CV

Research Interests

Computer Systems & Architecture
Reliability
Hardware Security

Education

  • 2025 - Present
    Doctor of Philosophy
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    • Advised by Prof. Mengjia Yan (MATCHA Group)
  • 2020 - 2025
    Bachelor + Master of Technology (Dual Degree)
    Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
    • Integrated B.Tech + M.Tech in Electrical Engineering (GPA: 9.39/10)
    • Specialization in Electronic Systems
    • Minor Degree in Computer Science and Engineering

Professional Experience

  • 2023
    Embedded Software Intern
    Texas Instruments, Bangalore, India
    • Created a driver-monitoring application for the AM62Ax Sitara processor using the GStreamer media framework
    • Modified GStreamer pipelines to enable stacking of multiple DNN models required for the application
    • Analyzed the boot flow of various processors and created a boot loader porting guide for the Sitara AM62x processor

Mentorship

  • 2025 - Present
    Graduate Application Assistance Program (GAAP) Mentor
    MIT EECS
    • Guided graduate-school applicants through their application journey, including 10+ applicants from under-represented groups
  • 2024 - 2025
    Department Academic Mentor
    Student Mentorship Program, IIT Bombay
    • Selected to a 54-member team to mentor sophomores on academics, extra-curriculars, careers, and research

Awards & Honours

  • Distinguished Artifact Award, USENIX Security Symposium (2025)
  • Intel India Research Fellowship 2024-25 (grant of INR 800,000)
  • Ranked 5th among 99 students in the Electrical Engineering Dual Degree program, IIT Bombay (2024)
  • Undergraduate Research Award, IIT Bombay (2023)
  • All India Rank 266 in JEE (Advanced) among 160,000+ candidates (2020)
  • Kishore Vaigyanak Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) Fellowship, All India Rank 337 (2018)

Skills

Languages

C, C++, VHDL, Verilog, Python, Assembly (8085), Algorithmic Assembly (Aa), Heptagon

Software

Intel Quartus, Vivado, Autodesk Fusion 360, GStreamer, Cadence Virtuoso, Synopsys Sentaurus, GHDL, Keil μVision, MATLAB, LTSpice, Ngspice, Arduino IDE, GNU Radio, LaTeX, AutoCAD, Solidworks

Simulators

ChampSim, gem5, Sniper, GPGPU-Sim, CacheFX, PCACTI