Four Faculty Members Hired, Strengthen Areas
of Computer Engineering, Wireless Communications |
 Shuvra Bhattacharyya |
| Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya joined
the department from Hitachi America's Semiconductor Research Lab in San Jose, California.
Bhattacharyya received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. His
primary research interests are in computer-aided design for embedded systems, VLSI signal
processing, parallel computation, and software synthesis. At Hitachi, and earlier as a
graduate student in the Gabriel and Ptolemy projects at UC Berkeley, he was involved in
research on compilation techniques for mapping dataflow programs for digital signal
processing into efficient uniprocessor and multiprocessor implementations. He has also
been a member of the technical staff at Kuck and Associates, Inc., in Champaign, Illinois,
where he was involved in the research and development of optimizing program
transformations for C and Fortran compilers. |
 Jerome Gansman |
| Jerome
Gansman joined the department from Purdue University, where he received his Ph.D.
degree. His research interests include many topics in physical layer wireless
communications, and his current focus is synchronization aspects of wireless
communications. While at Purdue, Dr. Gansman was involved in a project to build and field
test a high performance wireless modem architecture for narrowband land mobile
applications in the 220 MHz range. Other research projects he has been involved with
include array signal processing and PSAM frame synchronization. |
 Bruce Jacob |
| Bruce
Jacob joined the department from The University of Michigan, where he earned his M.S.
and Ph.D. degrees. His undergraduate degree is from Harvard, where he studied mathematics.
Jacob's research interests include computer architecture, operating systems, embedded
systems, low-power high-performance computing, distributed systems, multimedia, and
algorithmic composition. He has worked as a software engineer for two telecommunications
startup companies, and was recently engaged in the development of a distributed system
supporting heterogeneous servers and clients. At Michigan, Jacob designed the virtual
memory architecture for the PUMA processor and its operating system, working to reduce the
amount of hardware in the processor without sacrificing performance or function. At
Maryland, he is designing and developing low-power, high-performance processor
architectures for embedded real-time systems. |
 Donald Yeung |
| Donald Yeung joined the department from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his Ph.D. degree. His primary
research interests are in computer architecture, with an emphasis on high-performance
parallel architectures. In general, he is interested in the interaction between
architectures, operating systems, and applications, and in the performance evaluation of
computer systems. In his dissertation, Yeung investigated the construction of large-scale
shared memory machines using small-scale multiprocessors (such as commodity SMPs) as
building blocks. While at MIT, Yeung was also a member of the MIT Alewife Project. |
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