The primary goal of the UTC-IASE Graduate Fellowship Program - sponsored by United Technologies Corporation - is to attract exceptional students for graduate studies leading to Masters or Doctoral degrees in the field of systems engineering related to model-based design and the development of complex systems. These fellowships help to better cultivate ties with UTC business units, work closely with UConn faculty, UTC scientists and engineers, and to help meet the critical needs of the nation in the design of high performance, reliable and cost-effective systems. These fellowships are highly competitive and the current awardees are listed below:

Zhang, Danxu

Yan, Wei

Thota, Pavan

Shi, Qingchuan

Palmer, Kyle

Mittal, Khushboo

Ibrahim, Hebatullah

Hale, William

Fontaine, Daniel

Baillie, Brian

Past

Ulatowski, Artur

Ph.D. student | Electrical and Computer Engineering

Wei Yan received the master's degree in electronic engineering at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2014. He is currently a PhD student at the University of Connecticut. He has worked on FPGA-based systems since 2009. Projects include Solid-State Device, high-speed interface, parallel error correcting code, embedded flash translation layer and other memory systems. His research interests include digital system architecture, FPGA-based design and fault tolerant algorithm.

Systems Engineering Focus

Key Active Research Projects

• Design automation and optimization framework for embedded systems
• Internet of Things system-level security
• Very large scale system authentication and authorization

Future Directions

• FPGA-based system design
• Digital system security
• Fault tolerant system architecture

Key Skills/Capabilities

• HDL-based hardware design
• C++/CUDA/SystemC/VB/Python/Assembler Language
• Research / Lab Website: http://snsl.engr.uconn.edu/SNSL/Home.html