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Topic decriptions

First and foremost, it is important to state that you are completely free to suggest your own topic. Topics listed here are mainly suggestions, partially in line with what I do my research in or I have experience with. Either way, if you are interested in something else and you think that I can help you out with that, feel free to drop me an e-mail. Let’s talk :)

Compilers - Part 1.

  • I’m looking to start the development of a RISC-V compiler, both for educational and research purposes.
  • Initially, we would like to support a smaller subset of RISC-V ISA, and then gradually continue support for a wider set of extensions. The final goal is to have a working compiler that can be easily extended to support custom extensions which would target customized hardware produced by hardware teams. We aim to use LLVM.
  • If you would like to join a currently forming compiler development team, drop me an email.

Compilers - Part 2.

  • You can plug into some of the research I’m doing right now. Check out my research subpage.
  • Right now, I’m aiming into extending support for advanced memory management schemes in RISE for the GAP8, a heterogeneous platform I delivered support for in RISE.
  • You might wanna try putting GAP8’s Hardware Convolution Engine (HWCE) to good use by utilizing it in a real-world application, like Sobel filter.
  • There is also a new project proposal underway with a partner at the University of Ljubljana. Briefly, the project will hopefully aim to extend support for approximate computing accelerators in RISE. Rumours say that such accelerators will be integrated into HERO platform.
  • Let’s try something with the OpenPiton…
  • …or maybe with any of the PULP systems :)

Biomedical systems and sensing

  • Nowadays I’m kickstarting the development of a full-scale biomedical system. The system in question will feature multiple components on hardware and software layers including:
    • sensing equipment produced by our partners
    • embedded devices as middlemen between sensors and mobile devices
    • web services and mobile applications
    • machine learning models
  • There is lots of work to be done on each of the aforementioned components. If you are interested in biomedical systems with real-life applications, feel free to contact me for more details :)

Social and political processes modeling and simulation

  • Election simulation
  • Political rating modeling
  • Maybe out there are some other processes that you would like to model and simulate? :)

Parallelization and HPC programming

  • Parallelization of various problems
  • Do you have an application that you would like to run on an HPC? Optimization, parallelization, and running the application in question on an actual HPC could be your topic :)

Heterogeneous systems programming and utilization

  • GPU programming
  • Custom heterogeneous systems programming. This usually implies systems with accelerators for specific applications.

Embedded systems

  • Construction of embedded systems, IoT modules, and similar devices based on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components
  • Software development for embedded systems, microcontrollers, etc.
  • Full bottom-up development of IoT solutions, from data-collecting modules or actuators to web services handling the application logic
  • There is one concrete IoT application development in progress right now, you are free to join.

Web services

  • Automated student evaluation and grading systems
  • You could always develop web services or full-stack web applications for whatever domain you want :)