BRain Inspired Computing & Circuits (BRICC) Lab @ MICS
MULTIFUNCTIONAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS GROUP (MICS) contains state of the art facilities and software for integrated circuits design and measurements. Our research has been funded by National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, National Science Foundation EPSCoR, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Air Force Research Lab, , and Industrial Companies. MICS Lab conducts research in the area of Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) Circuit and Systems, Neuromorphic Computing, Congitive Computing and Communications, Emerging Technologies, Hardware Reliability and Variability.
Current Ph.D. Students
Ummay Sumaya Khan
PhD, Spring 2024 – Present
Email: ummaysumaya@vt.edu
MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Florida, , Gainesville, FL, United States
BS, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Bangladesh University of Engineering and
Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Xiaomeng Wang
PhD, Fall 2023 – Present
Email: wxm@vt.edu
MS, Electrical Engineering
The University of
Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
BS, Electrical Engineering and Automation
Beijing Jiao Tong University, Beijing, China
Ruizhe Li
PhD, Fall 2022 - Present
Email: ruizhe@vt.edu
BS, Computer Engineering
Virginia Tech,
Blacksburg, VA, United States
Shirazush Salekin Chowdhury
PhD, Fall 2023 – Present
Email: salekin@vt.edu
MS, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB), Dhaka, Bangladesh
BS, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB), Dhaka, Bangladesh
Md Rubel Sarkar
PhD, Fall 2022 – Present
Email: rubel@vt.edu
BS , Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Ahsanullah University of Science and
Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Souvik Pramanik
PhD, Fall 2022 – Present
Email: psouvik@vt.edu
BS, Electrical Engineering
University of
Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
MEngg, Electrical Engineering
University of
Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
Muhammad Farhan Azmine
PhD, Fall 2022 – Present
Email: muhammadfarhan@vt.edu
BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Bangladesh University of Engineering and
Technology, Bangladesh
Ramashish Gaurav
PhD, Spring 2022 – Present
Email: rgaurav@vt.edu
MASc, Systems Design Engineering
University
of
Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
Integrated Dual Degree (BTech + MTech), Computer Science & Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology - BHU,
Varanasi, India
Chunxiao Lin
PhD, Fall 2021 – Present
Email: chunxiao@vt.edu
MS, Electrical Engineering
University of
Southern California, Los Angeles, United States
BS, Electrical Engineering
Huazhong
University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Fabiha Nowshin
PhD, Summer 2021 – Present
Email: fabiha27@vt.edu
MS, Electrical Engineering
Virginia Tech,
Blacksburg, United States
BS, Electrical Engineering
Virginia Tech,
Blacksburg, United States
Honghao Zheng
PhD, Fall 2020 – Present
Email: zhenghh@vt.edu
MS, Electrical Engineering
Boston
University, MA, United States
Nima Mohammadi
PhD, Fall 2020 – Present
Email: nimamo@vt.edu
MSc, Computer Science
University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
BSc, Computer Engineering
SRTTU, Tehran, Iran
Yibin Liang
PhD, Fall 2019 – Present
Email: yibin@vt.edu
MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Virginia
Tech, Blacksburg, United States
Kristopher Degray
PhD, Fall 2024 – Present
Email: kristopherdegray@vt.edu
BS, Computer Engineering
Virginia Tech
, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Jiaqiang Ling
PhD, Fall 2024 – Present
Email: jling19@vt.edu
MS, Computer Engineering
Virginia Tech
, Blacksburg, VA, United States
BS, Computer Engineering
Virginia Tech
, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Zeyuan Hou
PhD, Fall 2024 – Present
Email: stanhou@vt.edu
MS, Computer Engineering
Virginia Tech
, Arlington, VA, United States
BS, Electrical Engineering
University of California Davis
, Davis, CA, United States
Current M.S. Students
Rashmi Ravindranath
MS, Fall 2023 – Present
Email: rrashmi@vt.edu
Dual Degree (M Tech + B Tech)
IIT Bombay,
Mumbai, India
Khalil Sedki
MS, Fall 2022 – Present
Email: ksedki@vt.edu
MS, Electrical Engineering
Illinois Institute
of Technology (Illinois Tech), Chicago, United States
BS, Electrical Engineering
Illinois Institute
of Technology (Illinois Tech), Chicago, United States
Aaryan Dhawan
Master's of Engineering (MEng), Fall 2024 - Present
Email: aaryanvd@vt.edu
BS, Computer Engineering
Virginia Tech
, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Christopher Boerner
Master's of Engineering (MEng), Fall 2024 - Present
Email: boernerc20@vt.edu
BS, Computer Engineering
Virginia Tech
, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Meiyu Zheng
Master's of Engineering (MEng), Spring 2025 - Present
Email: meiyuzheng@vt.edu
BS, Computer Engineering
Virginia Tech
, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Daniel Rosen
Master's of Engineering (MEng), Spring 2024 - Present
Email: daniel20@vt.edu
BS, Computer Engineering
Virginia Tech
, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Eli Levi
Master's of Engineering (MEng), Spring 2024 - Present
Email: elilevi630@vt.edu
BS, Computer Engineering
Virginia Tech
, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Yohannes Zena
Master's of Engineering (MEng) expected in Fall 2026
Email: yohanneszena1@vt.edu
BS, Computer Engineering
Virginia Tech
, Herndon, VA, United States
Current Undergraduate Students
Tiernan Barber
Undergraduate
Email: tb02@vt.edu
BS expected in Spring 2025, Computer Engineering
Virginia Tech
, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Domenic Marcelli
Undergraduate
Email: spartanxd31@vt.edu
BS expected in Fall 2024, Computer Engineering
MS expected in Fall 2025, Computer Engineering
Virginia Tech
, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Justin Taylor
Undergraduate
Email: justintaylor@vt.edu
BS expected in August 2025, Electrical Power Engineering
Virginia Tech
, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Previous Members (6)
| Level | Name | Thesis/Dissertation Title | Comp. Date | Current Position |
| Post Doc. | Dr. Hongyan Hou | Research interests include numerical analysis, numerical optimal control, computational mathematics, and recurrent neural networks. | Aug. 2016 | Associate Professor at Minnesota State University, Moorhead |
| Ph.D. | Shiya Liu | Energy Efficient neuromorphic computing for resource-constrained IoT devices (Virginia Tech) | Sept. 2023 | Data scientist at EMD Electronics |
| Ph.D. | Kang Jun Bai | Moving Toward Intelligence: A Hybrid Neural Computing Architecture for Machine Intelligence Applications (Virginia Tech) | Jun. 2021 | Research Scientist at Air Force Research Lab |
| Ph.D. | Hongyu An | Powering Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence by Designing Three-dimensional High-Performance Neuromorphic Computing System with Memristors (Virginia Tech) | Sept. 2020 | Assistant Professor at Michigan Tech |
| Ph.D. | Kian Hamedani | Energy Efficient Deep Spiking Recurrent Neural Networks: A Reservoir Computing-Based Approach (Virginia Tech) | Jun. 2020 | Sr. Scientist Fujitsu Research of America |
| Ph.D. | Chenyuan Zhao | Brain Inspired Spike Processing Link Design and Methodology (Virginia Tech) | Sept. 2019 | Research Scientist at Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Ph.D. | Md Amimul Ehsan | Enabling Technologies for 3D ICs: TSV Modeling and Analysis (Univ. of Kansas) | Aug. 2017 | R&D Engineer at Intel Inc. |
| Ph.D. | Rachad Atat | Enabling Cyber-Physical Communication in 5G Cellular Networks: Challenges, Solutions and Applications (Univ. of Kansas) | Aug. 2017 | Assistant Research Scientist at Texas A&M University at Qatar |
| MS | Gauri Sharma | Optimizing Reservoir Computing Architecture for Dynamic Spectrum Sensing Applications | May. 2024 | Apple |
| MS | Shrestha Agarwal | May. 2024 | VIAVI Solutions | |
| MS | Sheena Deivasigamani | MICRON | ||
| MS | Spoorthi Airody Suresh | Privacy-aware Federated Learning with Global Differential Privacy (Virginia Tech) | Jan. 2023 | Test and Validation Engineer at Lucid Motors |
| MS | Juliet Graciela Anderson | Design and Optimization of Temporal Encoders using Integrate-and-Fire and Leaky Integrate-and-Fire Neurons (Virginia Tech) | Oct. 2022 | Ph.D. student at Columbia University |
| MS | Osaze Yahya Shears | FPGA Reservoir Computing Networks for Dynamic Spectrum Sensing (Virginia Tech) | Jun. 2022 | Research Engineer at USC Information Sciences Institute |
| MS | Jiayuan Zhang | Two-Stage Operational Amplifier Design by Using Direct and Indirect Feedback Compensations (Virginia Tech) | Jun. 2021 | Design Engineer at Cadence |
| MS | Moqi Zhang | A Comparison of Image Classification with Different Activation Functions in Balanced and Unbalanced Datasets (Virginia Tech) | Jun. 2021 | Engineer at ByteDance |
| MS | Victor Ming Gan | A Cost-Efficient Digital ESN Architecture on FPGA (Virginia Tech) | Sept. 2020 | Engineer at Micron Technology |
| MS | Shuang Cheng | Two phase buck converter modified by ESN (Virginia Tech) | Feb. 2019 | Engineer at China Academy of Information and Communications Technology |
| MS | Lakshmisravanthi Koutha | Advanced Encoding Schemes and Their Hardware Implementation for Brain Inspired Computing (Univ. of Kansas) | Aug. 2017 | Engineer at Dell. Inc. |
| MS | Kelly Rodriguez Manyari | Analysis of Extracellular Recordings and Temporal Encoding in Delayed-Feedback Reservoir (Univ. of Kansas) | May-17 | Ph.D. student at Columbia University |
| MS | Arnesh Kumar Bose | Two-Stage Operational Amplifier using MOSFET CMOS Technology (Univ. of Kansas) | May-17 | Electrical Engineer at SAF-HOLLAND Inc. |
| MS | Sreelakshmi Penmetsa | Design of 10bit Pipeline ADC (Univ. of Kansas) | Dec-15 | Sr. Mixed Signal Design Engineer at NVIDIA |
| MS | Harish Koushik | Delay Feedback Reservoir (DFR) Design in Neuromorphic Computing Systems and its Application in Wireless Communications (Univ. of Kansas) | May-15 | Engineer at Apple Inc. |
| MS | Pavan Kumar Ramakrishnaiah | High Speed and Low Power Pipelined ADC Design for MRI application (Univ. of Kansas) | Dec. 2014 | Senior Design Engineer at Intel Inc. |
| MENG | Meghasyam Mente | ADD-COMPARE-SELECT Unit (Virginia Tech) | May. 2023 | Embedded Engineer at VENTURENEEDS Soft-Tech |
| MENG | Varsha Seshasayee | Memristor Based Iterative Encoder and Spike Time Dependent Plasticity Decoder (Virginia Tech) | Sept. 2021 | Design Engineer at Intel Inc. |
| MENG | You Li | Design of A Phase Locked Loop In 180nm CMOS Technology (Virginia Tech) | Feb. 2019 | Design Engineer at Qualcomm |