Graduated Students

1. Harshavardhan Sabbineni (May 2009), First position: Senior Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation.
   PhD Thesis title: Location-Aware Protocols for Energy-Efficient Information Processing in Wireless Sensor Networks.
2. Mahmut Yilmaz (April 2009), First Position: Senior Design Engineer, AMD, Sunnyvale, CA.
   (Received IEEE Test Technology Technical Council Best Dostoral Thesis Award, 2009.)
   PhD Thesis title: Automated Test Grading and Pattern Selection for Small-Delay Defects .
3. Tao Xu (PhD, December 2008), First Position: Hardware Engineer IV, Cisco Systems, Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC.
   PhD Thesis title: Optimization Tools for the Design of Reconfigurable Digital Microfluidic Biochips.
4. Sudarshan Bahukudumbi (PhD, April 2008), First position: Quality and Reliability Test Engineer, Intel Corporation, Penang, Malaysia.
   PhD Thesis title: Wafer-Level Testing and Test Planning for Integrated Circuits.
5. Zhanglei Wang (PhD, April 2007), First Position: Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA.
   PhD Thesis title: Techniques for Reducing Manufacturing Test Cost: Test Pattern Selection, Test Compression, and Test Scheduling
6. Phil Paik (PhD, May 2006), First Position: Advanced Liquid Logic, Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC.
   PhD Thesis title: Adaptve Hot-Spot Cooling of Integrated Circuits Using Digital Microfluidics
7. Fei Su (PhD, January 2006), First Position: Senior DFT Engineer, Intel Corporation, Folsom, CA. (Click here for graduation picture)
   PhD Thesis title: Synthesis, Testing, and Reconfiguration Techniques for Digital Microfluidic Biochips
   Winner of European Design Automation Association (EDAA) Outstanding Dissertation Award in 2006 for the category "New Directions in Physical Design, Design for Manufacturing and CAD for Analog Circuits"
   
8. Anuja Sehgal (PhD, May 2005), First Position: Senior Design Engineer with AMD Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA
   PhD Thesis title: Test Infrastructure Design for Digital, Mixed-Signal and Hierarchical SOCs
9. Yi Zou (PhD, December 2004), First Position: Unitrends Software Corporation Columbia , SC.
   PhD Thesis title: Coverage-Driven Sensor Deployment and Energy-Efficient Information Processing in Wireless Sensor Networks.
10. Lei Li (PhD, August 2004), First Position: Digital Design Engineer, Freescale Semiconductor, Austin, TX.
    PhD Thesis title: Reducing Test Data Volume for System-on-Chip Integrated Circuits using Test Data Compression and Built-In Self-Test,
11. Ying Zhang (PhD, May 2004)
    PhD Thesis title: Dynamic Adaptation for Fault Tolerance and Power Management in Real-Time Embedded Systems, May 2004, First Position: Senior Software Engineer, Guidant Corporation, St. Paul, MN.
12. Vishnu Swaminathan (PhD, May 2003), First Position: Researcher at Siemens Corporate Research Center, Bangalore, India.
    PhD Thesis title: Dynamic Power Management in Hard Real-Time Systems
13. Chunsheng Liu (PhD, May 2003), First Position: Assistant Professor at University of Nebraska (click here for graduation picture)
    PhD Thesis title: Fault Diagnosis in Scan-BIST with System-on-Chip Applications
14. Anshuman Chandra (PhD, September 2002), First Position: Senior R & D Engineer at Synopsys, Mountain View, CA (click here for graduation picture)
    PhD Thesis title: Test Resource Partitioning and Test Data Compression for System-on-a-Chip
15. Vikram Iyengar (PhD, May 2002), First position: Advisory Engineer at IBM Corp.(ASICs Test and Methodology Department), Burlington, VT
    PhD Thesis title: Test Planning and Plug-and-Play Test Automation for System-on-a-Chip
    IBM Graduate Fellowship recipient (2001-2002)
    Winner of European Design Automation Association (EDAA) Outstanding Dissertation Award in 2004 for the category "New Directions in System Test"
    Click here and here for Vikram's graduation pictures)
16. Tianhao Zhang (PhD, May 2001; co-advised with Professor Richard Fair), First Position: Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Cadence Design Systems, Research Triangle Park, NC
    (Click here for a picture of Tianhao with the thesis committee after the defense)
    PhD Thesis title: An Integrated Hierarchical Modeling and Simulation Approach for Microelectrofluidic Systems
17. Usman Zaheer, M. S. Thesis, December 2005, Thesis Title: "Low-Power System-Level Fault Tolerance using Dynamic Voltage Scaling, Adaptive Body Biasing, and Checkpointing".
18. Harshavardhan Sabbineni, M.S. Thesis, February 2004 (Thesis title: "Location-Aware Protocols for Energy-Efficient Information Processing in Wireless Sensor Networks")
19. Charles Schweizer, M.S. Project, May 2002, First position: Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA
20. Sharon Stewart Schweizer, M. S. Project, May 2002
21. Selase Agbenoto, M.S. project, December 2002.
22. Amil Patel (undergraduate researcher, 2001-2002), currently a graduate student at MIT
23. Mark Krasniewski (undergraduate researcher, 2002-2003, Seagar Award winner for the best undergraduate research project in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering for 2002-2003), currently a graduate student at Purdue University
24. Shivakumar Swaminathan (M.S. Thesis, Dec 1999), Current position: IBM Corp. Research Triangle Park, NC
    
25. Jie Ding (M.S. Thesis, May 2000, co-advised with Professor Richard Fair, currently with ASIC Alliance, North Carolina)