Graduate Students
Sumit Walia
ECE PhD (F'21)
swalia [at] ucsd [dot] edu
Research Interests:
Hardware accelerators, Computational genomics, Phylogenetics
Current Project:
Building hardware accelerators for genomic analysis
Computational Phylogenetics
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:
Hardware Accelerator design for Sequence Alignment Algorithms
Optimizing Whole Genome Alignment pipeline for Vertebrate Genomes 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:
Wastewater based Epidemiology
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)