2023 – Present · AMD

Internal CAD automation initiatives

Alongside my core AMS modeling responsibilities, I take initiative in developing verification flows, custom automation hooks, and regression test suites. Python and TCL are central to that work.

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April 2020 – April 2023 · IEEE NITK

Circuits and Systems Society Chair

Organized Embedathon in 2022 and 2023, an all-India embedded-systems hackathon with over 100 participating teams. Led computer-architecture mentorship for first-year students and knowledge-transfer sessions on Ngspice, Magic VLSI, and CMOS logic design.

January 2023 · NITK

OpenLane training instructor

Conducted hands-on ASIC training under Prof. Ramesh Kini for Bachelor’s and Master’s students. Sessions covered the RTL-to-GDSII flow, tool execution, synthesis optimization, and layout debugging.

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January – May 2021 · IEEE Signal Processing Cup

13th globally

Worked on configuring an intelligent reflecting surface for beyond-5G wireless communication. The algorithm combined gradient-descent optimization with greedy random search to improve received signals.