Christos Papachristou, PhD

Professor
Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Case School of Engineering

Teaching Information

Teaching Interests

Embedded Systems Design. Parallel Computer Architectures. Configurable Devices and FPGAs. Quantum Computing.

Research Information

Research Interests

Embedded System Design, Design Automation, Fault Tolerant and Secure System Design, VLSI CAD, Logic and High Level Synthesis, Reconfigurable Systems/FPGAs. Software and Hardware design for internet devices. Quantum Computer Architectures.

Awards and Honors

Best Paper Award, IEEE Cognitive Communications for Aerospace Applications
2019
Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, Marquis Who'sWho
2019
Who's Who in America, Marquiis Who'sWho
2012
Invited Lecturer and Speaker, NATO Summer School, UK and Spain
2008
Invited Speaker, NATO Summer School, Cleveland OH
2008

Publications

Wolff, F., Weyer, D., Papachristou, C. A., & Clay, S. A. (2021). Design for Reliability: Tradeoffs between Lifetime and Performance due to Electromigration. Elsevier, Microelectronics Reliability, 117 , 12 pages.

Al-Khaleel, O., Al-Qudah, Z., Al-Khaleel, M., Bani-Hani, R., Papachristou, C. A., & Wolff, F. A. (2015). Efficient Hardware Implementations of Binary-to-BCD Conversion Schemes for Decimal Multiplication. JOURNAL OF CIRCUITS SYSTEMS AND COMPUTERS, 24 (2), -.

MERO: A Statistical Approach for Hardware Trojan Detection, Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems Conference and Journal (CHES-09) pp. 396- 410, (R. Chakabotry, F. Wolff, S. Paul, C. Papachristou, S. Bhunia).

SRAM cell design using tri-state devices for SEU protection,” 15th IEEE International On-Line Testing Symposium, (IOLTS’09), pp. 114-119, (Y. Shiyanovskii, F. Wolff, C. Papachristou).

Avoiding Delay Jitter in Cyber-Physical Systems Using OneWay Delay Variations Model,” IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE’09), pp. 295-302, (H. Al-Omari, F. Wolff, C. Papachristou, D. McIntyre).

An Adaptable Task Manager for Reconfigurable Architecture Kernels,” IEEE NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems, (AHS’09), pp. 132-137, (Y. Shiyanovskii, F. Wolff, C. Papachristou, D. Wyer)

Smoothing Delay Jitter in Networked Control System. International Journal of Embedded Computing. Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 12-21, Jan. 2011 (Al Omari, C. Papachristou, F. Wolff, D. McIntyre).

Fast and Compact Binary-to-BCD Conversion Circuits for Decimal Multiplication. IEEE Int. Conf. Comp. Design (ICCD-2011), October 2011. (O. Khaleel, Z. Qouda, M. Khaleel, C. Papachristou, F. Wolff).

Probabilistic Multicast Trees. Journal of Computer Science and Technology. (April 2012). (D. Johnston, D. McIntyre, F. Wolff, C. Papachristou).

A Novel Radiation Tolerant SRAM Design Based on Synergetic Functional Component Separation for Nanoscale CMOS. IEEE Intern. Symp. on Online Testing (IOLTS-2011). July 2011. (Y. Shiyanovskii, A. Rajendran, C. Papachristou).

An Analysis of Efficient Formulas for Elliptic Curve Point Addition over Binary Extension Fields. IEEE Conf. on Information Science and Systems (CISS-2011). March 2011. (L. Leinweber, C. Papachristou. F. Wolff).

Optimizing Application Level Multicast Trees over Wireless Networks. IEEE National Aerospace & Electronics Conf. (NAECON'11), (D. Johnston, D. McIntyre, F. Wolff, C. Papachristou).

Noise Margin, Critical Charge and Power-Delay Tradeoffs for SRAM Design. IEEE Intern. Symp. on Online Testing (IOLTS-2011). July 2011. (A. Rajendran, Y. Shiyanovskii, F. Wolff, C. Papachristou).

Multiple-Parameter Side-Channel Analysis: A Non-invasive Hardware Trojan Detection Approach.

IEEE Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST'10), June 2010. [Best paper candidate]. (S. Narasimhan, D. Du, R. Chakraborty, S. Paul, F. Wolff, C. Papachristou, K. Roy and S. Bhunia).

Network Calibrarion of Embedded Sensors. IEEE National Aerospace & Electronics Conf. (NAECON'10), July 2010. (C. Papachristou, S. Bhunia, F. Wolff).

Effect of Voltage Scaling on Soft Error Protection Methods for SRAMs. IEEE National Aerospace & Electronics Conf. (NAECON'10), July 2010. (Y. Shiyanovskii, A. Rajendran, F. Wolff, C. Papachristou).

System level self-healing for parametric yield and reliability improvement under power bound. EEE NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS'2010), June 2010. (S. Narasimhan, S. Paul, R. Chakraborty, F. Wolff, C. Papachristou, D. Weyer, S. Bhunia).

Education

PhD
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University
1975