Short Bio

I’m a PhD candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, advised by Prof. Rakesh Kumar. My research interests are generally in the areas of Hardware Systems and Computer Architecture. Particularly, I’m interested in Hardware Acceleration of Neural Graphics, Low Power and Energy Efficient Graphics, Machine Learning Accelerators, Heterogeneous Parallel Systems, Flexible Computer Systems and Emerging Technologies/Applications.

News

  • New: [March 2024] Selected to receive the Dan Vivoli Endowed Fellowship for the 2024-2025 academic year Link.
  • [February 2024] Space Microdatacenters paper (MICRO 2023) is selected as IEEE Micro Top Picks - Honorable Mention 2024.
  • [July 2023] Our paper titled Space Microdatacenters has been accepted at MICRO-56th, 2023.
  • [July 2023] The two-page retrospective that we composed for our paper on “Printed Microprocessors” for the ISCA-50th 25-year (1996-2020) retrospective is now accessible online at isca-retrospective.
  • [June 2023] Presented “Hardware Acceleration of Neural Graphics” paper at ISCA-50th, 2023 SLIDES, Lightning-talk.
  • [May 2023] Selected for the retrospective of the years 1996 through 2020 on the 50th anniversary of ISCA for our paper “Printed Microprocessors” (ISCA-47th, 2020).
  • [May 2023] Selected as Machine Learning and Systems Rising Star - Harvard, Google, Nvidia and MLCommons.
  • [May 2023] The preprint of our paper titled Understanding Interactions Between Chip Architecture and Uncertainties in Semiconductor Supply and Demand is now available at arXiv.
  • [May 2023] I’ve joined the Graphics Research Organization (GRO) at Intel GRO-Intel-Husnain as a Full-time Graduate Research Intern.
  • [May 2023] Gave a talk on “Neural Graphics: An Architecture’s Perspective” at ECE498SJP: Accelerator Architectures class at UIUC. Slides.
  • [April 2023] The camera ready version of our Hardware Acceleration of Neural Graphics paper is available at NG_camera_ready.
  • [Mar 2023] The preprint of our Hardware Acceleration of Neural Graphics paper is available at arXiv.
  • [Mar 2023] Our Hardware Acceleration of Neural Graphics paper got accepted at ISCA-50th, 2023.
  • [Oct 2022] Our Exploiting Short Application Lifetimes for Low Cost Hardware Encryption in Flexible Electronics paper got accepted at DATE 2023.
  • [March 2022] Our Rethinking Programmable Earable Processors paper got accepted at ISCA-49th, 2022.
  • [Dec 2021] I’ve joined the Cloud Systems Research Lab at Intel Labs as a Part-time Graduate Research Intern.
  • [May 2021] I’ve joined the Heterogeneous Platforms Labs at Intel Labs as a Graduate Research Intern.
  • [December 2020] Passed the PhD qualification exam (Computer architecture qual. - ECE UIUC).
  • [November 2020] Printed Machine Learning Classifiers paper selected as IEEE Micro Top Picks - Honorable Mention 2021.
  • [October 2020] Printed Machine Learning Classifiers paper presented at MICRO-53rd, 2020 VIDEO.
  • [July 2020] Our Printed Machine Learning Classifiers paper got accepted at MICRO 2020.
  • [March 2020] Our Printed Microprocessors paper got accepted at ISCA-47th, 2020.
  • [January 2019] Joined the PASSAT group at UIUC supervised by Dr. Rakesh Kumar.
  • [January 2019] Joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. program at UIUC.