Nada Abdalgawad
PhD Student
University of Michigan

ngawad@umich.edu

Career Interest: Academia
Avail. for Hire: 05/30/2026
Avail. for Internship: 05/01/2024

Grad. Date: 12/05/2027

Faculty Advisor(s): Bertacco

Degree: PhD, Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Research Interests: TBD

Citizenship/Visa: Non-U.S./F-1

Willing to work outside US: Yes

Aymen Ahmed
PhD Student
University of Michigan

ahmedaj@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry
Avail. for Hire: 01/10/2027
Avail. for Internship: 05/01/2022
Resume

Grad. Date: 01/24/2027

Faculty Advisor(s): Bertacco

Degree: BS, Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Research Interests: TBD

Citizenship/Visa: Non-U.S./F-1

Willing to work outside US: Yes

Fitsum Assamnew Andargie
Postdoc Researcher
University of Michigan

fandargi@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry and Academia
Avail. for Hire: 01/01/2023
Avail. for Internship: 01/01/2023
Resume Website

Grad. Date: 12/31/2022

Faculty Advisor(s): Austin, Bertacco

Degree: Post Doc, Computer Engineering /Computer Science

Research Interests: Architectural support for graph analytics on GPUs

Citizenship/Visa: Non-U.S./J-1

Willing to work outside US: Yes

Kimberly Beers
PhD Student
University of Michigan

kimbeers@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry

Resume

Grad. Date: 05/01/2025

Faculty Advisor(s): Najafi

Degree: PhD, Electrical Engineering or Electronics

Research Interests: Thermoelectric materials, Microsystems, MEMS

Citizenship/Visa: U.S. Citizen

Willing to work outside US: Yes

Donayam Benti
PhD Student
University of Michigan

donayam@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry
Avail. for Hire: 09/01/2026
Avail. for Internship: 05/01/2023
Resume

Grad. Date: 06/01/2026

Faculty Advisor(s): Austin

Degree: PhD, Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Research Interests: Application of machine Learning to side channel analysis

Citizenship/Visa: Non-U.S./F-1

Willing to work outside US: Yes

Lauren Biernacki
PhD Student
University of Michigan

lbiernac@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry and Academia
Avail. for Hire: 05/01/2023
Avail. for Internship: 05/01/2023
Resume Website

Grad. Date: 05/01/2023

Faculty Advisor(s): Austin

Degree: PhD, Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Research Interests: Architectural Approaches to Data Privacy

Citizenship/Visa: U.S. Citizen

Willing to work outside US: No

Ruei-Che Chang
PhD Student
University of Michigan

rueiche@umich.edu

Career Interest: Academia

Avail. for Internship: 06/01/2024
Resume Website

Grad. Date: 06/30/2027

Faculty Advisor(s): Guo

Degree: PhD, Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Research Interests: Human computer interaction, accessibility

Citizenship/Visa: Non-U.S./F-1

Willing to work outside US: Yes

Shibo Chen
PhD Student
University of Michigan

chshibo@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry
Avail. for Hire: 05/01/2024
Avail. for Internship: 05/01/2023
Resume Website

Grad. Date: 05/01/2024

Faculty Advisor(s): Austin

Degree: PhD, Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Research Interests: Agile and Efficient Heterogeneous Design Methodology

Citizenship/Visa: Non-U.S./F-1

Willing to work outside US: No

Yuhan Chen
PhD Student
University of Michigan

chenyh@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry

Avail. for Internship: 12/01/2022
Resume

Grad. Date: 09/01/2024

Faculty Advisor(s): Mudge

Degree: PhD, Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Research Interests: Graph Neural Networks, Graph sparsification, Accelerator

Citizenship/Visa: Non-U.S./F-1

Willing to work outside US: Yes

Kuan-Yu Chen
PhD Student
University of Michigan

knyuchen@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry

Avail. for Internship: 05/10/2023
Resume

Grad. Date: 12/29/2023

Faculty Advisor(s): Blaauw

Degree: PhD, Electrical Engineering or Electronics

Research Interests: Domain-Specific Processors / Accelerators

Citizenship/Visa: Non-U.S./F-1

Willing to work outside US: No

Wangbo Chen
PhD Student
University of Michigan

wangboc@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry

Avail. for Internship: 05/31/2024
Resume

Grad. Date: 05/31/2027

Faculty Advisor(s): Yoon

Degree: PhD, Electrical Engineering or Electronics

Research Interests: Research Interests: AMS IC Design, Biomedical Application IC Design, Neural Interfaces

Citizenship/Visa: Non-U.S./F-1

Willing to work outside US: No

Jesse Codling
PhD Student
University of Michigan

codling@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry

Avail. for Internship: 05/01/2023
Resume

Grad. Date: 05/24/2024

Faculty Advisor(s): P. Zhang

Degree: PhD, Electrical Engineering or Electronics

Research Interests: Cyber-Physical Systems, Physics-Guided Machine Learning, Vibration-Based Sensing

Citizenship/Visa: U.S. Citizen

Willing to work outside US: Yes

Joy Dong
PhD Student
University of Michigan

joydong@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry

Avail. for Internship: 04/30/2024
Resume Website

Grad. Date: 04/30/2027

Faculty Advisor(s): Narayanasamy

Degree: PhD, Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Research Interests: Confidential Computing, Computer Architecture

Citizenship/Visa: Non-U.S./F-1

Willing to work outside US: No

Scott Doyle
Postdoc Researcher
University of Michigan

scdoyle@umich.edu

Career Interest: Academia

Avail. for Internship: 05/01/2023
Resume Website

Grad. Date: 05/01/2025

Faculty Advisor(s): Kushner

Degree: Post Doc, Electrical Engineering or Electronics

Research Interests: Fluid/Kinetic Modelling, Tailored Voltage Waveforms, Plasma Etching/Deposition, Plasma Propulsion, Nuclear Fusion.

Citizenship/Visa: Non-U.S./J-1

Willing to work outside US: Yes

Tim Dunn
PhD Student
University of Michigan

timdunn@umich.edu

Career Interest: Academia

Avail. for Internship: 06/01/2023
Resume Website

Grad. Date: 05/01/2024

Faculty Advisor(s): Narayanasamy

Degree: PhD, Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Research Interests: My current research interests lie in developing hardware and software to address challenges in the field of bioinformatics. At the moment, I’m working on algorithms and machine learning for improving the accuracy of nanopore-based genome sequencing and de

Citizenship/Visa: U.S. Citizen

Willing to work outside US: No

Jack Erhardt
PhD Student
University of Michigan

erharj@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry

Avail. for Internship: 05/01/2023
Resume

Grad. Date: 05/01/2025

Faculty Advisor(s): Z. Zhang

Degree: PhD, Electrical Engineering or Electronics

Research Interests: My research interest concern low power technologies and computer architecture techniques for supporting low-power, edge compatible acceleration of machine learning algorithms

Citizenship/Visa: U.S. Citizen

Willing to work outside US: Yes

Morteza Fayazi
PhD Student
University of Michigan

fayazi@umich.edu

Career Interest: Academia

Resume Website

Grad. Date: 12/07/2023

Faculty Advisor(s): Dreslinski

Degree: PhD, Electrical Engineering or Electronics

Research Interests: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qzvdNZN_bcmMrdO2f3-viRWqFskjBYBd/view?usp=sharing

Citizenship/Visa: Non-U.S./F-1

Willing to work outside US: No

Yonathan Fisseha
PhD Student
University of Michigan

yonathan@umich.edu

Career Interest: Academia
Avail. for Hire: 05/12/2026
Avail. for Internship: 05/15/2023
Resume Website

Grad. Date: 06/23/2026

Faculty Advisor(s): Austin

Degree: PhD, Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Research Interests: TBD

Citizenship/Visa: U.S. Citizen

Willing to work outside US: Yes

Yufeng Gu
PhD Student
University of Michigan

yufenggu@umich.edu

Career Interest: Academia
Avail. for Hire: 08/30/2025
Avail. for Internship: 05/30/2023
Resume Website

Grad. Date: 08/30/2025

Faculty Advisor(s): Das

Degree: PhD, Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Research Interests: TBD

Citizenship/Visa: Non-U.S./F-1, export control

Willing to work outside US: No

Aman Gupta
PhD Student
University of Michigan

amrgupta@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry

Resume

Grad. Date: 05/01/2025

Faculty Advisor(s): Wentzloff

Degree: PhD, Electrical Engineering or Electronics

Research Interests: Low Power RFIC and analog IC design

Citizenship/Visa: U.S. Citizen

Willing to work outside US: No

Meng-Lin Hsieh
PhD Student
University of Michigan

mmhsieh@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry

Resume

Grad. Date: 09/01/2026

Faculty Advisor(s): Yoon

Degree: PhD, Electrical Engineering or Electronics

Citizenship/Visa: Non-U.S./F-1

Willing to work outside US: Yes

Yasha Iravantchi
PhD Student
University of Michigan

yiravan@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry and Academia

Avail. for Internship: 05/31/2023
Resume Website

Grad. Date: 08/15/2025

Faculty Advisor(s): Sample

Degree: PhD, Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Research Interests: My research interests focus on developing novel privacy-preserved sensing methods for human activity recognition.

Citizenship/Visa: U.S. Citizen

Willing to work outside US: No

Alireza Khadem
PhD Student
University of Michigan

arkhadem@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry and Academia
Avail. for Hire: 03/08/2024
Avail. for Internship: 05/01/2023
Resume Website

Grad. Date: 08/31/2024

Faculty Advisor(s): Das

Degree: PhD, Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Research Interests: General-Purpose In-Cache Computing

Citizenship/Visa: Non-U.S./F-1

Willing to work outside US: No

Tanvir Ahmed Khan
PhD Student
University of Michigan

takh@umich.edu

Career Interest: Academia
Avail. for Hire: 06/01/2023
Avail. for Internship: 09/01/2023
Resume Website

Grad. Date: 08/29/2023

Faculty Advisor(s): Kasikci

Degree: PhD, Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Research Interests: Rescuing Data Center Processors

Citizenship/Visa: Non-U.S./F-1

Willing to work outside US: Yes

Hee Woo Kim
PhD Student
University of Michigan

heewoo@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry and Academia

Avail. for Internship: 05/29/2023
Resume Website

Grad. Date: 04/30/2024

Faculty Advisor(s): Dreslinski

Degree: PhD, Electrical Engineering or Electronics

Research Interests: Deep Learning Recommendation Model embedding table operations acceleration in RRAM process-in-memory

Citizenship/Visa: Non-U.S./F-1

Willing to work outside US: No

Eunah Ko
PhD Student
University of Michigan

eunahko@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry

Resume

Grad. Date: 08/25/2024

Faculty Advisor(s): Yoon

Degree: PhD, Electrical Engineering or Electronics

Research Interests: Optogenetic neural probes

Citizenship/Visa: Non-U.S./F-1

Willing to work outside US: No

Demba Komma
PhD Student
University of Michigan

dbkomma@umich.edu

Career Interest: Academia

Avail. for Internship: 05/17/2023
Resume

Grad. Date: 08/30/2024

Faculty Advisor(s): H. Kim

Degree: PhD, Electrical Engineering or Electronics

Research Interests: Wireless Communication

Citizenship/Visa: Permanent Resident

Willing to work outside US: Yes

Evan Litch
PhD Student
University of Michigan

elitch@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry

Avail. for Internship: 06/01/2025
Resume Website

Grad. Date: 05/30/2026

Faculty Advisor(s): Kushner

Degree: PhD, Electrical Engineering or Electronics

Research Interests: Plasma material processing

Citizenship/Visa: U.S. Citizen

Willing to work outside US: Yes

Xueshen Liu
PhD Student
University of Michigan

liuxs@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry

Avail. for Internship: 12/19/2022
Resume

Grad. Date: 05/10/2027

Faculty Advisor(s): Mao

Degree: PhD, Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Research Interests: Operating system, network, computation acceleration

Citizenship/Visa: Non-U.S./F-1

Willing to work outside US: No

Ester Lomeli Bentley
PhD Student
University of Michigan

elomeli@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry

Resume

Grad. Date: 12/10/2024

Faculty Advisor(s): Najafi

Degree: PhD, Electrical Engineering or Electronics

Research Interests: Research: Fused Silica Resonators for Navigation Grade Gyroscopes

Citizenship/Visa: U.S. Citizen

Willing to work outside US: Yes

Tonglin Lu
PhD Student
University of Michigan

tonglinl@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry

Avail. for Internship: 01/06/2025
Resume

Grad. Date: 05/16/2025

Faculty Advisor(s): Peterson

Degree: PhD, Electrical Engineering or Electronics

Research Interests: Solid state device, vertical oxide thin film transistor

Citizenship/Visa: Permanent Resident

Willing to work outside US: Yes

Jiacheng Ma
PhD Student
University of Michigan

jcma@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry
Avail. for Hire: 06/01/2023
Resume Website

Grad. Date: 08/01/2024

Faculty Advisor(s): Kasikci

Degree: PhD, Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Research Interests: Systems Support for Field Programmable Gate Arrays

Citizenship/Visa: Non-U.S./F-1, export control

Willing to work outside US: Yes

Taigao Ma
PhD Student
University of Michigan

taigaom@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry

Avail. for Internship: 04/30/2023
Resume

Grad. Date: 04/30/2024

Faculty Advisor(s): Guo

Degree: PhD, Electrical Engineering or Electronics

Citizenship/Visa: Non-U.S./F-1

Willing to work outside US: No

Sumukh Marathe
PhD Student
University of Michigan

sumukhm@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry

Avail. for Internship: 05/01/2023
Resume Website

Grad. Date: 05/01/2026

Faculty Advisor(s): Sample

Degree: PhD, Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Research Interests: Mobile Sensing and Communication, Sensor Networks, Human Computer Interaction

Citizenship/Visa: Non-U.S./F-1

Willing to work outside US: Yes

Andrew McCrabb
PhD Student
University of Michigan

mccrabb@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry
Avail. for Hire: 05/01/2023
Avail. for Internship: 05/01/2023
Resume Website

Grad. Date: 04/15/2024

Faculty Advisor(s): Bertacco

Degree: PhD, Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Research Interests: Accelerating Execution on Semi-Structured Data

Citizenship/Visa: U.S. Citizen

Willing to work outside US: Yes

Mahlet Molla
PhD Student
University of Michigan

mmolla@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry

Avail. for Internship: 05/08/2023
Resume

Grad. Date: 05/19/2026

Faculty Advisor(s): Kioupakis

Degree: PhD, Materials Science and Engineering

Research Interests: Thermodynamic Stability of III-V nitrides; Optoelectronic properties of ScAlN

Citizenship/Visa: U.S. Citizen

Willing to work outside US: Yes

Ian Neal
PhD Student
University of Michigan

iangneal@umich.edu

Career Interest:
Avail. for Hire: 06/01/2023
Avail. for Internship: 06/01/2023
Resume Website

Grad. Date: 08/15/2023

Faculty Advisor(s): Kasikci

Degree: PhD, Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Research Interests: TBD

Citizenship/Visa: U.S. Citizen

Willing to work outside US: Yes

Yongmo Park
PhD Student
University of Michigan

yongmo@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry
Avail. for Hire: 04/30/2024
Avail. for Internship: 05/01/2023
Resume

Grad. Date: 04/30/2024

Faculty Advisor(s): Lu

Degree: PhD, Electrical Engineering or Electronics

Research Interests: TBD

Citizenship/Visa: Non-U.S./F-1

Willing to work outside US: No

Jonah Rosenblum
PhD Student
University of Michigan

jonaher@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry and Academia

Avail. for Internship: 05/31/2024
Resume Website

Grad. Date: 05/31/2026

Faculty Advisor(s): Narayanasamy

Degree: PhD, Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Research Interests: Systems, Architecture, Security

Citizenship/Visa: U.S. Citizen

Willing to work outside US: Yes

Anwesha Saha
PhD Student
University of Michigan

anweshas@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry

Resume

Grad. Date: 08/15/2024

Faculty Advisor(s): Guo

Degree: PhD, Electrical Engineering or Electronics

Citizenship/Visa: Non-U.S./F-1

Willing to work outside US: Yes

Sara Shoouri
PhD Student
University of Michigan

sshoouri@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry

Avail. for Internship: 05/31/2023
Resume Website

Grad. Date: 12/31/2025

Faculty Advisor(s): H. Kim

Degree: PhD, Electrical Engineering or Electronics

Research Interests: Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Image processing

Citizenship/Visa: Non-U.S./F-1

Willing to work outside US: No

Biniyam Tiruye
PhD Student
University of Michigan

btiruye@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry
Avail. for Hire: 08/17/2026
Avail. for Internship: 05/26/2023
Resume

Grad. Date: 06/30/2026

Faculty Advisor(s): Austin

Degree: PhD, Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Research Interests: TBD

Citizenship/Visa: Non-U.S./F-1

Willing to work outside US: Yes

Tarunesh Verma
PhD Student
University of Michigan

tarunesh@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry
Avail. for Hire: 05/01/2023
Avail. for Internship: 05/01/2023
Resume Website

Grad. Date: 04/30/2024

Faculty Advisor(s): Austin

Degree: PhD, Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Research Interests: Architectural Support for Privacy

Citizenship/Visa: Non-U.S./F-1

Willing to work outside US: Yes

Xinxin Wang
PhD Student
University of Michigan

xinxinw@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry
Avail. for Hire: 05/01/2023
Avail. for Internship: 10/10/2022
Resume

Grad. Date: 04/30/2023

Faculty Advisor(s): Lu

Degree: PhD, Electrical Engineering or Electronics

Research Interests: In-Memory Computing Architecture for AI acceleration

Citizenship/Visa: Non-U.S./F-1

Willing to work outside US: Yes

Ziyu Wang
PhD Student
University of Michigan

ziwa@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry
Avail. for Hire: 04/30/2024
Avail. for Internship: 04/30/2023
Resume Website

Grad. Date: 04/30/2024

Faculty Advisor(s): Lu

Degree: PhD, Electrical Engineering or Electronics

Research Interests: Vulnerability and security analysis of in-memory computing architecture

Citizenship/Visa: Non-U.S./F-1

Willing to work outside US: No

Nicholas Wendt
PhD Student
University of Michigan

nwendt@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry
Avail. for Hire: 05/04/2024
Avail. for Internship: 05/01/2023
Resume

Grad. Date: 12/15/2024

Faculty Advisor(s): Bertacco

Degree: PhD, Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Research Interests: TBD

Citizenship/Visa: U.S. Citizen

Willing to work outside US: No

Sangmin Yoo
PhD Student
University of Michigan

ysangmin@umich.edu

Career Interest: Academia
Avail. for Hire: 12/31/2024
Avail. for Internship: 05/01/2023
Resume Website

Grad. Date: 08/31/2024

Faculty Advisor(s): Lu

Degree: PhD, Electrical Engineering or Electronics

Research Interests: AI algorithms and architectures for neural networks accelerated by memristors’ physics

Citizenship/Visa: Non-U.S./F-1

Willing to work outside US: No

Yufan Yue
PhD Student
University of Michigan

funkyyue@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry

Avail. for Internship: 04/30/2023
Resume

Grad. Date: 04/30/2025

Faculty Advisor(s): H. Kim

Degree: PhD, Electrical Engineering or Electronics

Research Interests: Digital VLSI architecture design; Communications; Forward Error Correction

Citizenship/Visa: Non-U.S./F-1

Willing to work outside US: No

Ruiyang Zhu
PhD Student
University of Michigan

ryanzhu@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry

Avail. for Internship: 05/01/2023
Resume Website

Grad. Date: 08/15/2026

Faculty Advisor(s): Mao

Degree: PhD, Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Research Interests: Edge computing, mobile networks

Citizenship/Visa: Non-U.S./F-1

Willing to work outside US: No

Junkang Zhu
PhD Student
University of Michigan

jkzhu@umich.edu

Career Interest: Industry

Avail. for Internship: 05/01/2023
Resume Website

Grad. Date: 05/01/2024

Faculty Advisor(s): Z. Zhang

Degree: PhD, Electrical Engineering or Electronics

Research Interests: Efficient multi-core architectures and circuits for edge machine learning and computer vision applications

Citizenship/Visa: Non-U.S./F-1

Willing to work outside US: Yes