Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 · 2 yrs · Austin, Texas, United States

Jan 2020 – Dec 2020 · 11 mos · Madison, Wisconsin, United States

• 1) Assisted Prof. Eric Hoffman to conduct the course ECE 252: Introduction to Computer Engineering and ECE 352: Digital System Fundamentals.
• 2) The courses cover Boolean algebra, combinational logic design, synchronous and asynchronous sequential logic design and analysis, computer organization and design, and assembly language programming.

Jun 2019 – Dec 2019 · 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Internship at the Processor Architecture Research Lab headed by Sreenivas Subramoney, under the direct supervision of Gurpreet Singh Kalsi.
• Worked on building a Hardware Accelerator for spatially sparse Convolutional Neural Networks for 3-D Visual Analytics.
• 1) Developed a detailed microarchitecture for general matrix-vector multiplication unit and structured it in a finely tuned systolic array to provide massive parallelism.
• 2) Extensively studied the workloads to produce a data format that could relay all the relevant information in the most compact manner possible.
• 3) Developed a novel tile-based algorithm to schedule the sparse workload in a dense format and exploit maximum reuse of data, thus limiting the memory accesses.
• 5) Wrote a detailed event-accurate emulator of the Accelerator in Python to produce the testing datasets at every intermediate state of the computation.
• 4) Used the emulator to study the memory access patterns and the bandwidth requirements to smartly hash the data into separate cache banks.
• 5) Implemented the Accelerator in System-Verilog, and took it through the complete workflow of synthesis, gate-level simulation, APR and Power Analysis.
• 6) This work has produced a research paper that is currently under review in the International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2021.

Jan 2019 – May 2019 · 4 mos · Madison, Wisconsin Area

• 1) Assisted Prof. Adil Ibrahim to conduct the course CS 252: Introduction to Computer Engineering, comprising of 400 students.
• 2) The course covered Boolean Algebra, basics of logic design, computer organization and Assembly Language programming.