Semiconductor Industry Experience
AI Research Engineer & Senior Engineer
August 2019 - April 2022
Ceremorphic Technologies(erstwhile Redpine Signals Inc.)
- Computer Vision: Built and improved AI models to find and track people in high-quality 4K videos using fast, custom-designed computer chips.
- Hardware Optimization: Created new ways to shrink AI programs (like CNNs) so they can run smoothly and save battery on small devices.
- New AI Designs: Designed smart recommendation systems for online shopping and built a tool that uses standard Wi-Fi signals to detect if a person has fallen.
Academic Experience
Academic Supervision & Grant Writing
- University of Essex, UK: Presently mentoring 2 PhD students, 2 master’s students, and 1 undergrad in the Computer Science and Electronic Engineering department.
- IIT Hyderabad, India: Supervised 4 master's degree final-year major projects.
- SMIT & IIT Hyderabad: Supervised 6 final-year undergraduate engineering projects and 2 PhD students.
- Grant Writing: Experienced in writing multiple research grants to assist my professors (supervisors) at IIT Hyderabad, India (focusing on defense projects, MeitY, SERB, DST, DBT) and the University of Essex, UK (focusing on IoT security and biomedical research, EPSRC(UKRI), Innovate UK, DICE circular economy).
Module Development & Teaching
- Industry Training: Designed AI/ML basic, intermediate and advanced modules and provided training in faculty development programs as an industry expert to colleges like College of Engineering and Technology, Jalgaon, JNTUA College of Engineering (Autonomous) Ananthapuramu etc, Hyderabad, India.
- Course Design: Neural network accelerator design course (IIT Hyderabad, India).
Senior Research Officer (Post Doctoral Research Associate PDRA)
August 2023 - Present
School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, UK
- IDEAL Project: Working on hardware and software methods to make smart devices (IoT) last much longer, helping to reduce electronic waste. (Funded by EPSRC/UKRI. Collaborating with the University of Glasgow and the University of Oxford).
- Morello-HAT Project: Creating better tools and software rules to keep computer memory safe from errors and cyber attacks. (Funded by EPSRC/UKRI. Collaborated with the University of Glasgow and the University of Oxford).Status: Completed..
Senior Research Associate
May 2022 - August 2023
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad, India
- Defense & Avionics: Built digital image matching systems and smart hardware to help aircraft navigate better (DRDO projects).
- Hardware Optimization: Improved the speed and lowered the power usage of computer chips for automotive systems (with Suzuki).
National Post-Doctoral Fellow (DST, SERB, Govt of India)
August 2017 - August 2019
Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad, India
- Defense AI: Successfully shrank a large image-recognition AI so it could run fast and track objects efficiently for a defense project.
- Biomedical AI: Designed flexible, power-saving computing systems for medical devices using machine learning.
Newton Bhabha Fellow
2015 - 2016
University of Southampton, Hampshire, England
Designed software and hardware to map brain connections using EEG signals. This helps doctors measure how efficiently the brain is working without using complicated, heavy medical jargon.
Assistant Professor (Teaching)
July 2010 - January 2012
Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim, India
Taught engineering courses and guided students in their final year projects before leaving to start full-time PhD research.
- Subjects Taught: Embedded system (EC-602) along with lab (EC-609) | Microelectronics and VLSI DESIGN (EC-703) and lab (EC-707).