FPGA-Accelerated YOLOX for Real-Time Wildfire Detection
An FPGA-accelerated real-time wildfire detection system for UAVs achieving 78.11% mAP at 195 FPS while consuming only 10.45W on the Xilinx Kria KV260.
2024-202501. About Me
I'm a graduate in Physics and Electronics & Communication Engineering from BITS Pilani, India. Currently, I am working at the Systems Research Group in TUM on hardware software co-design for FPGA platforms.
My current research interests span across reconfigurable computing, computer systems, and embedded hardware with a life-long fascination towards space systems.
When I'm not geeking out over computers, I love exploring new places and wanting to climb every mountain that I see along the way. Recently, I've traded climbing mountains for sliding down them on planks, which makes the getting down part pretty quick. You'll also find me living and breathing football, from shouting at the TV "Even I could've scored that" to realising that scoring goals might actually not be that easy. I also like playing volleyball, badminton and every indoor sport that goes well with a beer.
02. Education
Technical University of Munich
SS 24/25 + WS 24/25Undergraduate thesis at the Systems Research Group, School of CIT
BITS Pilani
2020 - 2025M.Sc. Physics and B.E. Electronics & Communication
Alles Gut
2003 - 2020No deadlines. No emails. No existential crisis.
03. Research & Publications
Research Project
AFM Analysis of Aluminum Thin Films for SPR
Atomic Force Microscopy analysis of aluminum thin films deposited via Physical Vapor Deposition for integration into an in-house built Surface Plasmon Resonance instrument.
2025
Research Project
DNN Accelerator on FPGA for Object Detection
Developed a deep neural network accelerator using the YOLOX model and the PYNQ framework for real-time object detection on the Ultra96v2 FPGA platform.
2023Multi-Wavelength Radiometer Development - ISRO
Redesigned and developed an improved version of the Multi-Wavelength Radiometer for the ARFI network with a compact and robust chassis design and horizontal coordinate system for precision.
Jun 2023 - Aug 2023High-Altitude Aerosol Sampler Control System - ISRO
Conceptualized and designed a high-altitude pump control system using PIC18 microcontroller for black carbon aerosol sampling in upper atmospheric layers via a geostationary balloon satellite.
Jun 2023 - Aug 2023FPGA-based Digital Lock-in Amplifier for AFM - CSIR-CSIO
Developed a digital lock-in amplifier using STEMLab 125-14 FPGA with 14-bit resolution at 125 MS/s for integration into an Atomic Force Microscope, creating a resource & cost-efficient high-resolution DAC/ADC system.
May 2022 - Jul 2022On-Board Computer Subsystem - Team Anant
Led development of a hyperspectral imaging nanosat's on-board computer using a Xilinx Zynq SoC, integrating multiple sensors, GNSS receiver, and transceiver. Enhanced OS with I2C, SPI, and Ethernet support, and implemented AX.25 protocol for telemetry.
Mar 2020 - Mar 20232, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47...
