I received a BS in Computer Engineering and a BS in Mathematics at Virginia Tech in December of 2009. I then began a PhD program in solid state electronics in the Electrical Engineering department at the University of Michigan. I joined the research group of Dr. Wei Lu to study resistive switching phenomena and unconventional computing architectures. After completing my coursework, I received an MS in April of 2012 and have been working as a PhD candidate for the past three years.
As an undergraduate, I worked in the Configurable Computing Lab at VT under the direction of Dr. Peter Athanas. During that time, I helped develop tools for post-logic-synthesis reconfiguration of FPGA designs as part of DARPA's IRIS program.
I began my graduate research investigating resistive switching phenomena, popularly known as memristors. I developed a SPICE model for metal filament based memristors which helped introduce me to device simulation and gave me insights into how these devices worked. At the same time, I was working in the cleanroom at UM where I learned fabrication techniques to further develop memristive technology. My time was fairly evenly divided between fabrication, test, and simulation. After I became a candidate, I found myself spending more and more time on test/measurement and simulation, leaving device fabrication to newer graduate students.
As part of simulation, I developed an interest for hardware learning systems, which lies at the intersection of computer architecture, machine learning, and novel electronics.
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