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Kaustubh Manohar Mhatre<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Dates<\/strong><\/td>Fall 2023 – Now<\/td><\/tr>
Current Research Area<\/strong><\/td>Digital Twin and AI Acceleration <\/td><\/tr>
Prior Research Areas<\/strong><\/td>Processing-in-Memory<\/td><\/tr>
Links<\/strong><\/td>\ufeff<\/td><\/tr>
Email<\/strong><\/td>kmhatre@asu.edu<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Jaijun (Max) Hu<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Dates<\/strong><\/td>Fall 2024 – Now<\/td><\/tr>
Current Research Area<\/strong><\/td>Chiplet architectures and Processing-in-Memory<\/td><\/tr>
Prior Research Areas<\/strong><\/td>Sustainability <\/td><\/tr>
Links<\/strong><\/td>\ufeff<\/td><\/tr>
Email<\/strong><\/td>jiajunh5@asu.edu<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Muhammad Ali Farooq<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Dates<\/strong><\/td>Fall 2024 – Now<\/td><\/tr>
Current Research Area<\/strong><\/td>Transmon Qubit Control using FPGAs<\/td><\/tr>
Prior Research Areas<\/strong><\/td>FPGA deployed NIDS and FPGA CAD <\/td><\/tr>
Links<\/strong><\/td>\ufeff<\/td><\/tr>
Email<\/strong><\/td>mfarooq19@asu.edu<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Ruthwik Reddy Sunketa<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Dates<\/strong><\/td>Fall 2025 – Now<\/td><\/tr>
Current Research Area<\/strong><\/td>Next-generation FPGA CAD and design<\/td><\/tr>
Prior Research Areas<\/strong><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
Links<\/strong><\/td>\ufeff<\/td><\/tr>
Email<\/strong><\/td>rsunketa@asu.edu<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ebrahim Farahmand<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Dates<\/strong><\/td>Fall 2025 – Now<\/td><\/tr>
Current Research Area<\/strong><\/td>Next-generation FPGA CAD and design<\/td><\/tr>
Prior Research Areas<\/strong><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
Links<\/strong><\/td>\ufeff<\/td><\/tr>
Email<\/strong><\/td>efarahma@asu.edu<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Curt John Bansil<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Dates<\/strong><\/td>Summer 2024 – Now<\/td><\/tr>
Research Area<\/strong><\/td>ML acceleration using Ryzen AI<\/td><\/tr>
Links<\/strong><\/td>\ufeff<\/td><\/tr>
Email<\/strong><\/td>cbansil@asu.edu<\/td><\/tr>
Thesis\/Non-Thesis<\/strong><\/td>Thesis (co-supervised by Prof. Aviral Shrivastava)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mahesh Namboodiri<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Dates<\/strong><\/td>Fall 2025 – Now<\/td><\/tr>
Research Area<\/strong><\/td>ML acceleration using Ryzen AI<\/td><\/tr>
Links<\/strong><\/td>\ufeff<\/td><\/tr>
Email<\/strong><\/td>mnamboo1@asu.edu<\/td><\/tr>
Thesis\/Non-Thesis<\/strong><\/td>Thesis<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Vihaan Patel<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Dates<\/strong><\/td>Summer 2025 – Now<\/td><\/tr>
Research Area<\/strong><\/td>LLM Based Hardware Verification<\/td><\/tr>
Links<\/strong><\/td>https:\/\/vihaanpatel.me\/<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Email<\/strong><\/td>vpatel69@asu.edu<\/td><\/tr>
Role<\/strong><\/td>Undergraduate Honor’s Thesis<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Alumni<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Sean Lowe<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Dates<\/strong><\/td>Fall 2023 – Fall 2025<\/td><\/tr>
Research Area<\/strong><\/td>LLMs for Hardware Verification<\/td><\/tr>
Links<\/strong><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
Email<\/strong><\/td>slowe8@asu.edu<\/td><\/tr>
Role<\/strong><\/td>Master’s Thesis Student<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ruthwik Reddy Sunketa<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Dates<\/strong><\/td>Spring 2024 – Summer 2025<\/td><\/tr>
Research Area<\/strong><\/td>Next-generation FPGA CAD and design<\/td><\/tr>
Links<\/strong><\/td>\ufeff<\/td><\/tr>
Email<\/strong><\/td>rsunketa@asu.edu<\/td><\/tr>
Role<\/strong><\/td>Master’s Thesis Student<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Deepak Kumar Athur<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Dates<\/strong><\/td>Fall 2023 – Fall 2024<\/td><\/tr>
Research Area<\/strong><\/td>ML acceleration using Xilinx Vitis AI Suite<\/td><\/tr>
Links<\/strong><\/td>\ufeff<\/td><\/tr>
Email<\/strong><\/td>dathur@asu.edu<\/td><\/tr>
Role<\/strong><\/td>Master’s Thesis Student<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Jacob Lusenhop<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Dates<\/strong><\/td>Spring 2024 – Fall 2024<\/td><\/tr>
Research Area<\/strong><\/td>ML acceleration on modern FPGAs with NoCs<\/td><\/tr>
Links<\/strong><\/td>\ufeff<\/td><\/tr>
Email<\/strong><\/td>jlusenho@asu.edu<\/td><\/tr>
Role<\/strong><\/td>Undergraduate honors thesis<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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