New Faculty Joining the Ph.D. Program in Fall 2024

The faculty team for the Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. program will be growing this Fall when Sathwika Bavikadi will join the department of computer engineering as an assistant professor. A current Ph.D. candidate at George Mason University set to defend her dissertation in the coming weeks, Sathwika will enhance the research in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. program in the areas of:

• Reconfigurable hardware accelerator design with a focus on AI/ML systems (i.e. low-precision Deep Neural Networks models, mixed precision techniques, and Tiny ML solutions that maintain high accuracy for on-device learning).
• Co-designing algorithms, hardware, and software to jointly optimize system reliability and efficiency by integrating AI algorithms and applications with approximate computing techniques, exploring sparsity in neural networks to enhanced accelerator performance.
• Design of energy-efficient customized hardware accelerators based on heterogeneous architectures (involving PIM, FPGA, CPU, and GPU) that enable parallel processing and advancing green computing solutions.
• Hardware security, particularly within in-memory computing systems by exploring hardware performance-aware design space, applications in homomorphic encryption and post-quantum cryptography, and strategies against row hammer and side-channel attacks.

Sathwika is passionate about forming the next generation of researchers and engineers, and is looking to recruiting Ph.D. students to advance research in the above areas.

Interested students can contact the Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. Program Director at ak@mail.rit.edu.