Srinivas Katkoori is a Computer Science and Engineering faculty at the University of South Florida (USF), Tampa, FL. His research group at USF has been actively conducting research on related topics such as low power design, reliable system design, system miniaturization, portable electronics, smart embedded systems, etc.  To date, Dr. Katkoori has directed 13 doctoral dissertations and 40 Master’s Theses in the general discipline of Embedded Systems Design and Optimization. Currently, he is directing 9 doctoral dissertations. Dr. Katkoori serves on technical committees of several VLSI and embedded conferences and is a peer reviewer for many smart embedded systems journals and conferences. To date, he published over 120 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. Three papers he has co-authored were nominated for best paper awards at 2003 ASP-DAC, 2014 IFIP/IEEE VLSI SOC, and 2019 AsianHOST conferences. Among notable professional service, Dr. Katkoori served on ACM SIGDA Board (2010- 2013) as Treasurer, as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on VLSI (2006-10), and since 2015, he is serving as the vice-chair of IFIP Working Group (10.5).  Dr. Katkoori received doctoral degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1998. He is a senior member of ACM and IEEE.

Research Interests: Smart Embedded Systems (Smart Transportation, Smart Health-care, Smart Caregiving), Hardware Security, Internet-of-Things (IoT), Emerging Technologies, In-Memory Computing,  Electronic Design Automation, VLSI IC Design, FPGAs.

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Spring 2022 Office Hours: MW 1-2:30 pm

Current Activities

Teaching

  • CDA 4203 Computer System Design (CompE core course)
  • CGS 3303 IT Concepts

Research

  • Behavioral and RT-level Obfuscation (Sheikh Ariful Islam)
  • Secure Embedded Processor Synthesis (Love Kumar Sah)
  • Memristive Technologies (Md. Adnan Zaman)
  • Deep Learning on FPGAs (Rajeev Joshi, Vishalini L. Ramnath)
  • Autonomous and Connected Vehicles (Omkar Dokur, Dominik Mendel)
  • Distributed ML on Constrained Hardware (Kavya Kalyanam, Vishalini L. Ramnath)
  • Hardware IP Watermarking (Matt Lewandowski)

Service

Latest News

  • 28 Feb 2020:  Rajeev Joshi to defend MS Thesis 
  • 15 Feb 2020: Adnan Zaman awarded International Travel Grant to present at LASCAS 2020 in Costa Rica
  • 30 Jan 2020: Prof. Katkoori appointed as an Associate Editor for Springer Nature Section on IoT 
  • 25 Jan 2020: Prof. Katkoori will serve as Program Chair for 3rd IFIP IoT Conference to be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 5-6 November 2020.
  • 15 Jan 2020: Srinivas Katkoori and Sheikh Ariful Islam editing a book on “Behavioral Synthesis for Security,” to be published by Springer in Fall 2020.

Recent Publications

  1. M. A. Zaman, R. Joshi, and S. Katkoori, “Analysis of Radiation Impact on Memristive Crossbar Arrays,” 11th IEEE Latin American Symposium on Circuits and Systems (LASCAS), 25-28th February 2020, San Jose, Costa Rica.
  2. V. Lagudava, S. Mahmud, S. Aakur, R. Karam, and S. Katkoori, “Dissecting Convolutional Neural Networks for Ecient Implementation on Constrained Platforms,” The 33rd International Conference on VLSI Design, 4-8 January 2019, Bengaluru, India.
  3. V. Laguduva, S. Aakur, S. Katkoori, “Latent Space Modeling for Cloning Encrypted PUF-based Authentication,” 2nd IFIP International IoT Conference, Tampa, FL.
  4. M. Lewandowski and S. Katkoori, “Lightweight Countermeasure to Differential-Plaintext Attacks on Permutation Ciphers,” 2nd IFIP International IoT Conference, Tampa, FL.
  5. S. A. Islam, L. K. Sah and S. Katkoori, “DLockout: A Design Lockout Technique for Key Obfuscated RTL IP Designs,” 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Smart Electronic Systems (iSES) (Formerly iNiS), Rourkela, India, 2019, pp. 17-20.