Professional Activities

Mar 2026
Paper Accepted at IPDPSW 2026
Publication

Paper accepted at the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPSW) 2026 — SkipPar: A Hybrid CPU-GPU Framework for Accelerating LLM Training. Presenting in New Orleans.

📍 New Orleans, USA
Jan 2026
AI Systems Developer, Office of the Vice Chancellor of Engineering, Texas A&M
Leadership

Joined the Office of the Vice Chancellor of Engineering at Texas A&M to build AI systems and integrate them into university technology and education platforms.

📍 College Station, TX
Jul 2025
Joined Texas A&M University as MS (Thesis) Student
Research

Completed pre-doctoral research at IISc and joined Texas A&M University as an MS (Thesis) student in Computer Engineering with a Graduate Merit Scholarship.

📍 College Station, TX
Joined Texas A&M University as MS (Thesis) Student
Feb 2025
NVIDIA DGX Blackwell Launch Event
Conference

Attended the NVIDIA DGX Blackwell Launch Event at Leela Palace, Bengaluru, on behalf of the IISc lab — engaging with NVIDIA leadership on the future of AI compute infrastructure.

📍 Bengaluru, India
NVIDIA DGX Blackwell Launch Event
May – Jul 2024
VAJRA: Heterogeneous Cluster for Edge AI, PESU
Research

Led a team to design and build VAJRA, a heterogeneous compute cluster for Edge AI R&D at PES University. The project was selected for funding by IHFC, IIT Delhi.

📍 Bengaluru, India
VAJRA: Heterogeneous Cluster for Edge AI, PESU
Mar 2024
Intel Gaudi Accelerator Workshop, IISc
Conference

Attended the Intel Gaudi Accelerator Workshop hosted at IISc, exploring next-generation AI accelerator architecture and programming models.

📍 Bengaluru, India
Intel Gaudi Accelerator Workshop, IISc
Jan 2024
Joined IISc as Research Intern
Research

Joined the Middleware & Runtime Systems Lab at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) as a Project Associate and Pre-doctoral Researcher.

📍 Bengaluru, India
Joined IISc as Research Intern
Nov 2023
Semiconductor Summit, IIT Bombay
Conference

Visited the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay to attend the Semiconductor Summit — engaging with industry leaders and researchers in chip design and fabrication.

📍 Mumbai, India
Semiconductor Summit, IIT Bombay
Oct 2023
TLCC Accelerator Work Accepted at VLSI-SoC 2023
Publication

Research on the TLCC Accelerator accepted at VLSI-SoC 2023. Attended the conference and presented the work in Dubai, UAE.

📍 Dubai, UAE
TLCC Accelerator Work Accepted at VLSI-SoC 2023
Oct 2023
Intel Student Ambassador, PES University
Leadership

Appointed as Intel Student Ambassador at PES University (PESU), representing Intel's academic and research initiatives on campus.

Intel Student Ambassador, PES University
Jun – Jul 2023
Workshop Development & Student Mentoring, CIE
Leadership

Joined CIE to develop workshops and mentor students in Heterogeneous Computing and Machine Learning.

Aug 2022
Paper Accepted at ICSC 2022
Publication

Research on hyperspectral prediction accepted at the International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2022).

Apr – May 2022
Student Vice Chair, IEEE Communications Society
Leadership

Served as Student Vice Chair of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) chapter, organizing events and driving student engagement in communications engineering.

Student Vice Chair, IEEE Communications Society