Jeremy Johnson

Professor and Department Head Department of Computer Science Drexel University 100 University Crossings 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Phone: (215) 895-2669 Fax: (215) 895-0545 Email: jjohnson AT cs DOT drexel DOT edu Assistant: Tuyet Duong Phone: (215) 895-2669 Email: tmd58 AT drexel DOT edu

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Jeremy Johnson is a Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering.  He is serving as Department Head of the Computer Science Department.  He received a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985, a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Delaware in 1988, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from The Ohio State University in 1991.

Dr. Johnson's research interests include algebraic algorithms, computer algebra systems, problem solving environments, programming languages and compilers, high performance computing, hardware generation, and automated performance tuning.  He is currently working on SPIRAL, a joint research project with Carnegie Mellon University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Southern California, to develop techniques to automatically implement and optimize signal processing algorithms.  He is co-director, with Prawat Nagvajara of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, of the Application Specific Computing Research Group with application projects in signal processing and power systems funded by DARPA and DOE.

Teaching

Fall 08-09 Classes

• ENGR 341 sec. 063 (W 9:00-11:00 in Univ. Crossings 150)
• CS 540 sec. 501/ECEC 621 (W 6:00-9:00 in Univ. Crossings 149) High Performance Computing

Office Hours

W 9-11 and 5-6 (additional hours can be arranged by appointment)

I can be reached via email as well: jjohnson AT cs DOT drexel DOT edu

Senior Design Projects

• V2HDL: Visual VHDL
• Mobile Collaboration Tool for Technical Communication

Previous Courses

Students

PhD

1. Xu Xu, Symmetric FFT Algorithms
2. Petya Vachranukunkiet (co-advisor Prawat Nagvajara), Power Flow Computation Using Field Programmable Gate Arrays, 2007.
   • Senior Hardware Engineer, R&D Electronics Division, Checkpoint Systems.
3. Anthony Breitzman, Automatic Derivation and Implementation of Fast Convolution Algorithms, 2003.
4. Anatole Ruslanov (co-advisor Werner Krandick), Architecture Aware Taylor Shift by 1, 2006.
5. Pinit Kumhom (co-advisor Prawat Nagvajara), Design, Optimization, and Implementation of a Universal FFT Processor, 2001.

MS

1. Michael Andrews (MS) - Performance Models
2. Pranab Shanoy, Universal FFT Core Generator, 2007.
   • Software Applications Engineer Qualcomm: QCT ASIC
3. Mihai Furis, Cache Miss Analysis of Walsh-Hadamard Transform Algorithms, 2003.
4. Xu Xu, A Recursive Implementation of the Dimesionless FFT, 2003.
5. Michael Balog (co-advisor Prawat Nagvajara), A Flexible Framework for Implementing FFT Processors, 2002.
6. Kang Chen, A Prototypical Self-Optimizing Package for Parallel Implementation of Fast Signal Transforms, 2002.
7. Hung-Jen Huang, Performance Analysis of an Adaptive Algorithm for the Walsh-Hadamard Transform, 2002.
8. Peter Becker, A High Speed VLSI Architecture for the Discrete Haar Wavelet Transform, 2001.
9. Rich Pedersen, A Simple Model for the Runtime Performance of Finite Fourier Transform Algorithms, 1995.

Undergraduate

1. Tim Chagnon
2. Aliaksei Sandryhaila
3. Yevgen Voronenko

Research

Research Labs and Projects

• Application Specific Computing Research Group
• Applied Symbolic Computation
• MOSAIC
• SPIRAL
• PowerGrid