Contact Info

Sean Keller
160I Jorgensen
MC 256-80
(626) 395-6498

Education

2002 B.S. Cornell University (CS)
2004 M.E. Cornell University (EE)
2006 M.S. UIUC (CS)

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Current Research

I am PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at Caltech, and I'm a member of the Asynchronous VLSI group working under Professor Alain Martin. We work primarily with Quasi Delay-Insensitive (QDI) asynchronous circuits, and I am currently researching novel computer architectures leveraging asynchronous circuits. At the moment, I'm exploring the use of run-time reconfigurable architectures tightly coupled with a traditional von Neumann architecture to speedup embedded systems via dynamic optimization in hardware.

Past Research

ILLIAC 6

I architected and designed much of this reconfigurable supercomputer as detailed in my M.S. Thesis.

Gate/Switch Level Simulation Enhancement

I developed a technique that resulted in an order of magnitude speedup in BDD based gate level circuit simulation - narrowing the gap between RTL and gate level simulation in Dynamically Optimized Gate-Level Circuit Simulation.

Asynchronous Circuit Design

I designed and spiced a fair arbiter/true random number generator utilizing Johnson noise in A CMOS Quasi-Delay Insensitive Asynchronous VLSI Random Number Generator.

Papers

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