Students

Ph.D.

Kaustubh Manohar Mhatre

Dates	Fall 2023 – Now
Current Research Area	AI Acceleration using AMD Versal devices
Prior Research Areas	Processing-in-Memory
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Email	[email protected]

Jaijun (Max) Hu

Dates	Joining Fall 2024
Current Research Area	ML acceleration on modern FPGAs with NoCs and PR
Prior Research Areas	–
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Email	[email protected]

Muhammad Ali Farooq

Dates	Joining Fall 2024
Current Research Area	Next-gen reconfigurable chip architecture
Prior Research Areas	–
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Email	[email protected]

Masters

Curt John Bansil

Dates	Summer 2024 – Now
Research Area	ML acceleration using Ryzen AI
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Email	[email protected]
Thesis/Non-Thesis	Thesis (co-supervised by Prof. Aviral Shrivastava)

Ruthwik Reddy Sunketa

Dates	Spring 2024 – Now
Research Area	Next-gen reconfigurable chip architecture
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Email	[email protected]
Thesis/Non-Thesis	Thesis

Sean Lowe

Dates	Fall 2023 – Now
Research Area	LLMs for Hardware Verification
Prior Research Areas	Dataset generation for ML models for FPGAs
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Email	[email protected]

Undergrad

Elias Hilaneh

Dates	Summer 2024 – Now
Research Area	LLMs for Hardware Verification
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Email	[email protected]
Role	FURI undergraduate researcher

Joseph Cohen

Dates	Spring 2025 – Now
Research Area	LLMs for Hardware Verification
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Email	[email protected]
Role	Undergraduate researcher

Alumni

Deepak Kumar Athur

Dates	Fall 2023 – Now
Research Area	ML acceleration using Xilinx Vitis AI Suite
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Email	[email protected]
Role	Master’s Thesis Student

Sean Berrios

Dates	Spring 2024 – Fall 2024
Research Area	ML acceleration on modern FPGAs with NoCs
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Email	[email protected]
Role	Master’s research project

Jacob Lusenhop

Dates	Spring 2024 – Fall 2024
Research Area	ML acceleration on modern FPGAs with NoCs
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Email	[email protected]
Role	Undergraduate honors thesis

Alma Babbit

Dates	Spring 2024 – Fall 2024
Research Area	LLMs for Hardware Verification
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Email	[email protected]
Role	FURI undergraduate researcher