Current LNIS Members
Principal Investigator
Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon (S’10–M’11–SM’16) is an Associate Professor and the Associate Chair for Academics and Strategic Initiatives in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department and an adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Computing at The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, where he leads the Laboratory for NanoIntegrated Systems (LNIS). He holds an Electrical Engineer M.Sc. degree from CPE-Lyon, France (2008), a M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from INSA Lyon, France (2008) and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from CEA-LETI, Grenoble, France and the University of Lyon, France (2011).
Prior to joining the University of Utah, he was a research associate at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland within the Laboratory of Integrated Systems (Prof. De Micheli) and a visiting research associate at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA. Previously, he was research assistant at CEA-LETI, Grenoble, France. Prof. Gaillardon is recipient of the C-Innov 2011 best thesis award, the Nanoarch 2012 best paper award, the BSF 2017 Prof. Pazy Memorial Research Award, the 2017 NSF CAREER award, the 2018 IEEE CEDA Pederson Award, the 2018 ChemE Education William H. Corcoran best paper award, the 2019 DARPA Young Faculty Award, the 2019 IEEE CEDA Ernest S. Kuh Early Career Award and the 2020 ACM SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award. He has been serving as TPC member for many conferences, including DATE, DAC, ICCAD, Nanoarch, etc.. He is an associate editor of IEEE TNANO and a reviewer for several journals and funding agencies. He served as Topic co-chair "Emerging Technologies for Future Memories" for DATE'17-19. He is a senior member of the IEEE.
The research activities and interests of Prof. Gaillardon are currently focused on the development of novel computing systems exploiting emerging device technologies and novel EDA techniques.
Contact Information
E-Mail: pierre-emmanuel.gaillardon@utah.edu
Phone: +1 (801) 585-3422
Address: SMBB 3745, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, SMBB building, 36 S Wasatch Dr #3100, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA
Research Staff
Scott Temple
Scott received a B.S in physics from the University of Utah in 2014. After briefly pursuing graduate studies in Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington, he moved to industry, working as a data scientist and later, a data engineer.
He is now a staff researcher at LNIS where he maintains LSOracle and pursues related research into the application of machine learning to logic optimization.
Email: scott.temple@utah.edu
Ashton Snelgrove
Ashton is a senior software developer at LNIS developing LSOracle and OpenFPGA. Ashton received a B.S. in computer science from the UofU in 2012. Prior to joining the lab, he was a software engineer in industry for 10 years, specializing in distributed systems.
His research interests include logic synthesis, engineering education, and emerging technologies and reconfigurable architectures.
Email: ashton.snelgrove@utah.edu
Clara Chevreau
Clara received the M.Sc. degree in Chemistry and Process Engineering from CPE Lyon, France (2020). She is now a staff researcher at LNIS where she helps on projects related to cleanroom and environmental chamber.
Previously, she was a research intern at tesa SE, Germany and at the IMP Laboratoty (Engineering of Polymers Materials), France.
Email: clara.chevreau@utah.edu
Corinne Garcia
Corinne is complementing the team by increasing scientific throughput, and providing scientific communication. She also supports the team's HR needs . She has a M.Sc in Chemistry from CPE Lyon, and a M.S. in Management from IAE Aix-en-Provence.
Email: corinne.garcia@utah.edu
Nathan Page
Nathan is currently an engineer for the LNIS after completing his M.Sc. in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Utah.
Email: nathan.page@utah.edu
Raven Reitstetter
Raven is a senior chemical engineer focusing on chemical sensor testing and integration. He received his M.Sc and PhD from Bonn University in Germany. Prior to joining LNIS, he had a career with the US Army and with the US Government at Dugway Proving Ground.
His research interests include sensor applications in biology, chemistry and agriculture.
Email: raven.reitstetter@utah.edu
Researchers
Dr. Roman Gauchi
Roman Gauchi received a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Polytech Grenoble, France in 2017 and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from CEA-LIST, Grenoble, and University of Grenoble Alpes, France in 2021. Dr. Gauchi is a Postdoctoral Research Associate.
His main research interests are emerging technologies and reconfigurable architectures, digital integrated circuit design, and embedded software.
Email: roman.gauchi@utah.edu
PhD Students
Tom Becnel
Tom is a graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Utah. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and is currently working towards a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering.
His research interests include nanointegrated CMOS systems, sensing systems, and embedded circuit system design. His current research project investigates the sensing and extraction of attoFarad changes in capacitive CMOS nodes.
Email: thomas.becnel@utah.edu
Patsy Cadareanu
Patsy received her BS degrees in Microelectronic Engineering and Philosophy in 2016, and her MS degree in Microelectronic Engineering in 2018 from the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is currently working towards her PhD degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Utah.
Her interests include device physics and simulation, nanofabrication, and the study of emerging technologies. Her work at the U is focused on the design, development, and testing of TIGFETs.
Email: patsy.cadareanu@utah.edu
Walter Lau Neto
Walter received his B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) in 2017, his M.Sc. degree in Microelectronics from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in 2018, both in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering at the University of Utah.
His research interests include digital circuit design, electronic design automation (EDA), logic synthesis, and asynchronous circuits.
Email: walter.launeto@utah.edu
Aurélien Alacchi
Aurélien received his MSc degree in Microelectronics and Telecommunications from Polytech Marseille, France in 2018. He is now working toward his PhD degree in Computer Engineering.
His research interests are linked to FPGA design.
Email: aurelien.alacchi@utah.edu
Matthieu Couriol
Matthieu received his B.Sc and M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from CPE Lyon, France (2020). He is now working towards his Ph.D. degree at the University of Utah in Electrical Engineering.
His research is focused on high-resolution chemiresistive sensors analog front-end interfaces.
Email: matthieu.couriol@utah.edu
Ganesh Gore
Ganesh received his BE degree from Mumbai University in 2012 and M.Tech. degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-Bombay, India) in 2016. At IIT-Bombay, he worked on Lookup Table Based Circuit and Device modeling. After completing his degree, he co-founded an Education Technology Startup (Eduvance), where he worked as Chief Technology Officer for three years and developed several commercially deployed SW and HW products.
His current research interests are education technology, reconfigurable computing, computer aided design, and architecture based on emerging technologies.
Email: ganesh.gore@utah.edu
Grant Brown
Grant recieved his BE degree in Electrical Engineering from Florida State University in 2018. He is currently working towards his joint M.Sc/Ph.D degree at the University of Utah in Computer Engineering.
His research interests are in FPGA architecture exploration, In-Memory Computing, and electronic design automation.
Email: grant.brown@utah.edu
MSc Students
Allen Boston
Allen received his B.S degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Askansas in 2021. He is working towards his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Utah.
Email: allen.boston@utah.edu
Daniel Wakeham
Daniel graduated with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering. While he is working towards his M.S. degree in Computer Engineering, he is involved in making an electronic design automation analog for microfluidic devices.
Email: daniel.wakeham@utah.edu
Alexandre Normand
Alex is working on his Mater in Electrical Engineering at CPE Lyon, in France, doing a six-month internship at LNIS to work on the LSOracle project.
Email: alexandre.normand@utah.edu
Undergraduate Students
Owen Leishman
Owen is studying Computer Engineering at the University of Utah.
Email: owen.leishman@utah.edu
Michael Keyser
Michael is majoring in Computer Engineering and Applied Mathematics. He is a BS/MS student in the Computer Engineering program.
Email: michael.keyser@utah.edu
Olivia Lam
Olivia is majoring in Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics at the University of Utah.
Email: Olivia.Lam@utah.edu
Visiting Students
Former LNIS Members
Post-Doc Researchers
Dr. Xifan Tang, 2021.
Dr. Amitesh Kumar, 2019.
Dr. Valerio Tenace, 2021.
Ph.D. Students
Edouard Giacomin, graduated Spring 2021. Now senior hardware engineer at Qualcomm, San Diego, CA, USA.
Visiting Researchers
Maxime Thamassack, EPFL. Fall 2016.
Alexandre Levisse, EPFL. Fall 2016.
MSc Students
Andrew Pong, 2021.
Léa Enginger, 2021.
Hugo Maitre, 2021.
Max Austin, 2020.
Virgile Colrat, 2020.
Samy Charas, 2020.
Scott Gale, 2019.
Matthieu Couriol, 2019. Now Ph.D. student.
Quang Nguyen, 2019. Now embedded system engineer at ProdataKey, Salt Lake City, USA.
João Vieira, 2019. Now Ph.D. student at INESC-ID, Portugal.
Robert Weischedel, 2019. Now software engineer at Microsoft, Seattle, USA.
Hari Krishna, 2018.
Devin Renshaw , 2018. Now Ph.D. student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA.
Baudouin Chauviere, 2018, CPE Lyon. Now Ph.D. at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA.
Jorge Romero-Gonzalez, 2018. Now application engineer at ASML, Albuquerque, USA.
Bhumika Khandelwal, 2017.
Armando Biscontini, 2016, Politecnico di Milano. Now physical design engineer at Qualcomm, Cork, Ireland.
Tengda Shi, 2016. Now staff software engineer at Palo Alto Networks, Santa Clara, USA.
BSc Students
Benjamin Leaptrop, 2021
Nichols Crawford Taylor, 2021
Andrew Erikson, 2021.
Faris Kahn, 2021.
Will Ransohoff, 2021.
Henry Gilbert, 2019.
Trenton Taylor, 2018. Now software engineer at Lockheed Martin, Manassas, USA.
Mitchell Terry, 2016.
Kaitlin Hall, 2016.
Staff
Dillon Lee, 2021.