About Me
I'm an undergrad pursuing a dual major in Physics and Electronics & Communication Engineering at BITS Pilani, India. My journey into the rabbit hole of FPGAs began in my first year when I joined a student-run satellite team at BITS. There, I dove into designing the onboard computer subsystem for a nanosatellite around a Zynq 7000 SoC - and that marked the start of my love-hate relationship with FPGAs. Since then, I've been knee-deep in hardware accelerators, both through the satellite team and through unpaid internships. My latest rollercoaster ride with FPGAs was working on a Xilinx FPGA SoM to build a hardware accelerator for real-time wildfire detection using UAV platforms. It was such an adventure that I am publishing my first paper with this project at IEEE-TIM '25.
Currently, I am working in the Systems Research Group at TUM to develop a state-of-the-art FPGA shell architecture for cloud FPGA applications.
My current research interests span across reconfigurable computing, computer systems, embedded hardware with a life-long fascination towards space systems.
When I'm not geeking out over FPGAs, I love exploring new places around the world and wanting to climb every mountain that I see on the way. 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 wtih a beer.
Education
Technical University of Munich
- Practical Project Student for Winter Semester 24-25
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
- M.Sc. (Physics) and B.E. (Electronics and Communication)
- Undergraduate Thesis at the School of CIT, Technical University of Munich
Experience
- June 2024-Ongoing, Research Intern at the Systems Research Group at Technical University of Munich
- June 2023-August 2023, Research Intern at the Space Physics Laboratory at Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
- July 2022-August 2022, Research Intern at Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd.
- May 2022-July 2022, Research Intern at Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIO-CSIR)
- December 2021-May 2022, Team Member of Electrical Subsystem at Criss Robotics
- March 2020-March 2023, Team Lead of On-Board Computer Subsystem at Team Anant
Projects
- AFM Analysis of a thin film of aluminium deposited using PVD for integration into an in-house built Surface Plasmon Resonance(SPR) instrument
- [IEEE-TIM '25] FPGA-Accelerated LCAM-YOLOX for Real-Time Wildfire Detection on UAVs
- DNN Accelerator on FPGA for real-time object detection using the PYNQ framework
Honors & Awards
INSPIRE Scholarship Recipient
Relevant Coursework
Electronics & Communications
- Analog Electronics | ECE F341
- Communication Networks | ECE F343
- Digital Design | ECE F215
- Digital Signal Processing | ECE F434
- Electronic Devices | ECE F214
- Internet of Things | EEE F411
- Microprocessors | ECE F241
- Satellite Communication | EEE F472
Computer Science & Mathematics
- Computer Programming | CS F111
- Mathematics I | MATH F111
- Mathematics II | MATH F112
- Mathematics III | MATH F211
- Probability & Statistics | MATH F113
Hobbies & Interests
- Football
- Volleyball
- Badminton
- Hiking
- Music
- Photography
- Movies