Graduate Students

Sumit Walia 

ECE PhD (F'21)

swalia [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Research Interests: 

Hardware accelerators, Computational genomics, Phylogenetics

Current Project:

Education:

B.Tech, EE, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, 2020

Alireza Mohammadidoost 

ECE PhD (F'21)

amohammadidoost [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Research Interests: 

Parallel Computing, High-Performance Computing 

Current Project:

Building accelerator for Sequence Alignment 

Education: 

MS, EEE, Sharif University of Technology, 2018

BS, EEE, Sharif University of Technology, 2016

Anshu Gupta 

CSE PhD (F'22)

ang037 [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Research Interests: 

Computer Architecture, Bioinformatics acceleration 

Current Project:

Education: 

B.Tech, ETC, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology Shibpur, 2019

Pranav Gangwar 

ECE PhD (F'21)

pgangwar [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Research Interests: 

Domain specific accelerators and Computational genomics 

Current Project:

Education: 

B.Tech, ECE, Delhi Technological Univesity, 2018

Cheng Ye 

ECE MS (F'22)

chye [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Research Interests: 

Phylogenetics, Hardware Accelerators, High Performance Computing, Variant Calling 

Current Project:

Parallel methods phylogenetic tree optimization 

Education:

BS, ECE, University of California San Diego, 2022

Harsh Motwani

CSE MS (F'22)

hmotwani [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Research Interests: 

Computer Systems, Computer Architecture

Current Project:

Pangenome MAT

Education: 

B.Tech, CSE, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, 2022

Arkid Kalyan Bera 

ECE MS (F'22)

arbera [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Research Interests: 

Hardware accelerators, High performance Architectures 

Current Project:

Novel Hardware Accelerator for Genomics 

Education: 

B.Tech, ECE, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, India, 2019

Debabrata Chaudhury

ECE MS (F'22)

dchaudhury [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Research Interests: 

Computer Architecture, Parallel Computing, High-performance Architecture, ML accelerator

Current Project:

TBA

Education: 

B.Tech, EEE, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, India, 2021

Dhruvi Lodhavia

ECE MS (F'22)

dlodhavia [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Research Interests: 

High performance Architectures 

Current Project:

Exploring tools for ASIC Design analysis

Education: 

B.Tech, EE, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, 2022

Undergraduate Students

Kyle Smith 

Senior, BENG

kws001 [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Research Interests: 

Hardware/software co-design, algorithm development and high-performance computing for computational genomics and bioinformatics applications.

Current Project:

Computational tools for recombination inference in the SARS-CoV-2 virus

Tian Liu

Junior, ECE

ttl074 [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Research Interests: 

Phylogenetics, Computational Genomics, Software Development 

Current Project:

Building Whole Genome Alignment (WGA) Pipeline

Arthur Lu

Junior, ECE

a8lu [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Research Interests: 

Hardware design and High-performance computing  

Current Project:

Building hardware accelerators for Sequence Alignment

Xiyuan(Carolyn) Zhang

Sophomore, ECE

xiz105 [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Research Interests: 

Computer Architecture, Computational Genomics   

Current Project:

Wastewater-based Epidemiology


Yingqi Cao

Junior, ECE

yic033 [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Research Interests: 

Heterogeneous Computing  

Current Project:

Compiler Optimization for DPC++

Alumni

Carol Bao (Undergraduate summer and spring intern, 2022)

Xuan Wang (Undergraduate summer and spring intern, 2022)

Vidhi Kulkarni (High School summer intern, 2022)

Ronnie Volman (High School summer intern, 2022)

Xiaoxiao Zou (Undergraduate summer and spring intern, 2022)

Shoh Mollenkamp (Undergraduate summer and spring intern, 2021)

Devika Torvi (Undergraduate summer and spring intern, 2021)

Zihao Kong (Undergraduate summer and spring intern, 2021)