Computer Engineering Research at Ga' Tech

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Computer Engineering Research at Ga. Tech
Douglas M. Blough School of ECE Georgia
Institute of Technology
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Computer Engineering Research Areas

• Computer Architecture
• Design, Test, and Verification
• Embedded Systems
• Networks and Distributed Systems
• System Software and Compilers
• Biologically-Inspired Computing

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Computer Architecture Research

• Faculty Blough, Davis, Hamblen, Schimmel,
  Schlag, S. Wills, Yalamanchili
• Sample projects
• ASAN
• QoS router design
• Multimedia architectures

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Design, Test, and Verification Research

• Faculty Chatterjee, Davis, Hughes, Keezer, Lim,
  Mooney, Schimmel, Schlag, Swaminathan, Velev
• Sample projects
• Mixed-signal testing
• Hardware-software co-design
• Hardware verification
• Power-aware design

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Embedded Systems Research

• Faculty Anderson, Blough, Hamblen, Mooney,
  Palem, Peatman, L. Wills
• Sample projects
• Real-time OS for multiprocessor-on-a-chip
• Real-time DSP
• Power-aware computing

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Networks and Distributed Systems Research

• Faculty Blough, Owen, Riley, Schimmel,
  Yalamanchili
• Sample projects
• ASAN
• Next-generation Internet
• Simulation of large-scale networks
• Fault tolerance in distributed systems

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System Software and Compilers Research

• Faculty Blough, Palem, Riley, L. Wills
• Sample projects
• Compilers for power-aware and high-performance
  systems
• Middleware for autonomous flight-control software
• Software re-engineering

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Dependable Distributed Systems and Software

• Adaptive management of distributed systems
• study of replication, voting, and consistency
  mechanisms, and their combinations/tradeoffs in
  dependable distributed systems
• Middleware for fault injection and measurement of
  distributed software
• study of how different classes of software
  respond to a wide variety of faults
• Sensor networks
• characterization of sensor densities and
  transmitting ranges necessary to ensure connected
  network
• study of how much network lifetime can be
  extended by various energy-conserving protocols