Resume Overview
🎓 Education
| Degree | Institution | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Planned – Masters in Management (Gies College of Business) | University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign
| (Starting Spring 2026) |
| Mini - MBA (Farmer School of Business) | Miami University
| In Progress - January 2026 |
| Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering | University of Missouri – Kansas City
| 09/2021 – 07/2025 |
| Advanced Diploma in AI | National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology, Calicut, Kerala
| 09/2019 – 01/2020 |
| M.S. in Computer Science | University of Illinois – Springfield
| 01/2017 – 12/2018 |
| M.S. in Electrical Engineering | University of Missouri – Kansas City
| 01/2015 – 12/2016 |
| B.Tech in ECE | GRIET – Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad
| 09/2011 – 04/2014 |
👨🏫 Teaching Experience
| Role | Institution | Courses |
|---|---|---|
| Incoming Assistant Professor | Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois | Courses to be announced |
| Instructor | University of Missouri-Kansas City | ENGR E&C 226, 216, 447/5547, 402/5533 |
| Teaching Assistant | University of Missouri-Kansas City | ENGR E&C 442/5542, 228, 402/403 |
🔬 Research & Industry Experience
| Role | Organization | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Research Assistant | Missouri Institute of Defense and Energy | 09/2021 – 07/2022 |
| AI Intern | SmartBridge Pvt. Ltd. | 06/2020 – 07/2020 |
🧠 Research Interests
- VLSI Design
- Hardware Description Language (HDL)
- RF Signal Processing
- Embedded Systems
- System-on-Chip (SoC)
- Hardware-Aware AI
📚 Selected Publications
| Title | Venue | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 🏆 Re-Visiting R: Statistical Envelope Analysis (Best Paper Award) | RFCoN 2025 | Awarded |
| Custom Activations in LSTM | GLSVLSI 2025 | Accepted |
| Linear Approx. Activations | Memories Journal | Under Review |
| Review: Crosstalk Polymorphic Circuits | Memories Journal | Published |
👉 See full list on Publications
🏆 Awards & Honors
| Award | By | Year |
|---|---|---|
| CS Balaji Krithikaivasan Travel Grant | UMKC | 2025 |
| Dean’s International Scholar Award | UMKC | 2015–2016 |
| 2nd Prize – UMKC Hackathon | UMKC | Fall 2022 |
| 3rd Prize – UMKC Hackathon | UMKC | Fall 2021 |
| IEEE-HKN Honor Society | UMKC | Ongoing |
📜 Certifications
| Certification | Issued By | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Product Management | CII | 2023 |
| Accelerated AI | CDAC | 2022 |
| Statistical Learning | Stanford University | 2017 |
| MLOps | Duke University | 2023 |
| Math for ML | Imperial College London | 2023 |