Kailash Prasad

Kailash Prasad

PhD in Electrical Engineering | Prime Minister Research Fellow | Intel India Research Fellow

I am a PhD Scholar in the Discipline of Electrical Engineering at nanoDC Lab, IIT Gandhinagar working with Prof. Joycee Mekie. I currently work in the area of In Memory Computing, Approximate Computing, CAD tool design and SRAM Memory Subsystem Design.

News and Highlights

TimelineNews
September 20221 paper accepted at Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference ASP-DAC 2023
August 20221 paper accepted at ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization TACO 2022
June 20221 paper accepted at International Symposium on VLSI Design and Test VDAT 2022
April 2022Selected for DAC Young Fellow Program - DAC 2022
April 20222 works accepted for Poster Presentation at Design Automation Conference DAC 2022
January 2022Graduate Teaching Fellow (Instructor) for IC Design Lab at IIT Gandhinagar
January 20221 paper accepted at IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems ISCAS 2022
December 20211 paper accepted at IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design ISQED 2022
December 2021Best Research Video Award at the DAC 2021 Young Fellows Program - Link to the video
November 2021Selected for DAC Young Fellow Program - DAC 2021
September 20211 paper accepted at IEEE International Conference on Electronics Circuits and Systems ICECS 2021
October 2020Awarded the Prestigious Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF) 2020
August 2020Awarded the Prestigious Intel India Research Fellowship 2020
April 2020Learn Python Programming during this COVID 19 Pandemic. Click Here
January 20202 papers accepted at IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems ISCAS 2020
January 2020Awarded travel grant from VLSID to attend VLSID 2020
May 2019Awarded travel grant from ACM SIGARCH to attend ISCA 2019 and uArch Workshop

Research Interest

Memory Centric Circuits and Architectures | Approximate Computing | Hardware for Machine Learning | CAD | Posit Number System

Education

  • Ph.D in Electrical Engineering, IIT Gandhinagar, 2018 - Present
  • B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering, NIT Arunachal Pradesh, 2018

Work experience

TimelineOrganisationDesignationInstructor/SupervisorTopic/Course
Jul 22 - Oct 22IIT Kharagpur (NPTEL)Teaching AssistantProf. Santanu ChattopadhyayCourse : Digital Circuits-Youtube Playlist
Jan 22 - Apr 22IIT GandhinagarGraduate Teaching FellowProf. Joycee MekieCourse : IC Design Lab
Aug 18 - PresentIIT GandhinagarTeaching AssistantProf. Joycee MekieCourse : Digital System, Embedded System, Microelectronics Lab, Computer Organisation and Architecture, VLSI Design, IC Design
May 17 - July 17IIT KanpurStudent Research AssociateProf. Yogesh Singh ChauhanTopic : Compact Modelling and TCAD simulation of semiconductor devices.

Student Memberships

  • ACM Student Membership
  • IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Membership
  • IEEE Student Membership
  • IEEE Young Professionals

Skills

  • EDA Tools: Xilinx Vivado, Sentaurus TCAD, Design Compiler, VCS, MATLAB, Cadence Virtuoso, Calibre, Keil uVision, Custom Compiler, ModelSim
  • Programming and Scripting Languages: Python, Verilog, C, Bash, TCL, HTML/CSS
  • Microcontrollers and Microprocessors: Raspberry Pi 3, ARM7, Arduino, AVR, ARM Cortex M0, 8085

Courses Done

  • VLSI Design
  • Physics of Transistors
  • MicroFabrication and Semiconductor Processes
  • Computer Architecture
  • Machine Learning
  • CMOS Analog IC Design
  • Computer Networking
  • Microelectronics Lab
  • IC Design Lab
  • Asynchronous Circuit Design
  • Mathematical Foundation for Computer Vision