Masters and Ph.D Students graduated:

  1. H.Lai, Masters, Winter 1991.
  2. T.Dichiaro, Masters, Fall 1992.
  3. C.Engle, Masters, Spring 1994.
  4. T.Singh, Ph.D, March 1994.
  5. S.Jayaraman, Masters, November 1994.
  6. G.Qian, Ph.D, September 1995.
  7. T.Kumar, Ph.D, March 1997 (ECECS Best Ph.D Thesis Award).
  8. G.Srinivasan, Masters, May 1997.
  9. P.Mumford, Ph.D, August 1997.
  10. A. Malhotra, Masters, June 1999.
  11. S.Ekbote, Ph.D, December 1999 (ECECS Best Ph.D Thesis Award).
  12. B.Garber, Masters, December 1999.
  13. J.Thachery, Masters, January, 2002.
  14. V.M.Krishna Prasad, Masters, Spring 2003.
  15. V.Muthiah-Nakarajan, Masters, Spring 2003.
  16. R.Krishnan, Masters, Spring 2003.
  17. Y.Modukuru, Ph.D, Summer 2003.
  18. K. Garre, Masters, Summer 2004.
  19. S. Uppaluri, Masters, Winter 2005.
  20. L. Venkatraman, Masters, Spring 2005.
  21. P. Draviam, Masters, Spring 2005.
  22. K. Rangaswamy, Masters, Spring 2005.

Positions Held by Graduating Students:

  1. H.Lai, Device Engineer, Intel, CA.
  2. T.Dichiaro, Ph.D student CSD group, UC.
  3. C.Engle, Test Engineer, TI, Houston, TX.
  4. T.Singh, Postdoc, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL.
  5. S.Jayaraman, Test Engineer, TI, Houston, TX.
  6. G.Qian, Device Engineer, Maxim Integrated Products (formerly Dallas Semiconductors), Dallas, TX.
  7. T.Kumar, Test Engineer, Maxim Integrated Products (formerly Dallas Semiconductors), Dallas, TX.
  8. G.Srinivasan, Device Engineer with VLSI, Santa Clara, CA.
  9. P.Mumford, Device Engineer, WPAFB, Dayton, Ohio.
  10. A. Malhotra, ASIC Customer Engineer, LSI logics, CA.
  11. S.Ekbote, Integration Engineer (TI), Dallas, TX.
  12. B.Garber, Design Engineer, Honeywell, Urbana, Ohio.
  13. Y.Modukuru, Design Engineer, Qualcomm, Silicon valley, CA.
  14. V.Muthiah-Nakarajan, Program Director-ECE, Research & Virtual Education, SRM IST, India.

Current Masters and Ph.D Students


Sitting down (M. Cahay), on his left, from left to right Kalyan Garre (who just defended his Masters)
Kasturirangan (aka "Sharad Gutterball") Rangaswamy, Philip "Napoleon notso Dynamite" Draviam, and Nick Harth.


  1. K. Garre, Masters student, graduated August 12, 2004.
  2. P. Draviam, Masters student, starting date: September 2002.
  3. L. Venkatraman, Masters student, starting date: September 2003.
  4. S. Uppaluri, Masters student, starting date: September 2003.
  5. K. Rangaswamy, Masters student, starting date: September 2003.
  6. N. Harth, Masters student, starting date: September 2004.