Computer Laboratory

Ph.D. Students that Simon has supervised

I was the primary adviser for the following PhD students:

  1. Panit Watcharawitch, Multep: A Multithreaded Embedded Processor, 2003, now at FabriNet.
  2. Simon Frankau, Hardware Synthesis from a stream-processing functional language, 2004 (jointly supervised with Alan Mycroft), now at Barclays Capital.
  3. Scott Fairbanks, High Precision Timeing Using Self-Timed Circuits, 2004, now at IBM Research.
  4. Huiyun Li, Security Evaluation at Design Time for Cryptographic Hardware, 2005, now at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
  5. Jacques Fournier, Vector Microprocessors for Cryptography, 2007, now a research engineer at CAE-LETI. Previously a security architect at Gemalto.
  6. Simon Hollis, Pulse-based, On-chip Interconnect, 2007, now a Lecturer at University of Bristol.
  7. Ian Caulfield, Complexity-Effective Superscalar Embedded Proessors Using Instruction-Level Distributed Processing, 2007, now an architect at ARM.
  8. Matthew Johnson, A new approach to internet banking, 2008
  9. Alban Rrustemi, Computing surfaces - a platform for scalable ubiquitous interactive displays, 2008. Now working on a startup.
  10. Arnab Banerjee, Communication Flows in Power-Efficient Networks-on-Chips, 2008. Now at Imagination Technologies.
  11. Philip Paul, Microelectronic security measures, 2009. Now at IBM Research in Zurich.
  12. Rosemary Francis, Exploring Networks-on-Chip for FPGAs, 2009. Setting up a company.
  13. A. Theodore Markettos, Active Electromagnetics Attacks on Secure Hardware, 2010. Currently working as an RA with me.
  14. Daniel Greenfield, Communication Locality in Computation: Software, Chip Multiprocessors and Brains, 2010. BCS Distinguised Dissertation Award Winner 2011.
  15. James Srinivasan, Improving cache utilisation, 2011. Now at 2d3.
  16. Nick Barrow-Williams, Proximity Coherence for Chip-Multiprocessors, 2011. Now at nVidia in Santa Clara, CA, USA.

Before I started as a lecturer I co-supervised the following students with Prof. Peter Robinson:

  1. Steev Wilcox, Synthesis of asynchronous circuits, 1999. Now Chief Architect and Director at Azuro (UK) Ltd.
  2. Paul Cunningham, Verification of asynchronous circuit, 2002. Now CEO at Azuro, Inc.