Hi, my name is Sat and I'm a (second year) Ph.D. student in the CSE department at UC San Diego where I am a part of the Architecture, Reliability, and Testing (ART) group. My advisor is the incomparable Alex Orailoglu. I am also one of the coordinators of the CSE Graduate Student Association.

I graduated from Drexel University in 2005 with a B.S. in Computer Engineering. While there, I worked with Drs. Moshe Kam and Kapil Dandekar. Before that, I spent my whole life in a small town in Ohio named Willard. To learn more about my personal interests, check out my personal webpage: elsaturnino.com.

My academic interests are nanoelectronics, computer architecture, and testing. I'm also very interested in computer engineering education.

Current Courses:

• None. YAY!

• VLSI Test (CSE 244A)
• Programming Languages (CSE 230)
• Computer Vision I (CSE 252A)
• Algorithms (CSE 202)
• Computability and Complexity (CSE 200)
• Advanced Computer Architecture (CSE 240B)
• Advanced Topics in VLSI (ECE 260C)
• Computer Architecture (CSE 240A)
• VLSI IC and Systems Design (ECE 260B)
• Operating Systems (CSE 221)

Teaching

• Computer Architecture (CSE 240A - Course Website)

• Components and Design Techniques for Digital Systems (CSE 140 - Su07)
• Computer Architecture (CSE 141 - Wi07, Sp07, Su07)
• Computer Architecture (CSE 240A - Fa06 - Course Website)
• Systems II (TDEC 222 at Drexel University)

Publications

• S. Garcia: Crossbar-based Nanoelectronic Architectures. (pdf)
• D. Hamel, M. Chwastek, S. Garcia, B. Farouk, K.R. Dandekar, M. Kam: Optimization of Sensor Placement via Computational Fluid Dynamics and People Evacuation Simulations for Urban Homeland Security Applications. In Submission.
• G. Anderson, L. Urbano, G. Naik, D. Dorsey, A. Mroczkowski, D. Artz, N. Morizio, A. Burnheimer, K. Malfettone, D. Lapadat, E. Sultanik, S. Garcia, M. Peysakhov, W.C. Regli, M. Kam: A Secure Wireless Agent-based Testbed. IWIA 2004: 19-32