Education
Ph.D (AI/ML - VLSI & Embedded Systems) – IIIT Bangalore (India) -2023
M.Tech (VLSI Systems) – JNTUH (India) - 2014
B.E (ECE) – Osmania University (India) - 2012
Work Experience
Visiting Fellow – The MARCS Institute (International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems (ICNS)), Western Sydney University, Sydney, AU
Senior Researcher and CTO – EdgeRON Technologies Pvt Ltd (incubated at IIITB)
I have been active in building entire technical portfolio of the company besides engaging with customers and companies for B2B segment- product/market portfolio. I have participated in several CXO level talks along with other co-founders, in my journey so far in customer discovery, fund raising and Venture Capitalists discussions.
Post-Doctoral Fellow – Robotic Studio - MINRO – IIIT Bangalore (IN)
Funder: Karnataka Innovation & Technology Society, Dept. of IT, BT and S&T, Govt. of Karnataka
Area: Hardware for ML/RL, CNN, FPGA, VLSI and Embedded Systems
Other: Research Grant Proposal Writing, Leading Team of 5-Researchers, collaborating with Industry/Academia
Research Associate (Post-Doctoral) – MINRO – IIIT Bangalore (IN)
Funder: Karnataka Innovation & Technology Society, Dept. of IT, BT and S&T, Govt. of Karnataka
Area: Hardware for ML/RL, CNN, FPGA, VLSI and Embedded Systems
Other: Research Grant Proposal Writing, Leading Team of 5-Researchers, collaborating with Industry/Academia
Research Scholar – IIIT Bangalore (IN)
Funder: Machine Intelligence and Robotics Centre, IIIT Bangalore
Area: Hardware for ML/RL, FPGA, VLSI and Embedded Systems
Research Fellow – University Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) (MY)
Product Manager – IF&S (IN)
Technical Manager – Networking & Communications – SMR Industries (IN)
Senior Technical Engineer – Avaya Inc – Hyderabad (IN)
Research Intern – IIIT Hyderabad (IN)
Subjects Experience at IIITB
ESS103 Signals and Systems (Teaching Assistant)
VL601 Testing and Design for Testability (Teaching Assistant)
Digital Chip Design using Verilog HDL (Karnataka VLSI Program)
Other Subjects of Interest
System on Chip (SoC) design - Field Programmable Gate Arrays
Machine Learning – Mathematics and Hardware Architectures
Autonomous Control – Reinforcement Learning
HDL and High-Level Synthesis
Digital Integrated Circuit Design
VLSI Digital Signal Processing Systems
Computer Architecture