Lab director
Prof. Christphe Bobda
Prof. Christophe Bobda received his Ph.D. (with honors) in Computer Science from the University of Paderborn and won the 2003 Best Dissertation Award. He held academic positions in Germany before joining his current role in computer engineering. He is a Senior Member of the ACM and the author of a well-known book on reconfigurable computing.
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Muhammed Kawser Ahmed
Developing secure multi-tenant cloud FPGA platforms, with interests in heterogeneous SoC security/threat analysis and AI-efficient architectures on advanced SoC technologies.
Active ph.d students
Antonio Hendricks
Focusing on machine learning and computer vision for safe autonomy in advanced robotic surgery systems, with a background in machine intelligence and autonomous robotics.
Zhaoqi Wang
Designing real-time, on-board FPGA vision accelerators for UAV scene understanding in complex environment, with interests in reconfigurable computing, embedded vision, and hardware–software co-design.
Audrey Souop
Researching multiview human and robot pose estimation for safe human–robot collaboration, with interests in machine learning, computer vision, image processing, and robotics.
Peter Forcha
Building hardware accelerators for machine learning, with interests in reconfigurable computing, computer vision for human action recognition and pose estimation, and efficient NLP/LLM acceleration.
Wesley Piard
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Yu Feng
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Jiheng Chen
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Graduated ph.d students
| Dr. Abigail N. Butka | Spring 2026 |
| Dr. Peter Esenju Mbua | Spring 2026 |
| Dr. Muhammed Kawser Ahmed | Summer 2025 |
| Dr. Alex Salvador Perez | Fall 2024 |
| Dr. Maximillian Kealoha Panoff | Fall 2024 |
| Dr. Erman Nghonda Tchinda | Fall 2023 |
| Dr. Sujan Kumar Saha | Summer 2023 |
| Dr. Danielle Tchuinkou Kwadjo | Fall 2022 |
| Dr. Md Jubaer Hossain Pantho | Fall 2021 |
| Dr. Joel Mandebi Mbongue | Fall 2021 |
| Dr. Pankaj Bhowmik | Fall 2021 |
| Dr. Samantha-Jo Alexis Cunningham | Spring 2021 |