Mithuna S Thottethodi


Professor and Interim Associate Head of Teaching and Learning

Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Summary
My recent research in computer architecture has focused on security, sparse tensor accelerators, interconnection networks, datacenter networking, and processing-near-memory architectures. My past research has broadly been in the areas of distributed systems, interconnection networks in multicores and high-performance computers, storage performance modeling and optimization, multicore memory hierarchies, storage-tier and memory-caching tiers of distributed stores.

My research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), AT&T, and SK Hynix.

Publications and Patents
A full list of my publications and patents may be seen here.
Current Students
  • Mingxuan He (PhD) Co-advised with Prof. T. N. Vijaykumar
  • Gokulan Ravi (PhD) Co-advised with Prof. T. N. Vijaykumar
  • Cole Nelson (PhD) Co-advised with Prof. T. N. Vijaykumar
  • Conor Green (PhD) Co-advised with Prof. T. N. Vijaykumar
  • Sree Charan Gundabolu (PhD) Co-advised with Prof. T. N. Vijaykumar
Graduated Ph.D. Students
  • Ashish Gondimalla (PhD) Co-advised with Prof. T. N. Vijaykumar. First Employment: Google.
  • Ejebagom (John) Ojogbo (PhD) Co-advised with Prof. T. N. Vijaykumar. First Employment: Qualcomm
  • Timothy Pritchett, PhD 2020. First Employment: Microsoft.
  • Tariq Mahmood, PhD 2017. First Employment: Microsoft.
  • Jiachen Xue, PhD 2017. First Employment: Nvidia.
  • Ahmed Abdel-Gawad, PhD 2014. First Employment: AMD.
  • Eric Villasenor, PhD 2015. First Employment: Intel.
  • Yu-Ju Hong, PhD 2013. First Employment: Google.
  • Syed Ali Raza Jafri, PhD 2013 (Co-advised with Prof. T. N. Vijaykumar). First Employment: Post-doc with AMD Research, AMD, Inc.
  • Ahmed Amin, PhD 2011 (Co-advised with Prof. T. N. Vijaykumar)
  • Xiang Xiao, PhD 2009 (Co-advised with Prof. Jaehwan (John) Lee from IUPUI). First Employment: World Evolved.
  • Nauman Rafique, PhD 2008. First Employment: Google.
  • DaeHo Seo, PhD 2008. First Employment: Intel.
Graduated M.S.(ECE) Students
  • Prashanth Purnananda, MS (Thesis) 2015. First Employment: AMD, Inc.
  • Hector Rodriguez, MS (Thesis) 2014. Pursuing a PhD
  • Calvin Holic, MS (Thesis) 2014. First Employment: AMD, Inc.
  • Jeffrey Lee, MS (Thesis) 2010. First Employment: HP
  • Brian Rothhaar, MS (Thesis) 2009. First Employment: Raytheon.
  • Eric Villasenor, MS (Thesis) 2007. Continued in the PhD program.
  • Akif Ali, MS (Thesis) 2005. First Employment: Intel.
Honors
  • Wilfred "Duke" Hesselberth Award for Teaching Excellence, 2021.
  • 2017 Motorola Excellence in Teaching Award.
  • Eta Kappa Nu (Beta Chapter) Outstanding Professor Award, Purdue University, Fall 2014.
  • Eta Kappa Nu (Beta Chapter) Outstanding Professor Award, Purdue University, Fall 2013.
  • National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, 2007.
  • Chicago Alumni New Faculty Award, 2007.
  • Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teaching Award, 2006.
  • Eta Kappa Nu (Beta Chapter) Outstanding Professor Award, Purdue University, Fall 2004.
Biography
Mithuna Thottethodi is a Professor and Interim Associate Head of Teaching and Learning at the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He received a B.Tech. (Hons) degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Duke University. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2007.

Contact Information
EE327, EE Building (Academic office) / MSEE 150A, MSEE building (Admin office)
Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Purdue University
465 Northwestern Ave,
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2035

Phone: (765) 496-6787
FAX: (765) 494-2706
e-mail: mithuna@purdue.edu
Mithuna Thottethodi has taught several offerings of the following graduate and undergraduate courses at Purdue ECE. Undergraduate courses:
  • EE 437 : Computer Design and Prototyping
  • EE 477 : Digital Systems (Senior Design)
  • Advisor to Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) teams
  • Advisor to 'Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS)
Graduate Courses:
  • ECE 608 : Computational Models and Methods
  • ECE 666 : Advanced Computer Systems (Parallel Computer Architecture)
  • ECE 565 : Computer Architecture