Curriculum Vitae

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PDFs last updated: August 18, 2009

Education:

  University of Notre Dame

• Ph. D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Degree earned August 2009
  Dissertation Title: "It's All About the Signal Routing: Understanding the Reliability of QCA Circuits and Systems"
  Advisor: Dr. Peter Kogge (new window)
• M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, August 2005
  Thesis: "Defect Properties and Design Tools for Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata."
  Advisor: Dr. Peter Kogge
• B.S. (Cum Laude) in Computer Engineering, May 2002

Research Interests:

• Nanoelectronic devices and architectures, particularly quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA)
• Defect and fault tolerant design and modeling
• High-performance computing systems
• Computer-aided design and electronic design automation

Publications:

Teaching:

• CSE 30322, Computer Architecture II (new window) Spring 2006, Spring 2007

Teaching Assistantships:

• CSE 30322, Computer Architecture II: Spring 2004
• CSE 30321, Computer Architecture I (new window) Fall 2003, Fall 2004
Responsible for lab instruction and lab/homework grading (shared in Fall 2003/2004, alone in Spring 2004).
• CSE 20110, Discrete Math (new window) Spring 2001
Held office hours for students in the course.

Professional Societies:

• ACM
• SIGARCH
• IEEE
• IEEE-Computer Society

Other Organizations:

• Notre Dame Habitat for Humanity (new window)
• Former Construction Supervisor, still an active volunteer/construction supervisor/advisory role

Honors and Awards:

• Upsilon Pi Epsilon (Computer Science and Engineering Honor Society), April 2004 (Inaugural induction)
• Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical and Computer Engineering Honor Society), February 2002
• Morrissey Manor Hall Service Award, April 2002
• Glenna R. Joyce and Notre Dame Scholar, April 1998

Undergraduate projects supervised:

• Jorge Vendries: Parallelization of a statistical mechanical QCA simulator. Summer/Fall 2008
• Daniel Lohmer: Geometric analysis of QCA wires (Workshop paper published). Spring 2008
• Jared Sylvester: CAD tools for QCA. Academic year 2004-2005
• Dominic Antonelli: Digital logic simulator for QCADesigner. Summer 2003

Work Experience:

• Delphi Delco Automotive Systems, Kokomo, IN. IC Design Intern (Summer 2001)
Redesigned circuits for new fabrication process. Tested circuits from new fabrication process.
• Delphi Delco Automotive Systems, Kokomo, IN. Software Development Intern (Summer 2000)
Developed a dynamic link library (DLL) for use with controller-area network (CAN) based devices.