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Balaji Dhanasekaran Ph.D. Student,
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Contact: Phone: 434-284-3136 Email: balaji.dhanasekaran@cs.virginia.edu Office: 226 - 9, Olsson Hall
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Biography:
I was born and brought up in the capital city of Tamil Nadu, Chennai, India. I got my Bachelor's degree from the Department of Computer Science of the College of Engineering Guindy (CEG), Anna University, India. I was working as a developer for 2 years at Adobe Systems Inc., Bangalore.
Research:
I' am working on virtualizing heterogeneous processor architectures, under the guidance of Prof. Kim Hazelwood. Current heterogeneous systems provide a myriad of processing units like the GPUs, FPGAs, and Fixed Function Blocks etc. Even though these units offer abundant computing power, they remain underutilized due to the lack of synergy between them. Moreover, these units also lack portability, necessitating the users to rewrite the code again and again for each of them. My research attempts at solving these problems by providing a virtual layer abstraction. With such an abstraction, we can achieve portability, better utilization of resources and also increased energy efficiency.
Courses Taken:
Spring 2009
CS656 - Operating Systems
CS671 - Compilers
APMA 643 - Statistics for Engineers and Scientists
Fall 2008
CS654 - Computer Organization
CS660 - Theory of Computer Science
CS851 - Special Topics In Sensor Networks
Resume