Cister Research Centre in Realtime and Embedded Computing Systems

🎓 Next Thursday, July 25th, the CISTER member Ishfaq Hussain will defend his Ph.D. thesis entitled "Improving the analysis techniques for mixed-criticality multicore systems and controller area networks by leveraging periodic load patterns", as part of the Doctoral Programme in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto.

The jury will be composed of:

- Professor José Nuno Moura Marques Fidalgo, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (President of the jury).
- Prof. Rodolfo Pellizzoni, Associate Professor of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Waterloo, Canada;
- Prof. Gerhard Fohler, Full Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Kaiserslautern, Denmark;
- Dr. Muhammad Ali Awan, Senior Engineer at Airbus Defense and Space (Advisor);
- Prof. Mário Jorge Rodrigues de Sousa, Assistant Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto.

The advisory committee will be composed of:

- Dr. Muhammad Ali Awan, Senior Engineer at Airbus Defense and Space, UK;
- Prof. Pedro Alexandre Guimarães Lobo Ferreira Souto, Assistant Professor Department of informatics engineering, University of Porto, Portugal;
- Dr. Konstantinos Bletsas, Senior Researcher, CISTER research center, Porto, Portugal.

Ishfaq joined the CISTER Research Centre in 2018 and has since been developing his PhD thesis with the support of CISTER. His area of specialization is energy/performance optimization in reconfigurable MPSoC architectures.

We wish him the best of luck. 🤞

On June 27, we will host a Distinguished Seminar, entitled “Learn to Achieve Fast and Accurate Thermal Simulations of Multicore Microprocessors Guided by Physical Principles with Application to Thermal-aware Scheduling”, presented by Dr. Ming-Cheng Cheng.

Ming-Cheng Cheng received the B.S. degree in Electrophysics from National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY, USA. He is currently a professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY.

His research has covered a wide range of areas including electron transport modeling of solid-state devices, spin-polarized electron transport, electro-thermal simulations of semiconductor devices and integrated circuits, electromagnetic simulation for core losses in magnetic materials. Recently, he has devoted his effort to developing effective physics simulation methods based on physics-informed data-driven learning algorithms for different research areas, including dynamic thermal analysis of ICs, CPUs/GPUs, thermal-aware task scheduling in multi-core microprocessors, simulations of quantum eigenvalue problems for nanostructures and materials, DFT simulations, electromagnetic/photonic simulations, etc.

Make sure you book the slot in your agenda! ✔️

For more information: www.cister-labs.pt/events/ming_cheng_cheng/

Distinguished Seminar - “Data Flow from Cause to Effect in Distributed Systems: Data Age and Reaction"
Presented by Dr. Jian-Jia Chen

Distinguished Seminar - “Differentiating with Custom Computing and RISC-V”
Presented by Dr. Pavel Zaykov

🎓 On April 26th, Javier Pérez Rodríguez successfully defended his PhD thesis, supervised by Dr. Patrick Yomsi, and co-supervised by Dr. Eduardo Tovar and Dr. Luis Almeida, at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto.

Developed with CISTER support, his thesis entitled "Thermal-aware schedulability analysis for modern real-time computing systems" addresses the challenge of managing heat dissipation in computing systems, particularly in safety-critical domains. It proposes novel thermal-aware resource management schemes for multi-core platforms to meet real-time requirements without exceeding thermal limits.

With this great achievement, Javier kicks off this year's series of PhD thesis defenses by CISTER members in the best possible way. ✔👏

Read the full article: www.cister-labs.pt/news/969