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Professor Sherief Reda (Principal Investigator)
sreda Sherief Reda is an Assistant Professor at the School of Engineering, Brown University. He received his B.Sc. (with Honors) in electrical and computer engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt in 1998 and his Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering from University of California, San Diego in 2006. His research interests are in the areas of energy-efficient computing systems, design automation and test of integrated circuits, and reconfigurable computing. Prof. Reda has over 50 refereed conference and journal papers in his research areas. He served as a member of technical program committees for many IEEE/ACM conferences including DAC, ICCAD, ASPDAC, DATE, ICCD, GLSVLSI, and SLIP. Professor Reda received a number of awards and acknowledgments, including a best paper award in DATE 2002, a hot article in Operations Research letters in 2004, a first place award in ISPD VLSI placement contest in 2005, best paper nominations in ICCAD 2005, ASPDAC 2008, Brown's Salomon award in 2008, a NSF CAREER award, and a best paper award in ISLPED 2010. His research is funded by NSF, DoD, DARPA, Intel and Qualcomm. Download Curriculum Vitae.

Nowroz Abdullah
nowroz Nowroz came to Brown University in Fall 2009 as a PhD student. She completed her MS in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California in Fall 2008. She finished her undergraduate degree in Boston University in Fall 2006. She taught as a Lecturer for two semesters in Bangladesh. She is currently working in SCALE lab under Professor Sherief Reda designing many innovative techniques towards effective management of temperature, power and performance of many-core processors. Projects include thermal sensor allocation techniques and signal reconstruction techniques that fully characterize the thermal status of the processor using limited number of measurements from the thermal sensors. Her research also includes techniques that provide detailed post-silicon power characterization using thermal emissions from the backside of silicon die using state-of-the-art infrared camera. Since 2009, Nowroz has 2 Journal papers and 4 conference papers, including a best paper award in ISLPED 2010.

Kapil Dev
nowroz Kapil is a PhD student at Brown University. He received his undergraduate degree from MNIT Jaipur, India in 2006 and MS from Rice University, Houston in 2011 in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prior to joining Rice University, he worked at Texas Instruments Pvt. Ltd. for about two years. He interned at a start-up company, named Microsonic Systems, in San Jose, CA for one and half year during his masters degree. He is currently working under Prof. Sherief Reda at Brown University; his research interests include performance- and power-driven design techniques for current and future integrated circuits.

Xin Zhan
nowroz Xin Zhan is a first-year Ph.D. student. He received his Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from Shandong University of Science and Technology, China in 2012.

Yueting Li
yueting Yueting Li has been at Brown University as a Masters student since September 2012. She received her BS degree from Nanjing University of Science & Technology, China, June 2012. She is currently working under Professor Sherief Reda on an independent study project focusing on the automatic synthesis of low-power approximate circuits from Verilog designs.

Sriram Jayakumar
margaret Sriram is a senior student pursuing an Honors thesis in computer engineering. He is investigating the use of emerging cooling technologies in multi-core computing.
Members in Prior Semesters:
  • Fall 2012: Francesco Paterna (postdoc), A. Nowroz (PhD), Kapil Dev (PhD), ElHossin ElShafey (PhD), Xin Zhan (PhD)
  • Summer 2012: Francesco Paterna (postdoc), Ryan Cochran (PhD), A. Nowroz (PhD), Kapil Dev (PhD), ElHossin ElShafey (PhD), Margaret Baxter (BS)
  • Spring 2012: Ryan Cochran (PhD), A. Nowroz (PhD), Kapil Dev (PhD), ElHossin ElShafey (PhD), Patrick Temple (BS), Natalie Serrino (BS), Stefan Angelevski (BS), Patipan Prasetrom (BS), Sriram Jaykumar (BS), Miranda Steele (BS)
  • Fall 2011: Ryan Cochran (PhD), A. Nowroz (PhD), Kapil Dev, ElHossin ElShafey (PhD), Stefan Angelevski (BS), Natalie Serrino (BS)
  • Summer 2011: Ryan Cochran (PhD), A. Nowroz (PhD), Ryan Sailor (BS)
  • Spring 2011: Ryan Cochran (PhD), A. Nowroz (PhD)
  • Fall 2010: Ryan Cochran (PhD), A. Nowroz (PhD)
  • Summer 2010: Ryan Cochran (PhD), A. Nowroz (PhD), Patrick Temple (BS), Sriram Jaykumar (BS)
  • Spring 2010: Ryan Cochran (PhD), A. Nowroz (PhD), Shi-Qing Poh (BS)
  • Fall 2009: Ryan Cochran (PhD), A. Nowroz (PhD), Shi-Qing Poh (BS)
  • Summer 2009: Ryan Cochran (PhD), Aung Si (BS)
  • Spring 2009: Ryan Cochran (PhD), Roto Le (MSc), Chaka Zaranyika (MSc), Aung Si (BS), Shi-Qing Poh (BS)
  • Fall 2008: Ryan Cochran (PhD), Roto Le (MSc), Chaka Zaranyika (MSc), Aung Si (BS)
  • Summer 2008: Roto Le (MSc), Chaka Zaranyika (MSc), Aung Si (BS)
  • Spring 2008: Michael Kadin (BS), Roto Le (MSc), Chaka Zaranyika (MSc), Aaron Mandle (BS), Bryant Mairs (BS)
  • Fall 2007: Michael Kadin (BS), Roto Le (MSc), Chaka Zaranyika (MSc)
  • Summer 2007: Michael Kadin (BS)
  • Spring 2007: Brendan Hargeaves (MSc), David Meisner (BS)