Arun K Somani
Email: arun@iastate.edu
Phone: 515-294-0442
Title(s):
Anson Marston Distinguished Professor, Phillip and Virginia Sproul Professor, Senior Associate Dean
Office
4100 Marston533 Morrill Rd.
Ames, IA 500112103
Information
Education
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, September 1985, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
MSEE in Electrical Engineering, September 1983, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
M.Tech. in Computer Engineering, August 1979, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
B. E. (Hons.) in Electronics Engineering, June 1973, B. I. T. S., Pilani, India
Research Areas
Core Area(s): Computing and networking systems
Department’s Strategic Area(s): Cyber infrastructure
Additional Information
Life Fellow of IEEE; Fellow of AAAS; Distinguished Engineer of ACM; Eminent Engineer, Tau Beta Phi; Fulbright Specialist; IEEE Distinguished Visitor; Distinguish Alumnus, BITS, Pilani.
Publications
Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SYZ5R-8AAAAJ
- S Bangalore Vijayakumar, K. T. Chitty-Venkata, K Arya, and A.K. Somani. “ConVision Benchmark: A Contemporary Framework to Benchmark CNN and ViT Models,” in AI 5(3):1132-1171, DOI 10.3390/ai5030056, July 2024.
- K. T. Chitty-Venkata, Y. Bian, M. Emani, V. Vishwanath and A. K. Somani, “Differentiable Neural Architecture, Mixed Precision and Accelerator Co-search,” in IEEE Access, 2023, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3320133.
- K. T. Chitty-Venkata, S. Mittal, M. Emani, V. Vishwanath, and A. K. Somani, “A Survey of Techniques for Optimizing Transformer Interference,” Elsevier Journal of System Architecture, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sysarc.2023.102990, Vol 144, Pages, 102990, Sept. 2023.
- K. T. Chitty-Venkata, M. Emani, V. Vishwanath, and A. K. Somani, “Neural architecture search Benchmarks: Insights and Survey,” in IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 25217-25236, 2023, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3253818.
- K. T. Chitty-Venkata and A.K. Somani, “Neural Architecture Search Survey: A Hardware Perspective,” in ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 55, Issue 4, Page 1-36, https://doi.org/10.1145/3524500, Nov. 2022.
- K. T. Chitty-Venkata, Emani, M., V. Vishwanath, and A.K. Somani, “Neural Architecture Search for Transformers: A survey,” IEEE Access, Vol. 10, pp. 108374-108412, 2022, DOI 10:1109/Access.2022.3212767.
- S. F. Matthias, T. Zhang, H. Zhang, A. E. Kamal, and A. K. Somani, “Physical Wireless Resource Virtualization for Software-Defined Whole-Stack Slicing,” in the Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization, held on 28 June – 2 July, 2021. Best Paper Award winner.
- A. K. Somani, A. Mundra, R. Doss, and S. Bhattacharya (Eds.), “Smart Systems: Innovations in Computing, Proceeding of SSIC 2021,” ISBN 978-981-16-2876-4, August 2021.
- R. Yelaswarapu and A. K. Somani, “Addressing multiple bit/symbol errors in DRAM,” in PeerJ Computer Science journal 7:e359. Jan 2021, https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.359.
- T. Wang, Ye Zhao, J. Wang, and A. K. Somani, C. Sun, “Attention-Based Road Registration for GPS-Denied UAS Navigation,” IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Print ISSN: 2162-237X Online ISSN: 2162-2388 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TNNLS.2020.3015660. Vol. 432(4). April 2021.
- T. Wang and A. K. Somani, “Aerial-DEM Geolocalization for GPS-Denied UAS Navigation,” Machine Vision and Applications, 2019, 31, 3 (2020) doi:10.1007/s00138-019-01052-6.
- A. K. Somani, “Reliability of Redundant Fault Tolerant Systems,” J. Webster (ed.), Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2019, DOI: 10.1002/047134608X.W6413.pub2.
- C. J. Kleinheksel and A. K. Somani, “Enhancing Fault Tolerance and Resource Utilization in Unidirectional Quorum-based Cycle Routing,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2018. DOI:10.1109/TNET.2018.2811386, 14 pages, March 2018.
- P. Shukla and Arun K. Somani, “Tree Matching on Parallel Machines using Data Shaping,” in Proc. of Services Transactions on Big Data (STBD, ISSN: 2326-442X), 2018.
- C. J. Kleinheksel and A. K. Somani, “Efficient Distributed All-Pairs Algorithms: Management using Optimal Cyclic Quorums,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2017, Volume 29 (2), pp. 391-404, DOI10.1109/TPDS.2017.2707417.
- P. Mishra and A. K. Somani,” Host Managed Contention Avoidance Storage Solutions for Big Data,” in Journal of Big Data Systems, Springer Nature, 2017, 4:18. DOI 10.1186/s40537-017-0080-9.
- P. Lakhawat and A. K. Somani, “A Clustering-based Prediction Scheme for High Utility Itemsets,” in Proceedings of International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval, paper number KDIR17-RP-46, Portugal, Nov. 2017.
- N. D. P. Avirneni and A. K. Somani, “Managing contamination delay to improve Timing Speculation architectures,” Peer J. Computer Science, August 2016.
- N. D. P. Avirneni, P. K. Ramesh, and A. K. Somani, “Utilization aware Power Management in Reliable and Aggressive Chip Multi Processors,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, Volume: 65(3), 2016, pp. 979-991. DOI: 10.1109/TC.2015.2439277.
- T. Wang, K. Celik, and A. K. Somani, “Characterization of mountain drainage patterns for GPS-denied UAS navigation augmentation,” Machine Vision and Applications, 2016, Volume 27 (1), pp 87-101, DOI: 10.1007/s00138-015-0723-9.
- N. D. P. Avirneni and A. K. Somani, “Countering power analysis attacks using Reliable and Aggressive Designs,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, pp. 1408-1420, 63(6), 2014, DOI: 10.1109/TC.2013.9.
Primary Strategic Research Area
Secure Cyberspace & Autonomy
Departments
Affiliations
Interests
Computer System ArchitectureFault Tolerant and Dependable ComputingImage Based NavigationInterconnection NetworksNetwork Search AlgorithmsOptical Fiber Based NetworkingParallel Computing Algorithms and Architecture