Biography

Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Aug ’17 - Aug ’22
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

B.M.S College of Engineering, Bangalore

Aug ’09 - Jun ’13
B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering

Experience

NVIDIA Corporation

Aug ’22 - Present
Research Scientist- NVResearch

NVIDIA Corporation

Feb ’21 - Aug 22’
Research Intern - NVResearch

IMPACT Group, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Aug ’17 - Aug 22’
Research Assistant

NVIDIA Corporation

May ’19 - Aug ’19
Deep Learning Architecture Intern (Manager: John Tran, Mentor: Dmitri Vainbrand)

Intel Corporation

Jul ’14 – Jul ’17
Design Engineer

LSI Corporation

Jul ’13 - Jul ’14
Design Engineer

Awards and Recognitions

Dan Vivoli Endowed Fellowship, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

Aug ’21 - May ’22
Awarded to a student who has made substantial research contributions to the use of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)s.

Director's Distinguished Award, IBM-C3SR Initiative

Aug ’21
Awarded to the service performed for IBM-C3SR Initiative.

Best Research Award, IBM-C3SR Initiative

Aug ’21
Awarded to the Graph Challenge Research Work

Bahl Fellowship, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

Aug ’19 - May ’21
Awarded to a student from the UIUC-ECE whose families reside in India and have shown good academic performance.

Summer Research Fellowship, Indian Academy of Science

Jun ’12 - Aug ’12
Awarded to selected candidates in India to pursue research in an academic setting.

Travel Grants

MICRO’19, ASPLOS’19

Competition Awards

Graph Challenge

2018 - 2020
Recipient of 2020 SparseDNN Challenge Championship Award in 2020.
Recipient of Student Innovation Award and Honorable Mention Award in 2019.
Recipient of Graph Challenge Finalist and Student Innovation Award in 2018

Runner Up, TI India Analog Design Contest

2012

Service

Reviewer

2017 - Present
IEEE TDAES, Springer Cluster Computing, MDPI Journals, ICPP’21

Organizing Committee Member

2014 - 2017
Served in IEEE SmartTech as an organizing committee member since inception.

Section Volunteer

2013 - 2017
Served multiple positions in IEEE Bangalore Section, IEEE YP Bangalore Section as a section volunteer.

Student Branch Volunteer

2009 - 2013
Served multiple positions in IEEE BMSCE Student Branch including Chair position.