Hamza Akhtar Email & Phone Number

Irvine, California, United States

• Designed the compute pipelines of in house RVV-v1.0 compliant vector core. Used VCS, Verdi, Vivado and Verilator for simulation and verification.
• Optimized and verified the physical design and critical timing paths of the compute pipelines on FPGA using synthesis and implementation tools like Vivado and FPGAs on Amazon EC2 F1 instances.
• Designed and implemented FIR filters, re-sampler, and their controllers in the digital front end (DFE) interface to the core in HDL. Skills: fixed point arithmetic, filter design, state machine design, AXI lite.
• Coded the reference models of FIR filters in MATLAB.

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Founded 'Uraan' (meaning: flight) a non-profit organization determined to solve the education problems of children in my country. We regularly arrange sessions/classes for unpriviledged children on modern concepts and most demanding skills. These sessions are lead by university students volunteering in 'Uraan'.

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

• Designed the lab portion of the computer architecture course based on RISC-V architecture.
• Delivered lectures and lab sessions on computer architecture topics: basics of system verilog HDL, design components of single cycle processor., adding interrupt support in processor, optimization performance with.
• Managed a class of 40+ students as an instructor.

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

• Taught students the python programming language and the concepts of data science.
• Helped students to do their programming tasks.
• Arranged problem solving sessions once a week.

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

• Lead IET On Campus UET as President, an engineering student society of 70+ volunteers working to engineer a better world.
• Managed the technical and non-technical aspects of the society.

Lahore

• Conducted 10+ tech seminars and training sessions on different tools and technologies. Few are: computational thinking, GANs, LaTex, React JS, RISC-V.

Lahore

• Data collection and cleaning from the satellite images of various cities of Pakistan using QGIS and Python.
• Coded convolutional neural networks (CNNs) using PyTorch for training on cleaned up data to predict efficient urban planning strategies.
• Coded a python application for tracing roads into a vector graph from satellite images using OpenCV and computer vision techniques.

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

• Worked with web development team as a general member.
• Moderated React JS workshops.
• Participated in IEEE Xtreme 15.0 global coding competition.