CESG is excited to announce that the CESG Student Poster Event will return to the in-person format this year! This year’s poster event features 28 posters from CESG graduate students on a wide range of research areas, including Computer Systems, Computer Architecture, Communication Networks, CAD, VLSI, Machine Learning, and Security. We look forward to seeing you at the event!
Awards
First Place: Jarin Tasnim Ritu, Histogram Layer Time Delay Neural Network (HLTDNN) for Passive Sonar Target Classification
Second Place: Kushagra Gupta, Value Caching in NoC
Third Place: Maccoy Merrell, Prefetch and Rowhammer
Date and Location
Event Date: Friday, April 14, 2023
Event Time: 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Location: ZACH’s Virginia Brown Atrium (E-Quad entrance)
List of Posters
| Topic | Presenter | Advisor(s) | Poster Title |
| CAD and Synthesis | Yishuang Lin | Jiang Hu | Are Analytical Techniques Worthwhile for Analog IC Placement? |
| Computer Architecture | Kushagra Gupta | Sunil P. Khatri | Value Caching in NoC |
| Computer Architecture | Maccoy Merrell | Stavros Kalafatis & Paul Gratz | Prefetch and Rowhammer |
| Computer Architecture | Digvijay Singh | Paul Gratz | Distance Aware Prefetching in CMP NUCA |
| Communication Networks | Souryendu Das | Stavros Kalafatis | Smarter Ways to Manage Network Traffic |
| Communication Networks | Siqi Fan | I-Hong Hou | Dynamic Regret of Randomized Online Service Caching in Edge Computing |
| Computer Systems | Chandrahas Tirumalasetty | Narasimha Reddy |
Bandwidth & Latency Aware Memory Prefetcher for Rack-Level Disaggregated Memory
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| Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence | Sapana Chaudhary | Dileep Kalathil | Enhanced Meta Reinforcement Learning via Demonstrations in Sparse Reward Environments |
| Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence | Hung-Ta Chien | Suin Yi & R. Stanley Williams | Enhancing Analog Computing with Noble Molecular Memristive Synapses |
| Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence | Ujwal Dinesha | Srinivas Shakkottai | EdgeRIC : Empowering Realtime Intelligent Optimization and Control in NextG Networks |
| Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence | Khaled Nakhleh | I-Hong Hou | DeepTOP: Deep Threshold-Optimal Policy for MDPs and RMABs |
| Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence | Nitin Ragothaman | Srinivas Shakkottai | Federated Offline Reinforcement Learning |
| Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence | Desik Rengarajan | Srinivas Shakkottai & Dileep Kalathil | Reinforcement Learning with Sparse Rewards Using Guidance from Offline Demonstration |
| Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence | Jarin Tasnim Ritu | Joshua Peeples | Histogram Layer Time Delay Neural Network (HLTDNN) for Passive Sonar Target Classification |
| Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence | Zaiyan Xu | Dileep Kalathil | Improved Sample Complexity Bounds for Distributionally Robust Reinforcement Learning |
| Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence | Jinzhan Li | Su-in Yi | NP-hard Combinatorial Optimization Using Memristor Crossbars |
| Security | Gino Chacon | Paul Gratz | Hardware Trojan Coherence Threats and Countermeasures in Modern 2.5D Chipset Systems |
| Security | Chen Chen | JV Rajendran | HyPFuzz: Formal-Assisted Processor Fuzzing |
| Security | Aneesh Dixit | JV Rajendran | STATION: State Encoding-based Attack-Resilient Sequential Obfuscation |
| Security | Vasudev Gohil | JV Rajendran | ATTRITION: Attacking Static Hardware Trojan Detection Techniques Using Reinforcement Learning |
| Security | Zhaokun Han | JV Rajendran | Heuristic Attack on eFPGA |
| Security | Rahul Kande | JV Rajendran | Hardware Fuzzing |
| Security | Rishabh Singla | Narasimha Reddy |
Device Fingerprinting and Multidimensional Analysis of National Vulnerability Database
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| VLSI Circuits and Systems | Hailiang Hu | Jiang Hu | Machine-Learning Based Delay Prediction for FPGA Technology Mapping |
| VLSI Circuits and Systems | Cheng-Yen Lee | Sunil P. Khatri | A Novel Pseudo-Flash Based Digital Low Dropout (LDO) Voltage Regulator |
| VLSI Circuits and Systems | Kyler Scott | Sunil P. Khatri | An Extremely Low-Voltage Floating Gate Artificial Neuron |