I served as the committee chair for the following graduate students.

  1. Christopher McIntosh, MSEE, 2008. Thesis: Novel die-to-die coaxial interconnect system for use in System-in-Package applications. (PDF). 
  2. Srinitha Nimmakayala, MSEE, 2009. Professional Paper: A Survey of Radiation Hardened CMOS Techniques. (PDF)
  3. Charles Ostrander, MSEE, 2009. Thesis: Phase alignment of asynchronous external clock controllable devices to periodic master control signal using the Periodic Event Synchronization Unit. (PDF)
  4. Monther Abusultan, MSEE, 2010. Thesis: Digital implementation of direction-of-arrival estimation techniques for smart antenna systems. (PDF)
  5. Clint Gauer, MSEE, 2010.  Thesis: Radiation tolerant many-core computing system for aerospace applications. (PDF)
  6. Ningkonsin Rajkumar, MSEE 2010.  Professional Paper: Communication and Debug Platform for Smart Antenna DOA System: UART System Design in VHDL and Debug Platform in Labview. (Amazon)
  7. Jennifer Hane, MSEE, 2012.  Thesis: A fault-tolerant computer architecture for space vehicle applications. (PDF)
  8. Raymond Weber, PhD EE, 2014.  Dissertation: Reconfigurable hardware accelerators for high performance radiation tolerant computers. (PDF)
  9. Justin Hogan, PhD EE, 2014.  Dissertation: Reliability analysis of radiation induced fault mitigation strategies in field programmable gate arrays. (PDF)
  10. Adam Gunderson, MSEE, 2014.  Thesis: Design, fabrication, and implementation of the energetic particle integrating space environment monitor instrument. (PDF)
  11. Samuel Harkness, MSEE, 2015.  Thesis: Experiment platform to facilitate flight testing of fault tolerant reconfigurable computer systems. (PDF)
  12. David Turner, MSEE, 2015.  Thesis: Implementation of a radiation-tolerant computer based on a LEON3 architecture. (PDF)
  13. Mathew Handley, MSEE, 2017.  Thesis: Design, fabrication, and implementation of an embedded flight computer in support of the ionospheric-thermospheric scanning photometer for ion-neutral studies CubeSat mission. (PDF)
  14. Connor Julien, MSEE, 2017.  Thesis: A radiation tolerant computer mission to the International Space Station. (PDF)
  15. Kevin Zack, MSEE, 2017.  Thesis: An electrical power system implementing fixed power point tracking with temperature compensation. (PDF)
  16. Trevor Gahl, MSEE, 2019.  Thesis: Triplicated Instruction Set Randomization in Parallel Heterogeneous Soft-Core Processors. (PDF)
  17. Skylar Tamke, MSEE, 2019.  Thesis: Optimization of Error Correcting Codes in FPGA Fabric Onboard Cube Satellites. (PDF)
  18. Chris Major, MSEE in route to Ph.D, 2020.  Professional Paper: RadPC: A Novel Single Event Upset Mitigation Strategy for FPGA-Based Space Computing. (PDF)
  19. Jackson Novak, MSEE, 2022.  Professional Paper: Electrical Hardware and Firmware Computer Design for Applications in Solar Flare X-Ray Experimentation on STM32 Microcontrollers. (PDF)
  20. Justin Williams, MSEE, 2022. Thesis: RadPC @ Scale: An Approach to Mitigate Single Event Upsets in the Memory of Space Computers. (PDF)
  21. Hezekiah Austin, MSEE, 2023.  Thesis: Fault Injection System for FPGA-Based Space Computers. (PDF)
  22. Tristan RunningCrane, MSEE 2023.  Thesis: Using Instruction Code Obfuscation to Defeat Malware Attacks. (PDF)
  23. Colter Barney, MSEE, 2023.  Thesis: Injection Attack Immunity Using Redundant Heterogeneous Processing Cores. (PDF)
  24. Chris Major, PhD EE, 2023.  Dissertation: Novel Approach to Fault tolerance in Space Computers Leveraging the RISC-V Architecture. (PDF)
  25. Christine Johnson, MS Computer Science, 2025. Thesis: Verification Tool for Securing RISC-V FPGA-Based Process Control Systems. (PDF)
  26. Garrett Perkins, MS Cybersecurity, 2025. Thesis: Providing Secure Boot of Obfuscated Opcodes for CyberShield Using a Trusted Execution Environment. (PDF)
  27. Hezekiah Austin, PhD EE, 2025.  Dissertation: Dynamic Partially Reconfigurable Coprocessor for Low-Power, Radiation-Tolerant Computer. (PDF)
  28. Benjamin Macht, MSEE 2026. Thesis: Hardware-Accelerated CAN Security for Electrical Vehicle Charging Stations. (PDF)