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Michael T. Niemier(mniemier@nd.edu)
380 Fitzpatrick Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
(574) 631-3858

Curriculum Vitae

Quick Fellowship Slide Link

• My slides and thoughts about the NSF fellowship application can be found here. An excellent summary of industrial and government fellowships by Chris Poellabauer and Scott Emrich can be found here.

Research

• My research focuses on designing, facilitating, and evaluating architectures for emerging technologies; integration of heterogeneous technologies to improve computational performance; alternative computer architectures (i.e. PIM and CNNs). More specifically, I am investigating:
  • Magnetic QCA (MQCA)
    • Computing with nanoscale magnets
  • Quilt Packaging
    • (Integrating heterogenous technologies in the same package)
  • Molecular Electronics
    • (Addresses the feasability of a molecular implementation of QCA)

Research Support

• Midwest Institute for Nanoelectronics Discovery
  • SRC NRI
• Applications, Architectures, and Circuit Design for Nano-scale Magnetic Logic Devices
  • National Science Foundation

Teaching

• Fall 2008 - Computer Architecture I (CSE 30321)
• Spring 2008 - Graduate Computer Architecture (CSE 60321)
• Fall 2007 - Computing at the Nanoscale (CSE 40547/60547)

Students

• Current graduate students I advise:
• Wayne Buckhanan (Quilt Packaging)
• Michael Crocker (Reconfigurable QCA Architectures)
• Aaron Dingler (MQCA Circuit Design)
• Steve Kurtz (QCA System Architectures)


• Current graduate students I work with:
• Tanvir Alam (MQCA Fabrication)
• Jarett DeAngelis (MQCA - MRAM interface for I/O)
• Shawn Liu (Content Addressable Memory)
• M. Siddiq (MQCA Fabrication and Modeling)
• Edit Varga (MQCA Fabrication)


• Current Undergraduate Students:
• Leonard Giannone (MQCA Circuit Design)
... students past ...

Recent Publications

• M. Niemier, A. Dingler, and X. Sharon Hu, "Bridging the Gap between Nanomagnetic Devices and Circuits," to appear in Proceedings of 26th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design, Lake Tahoe, CA, Oct. 12-15, 2008.


• M. Niemier, M. Crocker, and X. Sharon Hu, "Fabrication Variations and Defect Tolerance for Nanomagnet-based QCA," to appear in Proceedings of 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Cambridge, MA, Oct. 1-3, 2008.

Conferences

• A list of conferences relevant to our group's research can be found here.

Random Personal Things

• I got married in August of 2007.
• My wife is a zip-liner extraordinaire ((1) and (2))!
• I like to run, I follow professional cycling (see how Garmin-Chipotle is doing...), and I don't miss Notre Dame Football.