CV

[DOWNLOAD PDF CV] (Updated Sept’21)

Research Interests

Computer Architecture | Hardware Security | Operating Systems | Machine Learning applications in Computer Architecture

Education

• Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA
  Ph.D. in Computer Science (Advisor: Dr. Hyesoon Kim) GPA : 4.0/4.0
• Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA
  M.S. in Computer Science (Specialization: Computing Systems) GPA : 4.0/4.0
• Indian Institute of Technology - Kharagpur | West Bengal, India
  B.Tech in Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering (2017)
  M.Tech in Microelectronics and VLSI Design (2018)
  Advisor: Prof. Prasanta Kumar Guha
  GPA (joint for B.Tech and M.Tech): 8.8/10

Work Experience

• Qualcomm - Interim Engineering Intern (Dec’19 - Aug’21)
  • Functional CPU Modelling for Qualcomm’s next generation CPUs. Adding new features and debugging existing issues with the disassembler and decoder block.
• ARM - CPU Verification Engineer (Dec’19 - Aug’21)
  • Responsible for verifiying ARM’s latest cores with RIS (Random Instruction Sequence) tools on emulator and FPGA platforms
  • Used shell scripting, python and perl to automate regression, debug tasks and complicated manual flows
  • Wrote stimulus in C and ARM Assembly language to stress specific blocks of the core design
• Intel Corporation - System Validation Engineer (Jul’18 - Dec’19)
  • Developed a python library of portable functions for test automation and debug. The Library is currently widely used by Intel teams across the globe in India, Israel and the U.S.
  • Received a formal recognition for contribution to the latest Intel SoC bring-up in Hillsboro, Oregon
  • Part of one of the first teams to test USB 4.0 compliance in the world

Teaching and Academic Service

• Graduate Teaching Assistant for CS3220 Processor Design at Georgia Tech
• Served on the Artifact Evaluation Committee for HPCA 2022

Research Experience

• HPArch Lab, Georgia Tech (Aug’21 - Present)
  Graduate Student Researcher (advisor: Prof. Hyesoon Kim)
  • Working with Prof. Hyesoon Kim and Yonghae Kim to implement a novel bounds checking mechanism on FPGA using Chisel and RISC-V BOOM SoC Generator to mitigate memory safety errors in C/C++
  • Working on security analysis using Juliet test suite on gem5 and later on RISC-V FPGA implementation
• Australian National University (May’17 - Jul’17)
  Research Intern (Research School of Physics and Engineering)
  • Worked with Prof. Chennupati Jagadish and Dr. Dipankar Chugh to investigate single photon emitters from NV centres in hexagonal Boron Nitride
  • Characterized samples using Photoluminiscence, Raman Spectroscopy and g2 measurements
  • Used MATLAB to plot and analyse the data collected
• IIT Kharagpur (Jul’16 - May’18)
  Student Researcher (VLSI Engineering Lab, Dept. of EECE)
  • Worked with Prof. P.K. Guha and Dr. Sayan Dey to create a Cr(VI) sensor with a limit of detection of 125 ppb
  • Presented the results in an oral presentation at the EMRS Spring Meet 2017 in Strasbourg, France
  • Published a paper based on this work in IEEE Transactions on Electon Devices journal

Skills

Computer Architecture | ARM Assembly Programming | C | Python | VLSI Design | Digital circuits | Operating Systems | Nanoelectronics | Electronic Materials

Publications

1. A. Kar, S. Dey, D. Burman, S. Santra and P. K. Guha, ”RGO/Ni2O3 Heterojunction-Based Reusable, Flexible Device for Cr(VI) Ion Detection in Water,” in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 780-785, Feb. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TED.2020.3045954 [PAPER]

Presentations

1. A.Kar, S.Dey, S. Santra, S.Ray and P.K. Guha, ”RGO/Ni2O3 composite as a multifunctional material for efficient water quality monitoring, EMRS Spring Meet,2017 (oral presentation only, no paper)

Academic Achievements

2022 | Design Automation Conference (DAC) Young Fellow 2022 (Travel Grant + Poster Presentation)
2019 | Recognized by the Intel Thunderbolt team in Oregon for contribution to the SoC power-on activities
2017 | Chennupati and Vidya Jagadish Endowment for research at the Australian National University
2014 | National Initiative for Undergraduate Sciences (NIUS) Physics scholar
2013 | Among 12 students from the state of Gujarat selected for the Indian National Physics Olympiad
2009 | Duke University Talent Identification Program scholar (course: Java for Video Games)