Csaba Andras-Moritz 

andras@ecs.umass.edu
(413) 545-2442 

Administrativ
Christine Langlois
Phone:(413)-545-3621

Address
University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
Elect. and Comp. Eng.
Knowles Eng. Building,
309H,  Amherst, MA 01003

Figures – Below: 2-bit NASIC ALU with nanowires; Right column: nanofabric components – graphene, nanowire, spin based– AFM images sub 30nm

I'm an entrepreneur and professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. I am focusing on nanoscale computing fabrics and electronics beyond CMOS.  Nanofabrics initiated in my group include NASICs, Spin Wave Functions, N3ASICs, etc. My other technical interest is in security. I founded BlueRISC Inc in 2002, a company that develops anti-tamper security processors and solutions. WindowsSCOPE, another of my recent initiatives, targets cyber security and forensics tools. I teach entrepreneurship and technical topics.

I am the Director of the Nanoscale Architectures Laboratory. I lead the Nanoelectronics Technical Research Group (with Prof Mark Tuominen, Physics) at the CHM/NSEC NSF-sponsored nanoscience center. I am the Theme Lead for the Nanofabrics research theme at the FENA/FCRP nanoarchitectonics research center. I was the General Chair of Nanoarch IEEE/ACM International Symposium in 2011 and 2012. I am an Associate Editor (AE) for IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology and Guest Editor of the Elsevier JPDC Special Issue: Computing with Future Nanotechnology. I am also a member of the ACM/SIGDA technical committee on emerging technologies. I served as an AE of IEEE Transactions on Computers between 2001-2006.

OPEN POSITIONS: PhD, MS, and postdoc positions.

RESEARCH: My group's current research focus is on post-CMOS nanoscale fabrics and associated models of computation, based on emerging device (nanowire, spintronics, graphene especially) and novel nanomanufacturing paradigms. We do experimental (Cleanroom) work in addition to cross-layer (device-circuit-fabric) theoretical explorations. We recently demonstrated experimentally N3ASIC nanofabric components and junctionless depletion-mode xnwFET cross-point devices at sub 30nm scale. My previous projects include low-power microprocessor design, fine grained synchronization in multiprocessors, MIT-Raw single-chip multiprocessor, etc.

Recent Awards in my group: IEEE Symposium on VLSI 2008 Best Paper award (out of 220+ papers), Best Student Paper at IEEE DFT 2010, Best Student Paper Award at IEEE/ACM Nanoarch 2011, Best Student Paper IEEE DFT 2011 and several Best Research Poster awards at the FENA/FCRP annual reviews.

FORMER STUDENTS: Some of my former students are academics or leading architects at Google, Microsoft, Qualcomn, Marwell, IBM, Intel, Lattice, BlueRISC, etc. They work on both conventional and emerging nanoscale computing. Some examples: Pritish Narayanan is a researcher at IBM Research in Almaden in nanoelectronics, Yao Guo is an associate professor at Peking University. Mahmoud Bennaser is  an assistant professor at Kuwait University. Osman Unsal (co-advised) is a researcher at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunia  in Barcelona. Tom Wang works on mobile technology at Qualcomm. Raksit Ashok is a compiler designer at Google and Saurabh Chheda is an FPGA/CPU architect at Lattice.

TEACHING: entrepreneurship (undergrad/graduate), advanced computer architecture (graduate), computer systems lab I (undergrad), computer systems lab II (undergrad), OS (undergrad), parallel architectures (graduate), nanoscale architectures (graduate), and low-power microprocessors (graduate).