People

Dr. Benton Calhoun

Ben received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering with a concentration in computer science from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, in 2000. He received the M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. In January 2006, he joined the faculty at the University of Virginia in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, where he is now a Professor. His research interests include body sensor node (BSN) design, low power digital circuit design, sub-threshold digital circuits, SRAM design for end-of-the-roadmap silicon, variation tolerant circuit design methodologies, and low energy electronics for medical applications.

Faculty Profile

Sumanth Kamineni

Sumanth received his Bachelors degree in Electrical and Electronics from SV University and Masters in VLSI Design from VIT University, India in 2012 and 2015 respectively. He worked as Back-end Design-Automation Engineer in Microchip Technology, India for two years before joining the RLP-VLSI group in July 2017. Sumanth is currently working towards his PhD in Electrical Engineering.

Shourya Gupta

Shourya received his B.Tech degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from GGSIP University, New Delhi in June 2017. He joined the RLP-VLSI group in July 2018. Shourya is currently working towards his PhD in Electrical Engineering.

Natalie Ownby

Natalie received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Texas State University in 2018. She joined the RLP-VLSI group in August 2019 and is working towards her PhD in Electrical Engineering.

Katy Flynn

Katy received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in May 2019. She began pursuing her PhD and working with the RLP-VLSI group in August 2019

Xinjian Liu

Xinjian received his BEng in Microelectronics from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, in 2019. He joined the RLP-VLSI group in July 2019 and is working towards his PhD in Electrical Engineering. His research interests include low-power DC-DC converter, Power Management Unit, and IoT System-on-Chip design. 

Peter Le

Peter Le received his Bachelors in Computer Engineering from George Mason University in 2019 and joined the RLP-VLSI group in Fall 2020. He is currently working towards his Masters in Computer Engineering.

Suprio Bhattacharya

Suprio did his Bachelors in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from University of Pune (India) in 2005, and MS(with thesis on Early IR Drop Analysis flow development) in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University (USA) in 2015. He joined the RLP-VLSI group in Spring'2021 to pursue his PhD. He has previously worked for several years in the industry on digital design(both frontend and physical design), design flow automation and development, for different leading companies like Intel, and Cadence Design Systems. Outside his research, he is also into adventure sports like mountain-biking, kayaking etc.

Omar Faruqe

Omar received his BSc in Electrical, Electronic and Communication Engineering from Military Institute of Science and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2018. He joined the RLP-VLSI group in July 2021 and is working towards his PhD in Electrical Engineering.

Daehyun Lee

Daehyun received his Bachelors in electrical engineering from the Korea Aerospace University, South Korea, in 2010. He worked in Samsung electronics before joining the RLP-VLSI group in 2021. He began to pursue his PhD in Electrical Engineering in August 2021.

Akiyoshi Tanaka

Akiyoshi received his Bachelors in Electrical engineering, Electronics, and Information Engineering from Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan in 2022. He joined the RLP-VLSI group in June 2022 and is working towards his PhD in Electrical Engineering.

Anjali Agrawal

Anjali received her Bachelors in Electrical and Communication Engineering from Netaji Subhas University of Technology, India in 2020. She joined the RLP-VLSI group in July 2022 and is currently working towards her PhD in Electrical Engineering.

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