Ali Akoğlu

 

Reconfigurable Computing Lab

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

University of Arizona

1230 E. Speedway Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85721-0104

Phone: (520)626-5149

Fax: (520)621-8076

akoglu@ece.arizona.edu

www.ece.arizona.edu/~akoglu

 

POSITION

August 2005 – Present:
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
University of Arizona

EDUCATION

 

Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Ph.D., Computer Science, July 2005

Dissertation Title: Application Specific Reconfigurable Architecture Design Methodology

Advisor: Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan

 

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

B.S., Computer Engineering, December 1998

 

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

 

Research: Reconfigurable Computing, High Performance Computing, Hardware Software Co-Design

 

Teaching: Reconfigurable Computing, Computer Architecture

 

SCIENTIFIC and PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS, AFFILIATIONS

 

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society

BIO5 Institute

 

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

 

(Aug 05 – Present)             Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

(Jan 00 – July 05)               Teaching/Research Assistant, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

 

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

 

Research Internship, Intel Corporation, Embedded Intel Architecture Division,

August 2004 – July 2005

Performance modeling to enable development of Intel Architecture Chipsets aimed at Networking and Communications markets.

 

Research Internship, Luxxon Corporation,

May 2000 - August 2001

Internship work with this startup company was for Luxxon’s Mediator system that targeted wireless operator to adopt the streaming multimedia data to match network bandwidth and specific end user display capabilities.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

University of Arizona, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Fundamentals of Computer Architecture (ECE369), Junior
  • Reconfigurable Computing (ECE596C), Graduate

 

Arizona State University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Teaching Assistant/Associate

  • Computer Literacy, Freshman, Spring 2002-Spring 2004
  • Hardware Description Language, Graduate, Fall 2002
  • Assembly Lang. Programming & Microprocessors, Sophomore, Fall 2001 & Spring 2002
  • Computer Architecture, Senior/Graduate, Spring 2000

 

Purdue University
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

  • Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, “Electronic Devices & Design Laboratory” (ECE207 & ECE208), Spring and Fall 1998
  • Physics Department, “Introductory Calculus Based Mechanics” (PHYS152), (Spring & Fall 1997)

 

Teaching Interests

  • Parallel Processing / High Performance Computing
  • Hardware-Software Co-design
  • Image and Video Processing
  • VLSI Design
  • Embedded Media Processing
  • Wireless Networks
  • Mobile Computing
  • Computer Networks

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Peer Reviewed Conference

  • D. Sreedharan, A. Akoglu, “A Hybrid Processing element Based Reconfigurable Architecture for Hashing Algorithms”,  IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium Miami, Florida, USA, April 14-15, 2008

 

  • R. Verma, A. Akoglu, “A Coarse Grained and Hybrid Reconfigurable Architecture With Flexible NOC Router for Variable Block Size Motion Estimation”, IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium , Miami, Florida, USA, April 14-15, 2008

 

  • S. Venishetti and A. Akoglu, "A highly parallel FPGA based IEEE-754 Compliant Double-Precision Binary Floating-Point Multiplication Algorithm", IEEE International Conference on  Field-Programmable Technology 2007 (ICFPT'07), pp. 145-152, December 12- 14, 2007, Kitakyushu, Japan

 

  • Pandit and A. Akoglu, "Net length based routability driven packing", IEEE International Conference on  Field-Programmable Technology 2007 (ICFPT'07), pp. 225-232, December 12 - 14, 2007, Kitakyushu, Japan

 

  • R. Verma and A. Akoglu, "A coarse grained reconfigurable architecture for variable size block motion estimation", IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology 2007 (ICFPT'07), pp. 81-88, December 12 -14, 2007, Kitakyushu, Japan

 

  • D. Montgomery, A. Akoglu, “Cryptographic Instruction Set Processor Design”, Information Security and Cryptology Conference, 4 pages, Ankara, Turkey, December 13-14, 2007

 

  • Akoglu, S. Vohnout, and J. Judkins, "FPGA Based Fault Detection, Isolation and Healing for  Integrated Vehicle Health Management", Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Prognostics,  AAAI Press FS-07-02, 7 pages, Arlington, Virginia, November 8-11, 2007

 

  • Pandit and A. Akoglu, "Wirelength Prediction for FPGAs", 17th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications" (FPL 2007), pp. 749-752. Amsterdam, Netherlands 27-29 August 2007

 

  • D. Montgomery, A. Akoglu, "Methodology and Toolset for ASIP Design and Development Targeting Cryptography-Based Applications", IEEE International Conference on Application -Specific Systems, Architectures and Processors, (ASAP 2007), 9-11 July 2007 Page(s):365 - 370, Montréal, Québec, Canada

 

  • S. Venishetti, A. Akoglu, R. Kalra, "Hierarchical Built-in Self-testing and FPGA Based Healing Methodology for System-on-a-Chip", IEEE NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS), pp. 717-724, Edinburgh, UK, Feb 26, 2007

 

  • Akoglu and S. Panchanathan, “Application Specific Reconfigurable Architecture Design Methodology”, International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'05), pp. 247-250, June 2005, Las Vegas, NV

 

  • Akoglu, B. Janarthanan, K. Vaithianathan, A. Kwatra, “Platform Performance Analysis on Networking Applications”, 8 pages, Intel DTTC Online Journal, August 2005

 

  • Akoglu, A. Dasu and S. Panchanathan, “Application specific Hybrid-FPGA Design”, IS&T/SPIE17th Symposium, Electronic Imaging Science and Technology, Proceedings of SPIE Volume: 5683, pp 21-31, March 2005, San Jose, CA

 

  • Akoglu, A. Dasu and S. Panchanathan, “Design of Fast and Efficient Hybrid-FPGAs for Numerically Intensive Applications”, 7th annual Military and Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices (MAPLD) International Conference, September 2004, Washington, D.C.

 

  • Dasu, A. Akoglu and S. Panchanathan, “Cluster Extraction for Hybrid FPGA Architecture in Computation Intensive Applications”, International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'04), June 2004, Las Vegas, NV

 

  • Akoglu, A. Dasu and S. Panchanathan, “A Framework for Design of Heterogeneous Hierarchical Routing Architecture of a Dynamically Reconfigurable Application Specific Media Processor”, High Performance Computing (HiPC), 10th International Conference, December 2003, Hyderabad, India

 

  • Dasu, A. Akoglu and S. Panchanathan, “Analysis Tool Set for Reconfigurable Media Processing”, International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'03), June 2003, Las Vegas, NV

 

WORKSHOPS

 

  • S. Venishetti, A. Akoglu, “"FPGA-based Fault Detection, Isolation and Healing for Autonomous Operation”, NSF Center for Autonomic Computing (CAC) Planning Workshop, September 5-7, 2007, Gainesville, Florida

 

PATENTS

 

3 key technologies arising from my dissertation have patents pending and protected under US and International patent laws

  • Processing element based reconfigurable computing for inherently parallel scientific applications, March 2003
  • Packing Using Rent’s Rule for LUT based FPGAs, June 2003
  • Application Specific Heterogeneous Hierarchical Routing Architecture Design, April 2004

 

GRANTS and AWARDS

 

  • NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratories, Strategic University Partnership Program (JPL-SURP’07), Self-Configurable Architecture for Reusable Space Systems (SCARS), 2007-2008 (PI Akoglu, 85K, my share 100%)

 

  • United States Army Battle Command Battle Laboratory – Huachuca (BCBL-H), CELL BE Performance Analysis, 2007-2008 (PI Akoglu, 384K, my share 50%)

 

  • University of Arizona, Faculty Small Grants Program, Compressed Sensing Based Image Reconstruction on Reconfigurable Architectures, 2007-2008 (PI Akoglu, 10K, my share 100%)

 

  • University of Arizona, IT-Bioscience Program, Markov Chain Based Isolation with Migration simulations on Field Programmable Gate Array Architectures, 2006 (PI Akoglu, 8K, my share 100%)

 

SERVICE/OUTREACH

 

Invited Speaker

  • Computational Biology Seminar, “Reconfigurable Architectures for Scientific Computing”, University of Arizona, Spring 2006

 

  • Research Topics in Computer Science Seminar, “Computer architect's paradigm, hardware-software co-design”, University of Arizona, Fall 2007,

 

Conference Activities

  • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Field Programmable Technology (ICFPT’08), Taiwan, December 2008.

 

  • Technical Program Committee Member, International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS’08), Sorrento, Italy, July 2008

 

  • Technical Program Committee Member, Information Security and Cryptography Conference, Ankara, Turkey, December 2007

 

  • Reviewer, IEEE Data compression Conference (DCC’08), March 2008, Snowbird, Utah

 

  • Program Co-chair, International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS’07), Istanbul, Turkey, July 2007

 

  • Reviewer, Advances in Multimedia Information Systems: 11th International Workshop, MIS 2005, Sorrento, Italy, September 2005

 

Journal Referee

  • IEEE Transactions on Computers

 

  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

 

  • International Journal of Computers and Applications, ACTA Press

 

  • Special Issue: Circuits and Systems for Real-Time Security and Copyright Protection of Multimedia International Journal of Computers and Electrical Engineering (Elsevier Ltd.)

 

Departmental Committees

  • ECE, Graduate Studies Committee (2006-2007)
  • ECE, Undergraduate Portfolio Assessment Committee (2006-Current)
  • ECE, Undergraduate Recruiting and Awards Committee (2007-Current)
  • ECE Distinguished Spear Series Co-Organizer (2005-2007)

 

University Committees and Organizations

  • University of Arizona, Faculty Small Grants Program, Proposal Review Committee, 2008
  • University of Arizona, High Performance Computing (HPC) Policy and Allocation Advisory Committee (2007-Current)
  • University of Arizona, Turkish Student Association, Faculty Advisor (2007-Current)
  • University of Arizona, Replacement of University Supercomputer, Proposal Evaluation Committee, July 2006
  • University of Arizona, Robotics Club, Faculty Advisor (2005-2006)

 

STUDENTS

 

  • Sandeep Venishetti, MS, Graduated in Fall 2007, Joined Intel Corporation, Design and Development of Highly Parallel FPGA based IEEE-754 Compliant Double-Precision Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic Libraries

 

  • Audip Pandit, MS, Graduated in Fall 2007, Joined Intel Corporation, Wirelength Prediction Techniques for FPGA CAD Flow

 

  • Yang Song, Ph.D., Highly Parallel Coarse Grained Reconfigurable Architecture Design for H.264 Video Compression Standard

 

  • Deepak Sreedharan, MS, Design and Development of a Cryptography Engine on a Coarse Grained Reconfigurable Architecture

 

  • Lakshmi Easwaran, MS, Power Aware FPGA CAD Flow Design

 

  • Arjun Hari, MS, Wirelength Estimation Based Placement and Routing Algorithms for FPGAs

 

  • Ruchika Verma, MS, Coarse Grained Reconfigurable Architecture with Network-on-Chip Support for Motion Estimation of H.264 Standard

 

  • Adarsha Sreeramareddy, MS, Partial Reconfiguration Techniques for FPGA Based Self Healing

 

  • Jeff G. Josiah, MENG, Self-Configurable Architecture for Reusable Space Systems

 

 

INDEPENDENT STUDY (ECE499/599) / DIRECTED RESEARCH (ECE492)

 

  • Ruchika Verma, Graduate, Spring 2008, ECE599, Analysis of Search Algorithms in H.264 Motion Estimation

 

  • Kevin J. Carr, Undergraduate, Spring 2008,  ECE492, FPGA Based Camera Integrated Image Recognition System with a Video Display Interface

 

  • Jeremy Wright, Undergraduate, Spring 2008, ECE492,  FPGA Based Camera Integrated Image Tracking System

 

  • Jeff Josiah, Graduate, Spring 2008, ECE599, Performance Enhancement of Wireless Mesh Network Towards Network Level Healing,

 

  • Bryan Wallace, Graduate, Spring 2008,  ECE599, Camera Integration to the FPGA Based Computation  Node and Task Monitoring with VGA Interface

 

  • Andrew Lotti, Graduate, Spring 2008, ECE599,  FPGA Based Healing with Partial Configuration Techniques

 

  • Anand Patikkal, Graduate, Fall 2007, ECE599, Implementing Image Reconstruction Algorithm for MRI on IBM Cell Architecture

 

  • Cristian Ortiz, Undergraduate, Fall 2007, ECE499, Developing FPGA Based Self-Healing Methodology

 

  • Michael D. Sneedeker, Undergraduate, Fall 2007, ECE492, Performance Evaluation of Compressed Sensing Algorithm on FPGA

 

  • Joe Fico, Undergraduate, Spring 2007, ECE499, Exploring Self-healing Mechanisms Using Reconfigurable Architectures

 

  • Vivek Nandakumar, Graduate, Fall 2006, ECE599, Hierarchical Routing Architecture for 3D FPGAs

 

  • David Montgomery, Undergraduate, Fall 2006, ECE492, Mapping Recurring Computation Patterns of Network Security and Video Compression Algortihms onto FPGA

 

  • David Montgomery, Undergraduate, Summer 2006, ECE492, Development of Analysis Tools for Application Specific Instruction Set Architecture Design

 

  • Cristopher Dannemiller, Undergraduate, Spring 2006, ECE499, Performance Evaluation of Cryptography Algorithms on FPGA

 

  • Cristopher Dannemiller, Undergraduate, Fall 2005, Honors Contract, ECE369

 

FACULTY MENTOR FOR SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT (ECE498, ENGR498)

 

  • Spring 2007, Stovetop Project, Industry Sponsor: United Way, Press Release at UANEWS in Fall 2007 (www.uanews.org/node/16606)

 

  • Fall 2007, Thermostat Project, Industry Sponsor: Texas Instruments  (Ranked 1st in Design Competition)

 

  • Fall 2007,  FPGA Based I/O Interface Project, Industry Sponsor: Ridgetop Group, (Ranked 2nd in Design Competition)

 

 

DISSERTATION COMMITTEE SERVICE

 

  • Byoung uk Kim, ECE
  • Huoping Chen, ECE
  • Seungchan Oh, ECE
  • Chungman Seo, ECE
  • Samer Fayssal, ECE
  • Faisal Momen, ECE
  • Guangzhi Qu, ECE
  • Youssif B. Al-Nashif, ECE

 

MASTERS COMMITTEE SERVICE

  • Aarthi Arun Kumar
  • Dheepan  Shanmugasundaram
  • Ajay S. Nair
  • Rahul Kalra
  • Jingmri Yang
  • Moath Jarrah
  • Yan Wang
  • Karthik Gaekwad
  • Georgios Zantis

 

MENTORSHIP

 

  • Sean Whitsitt, National Merit Scholars Program, Undergraduate Student, Since Fall 2005