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Tajana Simunic Rosing

: tajana AT ucsd DOT edu
☎ : (858) 534 - 4868
Office location and address:
CSE #2118
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, MS 0404
La Jolla, CA 92093

Postdocs

Onat Gungor

: ogungor AT ucsd DOT edu
Degree: Postdoc (started in Winter 2024)
Research: Machine Learning, Security, Internet of Things

Mahbod Afarin

: mafarin AT ucsd DOT edu
Degree: Postdoc (started in Summer 2025)
Research: Compiler Design, Hardware Acceleration, Graph Analytics

PhD Students

Derek Jones

: wdjones AT ucsd DOT edu
Degree: CSE PhD (started in Fall 2020)
Research: Bioinformatics and Machine Learning

Yujin Nam

: yujinnam AT ucsd DOT edu
Degree: CSE PhD (started in Fall 2021)
Research: Secure Computing Systems, Fully Homomorphic Encryption

Sumukh Pinge

: spinge AT ucsd DOT edu
Degree: ECE PhD (started in Fall 2022)
Research: Hardware Acceleration, Bioinformatics

Chang Eun (Paul) Song

: cesong AT ucsd DOT edu
Office: EBU1B 6510
Degree: CSE PhD (started in Fall 2022)
Research: Machine Learning Accelerator, In-memory Computing, Hyperdimensional Computing (co-advised by Prof. Mingu Kang)

Youhak (Jeremy) Lee

: yhl004 AT ucsd DOT edu
Degree: CSE PhD (started in Fall 2022)
Research: Computer architecture and systems, Domain-specific acceleration

Keming Fan

: k4fan AT ucsd DOT edu
Degree: ECE PhD (started in Fall 2022)
Research: Hardware acceleration, Processing in Memory

Chien-Yi Yang

: chy036 AT ucsd DOT edu
Degree: CSE PhD (started in Fall 2022)
Research: Computer Architecture, Hardware-Software Co-Design, Processing in Memory (PIM), Bayesian Optimization for Hardware-Software Co-Optimization

Yue (David) Pan

: yup014 AT ucsd DOT edu
Degree: CSE PhD (started in Fall 2023)
Research: Computer architecture and systems, Domain-specific accelerations

Xuan Wang

: xuw009 AT ucsd DOT edu
Degree: CSE PhD (started in Fall 2023)
Research: Domain-Specific Accelerations, Computer Architecture

Lanxiang Hu

: lah003 AT ucsd DOT edu
Degree: ECE PhD (started in Fall 2023)
Research: Efficient ML, Systems and Architecture for Large-scale ML (co-advised by Prof. Hao Zhang)

Jangseon (Jason) Park

: jap036 AT ucsd DOT edu
Degree: CSE PhD (started in Fall 2023)
Research: In Memory Computing and Near Memory Computing

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Junda Chen

: juc049 AT ucsd DOT edu
Degree: CSE PhD (started in Fall 2023)
Research: Efficient LLM Serving Engine

Tianqi Zhang

: tiz014 AT ucsd DOT edu
Degree: CSE PhD (started in Fall 2023)
Research: Computer Architecture and Memory System, Near Memory Computing

Mingjia Huo

: mhuo AT ucsd DOT edu
Degree: ECE PhD (started in Fall 2023)
Research: Machine Learning / LLM

Sung Eun Kim

: sungeun AT ucsd DOT edu
Degree: ECE PhD (started in Fall 2024)
Research: ML Accelerator, In-memory Computing

Ye Tian

: yet002 AT ucsd DOT edu
Degree: CSE PhD (started in Fall 2024)
Research: Efficient IoT Systems, Edge AI, LLMs & AI Agents for IoT

Nilesh Prashad Pandey

: nppandey AT ucsd DOT edu
Degree: CSE PhD (started in Fall 2024)
Research: Efficient ML, Optimization, Edge AI

Quanling Zhao

: quzhao AT ucsd DOT edu
Degree: CSE PhD (started in Fall 2024)
Research: Machine Learning

SeongJae Ha

: s4ha AT ucsd DOT edu
Degree: ECE PhD (started in Fall 2024)
Research: VLSI, in-memory computing (co-advised by Prof. Mingu Kang)

Siqi Li

: sil101 AT ucsd DOT edu
Degree: CSE PhD (started in Fall 2024)
Research: Computer Architecture for AI

Tsung-Han Lu

: tsl012 AT ucsd DOT edu
Degree: ECE PhD (started in Fall 2024)
Research: Hardware Acceleration, Graph Analytics, Multiomic Accelerator

Yanru Chen

: yac054 AT ucsd DOT edu
Degree: ECE PhD (started in Fall 2024)
Research: Hardware Acceleration, Graph Analytics, LLM Accelerator

Master Students

Sean Fuhrman

: stfuhrma AT ucsd DOT edu

Research: Continual Learning / Novelty Detection for Intrusion Detection Systems
Degree: ECE MS

Leonard Zhang

: lez014 AT ucsd DOT edu
Research: IoT
Degree: MS

Venkateshwaran Sivaramakrishnan

: vsivaramakrishnan AT ucsd DOT edu

Research: Hardware Acceleration, In-Memory Computing, Hyperdimensional Computing
Degree:MS

Paresh Kurdekar Vasanth

: pkurdekarvasanth AT ucsd DOT edu

Research: Hardware Acceleration, Hyperdimensional Computing
Degree: ECE MS (started in Fall 2024)

Sohan Chidanand

: smuthanegerechidanan AT ucsd DOT edu

Research: Federated Learning, Hyperdimensional Computing
Degree: CSE MS (started in Fall 2024)

Shriniwas Kulkarni

: s7kulkarni AT ucsd DOT edu

Research: HDC Quantization/Pruning
Degree: CSE MS (started in Fall 2024)

Kavit Shah

: k9shah AT ucsd DOT edu

Research: ML Systems
Degree: MS in DSE

Ye Sel Lee

: yel030 AT ucsd DOT edu

Research: Machine Learning and Computer Vision
Degree: ECE MS

Pranav Mekkoth

: pmekkoth AT ucsd DOT edu

Research: AI agents and ML model acceleration
Degree: ECE MS

Farhat Ahmed

: f3ahmed AT ucsd DOT edu

Degree: ECE MS Computer Engineering 2026

Jose Barcelo Garcia

: jbarcelogarcia AT ucsd DOT edu

Research: FHE and Machine Learning, Mass Spec Clustering
Degree: CSE MS (started 2026)

Zihao Wang

: ziw140 AT ucsd DOT edu

Degree: CSE MS (started in Fall 2024)

Benjamin Scott

: bmscott AT ucsd DOT edu

Research: Space Systems AI, Hyperdimensional Computing, Federated Learning, IoT and ML
Degree: CSE MS

Avinash Gondela

: agondela AT ucsd DOT edu

Research: Efficiency and Performance of Language Models
Degree: MS ECE (started in Fall 2025)

Runyang Tian

: r3tian AT ucsd DOT edu

Research: Hardware Acceleration, In-Memory Computing
Degree: ECE MS (started in Fall 2024)

Yenan Xu

: yex002 AT ucsd DOT edu

Research: Machine Learning, Multi-omics
Degree: CSE MS (started in Fall 2025)

Sankalpa Hota

: shota AT ucsd DOT edu

Research: NeSe: A Near-Storage Secure Database Search Platform
Degree: MS ECE (2025-2027), Started: October 2025

Yuhang Jiang

: yuj052 AT ucsd DOT edu

Research: Fully homomorphic encryption / Privacy-preserving compilers
Degree: CSE MS (Started in Fall 2024)

Jiaying Yang

: jiy018 AT ucsd DOT edu

Research: Machine Learning, Catastrophic Forgetting, Hyperdimensional Computing
Degree: MS CS, started in Fall 2025

Sid Sharma

: sis004 AT ucsd DOT edu

Research: Efficient ML Systems, LLM Agents, & Ensemble Methods
Degree: MS CSE

Yuvanand Saravanan

: ysaravanan AT ucsd DOT edu

Research: Hardware Accelerators
Degree: ECE MS started in Fall 2025

Undergraduate Students

Zhengli (Charlie) Shang

Research: Machine Learning and Cybersecurity
Degree: 4th year CSE

Beijie Cheng

Research: Machine Learning and Bioinformatics
Degree: 4th year CSE

Matilda Gaddi

Research: ML Personalization, Hyperdimensional Computing
Degree: 3rd year DSE

Jason Kong

Research: Large Language Models(LLMS)
Degree: 3rd year CE

Seiji Minowada

Research: Hyperdimensional Computing, Ensemble Learning
Degree: CSE B.S.

Elaine Ge

Research: Fully Homomorphic Encryption, Hyperdimensional Computing
Degree: 4th year Math-CS

Abhijay Deevi

Research: Pattern Matching & Optimization
Degree: CSE B.S.

Run Wang

Research: Edge Computing, Embedded System, AI
Degree: CSE B.S.

Maxwell Urbina

Research: Mass Spectrometry, Hyperdimensional Computing, FPGA
Degree: 2nd year CSE-Bioinformatics

Karen Yan

Research: Hyperdimensional Computing, Mass Spectrometry
Degree: 2nd year CSE

James Fleming

: jmfleming AT ucsd DOT edu

Research: Machine Learning and Hyperdimensional Computing
Degree: 3rd Year CSE

Amir Kiadi

Research: LLMs, Hyperdimensional Computing
Degree: 2nd year CSE

Katelyn Nguyen

: kan028 AT ucsd DOT edu

Research: Metagenomic host filtering
Degree: CSE BS, started in 2023

Sahil Nayak

: s6nayak AT ucsd DOT edu

Research: Autonomous Driving, V2X Communication
Degree: CSE BS, started in 2025

Ava Emami

: seemami AT ucsd DOT edu

Research: Hyperdimensional Computing
Degree: CS BS, started in 2023

Woojin Lee

: wol027 AT ucsd DOT edu

Research: Agentic LLM systems, vision-language models
Degree: CSE BS (started in Spring '25)

Alumni

Jaeyoung Kang

Current: engineer @ Apple
Research: GPU Acceleration on Emerging Memory Architecture, Accelerated Big Data Analytics in Bioinformatics
Degree: ECE PhD 2023

Minxuan Zhou

Current: Assistant Professor @ Illinois Institute of Technology
Research: Computer Architecture, Near-Memory Computing
Degree: CSE PhD 2023

Saransh Gupta

Research: In-Memory Processing
Degree: CSE PhD 2022

Rishikanth Chandrasekaran

Research: Deep Learning, Hyperdimensional Computing
Degree: CSE PhD 2024

Namiko Matsumoto

Research: Sparse learning with HD computing
Current: Graudate Researcher at Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute

Daryl Nakamoto

Research: Prediction and detection of epileptic seizures
Current: Software Engineer Moana Technologies LLC

Kousha Changizi

Research: Software implementation for kernel mean embeddings
Current: PhD CSE UC Irvine

Helen Shu

Research: Machine learning acceleration
Current: Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks

Anthony Thomas

Current: Postdoc @ UC Berkely
Research: Machine Learning
Degree: CSE PhD 2023

Kazim Ergun

Current: engineer @ SkySafe
Research: IoT Edge Computing
Degree: ECE PhD 2022

Justin Morris

Current: Assistant Professor @ CSUSM
Research: Hyperdimensional Computing, ML Acceleration, Processing in Memory
Degree: ECE PhD 2022

Michael Ostertag

Research: Environmental Sensing with Autonomous Robotics
Degree: CSE PhD 2022

Jeffrey Yu

Research: Efficient Circuits for HD Computing Acceleration
Current: ECE PhD Stanford

Jake Garnier

Research: Time Series Forecasting
Currnet: Software Engineer at AWS

Haichao Yang

Research: Domain-Specific Acceleration, VLSI Design
Currnet: Engineer at Qualcomm

Guangyu Yang

Research: Simulating sensor deployment with ns-3

Jeffrey Ha

Research: Simulating sensor deployment with ns-3

Yaobang Deng

Research: Object Detection
Current: Full-time Software Engineer @ Google

Conner Leonard

Research: Supervised Learning

Xinyu Wu

Research: Self Learning

Roshan Fernando

Research: Self learning

Lori Liu

Research: Approximating Light Exposure

Chau Vu

Research: Approximating Light Exposure

Leyi Shang

Research: self learning
Degree: CSE BSc

Ricardo Garcia

Research: Approximate computing
Degree: ECE BS

Jimin Mun

Research: Approximate computing
Degree: CSE BS

James Smith

Research: Drone Landing

Yuqian Cheng

Research: Ranking

Blake Dixon

Research: predictive algorithms for workload characterization
Current: Software Engineer @ Juniper Networks

Jonathan Zamora

Explore CSR program

Nhi Nguyen

Explore CSR program

Anna Palacios

Explore CSR program

Behnam Khaleghi

Current: R&D engineer @ Qualcomm
Research: Emerging Computing, Machine Learning Acceleration, Reliable VLSI Design
Degree: CSE PhD 2022

Uday Mallapa

Current: Research Scientist @ Intel Labs
Research: Machine Learning for EDA, Machine Learning Acceleration
Degree: ECE PhD 2022

Sahand Salamat

Current: engineer @ Google
Research: FPGA-based accelerators, hardware architecture, machine learning, brain-inspired computing, and bioinformatic
Degree:CSE PhD 2021

Yunui Guo

Current: Assistant Professor @ University of Texas at Dallas
Research:Machine Learning, Deep Learning
Degree: CSE PhD 2020

Jason Ma

Research: Multi-robot Control
Degree: CSE PhD

Yeseong Kim

Current: Assistant Professor @ DGIST
Research: Workload characterization and optimization for IoT ecosystems
Degree: CSE PhD 2020

Patrick Liu

Current: software engineering intern @ Microsoft
Research: Data Compression
Degree: CSE BSc 2020

Robert Chang-koepp

Current: software engineer @ Salesforce
Degree: CSE MS 2020

Joyaan Bhesania

Current: software engineer @ Lyft
Degree: CSE BS 2020

Joonseop Sim

Current: engineer @ SK hynix
Research: Processing in-memory using Emerging Non-Volatile Memory
Degree: PhD ECE 2019

Daniel Keirouz

Degree: CSE BSc 2019

Abhiram Iyer

Current: MS @ UCSD
Degree: ECE BSc 2019

Sanjay Anantha Rao

Current: DFT Design Engineer @ Apple
Research: FPGA acceleration
Degree:CSE MS 2019

Tarek Nassar

Current: engineer @ Intel Inc
Research: Neural Network
Degree: BSc ECE 2018

Shuo Li

Current: software engineer @ Coursera
Degree: BSc CSE 2018

Jiani Huang

Current: PhD program @ University of Pennsylvania
Degree: BSc CSE 2018

Chenyu Huang

Current: software development engineer @ AWS EC2
Degree: MS CSE 2018

Harveen Kaur

Current: software engineer @ Apple Inc
Degree: CSE MS 2018

Zhipeng Yan

Current: Research Engineer @ TuSimple Inc.
Degree: CSE MS 2018

Chihheng Tzang

Current: Engineer @ Kneron IC design Inc.
Degree: CSE MS 2018

Thomas Worley

Current: Graduate student @ University of Chicago
Degree: CSE BSc 2018

Kanza Khan

Current: software engineer @ Intel
Degree: CSE BSc 2018

George Alfaro

Research: Indoor Localization
Current: Junior Data Scientist @ Booz Allen Hamilton
Degree: CSE BSc 2018

Pushen Wang

Current: software engineer @ Amazon Inc.
Degree: MS CSE 2017

Christine Chan

Current: SoC architect (engineer) @ Qualcomm
Research: Energy and performance-aware thermal management
Degree: PhD CSE 2017

Max Masich

Current: software engineer @ Health Company, CA
Thesis title: Deep Neural Network Acceleration Under the Hardware Uncertainty
Degree: MS CSE 2017

Debanjan Chatterjee

Current: Engineer @ Citadel Information Services Inc.
Degree: ECE MS 2017

Dhanesh Pradhan

Current: Amazon
Research: Smart Grid and User behavior characterization for residential systems
Degree: CSE BSc 2017

Mihir Patankar

Current: engineer @ Qualcomm
Research: Human detection, tracking and activity recognition
Degree: CSE BSc 2017

Wanlin Cui

Current: Software Engineer @ Google
Research: ML algorithm Characterization for IoT ecosystems
Degree: CSE BSc 2017

Deqian Kong

Research: Neuromorphic Computing
Current: Software Engineer @ Amazon
Degree: CSE BSc 2017

Sara Farsi

Research: Real-time Data Visualization
Current: Software Engineer @ AT&T
Degree: CSE BSc 2017

Stephan Wayne

Current: Golang Software Engineer @ Sling TV
Research: Machine learning and software defined radios
Degree: MSc CSE 2017

Sahil Sharma

Current: Design Engineer @ Cymer
Research: Map Reduce
Degree: MS CSE 2017

Jagannathan Venkatesh

Current: engineer @ Google
Research: Renewable Energy & Smart Grids; Context-aware computing
Degree: PhD CSE 2016

Pietro Mercati

Current: Intel
Research: Variability, Reliability,
Thermal and Power Management for Mobile Devices
Degree: PhD CSE 2016

Alper Sinan Akyurek

Current: Postdoc AT ucsd
Research: Context-aware optimization in the IoT
Degree: PhD CSE 2016

Atl Arredondo

Current: Data science engineer @ slack Inc
Degree: BSc CSE 2016

John F Hwang

Current: Engineer @ Parsons Corporation Inc.
Degree: BSc CSE 2016

Yan Cheng

Current: Graduate student @ CSE, UCSD
Degree: BSc CSE 2016

Henrique Rodrigues

Current: Amazon
Research: Distributed SysteMS and Networking Energy Efficiency
Degree: PhD CSE 2016

Baris Aksanli

Current: Assistant Professor @ San Diego State University
Research: Energy efficiency and peak power management in data centers and smart grids.
Degree: PhD CSE 2015

Jinseok Yang

Current: LG Advanced Research
Research: Energy Efficiency and Data Quality in Distributed WSN
Degree: PhD ECE 2015

Richard Strong

Current: engineer @ Google
Research: Systems, Power Gating, Networks, Computer Architecture
Degree: PhD CSE 2013

Bryan Kim

Current: SK Telecom
Research: Memory Architecture
Degree: MS CSE 2013

Mohammad Moghimi

Current: UCSD
Research: Machine Learning
Degree: PhD CSE

Nima Nikzad

Current: data scientist @ Experian DataLabs
Research: Citisense
Degree: PhD CSE 2015

Yiran Shen

Current: software engineering manager @ Microsoft
Research: Energy Efficiency
PhD ECE 2010

Vasileios Kontorinis

Current: staff software engineer @ Google
Research: Datacenter Energy Efficiency
Degree: PhD CSE 2013

Eric Liuyi Zhang

Current: engineer @ Google Inc.
Research: Virtual Machines
Degree: MS CSE 2012

Piero Zappi

Current: Qualcomm Research
Research: Context-Aware Power Management
Degree: Postdoc CSE 2012

Sarah Larsen

Current: Qualcomm
Research: Optical Networks
Degree: BSc CSE 2012

Yanqin Jin

Current: Research Scientist @ Facebook
Research: Resource Management in Virtualized Data Centers
Degree: PhD CSE 2012

Aruna Sitaraman

Current: Broadcom
Research: Code efficiency with Yahoo
Degree: MS CSE 2011

Gaurav Dhiman

Current: Google
Research: Virtual Machines
Degree: PhD CSE 2011

Gopi Tummala

Current: Qualcomm
Research: Sensor Networks
Degree: MS CSE 2011

Jon Weiner

Current: UCSD - MS
Research: Citisense
Degree: BSc CSE 2011

Jon Weiner

Current: UCSD - MS
Research: Citisense
Degree: BSc CSE 2011

Kresimir Mihic

Current: Oracle
Research: Power Management of Integrated Systems Visiting Scholar

Raid Ayoub

Current: Intel Research
Research: Thermal Management
Degree: PhD CSE 2011

Ralf Herrmann

Current: PhD program in Germany
Research: Sensor Networks
Degree: MS math 2011

Shervin Sharifi

Current: Qualcomm
Research: Thermal Management
Degree: PhD CSE 2011

Subhra Mazumdar

Current: Oracle
Research: Memory Architecture
Degree: MS CSE 2011

Alex Di Pompeo

Current: GIMA
Research: Sensor Networks
Degree: ECE MS 2010

Ayse Coskun

Current: Boston University
Research: Thermal Management
Degree: PhD CSE 2010

Carlo Bergonzini

Current: Unipol Assicurazioni
Research: Sensor Networks
Degree: ECE MS 2010

Christiana Tenti

Current: BECAR
Research: IR People Counting
Degree: ECE MS 2010

Denis Dondi

Current: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Research: Sensor Networks
Degree: Postdoc ECE 2010

Diana Fang

Current: Northrop Grumman
Research: Sensor Networks
Degree: MS CSE 2010

Giacomo Marchetti

Current: Italy Startup
Research: Sensor Networks
Degree: ECE MS 2010

Jamie Steck

Current: US Navy
Research: Sensor Networks
Degree: MS CSE 2010

Joaquin Recas

Current: Faculty @ University of Madrid
Research: Shimmer
Degree: Postdoc CSE 2010

Krishnamraju Indukuri

Current: Qualcomm
Research: Thermal Management
Degree: ECE MS 2010

Lindong Sun

Current: Motorola
Research: Sensor Networks
Degree: ECE MS 2010

Priti Aghera

Current: Broadcom
Research: Sensor Networks
Degree: MS CSE 2010

Yashar Asgarieh

Research: Thermal and Energy Control policies in Data Centers
Degree: Started PhD in 2010

Ben Lee

Current: Cisco
Research: Sensor Networks
Degree: ECE MS 2009

Edoardo Regini

Current: Qualcomm
Research: Sensor Networks
Degree: MS CSE 2009

Yen-Kuan Wu

Current: Qualcomm
Research: On-chip thermal management
Degree: Started PhD in 2009

Daeseob Lim

Current: Qualcomm
Research: On-chip thermal management
Degree: Started PhD in 2009

Tony Tran

Current: UCI MS program
Research: Reconfigurable computing in embeded systeMS for healthcare applications
Degree: BScin CSE, 2007

David Yang

Current: Software Engineer @ Google
Research: Drone ROS
Degree:ECE MS

Daniel Perioni

Research: Approximate computing
Degree:CSE PhD

Alice A Sokolova

Research: Approximate computing
Degree:ECE PhD

Bekhzod Soliev

Current: Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Research: Internet of Things, Energy Efficiency of Residential Buildings and Smart Grids, Context Engines
Degree: PhD CSE

Nima Mousavi

Research: Internet of Things
Degree: PhD CSE

Xin Li

Research: Energy efficient scheduling, embedded system, and thermal management Research Visitor

Chunchun Xu

Current: Software Development Engineer @ Facebook Inc.
Degree: CSE MS

Seven Wu

Current: Graduate student @ University of Chicago
Degree: CSE BSc

Moyuan Huang

Current: Software engineer @ appfolio, inc.
Degree: CSE MS

Saikishan Pampana

Research: Hierarchical clustering
Degree:CSE MS

Samuel Bosch

Research: light-weight classification
visiting researcher

Dominique Meyer

Research: SDR

Duke Lin

Research: Drone Landing/
Terraswarm Demo

Yi Hui (Michael) Chen

Research: Drone ROS

Shiwei Zhou

Research: Energy monitor website

Akshay Mahajan

Research: Air quality visualization

Valeria Gonzalez

Degree: ECE BS

Haein Choi

Research: Processing in memory, in-storage computing

Jamie Song

Research: Heuristics for sensor deployment

Jing Chen

Research: Machine Learning, Security, LLM
Degree: Alumni, CSE B.S. 2025