About
👨🎓 About Me
I'm Srinivas Rahul Sapireddy, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in College of Engineering at Illinois State University (ISU). My research bridges low-power hardware-aware AI, RF signal classification, and VLSI design for edge intelligence.
I bring a dual passion for teaching and research — currently teaching Logic Design and Engineering Computation while having taught ASIC Physical Design and Analog IC Design.
🧠 Research & Technical Focus
- 🧮 Custom Activation Functions for Efficient Neural Networks
- 📶 RF Modulation Classification using Time-Frequency Features
- ⚙️ VLSI Physical Design, RTL-to-GDSII & Timing Analysis
- 📦 Embedded AI Accelerators and SoC Architectures
Research Assistant at Missouri Institute of Defense and Energy · AI Intern at SmartBridge Pvt. Ltd.
📚 Publications
- ✅ GLSVLSI 2025: Custom Activation Functions for LSTMs
- ✅ RFCoN 2025: Statistical Envelope Analysis for RF Signals
- 📑 MDPI Electronics (Published): Adversarial Detection in IoT
- 📖 Memories Journal: Piecewise Approximations for Neural Networks
🏅 Awards & Recognitions
- 🏆 Best Paper Award – RFCoN 2025 (Track 2, Session II)
- 🥈 2nd Prize – Hack-A-Roo Fall 2022 (Entrepreneur Track)
- 🥉 3rd Prize – Hack-A-Roo Fall 2021 (CS/IT Track)
- 🎓 Dean’s International Scholar Award – UMKC
- 🎓 CS Balaji Memorial Travel Grant – 2025
- 🏅 Honor Society – IEEE-HKN (Eta Kappa Nu)
📜 Certifications & Skills
- 📊 Product Management – CII
- 🤖 AI & MLOps – Duke University, CDAC
- 📈 Statistical Learning – Stanford University
- 📐 Math for ML – Imperial College London
💼 Hands-on with: Verilog, Yosys, OpenSTA, Docker, TensorFlow Lite, PyTorch, Scikit-learn
🌐 Let’s Connect
- 🔗 GitHub: github.com/srsapireddy
- 🎓 Google Scholar: My Publications
- 🧬 ORCID: 0000-0002-9898-6810
- 📝 Medium: Blog Articles
- 📄 OpenReview: View Profile
🚀 Open to Collaborate
If you're working on efficient edge AI, signal intelligence, or hardware-software co-design, let’s connect. I’m always open to collaboration, mentorship, and research discussions.