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020–2021
### [Kshitij Bhardwaj](/people/kshitij-bhardwaj)
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018–2020
### [Yuan Yao](/people/yuan-yao)
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017–2020
### [Marco Donato](/people/marco-donato)
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017–2020
### [Burçin Çakır](/people/burcin-cakir)
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019–2020
### [Wooseok Choi](/people/wooseok-choi)
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018–2019
### [Sae Kyu Lee](/people/sae-kyu-lee)
Ph.D. 2016
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016–2017
Now: EnCharge AI
*Thesis: High Efficiency Power Delivery for Chip Multiprocessors using Voltage Stacking*
### [Paul Whatmough](/people/paul-whatmough)
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2015–2017
### [Rafael Garibotti](/people/rafael-garibotti)
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2014–2015
### [Simone Campanoni](/people/simone-campanoni)
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2009–2015
### [Silvia Zhang](/people/silvia-zhang)
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2011–2015
### [Timothy Jones](/people/timothy-jones)
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2010
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## Former Group Members
Sort### [Bob Adolf](/people/bob-adolf)
2012–2022
### [Yong-Cheol Bae](/people/yong-cheol-bae)
2002–2005
### [Simon Chaput](/people/simon-chaput)
### [Xiao Guo](/people/xiao-guo)
2010–2012
### [Jian Han](/people/jian-han)
2008–2010
### [Thomas (Hsea-Ching) Hsueh](/people/thomas-hsea-ching-hsueh)
2016–2018
### [Yeongil Ko](/people/yeongil-ko)
2019–2022
### [Hyunkwang Lee](/people/hyunkwang-lee)
2013–2016
### [Andrew Liu](/people/andrew-liu)
2004–2009
### [Judson Porter](/people/judson-porter)
2009–2012
### [Saketh Rama](/people/saketh-rama)
2015–2022
### [Kate Thurmer](/people/kate-thurmer)
2019–2022
### [Andrew Tohmc](/people/andrew-tohmc)
2003–2005
### [Nikhil Tripathi](/people/nikhil-tripathi)
2004
### [Amanda Tseng](/people/amanda-tseng)
2010–2013
### [Mark Wilkening](/people/mark-wilkening)
2016–2022
### [En-Yu (Daniel) Yang](/people/en-yu-daniel-yang)
2018–2021