Timothy Normand Miller

Personal Info

Email: millerti AT cse DOT ohio-state DOT edu

Friends & Interesting Links

• The Open Hardware Foundation
• Aaron Oneal / Spicy Pixel
• James Dinan
• Ben Schroeder
• Bruce Adcock
• Darla Shockley
• Chem-Hydro Science and Consumer Products, LLC (Ron Miller)
• The Modern Soy Epidemic
• Donate to the OGP via the Linux Fund
• Electronic Frontiers Foundation
• Free Software Foundation
• "Linux" is GNU, with a Linux kernel

Background

• Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, specializing in Computer Architecture (expected Spring 2012)
• M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering (awarded Summer 2011)
• B.S. in Computer Engineering from University of South Florida, 1996
• Worked for Tech Source since 1996: Embedded systems, graphics architectures and drivers, operating system architecture and kernel drivers, chip design (ASIC and FPGA), software engineering, web applications, user interface design, system administration, project management, and engineering management.
• Interned at the The Samraksh Company in 2008: Low-power FPGA design
• Founder/leader of the Open Graphics Project [Wikipedia article|OGP wiki]
• Part of the OSU Architecture Research Lab

Job Search

• I am currently seeking employment in academic or industry research.
• My Resume

Academics

• Ph.D. student in Computer Science at OSU since Autumn 2005
• Major: Computer Architecture (Adviser: Dr. Radu Teodorescu)
• Minor: Artificial Intelligence (Adviser: Dr. John Josephson)
• Minor: Human-Computer Interaction (Adviser: Dr. Phillip J. Smith)

Interests

• CPU architecture
• GPU architecture
• Chip design
• Software Engineering
• Machine learning
• Knowledge-based reasoning
• Human-computer interaction
• Linguistics
• Cognitive Science
• Cognitive Engineering

Research

• I work as a Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. Teodorescu.
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• Research Focus:
• CPU and memory architectures that are robust to the challenges of today's ever-shrinking transistors, such as process variation, circuit aging, hard faults, and soft errors.

Awards

• 2012 Graduate Student Research Award, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University — Awarded by the CSE Department to one Ph.D. student every year for exceptional contributions to research.
• One of the top papers at SBAC-PAD 2010, invited for publication in a special issue of the journal "Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience."
• One of the top two papers at WEED 2011, invited for publication in the journal "Computer Architecture Letters."

Publications

• Timothy N. Miller, Xiang Pan, Renji Thomas, Naser Sedaghati, Radu Teodorescu, Booster: Reactive Core Acceleration for Mitigating the Effects of Process Variation and Application Imbalance in Low-Voltage Chips, International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA) 2012, New Orleans, LA (PDF paper)
• Timothy N. Miller, Renji Thomas, Radu Teodorescu, Mitigating the Effects of Process Variation in Ultra-low Voltage Chip Multiprocessors using Dual Supply Voltages and Half-Speed Stages, Computer Architecture Letters (CAL) 2012 (invited paper, PDF paper)
• Timothy Miller, Nagarjuna Surapaneni and Radu Teodorescu, Runtime Failure Rate Targeting for Energy-Efficient Reliability in Chip Microprocessors, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (invited paper, in submission)
• Timothy N. Miller, Renji Thomas, Radu Teodorescu, Mitigating the Effects of Process Variation in Ultra-low Voltage Chip Multiprocessors using Dual Supply Voltages and Half-Speed Stages, Workshop on Energy Efficient Design (WEED) 2011 (ISCA), San Jose, CA (PDF paper)
• Timothy N. Miller, Renji Thomas, James Dinan, Bruce Adcock, Radu Teodorescu, Parichute: Generalized Turbocode-Based Error Correction for Near-Threshold Caches, International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) 2010 (IEEE/ACM), Atlanta, GA (PDF paper, PDF slides animated, PDF slides + notes, ACM)
• Timothy Miller, Nagarjuna Surapaneni and Radu Teodorescu, Flexible Error Protection for Energy Efficient Reliable Architectures, International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD) 2010 (IEEE/SBC), Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (PDF paper, PDF slides animated, PDF slides + notes)
• Timothy Miller, Renji Thomas, James Dinan, Bruce Adcock, Prof. Radu Teodorescu, Parichute: Generalized Turbocode-Based Error Correction for Near-Threshold Caches, (Poster) 2010
• Timothy N. Miller, Radu Teodorescu, Nagarjuna Surapaneni, Joanne Degroat, Flexible Redundancy in Robust Processor Architecture, Workshop on Energy Efficient Design (WEED) 2009 (ISCA), Austin, TX (PDF)
• Joshua Eckroth, Dikpal Reddy, John R. Josephson, Rama Chellappa, Timothy N. Miller, From Background Subtraction to Threat Detection in Automated Video Surveillance, US Army Research Laboratory Collaborative Technology Alliance (ARL CTA) report chapter, 2009
• John Josephson, Joshua Eckroth, Timothy Miller, Estimation of Adversarial Social Networks by Fusion of Information from a Wide Range of Sources, International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION) 2009, Seattle, WA, 2009
• Timothy Miller, Nagarjuna Surapaneni, Radu Teodorescu, Joanne Degroat, Flexible Redundancy in Robust Processor Architecture, (Poster) 2009
• Timothy N. Miller, John R. Josephson, Optimizing Sensor Deployment with Genetic Algorithms, (Poster) 2007
• Abraham Kandel, Yan-Qing Zhang, Timothy Miller, Knowledge representation by conjunctive normal forms and disjunctive normal forms based on n-variable-m-dimensional fundamental clauses and phrases, Fuzzy Sets and Systems 76 (1995) 73-89.
• Abraham Kandel, Yan-Qing Zhang, Timothy Miller, Fuzzy Neural Decision System for Fuzzy Moves, Proceedings of The Third World Congress on Expert Systems Volume 2 (1996) 718-725.
• Timothy Miller, Motorola 68000 Microprocessor Lab, Lab Experiment Guide, (privately published, used by USF Computer Science Department) 1995, 1996.
• Timothy Miller, Michael Tobias, Multiple Overlay Extension, Tech-Source white-paper, given to those who want to support MOX (1997/1998)
• Timothy Miller, Selwyn Henriques, Clear Windows, Air Traffic Technology International 2001 (2000) 114-115