Doctoral Thesis Award

TTTC’s E. J. McCluskey Best Doctoral Thesis 2018 Award Contest

Named after Prof. E.J. McCluskey, a key contributor to the field of test technology, the 2018 TTTC’s Doctoral Thesis Award serves the purpose to promote most impactful doctoral student work, to provide the students with the exposure to the community and the prospective employers, and to support interaction between academia and industry in the field of test technology.

TTTC’s E.J. McCluskey Best Doctoral Thesis Award will be given to the winning student of the doctoral student contest and his or her advisor.

The contest is held in two stages: semi-finals and finals.

In 2018, semi-finals will be held at the IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS), the IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS), the IEEE Latin American Test Symposium (LATS) and the IEEE Asian Test Symposium (ATS). At each semi-final, a jury composed of industrial experts will determine the winner, and the four winners will compete against each other in the finals, held at the International Test Conference (ITC) 2018.

VTS 2018 Semifinalists:

  1. Suvadeep Banerjee (Georgia Institute of Technology), Advisor: Abhijit Chatterjee
    Thesis title: State-Space Encoding Driven Error Resilience in Control Systems And Circuits
  2. Mohammad-Mahdi Bidmeshki (University of Texas at Dallas), Advisor: Yiorgos Makris
    Thesis title: Proof-Carrying Hardware Intellectual Property (PCHIP): Framework Automation and Enhancement
  3. Saurabh Gupta (Southern Methodist U.), Advisor: Jennifer Dworak
    Thesis title: Improving System-on-Chip Test Networks for: Bandwidth, Security, and Power
  4. Abhishek Koneru (Duke U.), Advisor: Krishnendu Chakrabarty
    Thesis title: Test and Reliability Solutions for Monolithic 3D Integrated Circuits
  5. Kiruba Sankaran Subramani (U. of Texas at Dallas), Advisor: Yiorgos Makris
    Thesis title: Hardware Trojans in Wireless Networks
  6. Muhammad Yasin (New York U.), Advisor: Ozgur Sinanoglu
    Thesis title: Provably Secure Logic Locking for Hardening Hardware Security
  7. Liwei Zhou (U. of Texas at Dallas), Advisor: Yiorgos Makris
    Thesis title: Hardware-based Workload Forensics and Malware Detection in Microprocessors


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