Mithuna S Thottethodi

Electrical & Computer Engineering Schools of Engineering, Purdue University Office: EE327, EE Building 465 Northwestern Ave, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2035 Phone: (765) 496-6787 FAX: (765) 494-2706 e-mail: mithuna@purdue.edu My calendar is available if you have a google account. (Please use this for scheduling appointments and Dissertation/Prelim examinations.)

Honors:

• NSF CAREER Award, 2007.
• Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teaching Award, 2006.
• Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Professor, Fall 2004.

Teaching:

• ECE666 : Advanced Computer Systems (Parallel Computer Architecture) (All content will be distributed vi Blackboard. No public webpage

• EE 437 : Computer Design and Prototyping -- Fall 2006, Spring 2006, Fall 2004, Spring 2004
• ECE 608 : Computational Models and Methods -- Fall 2007, Fall 2005, Fall 2003
• ECE 666 : Advanced Computer Systems -- Spring 2007, Spring 2005, Spring 2003

Research :

• Interconnection Networks Research:
  Scope: Emerging on-chip networks. Aspects of routing, switch arbitration, congestion control, multi-service networks, fault-tolerance.
• Storage: Performance Modeling and Performance Optimization:
  (With Profs. Jeffrey Vitter, Vijay Pai, T.N. Vijaykumar and Rahul Shah) Scope: End-to-end modeling of storage systems and disk-bound applications. Model driven, cross-layer optimizations (e.g., SAN-aware disk block placement and migration, access entropy aware placement/migration etc.)
• Multicore Memory Hierarchy: Cross Layer Management:
  Scope: Application- and OS-driven management of new classes of shared resources unique to multicores.
  

Research Interests :
Parallel programming, Parallel architecture, Interconnection networks, Storage, Multicore memory hierarchies.

Current Students:

• Eric Villasenor
• Ahmed Amin (Co-advised with Prof. T.N. Vijaykumar)
• Brian Rothhaar
• Tariq Mahmood
• Jeffrey Lee
• Timothy Pritchett
• Yu-Ju Hong
• Ahmed Hamdy Abdel-Gawad

Past Students:

• Xiang Xiao, PhD 2009 (Co-advised with Prof. Jaehwan (John) Lee from IUPUI). First Employment: World Evolved.
• Nauman Rafique, PhD 2008. First Employment: Google.
• DaeHo Seo, PhD 2008. First Employment: Intel.
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• Akif Ali, MS (Thesis) 2005. First Employment: Intel.
• Eric Villasenor, MS (Thesis) 2007. Continuing in the PhD program.
• Brian Rothhaar, MS (Thesis) 2009. First Employment: Raytheon.

Publications:

A list of my publications may be seen here.

Misc. Links:

• Purdue Computer Architecture
• CiteSeer ResearchIndex
• WWW Computer Architecture Page
• ACSL page
• Purdue Computer Architecture