Professor, Computer & Electrical Engineering

Office Address: 351 Kennedy Hall of Engineering
Phone: (616) 331-7318
Email: [email protected]

Field of Study: Computer Engineering

Brief Biography: Dr. Parikh's teaching interest includes C programming, Digital System Design and Advanced FPGA System. Dr Parikh's research interest includes Digital System Design, FPGA System Design and Hardware Implementation of Cryptographic Algorithms.

Degrees: Dr. Parikh has a BE in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai, India, and earned his MS and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Texas at San Antonio.

Journal Publications:

• P. A. Patel and C. J. Parikh, IDEA Cryptographic Processor in FPGA, Special Issue of the Journal Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering, 2005

Technical Publications:

• P. Patel and C. Parikh, An Efficient Design and Implementation of DES and Triple-DES Algorithms, 18th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA- 2003), March 2003, Honolulu, Hawaii.
• Chirag Parikh and Parimal Patel, Performance Evaluation of AES Algorithm on Various Development Platforms, Eleventh Annual IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics, June 2007, Dallas, Texas.
• Sunil Kashyap, Chirag Parikh and Parimal Patel, Implementation of an IEEE 802.11i based Wireless Security System, International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking and Communication Systems, July 2007, Orlando, Florida.
• Barry Schulz, Christian Trefftz and Chirag Parikh, Opportunities for parallelism when implementing algorithms in VHDL ­ A Case Study, 2009 EIT Conference, June 2009, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
• Chirag Parikh and Ben Bufford, Design and Implementation of FPGA RSA Engine, ISCA 23rd International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CAINE-2010), November 2010, Las Vegas, NV.

Pedagogical Publications:

• Chirag Parikh and Bruce Dunne, Introducing a Hardware Platform in the Sophomore level C-programming Course, 2009 ASEE North Central Conference, April 2009, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
• Bruce Dunne, Andrew Sterian and Chirag Parikh, Introducing Sophomore Engineering Students to Control Theory using Mobile Robots, 2009 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 2009, Austin, Texas.