Recognitions and Awards

Patents

  • U.S. Provisional Patent Application filed on August, 2020, entitled, “HETEROGENEOUS GPU-RERAM ARCHITECTURE FOR NEURAL NETWORKS,”
    • BIRESH KUMAR JOARDAR, PARTHA PRATIM PANDE, VENKATA JANARDHAN RAO DOPPA, and NITTHILAN KANNAPPAN JAYAKODI

Grant Proposals

  • Jana Doppa (PI), Umit Ogras, and Partha Pande.Small: Dynamic Resource Management in HeterogeneousMobile SoCs: Novel Algorithms and Efficient Deployment of Emerging Applications. National Science Foun-dation (NSF), Core Program.$500K (8/2020–8/2023). Pending.
    • My research work on design and optimization framework for EdgeAI contributed to half of this proposal.

Conference and Journal Reviewer

  • Reviewer for IJCAI-2019, AAAI-2019, ESWEEK-2019, DAC-2020, AAAI-2020
  • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design (TCAD), 2019, 2020
  • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), 2019, 2020
  • ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), 2019
  • Volunteer for International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2019
  • Volunteer for Embedded Systems Week, 2018

Awards and Honors

  • Richard Newton Young Fellowship, Special Interest Group on Design Automation 2020
  • Nominated for Best Paper Award, DATE Conference 2020
  • Selected to Present at DAC PhD Forum, Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2020
  • Three-Minute VCEA Thesis Competition, Runner-Up, WSU 2020
  • Harold and Diana Frank Electrical Engineering Fellowship, WSU 2019
  • Harold and Diana Frank Electrical Engineering Fellowship, WSU 2018
  • Crimson Code Hackathon, Runner-Up, WSU 2018
  • Suksdorf Fellowship, WSU 2017-2019
  • I-Corps, WSU Innovation Corps program participant 2019
  • WESKA, WSU Entrepreneurship program participant 2019
  • CEO Award, a Polycom worldwide recognition for outstanding technical contribution 2016
  • Member of Technical Staff Recognition for technical leadership at Ittiam Systems 2012
  • 164th rank of 100000 students in Tamil Nadu Professional Courses Entrance Examination, India.
  • Top 0.1% across India in Mathematics in 10th Standard

Projects @ ITTIAM , Tata Elxsi and Under-graduation:

  • (Involved in development of these projects/modules)
  • Mpeg4 Advanced Simple Profile HD Decoder on OMAP3430
  • Mpeg4, H.263 and Mpeg2 Encoders for catalogue products on C64x+ DSP
  • Handling 3:2 pulldown by reducing frame rate and generation of Timestamp information
  • Migrating the mpeg4 ME optimizations to MPEG2 non-accelerated workspace
  • Adding MV cost for Motion Estimation [MPEG4 non-accelerated]
  • H263 Encoder and its extensions D1 on C64x+ DSP
  • Added XDM 1.0 API support for Mpeg4 non accelerated version
  • Optimization of MPEG4 non accelerated encoder
  • ‘N’ mb level optimization of core loop Difference+DCT+Q+IQ+IDCT.
  • Study of SD H.264 Scalable Video Codec on SCP
  • Real Time HD (High Definition) MPEG2 Video Encoder on Multiple SCP (S5) Processors
  • Real Time HD H.264 Video Encoder On Multiple SCP (S5) Processors
  • H.264 Encoder modules development
  • Real Time Preview of HD bit streams on PC
  • Study on video transcoding of HD MPEG2 bit streams to SD (Standard Definition) bit streams
  • Visualization of White Matter Fiber Tract from DT-MR (Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance) Image.