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Faaiq Waqar sitting on a porch with a dog

PhD Candidate

Faaiq Waqar

Electrical and Computer Engineering · Georgia Institute of Technology

Advised by Prof. Shimeng Yu

  1. –

    Oregon State University

    B.S., ECE & Computer Science

  2. –

    Microsoft

    Hardware Engineer

  3. – (expected)

    Georgia Institute of Technology

    Ph.D., ECE

Undergraduate Mentees

Current

  • Andrew Fang

    LinkedIn

    Fall 2025 – Current

    Research interests: Bias-temperature instability in amorphous oxide semiconductor memories

    Notable work
  • Richard Kang

    LinkedIn

    Fall 2025 – Current

    Research interests: Characterization of transition region regime in amorphous oxide semiconductor transistors

    Notable work
  • Seoyeon (Irene) Yang

    LinkedIn

    Fall 2026 – Current

    Research interests: Energy modeling of persistent memories in GPUs

  • Joshua Choi

    LinkedIn

    Fall 2026 – Current

    Research interests: Data lifetime modeling of persistent memories in GPUs

  • Twyla Nunes-Ueno

    LinkedIn

    Fall 2026 – Current

    Research interests: Frame-based programming of reconfigurable FPGA memories (circuit design)

  • Jeanelle Lin

    LinkedIn

    Fall 2026 – Current

    Research interests: Frame-based programming of reconfigurable FPGA memories (architecture)

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