Group Members

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Faculty

Yang (Cindy) Yi

Associate Professor at the Department of ECE, Virginia Tech
Email: yangyi8@vt.edu

Director of MICS and NCL@MICS
Office at 361, Durham Hall
PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University
BS and MS in Electrical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Current PhD Students

Md Rubel Sarkar

PhD, Fall 2022 - Present
Email: rubel@vt.edu

BS, Electrical and Electronic Engineering || Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Souvik Pramanik

PhD, Fall 2022 - Present
Email: psouvik@vt.edu

BS, Electrical Engineering || University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
MEngg, Electrical Engineering || University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States

Khalil Sedki

PhD, Fall 2022 - Present
Email: ksedki@vt.edu

MS, Electrical Engineering || Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech), Chicago, United States
BS, Electrical Engineering || Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech), Chicago, United States

Muhammad Farhan Azmine

PhD, Fall 2022 - Present
Email: muhammadfarhan@vt.edu

BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering || Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh

Sanchit Sethi

PhD, Fall 2022 - Present
Email: sanchitsethi@vt.edu

BS, Computer Engineering || Auburn University, Alabama, United States

Ramashish Gaurav

PhD, Spring 2022 - Present
Email: rgaurav@vt.edu

MASc, Systems Design Engineering || University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
Integrated Dual Degree (BTech + MTech), Computer Science & Engineering || Indian Institute of Technology - BHU, Varanasi, India

Chunxiao Lin

PhD, Fall 2021 - Present
Email: chunxiao@vt.edu

MS, Electrical Engineering || University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States
BS, Electrical Engineering || Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Fabiha Nowshin

PhD, Summer 2021 - Present
Email: fabiha27@vt.edu

MS, Electrical Engineering || Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, United States
BS, Electrical Engineering || Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, United States

Honghao Zheng

PhD, Fall 2020 - Present
Email: zhenghh@vt.edu

MS, Electrical Engineering || Boston University, MA, United States
BS, Electrical Engineering || Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China

Nima Mohammadi

PhD, Fall 2020 - Present
Email: nimamo@vt.edu

MSc, Computer Science || University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
BSc, Computer Engineering || SRTTU, Tehran, Iran

Yibin Liang

PhD, Fall 2019 - Present
Email: yibin@vt.edu

MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering || Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, United States

Shiya Liu

PhD (Part time), Spring 2019 - Present
Email: shiyal@vt.edu

MS, Electrical Engineering || Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States
BS, Electrical Engineering || Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States

Current MS Students

Gauri Sharma

MS, Fall 2022 - Present
Email: gauri021@vt.edu

BTech, Electrical Engineering || Punjab Engineering College, Punjab, India

Lyle Smith

MS, Fall 2022 - Present
Email: lsmithiv@vt.edu

BS, Engineering (Computing option) || Bryan College, Dayton, TN, United States

Shrestha C. Agarwal

MS, Fall 2022 - Present
Email: shresthaf1@vt.edu

BTech, Electronics Engineering || Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, Maharashtra, India

Ruizhe Li

MS, Fall 2022 - Present
Email: ruizhe@vt.edu

BS, Computer Engineering || Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States

Spoorthi Airody Suresh

MS, Spring 2021 - Present
Email: spoorthi@vt.edu

BEngg, Electrical and Electronics || Visvesvaraya Technological University, Karnataka, India

Virginia Tech Interested Students

Currently a Virginia Tech student and interested in getting involved with BRICC@MICS?

Our group hosts weekly interest group meetings to learn about research conducted by the current students, in addition to discussing other research domains in the Brain-Inspired Computing field. Undergraduate students also have the opportunity to get involved with projects that may count for their course credits. Please reach out to Dr. Yang (Cindy) Yi for more information on how to join!

Alumni

F1 L1

2015 - 2018
Role: Fine mechanical engineer

F2 L2

2015 to June 2019
Role: PhD student