Center for Scalable Architectures and Systems

The Center for Scalable Architectures and Systems (SAS) carries out groundbreaking research that leads to new areas of parallelism and scalability in computing infrastructure, hardware and software architectures, and algorithms. Researchers representing the center’s focus areas – VLSI circuits, micro-architecture, systems, all the way up to algorithms – are collaborating to achieve the needed breakthroughs.

Center Director

Soner Onder

• Professor, Computer Science
• Affiliated Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• soner@mtu.edu
• 906-487-2123
• Rekhi Hall 303

Center Members

Hongyu An

• Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Affiliated Assistant Professor, Computer Science
• Affiliated Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering

• hongyua@mtu.edu
• 906-487-3382
• EERC 710

Links of Interest

• Faculty Webpage

Courses Taught

• EE 4271 VLSI Design

Areas of Interest

• Neuromorphic Engineering/Computing
• Energy-efficient Neuromorphic Electronic Circuit Design for Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging Nanoscale Device Design
• Spiking Neural Networks

Ali Ebnenasir

• Associate Professor, Computer Science

• aebnenas@mtu.edu
• 906-487-4372
• Rekhi Hall 206

Links of Interest

• Faculty Webpage
• A Large-Scale Framework for Automatic Addition of
• PARDES
• Engineering of Software Fault-Tolerance

Area of Expertise

• Software Engineering
• Automated Analysis of Fault-Tolerance
• Formal Methods

Daniel R. Fuhrmann

• Chair, Department of Applied Computing
• Dave House Professor of Computing
• Affiliated Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• fuhrmann@mtu.edu
• 906-487-2871
• Rekhi Hall 106

Areas of Interest

• Signal Processing 

Yakov Nekrich

• Associate Professor, Computer Science

• yakov@mtu.edu
• 906-487-2271
• Rekhi Hall 311

Areas of Expertise

• • String Algorithms
  • Compressed Data Structures
  • Computational Geometry

Links of Interest

•   Faculty Webpage

Research and Teaching Interests

• Data Structures
• Algorithms

Zhenlin Wang

• Professor and Chair, Computer Science

• zlwang@mtu.edu
• 906-487-2187
• Rekhi Hall 207

Links of Interest

• Faculty Webpage

Area of Expertise

• Optimizing Compilers
• High Performance Architectures
• Cloud Computing
• Virtualization

Jianhui Yue

• Assistant Professor, Computer Science

• jyue@mtu.edu
• 906-487-1726
• Rekhi Hall 203

Links of Interest

• Faculty Website

Areas of Expertise

• Computer Architecture
• Operating System
• System Optimization of Big Data Process