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Current Students
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Graduate Student (PhD)
Aayush Ankit received his B.Tech. degree in Electronics Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi in 2015. He worked as a summer research intern and MITACS Globalink fellow at University of Alberta, Canada in 2014. Prior to that, he was as a summer intern at Hanyang University, South Korea in 2013. Currently, he is pursuing PhD at Purdue University as Graduate Research Assistant under the guidance of Prof. Kaushik Roy. His primary research interests lie in Neuromorphic Computing with the current focus being architecture-algorithm design for the same.
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Graduate Student (PhD)
Abhronil Sengupta received the B.E. degree from Jadavpur University, India in 2013. He was the recipient of Gold medal at Jadavpur University for his academic performance. He worked as a summer intern and DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Fellow at the University of Hamburg, Germany in 2012. He also worked as an intern at Intel Labs, Hillsboro, OR, USA in 2016. Currently he is pursuing PhD degree at Purdue University as Birck Fellow and Graduate Research Assistant under the guidance of Prof. Kaushik Roy since Fall 2013. His primary research interests lie in low-power neuromorphic computing using spintronic and emerging devices. Abhronil is the recipient of Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship recognizing top PhD candidates at Purdue University.
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Graduate Student (PhD)
Ahmed Kamal Reza received his bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2011. After one and a half years as a software engineer at Samsung Bangladesh Research and Development Center, he joined the Nanoelectronic Modeling group in Purdue in Fall 2012. After completing his master's, he has joined the Nano electronics research group in 2014 for PhD. He has published in the areas of Carbon nanotube field effect transistor (CNFET) based Op Amp design and on inclusion of atomistic VFF strain and.piezoelectric calculation in k.p model.
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Graduate Student (PhD)
Akhilesh Jaiswal received the B.Tech degree from Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology, Nanded, India in 2011 and the Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering form University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2014. He joined Nano-electronics Research Lab in Fall-2014 and is currently pursuing Ph.D. degree under guidance of Prof. Kaushik Roy. His research interest includes modeling and simulation of novel physics based spin devices for on-chip memory applications. Besides, he is also looking at neuromorphic applications of spin and CMOS devices.
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Graduate Student (PhD)
Amogh Agrawal received his B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (Ropar), India in 2016. He was a research intern at University of Ulm, Germany in 2015, under the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) fellowship. He was the recipient of Director’s Gold Medal for his all-round performance, and Institute Silver Medal for his academic achievements at IIT Ropar. He joined the Nanoelectronics Research Lab in 2016, and is currently pursuing PhD degree at Purdue University under the guidance of Prof. Kaushik Roy. His primary research interests include modeling and simulation of spintronic devices for applications in neuromorphic computing.
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Graduate Student (PhD)
Ankit received his B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, in 2012. He was a Design Engineer at STMicroelectronics (Greater Noida, India) from 2012 to 2013 where he worked on digital filters and high-speed data converter circuits. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA. His research interests include simulation and modeling of FETs at sub-10nm technology nodes, and exploration of novel nano-scale emerging devices with their possible applications. His other interests include MCU-based electronics, web-development, biking, swimming, table-tennis and traveling.
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Graduate Student (PhD)
Bing Han received his B.S. degree in Automatic control system from Northeastern University, China in 2006, and M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Dayton, Ohio in 2010. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree at the School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. His research interest includes designing new algorithms, devices and circuits aiming at achieving low power consumption electronic system.
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Graduate Student (PhD)
Chamika Mihiranga Liyanagedera received his B.Sc (2010) in Electrical Engineering from University of Peradeniya and his M.Sc (2013) in Electrical Engineering Technology from Purdue University. He was the recipient of the gold medal for the best performance in Engineering at University of Peradeniya. He started his PhD in fall 2014 and is now currently working under the guidance of Professor Kaushik Roy. His research work is mainly focused on neuromorphic computing using spin based oscillators and other emerging devices.
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Graduate Student (PhD)
Chankyu Lee received his B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Korea, in 2015. He conducted research on brain machine interface in Advanced Institutes of Convergence Technology, Korea as a summer research intern in 2014. Currently, he is pursuing PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University under the guidance of Prof. Kaushik Roy. His primary research focus is in the area of low-power neuromorphic computing and bio-inspired circuit/algorithm using spintronic and CMOS devices.
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Graduate Student (PhD)
Deboleena Roy received her B.Tech and M.Tech (Dual Degree) from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 2014. She joined Qualcomm Bangalore Design Centre in July 2014, where she worked as a Front End Design Engineer. She was part of the Power Design Team for low cost Snapdragon chipsets. She joined Purdue University in Fall 2016 and is currently pursuing PhD degree as a Graduate Research Assistant under the guidance of Prof. Kaushik Roy. Her primary research area is Neuromorphic Computing and bio-inspired learning algorithms.
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Graduate Student (PhD)
Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan received his B.Tech. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India, and his Masters in Computer Engineering from the North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, in 2010 and 2012 respectively. He then worked as a Digital Design Engineer in Cirrus Logic, Austin, TX, from 2012 to 2014, where he was involved in the design and verification of mixed-signal audio ICs. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Electrical Engineering at Purdue University under the guidance of Prof. Kaushik Roy. His primary research interests include investigating bio-inspired spiking neuromorphic computing paradigms and their energy-efficient implementation using CMOS and post-CMOS (spintronic) technologies.
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Graduate Student (PhD)
Indranil Chakraborty received his B.E. degree from Jadavpur University, India in 2013 and the Master's degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 2016. His Master's thesis was on physics-based modelling of PCMO-based devices. He was the recipient of best M. Tech thesis award and academic excellence award during his time at IIT Bombay for his academic performance. Currently he is pursuing PhD degree at Purdue University as a Graduate Research Assistant under the guidance of Prof. Kaushik Roy since Fall 2016. His primary research interests lie in low-power neuromorphic computing using spintronic and photonic devices.
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Graduate Student (PhD)
Jason Allred most recently worked as an Electronics Engineer for the US Department of Defense from 2013-2015. He received his M.S. in Computer Engineering from Utah State University in 2013. His Master's thesis involved exploiting "dark silicon" for energy efficiency. Before that, he received his B.S. in Computer Engineering from Brigham Young University-Idaho in 2011, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude. He also worked as a summer intern for National Instruments in 2011 developing FPGA tools. At Purdue, he is a recipient of the Ross Fellowship and is currently working as a Graduate Research Assistant with Professor Kaushik Roy on research in neuromorphic computing.
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Graduate Student (PhD)
Maryam Parsa received her B.Sc. degree (2004-2008) in Electrical Engineering from K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, where she was working on "Disturbance Rejection using Neural Networks". She graduated with her first Master’s degree (2011-2013) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of Ottawa, ON, Canada, where she was a recipient of the first place IEEE award in the university poster competition. Her second Master’s degree (2013-2015) was in Civil Engineering, System of Systems from Purdue University upon receiving Ross fellowship award. She is currently an Intel/SRC PhD fellow working under supervision of Prof. Kaushik Roy with the Nanoelectronics Research Laboratory, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University. She worked as an Instrumentation and Control Engineer (2008-2011) in a power plant manufacturing company. She was also an intern at Intel Corporation in 2014, and 2016. Her primary research interests focuses on Neuromorphic Computation and Spintronic Devices.
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Graduate Student (PhD)
Mei-Chin Chen received the B.S. degree in electrophysics from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, in 2012. She was a Research Assistant with the Department of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao Tung University from 2012 to 2013. Currently she is pursuing PhD degree with research interest in simulation of spin devices.
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Visiting Student (PhD)
Mesut Atasoyu, currently works as a visiting scholar in NRL, Purdue University. He is currently pursing the Ph.D. degree in Istanbul Technical University. His current research interests include spintronic devices and its digital and analog applications.
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Graduate Student (PhD)
MinSuk Koo received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea,in 2007, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 2009, and is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. From 2009 to 2012, he was with RadioPulse Inc., Seoul, Korea as a senior engineer where he had been involved with the development of ZigBee transceiver and SoC products. His research interests include interface circuits and possible applications of emerging devices.
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Graduate Student (PhD)
Nitin Rathi received his B.Tech degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata, India in 2013. He was a graduate student at University of South Florida, Tampa from 2014-2016 where he worked on hardware security and data privacy of on-chip non-volatile memories. He joined Nanoelectronics Research Lab in Fall 2016 and is currently working towards his Ph.D. degree under the guidance of Prof. Kaushik Roy. His research interests include designing architecture and algorithms for low-power Neuromorphic Computing.
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Graduate Student (PhD)
Parami Wijesinghe received her BSc in Electrical Engineering from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 2012, with the gold medal for the best performance in engineering. She started her Direct PhD in fall 2013 as a recipient of the Ross Fellowship at Purdue University. She is currently working under the guidance of Professor Kaushik Roy, with a research focus on neuromorphic computing using spin based devices.
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Graduate Student (PhD)
Priyadarshini Panda received her B.E. degree from BITS Pilani, India in 2013. She was the receipient of gold medal in Physics for academic excellence. In 2013, she joined Intel, Bangalore, India where she worked on RTL design for graphics power management. Prior to that, she did a 6-month internship with Nvidia Graphics, Bangalore, India. Currently she is pursuing a PhD degree at Purdue University as Research Assistant under the guidance of Prof. Kaushik Roy. Her primary research interests lie in low-power neuromorphic computing using spintronic and emerging devices.
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Graduate Student (PhD)
Robert Andrawis received his B.S. and Master from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cairo University. He obtained a second M.S. degree in Physics from American University in Cairo (AUC). He also worked as R&D engineer in following places: Valeo, Vodafone and Intel Egypt. He also worked as teaching assistant at American University in Cairo. He participated in and obtained the first rank in NN5 competition. His research interests are Nano-magnet memory, VLSI, NEGF, Computational Physics and Neural Networks.
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Graduate Student (PhD)
Saima Sharmin has joined Prof. Roy's group as a Ph. D. student from Fall,2015. Previously, she completed B.Sc. from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology(BUET) in 2011. After serving as a Lecturer in BUET for one year, she joined ECE Dept. of Purdue University to obtain MS degree, where she worked on developing a nano-electronic transport tool and atomistic modeling of Nitride TFETs. Her current research interest includes spin-based devices in boolean and non-boolean computation.
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Graduate Student (PhD)
Syed Shakib Sarwar received his BSc in 2012 and MSc in 2014, in Electrical Engineering, from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Bangladesh. He joined Purdue University in Fall’14 as a PhD student. His primary research focus is approximate computing. Besides, he is also looking at neuromorphic circuits based on CMOS and emerging devices.
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Graduate Student (PhD)
Yong Shim received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Korea University, Seoul, Korea, in 2004 and 2006, respectively. In 2006, he joined Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Hwasung, Korea, where he has been involved in designing circuits for Memory Interface. He is currently pursuing Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. His research interests include interface circuits and possible applications of emerging devices.
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Graduate Student (PhD)
Zubair Al Azim completed his BSc in Electrical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 2012. Currently he is a direct PhD student at Purdue University and a recipient of Williams Fellowship award. His primary research focus is spin transfer devices in logic and memory applications. He is also exploring the possible applications of laser-induced femtosecond spin dynamics.
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