I am a fifth year PhD student in Computer Science at UIUC advised by Prof. Chris Fletcher. I work at the interesection of computer architecture and machine learning: I have designed high-performance processors targeted at different ML workloads, I have built ML tools to make computers more efficient.
During my PhD, I was fortunate to receive the 2019 Facebook PhD fellowship for Hardware & Software infra for ML. I have also been lucky to have had the opportunity to collaborate with researchers from various backgrounds, spanning industry and academia. For more details about my research, see here.
Before joining CS@Illinois, I worked at ARM, where I had a fantastic opportunity to build real-world products as a design engineer and develop successful prototypes to drive new products as a researcher in industrial R&D. I received my bachelors from NIT-K Surathkal in 2015 from the ECE department, where I was advised by Prof. Sumam David.
I am always looking for collaborations, especially motivated undergrads/grads. If you are interested in collaborating, or like any of my prior works and have ideas to advance it, or if you simply want to have a chat, feel free to contact me!
Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2017-Present
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering, 2011-2015
National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal
Mind Mappings is a novel framework that enables first-order optimization with gradient descent for mapping space search, a core challenge in deploying efficient programmable accelerators.