Bio
I received my Ph.D in Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech. I completed my M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Wright State University and my B.E. in Electronics Engineering from University of Pune.
My research interests: Secure, Trusted, & Resilient Computing, Hardware Acceleration (FPGAs and GPUs), Deep Learning.
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Patents
- "Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Crack Detection from Image Data", US20190147283A1
- Material detection systems, US20170227673A1
- Multi-modal Sensor Data Fusion for Perception Systems, US20170371329A1
- Sensor Data Fusion for Prognostics and Health Monitoring, WO2016100816A1
- Smoke Detection Methodology, WO2017218763A1
- Method and system for designing electrical machines using reinforcement learning, US20190332725A1
- Surface plasmon resonance gas detection system, WO2019217792A1
- Control systems using deep reinforcement learning, US20180129974A1
Journals
- V. Venugopalan and C. D. Patterson, "Surveying the Hardware Trojan Threat Landscape for the Internet-of-Things",Springer Journal of Hardware and Systems Security, 2(2):131–141, Jun 2018
- S. Sarkar, V. Venugopalan, K. Reddy, J. Ryde, N. Jaitly, and M. Giering, "Deep Learning for Automated Occlusion Edge Detection in RGB-D Frames", Journal of Signal Processing Systems, 88(2):205–217, Aug 2016.
Conference proceedings
- M. French, M. Paolieri, V. Menon, A. Schmdit, "Emulating and Verifying Sensing, Computation, and Communication in Distributed Remote Sensing Systems", IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Waikoloa, Hawaii, 2020
- V. V. Menon, G. Kolhe, J. Fifty, A. Schmidt, J. Monson, M. French, Y. Hu, P. Beerel, and P. Nuzzo, "Logic Obfuscation: Modeling Attack Resiliency", GOMACTech Conference 2020
- V. V. Menon, G. Kolhe, A. Schmidt, J. Monson, M. French, Y. Hu, P. Beerel, and P. Nuzzo, "System-Level Framework for Logic Obfuscation with Quantified Metrics for Evaluation", IEEE Secure Development Conference 2019
- Andrew Schmidt, Vivek Venugopalan, Marco Paolieri, and Matthew French, "Constellations in the Cloud: Virtualizing Remote Sensing Systems", IGARSS 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Yokohama, Japan, 2019
- V. Venugopalan, G. Kolhe, A. Schmidt, J. Monson, M. French, Y. Hu, P. Beerel, and P. Nuzzo, "Quantifying Security and Overheads for Obfuscation of Integrated Circuits", GOMACTech Conference 2019
- P. Kshirsagar and V. Venugopalan, "Thin Wing EMA – System on Chip with Synchronized TRust and Assurance (SaSTRA)", GOMACTech Conference 2019
- V. Venugopalan and C. D. Patterson, "Architectural Refinements for Enhancing Trust and Securing Cyber-Physical Systems", IEEE International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC), pp. 1509–1516, San Francisco, CA, August 2017.
- V. Venugopalan, C. D. Patterson, and D. M. Shila. "Detecting and Thwarting Hardware Trojan Attacks in Cyber-Physical Systems". In: 2016 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS): International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security (CPS-Sec). Oct. 2016.
- K. Reddy, S. Sarkar, V. Venugopalan, and M. Giering. "Anomaly Detection and Fault Disambiguation in Large Flight Data: A Multi-modal Deep Autoencoder Approach". In: Annual Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society. [Best Paper Nomination]. Oct. 2016, pp. 207–214.
- K. Reddy, V. Venugopalan, and M. Giering. "Applying Deep Learning for Prognostic Health Monitoring of Aerospace and Building Systems". In: 1st ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Machine Learning for Prognostics and Health Management (ML for PHM 2016). Aug. 2016.
- K. Reddy, S. Sarkar, V. Venugopalan, and M. Giering. "Anomaly Detection and Fault Classification in Large Flight Data using Multi-modal Deep Learning Approaches". In: 1st International Conference on InfoSymbiotics /Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems (DDDAS). Aug. 2016.
- D. M. Shila, V. Venugopalan, and C. D. Patterson. "Unraveling the Security Puzzle: A Distributed Framework to Build Trust in FPGAs". In: International Conference on Network and System Security. Vol. 9408. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. [Best Paper Award]. Springer International Publishing, Nov. 2015, pp. 95–111. isbn: 978-3-319-25644-3.
- M. Giering, V. Venugopalan, and K. Reddy. "Multi-Modal Sensor Registration for Vehicle Perception via Deep Neural Networks". In: IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC), Sept. 2015, pp. 1–6.
- D.M. Shila, V. Venugopalan, and C.D. Patterson. "FIDES: Enhancing trust in reconfigurable based hardware systems". In: IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC), Sept. 2015, pp. 1–7.
- V. Venugopalan and C. Tokgoz. "GPU acceleration of iterative physical optics-based electromagnetic simulations". In: IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC), Sept. 2015, pp. 1–6.
- V. Venugopalan. "Evaluating latency and throughput bound acceleration of FPGAs and GPUs for adaptive optics algorithms". In: IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC), Sept 2014, pp. 1–6.
- S. Sarkar, V. Venugopalan, K. Reddy, M. Giering, J. Ryde, and N. Jaitly. "Occlusion Edge Detection in RGB-D Frames using Deep Convolutional Networks". In: eprint: 1412.7007. url: http://arxiv.org/abs/ 1412.7007.Dec. 2014
- D. M. Shila and V. Venugopalan. "Design, implementation and security analysis of Hardware Trojan Threats in FPGA". In: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2014, pp. 719–724.
- V. Venugopalan and S. Kannan. "Accelerating real-time LiDAR data processing using GPUs". In: IEEE 56th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS)Aug. 2013, pp. 1168–1171.
- C. Tokgoz and V. Venugopalan. "GPU Accelerated Iterative Physical Optics to Predict RF Propagation in Urban Environments". In: IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), July 2013, pp. 1878–1879.
- V. Venugopalan and D. M. Shila. "High throughput implementations of cryptography algorithms on GPU and FPGA". In: IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), May 2013, pp. 723–727.
- K. George and V. Venugopalan. "Design and performance measurement of a high-performance computing cluster". In: IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), May 2012, pp. 2531– 2536.
- V. Venugopalan, K. Richards, S. Barden, T. Rimmele, S. Gregory, and L. Johnson. "Accelerating Real-time processing of the ATST Adaptive Optics System using Coarse-grained Parallel Hardware Architectures". In: International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA), July 2011, pp. 296–301.
- V. Venugopalan, C. D. Patterson, and K. A Shinpaugh. "Accelerating Particle Image Velocimetry Using Hybrid Architectures". In: Symposium on Application Accelerators in High-Performance Computing (SAAHPC), July 2009.
- J. H. Simonetti, S. W. Ellingson, C. D. Patterson, W. Taylor, V. Venugopalan, S. Cutchin, and Z. Boor. "The Eight-meter-wavelength Transient Array (ETA)". In: Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 207th Meeting. Vol. 37. 4. Washington, DC, Jan. 2006, p. 1438.
- K. H. Abed, V. Venugopalan, and S. B. Nerurkar. "High speed digital filter design using minimal signed digit representation". In: IEEE SoutheastCon, 2005, pp. 105–110.
- V. Venugopalan, K. H. Abed, and S. B. Nerurkar. "Design and implementation of a decimation filter for hearing aid applications". In: IEEE SoutheastCon, 2005, pp. 111–115.
- V. Venugopalan, K. H. Abed, R. E. Siferd, and S. Nerurkar. "Hardware efficient narrow band FIR filter". In: The 2002 45th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, (MWSCAS-2002), Vol. 2. 2002, pp. 223–226.
- S. B. Nerurkar, K. H. Abed, R. E. Siferd, and V. Venugopalan. "Low power sigma delta decimation filter". In: The 2002 45th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, (MWSCAS-2002), Vol. 1. 2002, I–647-50 vol.1.
Posters
- V. Venugopalan and C. Tokgoz. "GPU Acceleration of Computational Electromagnetics Methods", In: NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference, April 2016.
- V. Venugopalan, K. Reddy, and M. Giering. "Applying Deep Learning to Aerospace and Building System Applications at UTC", In: NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference, April 2016.
- D. M. Shila and V. Venugopalan. "Design, Implementation and Security Analysis of Hardware Trojan Threats in FPGA", In: Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays. FPGA '14, Feb. 2014
- J. Lamberti, D. M. Shila, and V. Venugopalan. "xDEFENSE: An Extended DEFENSE for Mitigating Next Generation Intrusions", In: Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays. FPGA '14, Feb. 2014
- V. Venugopalan and D. M. Shila. "Hardware acceleration of TEA and XTEA algorithms on FPGA, GPU and multi-core processors". In: Proceedings of the ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays. FPGA '13, Feb. 2013.
- V. Venugopalan. "Accelerating Real-Time Processing of the ATST Adaptive Optics System", In: NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference, March 2012. Also submitted by NVIDIA as showcased research at the Accelerating Computational Science Symposium (ACSS) from March 29-30 2012 in Washington DC.
- V. Venugopalan. "Accelerating Particle Image Velocimetry Algorithms for Biomedical Applications", In: 24th GSA Research Symposium at Virginia Tech, 2008. [Runner-up prize for poster presentation (Engineering)]
- V. Venugopalan. "Reconfigurable FPGA-based Clusters: Next Step in Supercomputing", In: 23rd GSA Research Symposium at Virginia Tech, 2007. [First prize for poster presentation (Engineering)]
Invited Talks
- S. Sarkar, V. Venugopalan, K. Reddy, M. Giering, J. Ryde, and N. Jaitly. "RGBD Occlusion Detection via Deep Convolutional Neural Networks". In: NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference, April 2015.
- D. M. Shila, V. Venugopalan, and B. Murray. "A Multi-parameter Detection Scheme to Seek Stealthy Hardware Trojan Threats in FPGAs". In: Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International conference - CyberSecurity for Cyber-Physical Vehicle Systems workshop, April 2014. [Best Presentation Award]
- Vivek Venugopalan. "Real-time Control for the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope", In: Adaptive Optics Real-time Control system workshop (AO RTC Workshop 2011). Durham, UK, April 2011.