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Michael T. Niemier(mniemier@nd.edu)
380 Fitzpatrick Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
(574) 631-3858

Curriculum Vitae

Potential students

• Information for potential students: We are looking for 1-2 undergraduates and possibly either a graduate student or post-doc to join the magnetic logic project after the spring semester. Send me an email to discuss potential projects if you'd like to get involved.

Research

• My research focuses on designing, facilitating, and evaluating architectures for emerging technologies; integration of heterogeneous technologies to improve computational performance; alternative computer architectures (i.e. PIM and CNNs). More specifically, I am investigating:
  • Magnetic QCA (MQCA)
    • Computing with nanoscale magnets
  • Quilt Packaging
    • (Integrating heterogenous technologies in the same package)
  • Molecular Electronics
    • (Addresses the feasability of a molecular implementation of QCA)
  • CNNs and PIM
    • (Non von Neumann Computer Architectures)

Research Support

• The Quilt Packaging Project
  • Sandia National Labs
• Applications, Architectures, and Circuit Design for Nano-scale Magnetic Logic Devices
  • National Science Foundation
• Design and Study of Self-Assemblying QCA Circuits
  • National Science Foundation

Teaching

• Spring 2008 - Graduate Computer Architecture (CSE 60321)
• Fall 2007 - Computing at the Nanoscale (CSE 40547/60547)
• Spring 2007 - Graduate Computer Architecture (CSE 60321)

Students

• Current Graduate Students:
• Wayne Buckhanan (Quilt Packaging)
• Michael Crocker (Reconfigurable QCA Architectures)
• Jarett DeAngelis (MQCA - MRAM interface for I/O)
• Aaron Dingler (MQCA Circuit Design)
• Steve Kurtz (QCA System Architectures)


• Current Undergraduate Students:
• Peter Nistler (MQCA Circuit Design)
... students past ...

Recent Publications

• M. Crocker, X. Sharon Hu, M.T. Niemier, M. Yan, and G. Bernstein, "PLAs in Quantum-dot Cellular Automata," accepted in IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology.
• A. Chaudhary, D. Z. Chen, X.S. Hu, M. T. Niemier, R. Ravichandran, and K. Whitton, "Easing Fabricatable Interconnect in Molecular QCA Circuits" in IEEE Transactions on CAD p. 1978-1991, Vol. 26(11), November 2007.
• M. Niemier, M.T. Alam, X.S. Hu, G. Bernstein, W. Porod, M. Putney, and J. DeAngelis, "Clocking Structures and Power Analysis for Nanomagnet-based Logic Devices," in Proceedings of International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), p. 26-31, 2007.
• M. Crocker, X.S. Hu, and M.T. Niemier, "Fault Models and Yield Analysis for QCA-based PLAs," in Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), Amsterdam, Netherlands, August 27-29, 2007.

Conferences

• A list of conferences relevant to our group's research can be found here.

Personal

• I got married in August of 2007!
• My wife is a zip-liner extraordinaire ((1) and (2))!
• I love to run, I love Le Tour, and of course I love Notre Dame Football.