Service

ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES TO UNIVERSITY

  • Member, CSE Graduate Committee, 2009-2010.
  • Member, Planning & External Relations Committee, 2009-2010.
  • Departmental representative, Inaugural CoE Eminent Lecture Series, Spring 2009.
  • Graduate Program Director, Computer Science & Engg., May 2006-April 2009.
  • Departmental Co-ordinator, Alfred P. Sloan Program, CoE, USF, May 2006-Dec 2008.
  • College Grievance Committee, Summer 2006 (Chair), Spring 2009 (Member).
  • Departmental Tenure & Promotion Committee, 2004-present.
  • Graduate Admissions Co-ordinator, 2004-2005.
  • Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, 2003-2009.
  • Member, Departmental Infrastructure Committee, 2003-present.
  • Supervisor for the Departmental Technical Support 1999-2003.
  • Departmental representative on the Safety and Health Committee 2000-present.
  • Departmental representative on the interdepartmental committee on Packaging 1998-99.
  • Departmental library representative 1998-2001.
  • 1998/99 Departmental representative to Graduation.
  • MS Comprehensive and PhD Quali ers Examination Committee,
    Computer Architecture Section (Fall & Spring Semesters, 1997-present).
  • MS Comprehensive and PhD Quali ers Examination Committee, Member of
    the sub-committee on the Advanced Digital Systems (ADS)(Fall 1998, Spring 1999).
  • On the undergraduate curriculum evaluation committee for planning, development,
    and evaluation of computer engineering program (Fall 1997).
SERVICE TO PROFESSION

Journals
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, Nov 2006 - present.
  • Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of ICs and Systems.
  • Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Computers.
  • Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation.
  • Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems.
  • Reviewer, ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES).
  • Reviewer, Journal on Low Power Electronics (JOLPE).
  • Reviewer, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems.
  • Reviewer, Journal on VLSI Signal Processing Systems.
  • Reviewer, Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS (JM3).
  • Reviewer, IEE Proceedings on Computers & Digital Techniques.
  • Reviewer, The Computer Journal.
  • Reviewer, Integration, the VLSI Journal.
Conferences
  • General Co-chair & Registration Chair, 2001 IEEECS Workshop on VLSI, Orlando, FL.
  • Registration & Publicity Chair, 2000 IEEECS Workshop on VLSI, Orlando, FL.
  • Local Arrangements Chair, 2009 Intl. Symposium VLSI 2009, Tampa, FL.
  • Session Chair, IMAPS 2007 Workshop on Extreme Cold Electronics
  • Session Chair, "Synthesis," 1999 Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI)
  • Session Chair, "Low Power Design," 2008 International Conference on VLSI Design
  • TPC Member, Intl. Symposium on Quality of Electronic Design (ISQED) 2006, 2008
  • TPC Member, IEEE Computer Society Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI)
  • TPC Member, Intl. Conference on Computer Design (ICCD)
  • TPC Member, Recon gurable Architectures Workshop (RAW), (Years: 2005, 2008)
  • TPC Member, Field Programmable Logic (FPL), 2008,
  • TPC Member, IFIP VLSI System-on-a-Chip (SOC) Conference
  • TPC Member, Asian Symposium on Quality of Electronic Design (ASQED)
  • TPC Member, IEEE SOC Conference, Portland, OR, 2003.
  • Reviewer, Micro-electronics System Education (MSE), 2007
  • Reviewer, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2008
  • Reviewer, Military and Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices (MAPLD), 2005
  • Reviewer, Intl. Syposium on Circuit and Systems (ISCAS)
  • Reviewer, Midwest Symposium on Circuit and Systems (MWSCAS) 2008
  • Reviewer, Intl. Conf. on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS) 2007
  • Reviewer, Intl. Conf. on VLSI Design, 2008
  • Reviewer, IEEE System on a Chip (SOC) Conference
  • Reviewer, Adaptive Hardware Systems AHS 2006
  • Reviewer, NSF SBIR Panel, 2003.
  • Reviewer, DAC PhD Forum, 2004
  • Reviewer, International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2004
Other Service
  • Publicity Chair and Organizing Member, ACM Cadathlon Contest, Nov. 2009.
  • IEEE Senior Member Review Panel, Tampa, FL, Spring 2009.
  • Judge, USF Research Day, Engineering Research Poster Contest, Spring 2009.
  • Mentor, Undergraduate Research Competition, Spring 2008.
  • Editor-in-Chief, The Suncoast Signal, IEEE Florida West Coast Section (FWCS)
    Monthly Newsletter
  • Judge, USF EE Senior Project Poster Competition, Fall 2006.
  • Faculty Advisor, USF IEEE Computer Society Student Chapter 1999-2005.
  • Mentor, Research Experiences for Teachers (RET), Summer 2004.
  • Proposal Reviewer, Florida I4 High Tech Corridor Grant Program, Summer 2004.
GRADUATE THESIS/DISSERTATION COMMITTEES
PhD Dissertation Committee Member
At USF:
  • Madhusmita Behera, Moffitt Cancer Center (Advisor: Dr. John Hines), USF
  • Jorge Galvis (Advisor: Dr. Wilfredo Moreno, EE, USF)
  • Alberto Rodriguez (Advisor: Dr. Tom Weller, EE, USF)
  • Upavan Gupta (Advisor: Dr. N. Ranganathan, CSE, USF), Summer 2008
  • Ashok Murugavel (Advisor: Dr. N. Ranganathan, CSE, USF), Spring 2003
  • Koustav Bhattacharya (Advisor: Dr. N. Ranganathan, CSE, USF), Fall 2009
  • Mahalingam Venkataraman (Advisor: Dr. N. Ranganathan, CSE, USF), Spring 2009
  • Sanjukta Bhanja (Advisor: Dr. N. Ranganathan, CSE, USF), Fall 2002
  • Thara Rejimon (Advisor: Dr. Sanjuktha Bhanja, EE, USF)
  • Saraju Mohanty (Advisor: Dr. N. Ranganathan, CSE, USF), Fall 2003
  • David Aguilar (Advisor: Dr. Rafael Perez), Fall 2007
  • Elizabeth Horton (Advisor: Dr. N. Ranganathan, CSE, USF)
Outside USF:
  • Jawad Khan, ECECS, Univ. of Cincinnati (Advisor: Dr. Ranga Vemuri)
  • Xin Jia, ECECS, Univ. of Cincinnati (Advisor: Dr. Ranga Vemuri)
  • Shubhankar Basu (Advisor: Dr. Ranga Vemuri, ECECS, Univ. of Cincinnati), Spring 2008
  • Madhubanthi Mukherjee, ECECS, Univ. of Cincinnati (Advisor: Dr. Ranga Vemuri
  • Manish Handa, (Advisor: Dr. Ranga Vemuri, ECECS, Univ. of Cincinnati)
  • Preetham Lakshmikanthan (Advisor: Dr. Adrian Nunez, ECE, Syracuse University)
MS Thesis Committee Member
  • Brian Hayes, CSE (Advisor: Dr. Ranganathan)
  • Vasanth Ramesh, CSE (Advisor: Dr. Ranganathan)
  • Ryan Mabry (Advisor(s): Dr. N. Ranganathan and Dr. H. Zheng) Defended in Summer 2007.
  • Shankar Arumuguvelu (Advisor: Dr. N. Ranganathan) Defended in Summer 2007.
  • Alejandro G. Munoz (Advisor(s): Dr. Larry Hall and Dr. D. Goldgof), Fall 2008.
  • Zornitza Genova (Advisor: Dr. Martha Escobar Moleno)
  • Arun Solleti (Advisor: Dr. Ken Christensen)
  • Jared Ahrens, (Advisor: Dr. Hao Zheng)
  • Khalid N. Hamzan, (Advisor: Dr. Peter Maurer)
  • Rohini K. Jella, (Advisor: Dr. Dewey Rundus)
  • Praveen Ikkurthy (Advisor: Dr. Miguel Labrador)
  • Subodh Kerkar (Advisor: Dr. Miguel Labrador)
  • Vipul Mistry (Advisor: Dr. Murali Varanasi)
  • Sunil Chappidi (Advisor: Dr. N. Ranganathan)
  • Sivakumar Bakthavachalu (Advisor: Dr. Miguel Labrador)
  • Alejandro G. Munoz (Advisor: Dr. Larry Hall)
  • Joshua Johnson (Advisor: Dr. Eugene Fink)
  • Srinath Chavali (Advisor: Dr. N. Ranganathan)
  • Mohammed Gharawi (Advisor: Dr. Peter Maurer)
  • Karthikeyan Balakrishnan (Advisor: Dr. N. Ranganathan)
PhD Dissertation Defense Chair
At University of South Florida, the Graduate School requires the PhD defense to be chaired by a Professor outside the candidate's department.
  • Bhaskar Tetali, EE (Advisor: Dr. Chris Ferrikides), Spring 2005
  • Balaji Lakshminarayanan, EE (Advisor: Dr. Tom Weller), Fall 2005
  • Charles Baylis (Advisor(s): Dr. Larry Dunleavy
    and Dr. Dave Snider, EE, USF), Spring 2007
  • Son Ho (Advisor: Dr. Muhammad Rahman, MechE, USF), Summer 2007
  • Saravana Natarajan (Advisor: Dr. Tom Weller, EE, USF), Fall 2007
  • Sathyaharish Jeedigunta, EE, USF (Advisor(s): Dr. Ashok Kumar, MechE,
    and Dr. Shekhar Bansali, EE), Spring 2008
  • Subramanian Krishnan, EE, USF (Advisors: Dr. Shekhar Bhansali, EE,
    and Dr. Lee Stefanakos, EE), Spring 2008
  • Carlos L. Castillo (Advisors: Dr. Wilfredo Moreno, EE,
    and Dr. Kimon Valavanis, CSE), Spring 2008
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