Overview

I currently lead the LaCASA Laboratory (Laboratory for Advanced Computer Architectures and Systems at Alabama) and co-lead the mHealth Laboratory (Laboratory for mobile health and wellness monitoring). 

The LaCASA Laboratory seeks for advanced computer architectures and new techniques for designing and evaluating of computer systems. In particular, the LaCASA Laboratory is currently focusing on the following:

• Hardware Security (Exploiting Physical Properties of Flash Memories for Security Functions): [ACM.TECS'21][ACM/IEEE.DAC'20] [IEEE.TED'20] [IEEE.TC'19] [IEEE.TED'18]
• mTrace: Hardware Support for Tracing in Multicores [ACM.TECS'19][IEEE.ICCD'16] [ACM.CASES'16] [Elsevier.JSA'15]
• mHealth: [IEEE.EMBC'16] [MDPI.Information'16] [IEEE.HealthCom'15a] [IEEE.HealthCom'15b] [IEEE.BSN'13a] [IEEE.BSN'13b] [IEEE.EMBC'13]
• Energy-efficient Computing/Communication: [IEEE.ISQED'20] [Elsevier.MEAS'16]  [IEEE.ICCCN'16]  [IEEE.ICCCN'15] (best paper nominee)  [ACM.SE'14]  [IEEE.MASCOTS'13] [ACM.SE'13] [IEEE.ISPASS'13]
• Hardware Support for Debugging: [IEEE.TC'14] [ACM.TECS'13] [IEEE.TC'11] [ACM.CASES'10b] (best paper award)
  [ACM.CASES'10a] [IEEE.ICCD'09] [ACM.DAC'09] [IEEE.DCC'07]
• Secure Embedded Systems: [ERSA'09] [Elsevier.MICPRO'09] [IEEE.ICCD'07]
• Software Integrity: [IOS.JEC'06] [ACM.CAN'05] [ACM.CASES'05] [ACM.SE'04f]
• Software Trace Compression: [ACM.TOMACS'07] [IEEE.WWC'03] [IEEE.CAL'03] [PDCS'03]
• Architectural Analysis (reverse eng.): [IEEE.ISPASS'09] [Wiley.SPE'04] [WDDD'02]
• Memory hierarchy (caches, latency tolerating techniques): [ACM.SE'04.r] [IEEE.SSST'03] [Elsevier.MICPRO'01][IEEE.CONC'00]
• Performance evaluation: [ACM.SE'04.g]
• Wireless Body Area Networks for Health Monitoring:
  [Springer.JMS'11] [Elsevier.COMPCOMM'06] [JMM'06] [JNER'05] (applications & system architecture);
  [ACM.SE'05] [IEEE.EMBS'05b] [IEEE.EMBS'04] (sensors, hardware);
  [IEEE.SSST’11] [IEEE.SSST'05a] (time synchronization);
  [IEEE.EMSB'05a] (security&interoperability);
  [IEEE.SSST'b] (run-time power measurements & optimization);