Industry Experience

1. Director of ML, SambaNova Systems (Sep 2020 - Present)
Lead the Large Language Group at SN consisting of three teams - infrastructure, Applied LLM and Core LLM
2. Senior Research Engineer, ML Research Lab, Arm (July 2016 - Sep 2020)
• Improved execution of RNNs and FC layers on Arm Hardware - Compression techniques, Software libraries, Software tools
• Exploration of Hardware Accelerators for CNNs
• Performance benchmarking of Deep Learning workloads
• Identifying university collaboration opportunities
• Arm Research's representative at the TinyML Performance Working Group
3. Performance Architecture Intern, AMD (May 2015 - July 2015)
• Developed a state of the art indirect brnach predictor that provided better accuracy than similar techniques in Academia
• The design was incorporated in AMD Servers that were out in the market around 2018/2019
4. Design Engineer, Kilby Labs, Texas Instruments (Jan 2014 - Jun 2014)
• Exploration of a neural network accelrator for Industry IoT use case
5. Design Engineer, OMAP Group, Texas Instruments (July 2012 - Dec 2014)
• Design and Verification of Memory Controllers, Processor SubSystem, ECC Memories and H.264 Video Encoder/Decoder
6. Software Engineering Intern, Broadcom (Jan 2012 - May 2012)
7. Research Intern, Robotics lab, IIIT Hyderabad (May 2011 - July 2011)