Michel A. Kinsy
Assistant Professor
Director of the Adaptive & Secure Computing Systems (ASCS) LaboratoryDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Boston University
Short Bio
Received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2013. In his doctoral work he was one of the first to develop algorithms and hardware techniques to emulate and control large-scale power systems at the microsecond resolution. This work has been continued by the MIT spin-off, Typhoon HIL, Inc. He holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, a B.S.E. in Computer Systems Engineering and a B.S. in Computer Science from Arizona State University. From 2014 to 2016, he directed the Computer Architecture and Embedded Systems (CAES) Laboratory at the University of Oregon (UO). Prior to joining UO, he was a Technical Staff at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He is an MIT Presidential Fellow.Research Interests
His research interests lie in the general area of computer architecture, with particular emphasis on: (1) self-aware reconfigurable architectures, (2) secure architecture design, (3) fault-tolerant network-on-chip routing algorithms, and (4) embedded and cyber-physical systems.Graduate Students (PhD Candidates)
Mihailo Isakov
Undergraduate Degree:
B.S. in Electrical Engineering / Software Engineering, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad, SerbiaResearch Interests
Mihailo's research focuses on investigating neuromorphic computing systems. In particular, he explores architectural support for machine learning algorithms prone to parallelization and efficient hardware implementation. Currently, he is investigating novel neural architectures and accelerating deep neural networks by constraining them to fast, low-power and highly parallelizable operations.Current Projects
Coeus System
Alan Ehret
Undergraduate Degree:
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Miami UniversityResearch Interests
Alan Ehret is from Dayton, Ohio. Alan’s research interest is computer architecture. He is currently examining adaptive and reconfigurable systems design, hardwware acceleration of agent-based model simulations, and RISC-V architecture design space exploration.Current Projects
Helios SAPA System
Miguel Mark
Undergraduate Degree:
B.S. in Computer Science, University of the Virgin IslandsResearch Interests
System-leve security, especially, software-hardware interfaces and secure Operating System kernel design for conventional and emerging hardware platforms.Current Project
System Security
Rashmi Agrawal
Master's Degree:
M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston UniversityResearch Interests
Rashmi focuses her research on computer architecture, in particular self-aware reconfigurable architectures, architectural support for approximate computing, and graph processor design explorations.Current Project
Graph Processor Design
Novak Boskov
Master's Degree:
M.S. in Computer Engineering / Software Engineering, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, SerbiaResearch Interests
Novak's research focuses on program formulation, analysis, transformation, translation and execution adaptations for secure computing. His current emphasis is on examining compiler techniques, programming languages theory and domain specific language features for secure hardware-software system co-design.Current Project
System Security
Sahan Bandara
Master's Degree:
M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston UniversityResearch Interests
Sahan's research interests are Computer Architecture, Reconfigurable computing and Hardware security, application specific processor design, neuromorphic computing, and VLSI.Current Projects
Adaptive CachesGraduate Students (M.S.)
Margot Bauman
Undergraduate Degree:
B.S. in Biology from Smith College, M.Phil. in History from the George Washington University, and M.A.T. from Simmons College.Research Interests
Margot is interested in computer systems security, especially secure enclaves, hardware-level cryptographic, and computer systems education.Current Projects
Secure EnclavesResearch Fellows
Shanshan Zhao
Master's Degree:
M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston UniversityResearch Interests
Shanshan’s research focuses on hardware security, especially techniques for leveraging the built-in physical properties of systems for identification and security. Her research interests also include analog computation, asynchronous circuit optimization, analog/digital VLSI, RF Integrated Circuit Design and wireless communication.Current Project
Analog Circuit PUFs
Yijun Mao
Current Degree:
Bachelor of Computer Science and Technology, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU)Research Interests
Yijun’s research interests are deep neural network algorithms and efficient hardware implementation. His current focus is to quantize neural network for devices with limited hardware resources.Current Project
Edge AI-Hardware
Cheng Hai
Short Bio
Hai is with the Department of Electrical and engineering at Heilongjiang University. He received his M.Sc. in Harbin Institute of Technology and Ph.D. in Heilongjiang University. He is currently a visiting scholar in the Adaptive and Secure Computing Systems (ASCS) Laboratory in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Boston University.Research Interests
His research interests include efficient hardware design for security algorithms and chaotic system applications.Current Project
FPGA Implementation of Pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs) and Neural Network Acceleration.
Nikola Hardi
Current Degree:
M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, SerbiaResearch Interests
Nikola's research interests are in computer architecture, compilers, programming language theory and security. His current research focuses on binary analysis, program diversification and obfuscation techniques.Current Project
System SecurityUndergraduate Students
Karanraj Chauhan
Major:
B.S. in Computer Engineering, Boston University (expected May 2019)Research Interests
Karanraj’s research interests are in fast, memory efficient methods for training and inference of deep neural networks especially on devices with limited hardware resources.Current Project
Coeus ProjectKaranraj is a current BU Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program fellow.
Spencer Liu
Major:
B.S. in Computer Engineering, Boston University (expected May 2019)Research Interests
Spencer is interested in researching computer architecture and graph theory, specifically the intersection of the two fields to design architecture that performs graph algorithms efficiently.Current Project
Graph Processing
Byoungsul Lee
Major:
B.S. in Computer Engineering, Boston University (expected May 2019)Research Interests
Byoungsul is interested in researching the field of computer hardware security and graph theory. His current focus is to accelerate high performance graph processing algorithm through utilizing parallel programming and GPU hardware modification.Current Project
Graph ProcessingResearch Affiliates
Ebadollah Taheri
etaheri[at]]bu.eduDegree:
M.S. in Digital Electronics from Iran University of Science and Technology.Research Interests
Ebadollah’s research interests include interconnection networks, fault-tolerant multi/many core designs and thermal-aware 3D chips.
Current Project
Resilient Network-on-Chip (R-NoC)Laboratory Staff
Katherine Alderman
Laboratory AssistantStudent Alumni
Lake Bu
First employment: Draper Laboratory[ 2019 ] Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University
Thesis: Design of Secure and Trustworthy System-on-Chip Architectures using Hardware-based Root-of-Trust Techniques
Donato Kava
First employment: MIT Lincoln Laboratory[ 2018 ] M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University
Shreeya Khadka
First employment: NVIDIA Corporation[ 2018 ] M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University
Hien Nguyen
First employment: JDA Software[ 2018 ] M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University
Rashmi Agrawal
First employment: Intel Corporation[ 2018 ] M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University
[Update] Back in the laboratory for her PhD.
Research Fellows Alumni
Ahmad Patooghy
Short Bio
Ahmad Patooghy received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2005 and 2011, respectively. He was a research associate in the Adaptive and Secure Computing Systems (ASCS) Laboratory in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Boston University from 2017 to 2018.Research Interests
His research interests include hardware design for security/test/reliability, architectural design of multi- and many-core chips, dependability and security evaluation of VLSI circuits, and analytical modeling.First Employment/Current Position
Assistant Professor at the University of Central Arkansas.Past Laboratory Members
Gsivaperumal (Siva) Perumal
Nasim Soltani
Anam Farrukh
Group Pictures
December 2017
