05 // Honors & Leadership

Academic Recognition, Global Hackathon Standing, and Community Mentorship

// CURRENT INDUSTRY INITIATIVES (2023 – PRESENT)

AMD Engineering Leadership

Proactive CAD Automation & AI Tooling Initiatives

AMD Internal Engineering • Beyond Core AMS Modeling Duties

Technical Initiative

Beyond my official day-to-day responsibilities as an Analog Mixed-Signal (AMS) Design Engineer in behavioral modeling, my scripting capabilities enabled me to proactively lead internal CAD automation initiatives at AMD. I architect complete verification flows, custom hooks, and automated regression test suites. By leveraging Claude Code and autonomous AI agent workflows, I deliver production-quality internal tooling that eliminates manual verification bottlenecks and elevates overall team productivity across AMS simulation regression pipelines.

// COLLEGIATE LEADERSHIP & ACADEMIC HONORS (NITK • 2019 – 2023)

Undergraduate Foundations

IEEE SPCup 2021

Global Signal Processing Cup | Jan 2021 – May 2021

Ranked 13th Globally

Designed a sophisticated algorithm to control the configuration of a passive two-dimensional array of meta-material to improve received signals for beyond-5G wireless solutions. The algorithm employs gradient descent continuous optimization followed by a greedy random search to determine optimal Intelligent Reflection Surface (IRS) configuration.

IEEE NITK Student Chapter

Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) Chair | Apr 2020 – Apr 2023

Leadership & Mentorship

Organized an all-India embedded systems hackathon (Embedathon 2022 & 2023) with over 100 participating teams. Conducted a summer mentorship program for first-year bachelors on Computer Architecture, and led knowledge transfer sessions on Ngspice, Magic VLSI, and CMOS logic gate design.

OpenLane ASIC Tool Training Instructor

Under Prof. Ramesh Kini, NITK | January 2023

Instructor / Speaker

Conducted an extensive OpenLane hands-on training session for Bachelor's and Master's students at NITK. The training covered end-to-end open-source RTL-to-GDSII flow architectures, tool execution methodologies, synthesis optimization, and common layout debugging strategies.