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Austin, TX, US

Austin, Texas, United States

• Enterprise Emulation Platform Project:
• Technical lead on evaluation of an enterprise emulation platform
• Brought up active major project line on new emulation platform with focus on providing a firmware development and debug platform
• Led communication with external AEs, internal IT department, data security team, users, and other stakeholders
• Evaluated both cloud and on-premise emulation, virtual debugger, and other new IP
• Wrote user guides and provided training to firmware developers to help them migrate from current in-house solution

Austin, Texas, United States

• Cycle Accurate Modeling and Architectural Exploration
• Improved ARM Cycle Model test environment
• Wrote custom benchmarks for core selection project of vectorized DSP code
• Biquadratic filter implementation in assembly 50% faster than reference implementation from ARM CMSIS
• Contributed to internal white paper about ARM processor roadmap

Austin, Texas Area

• CPU Modeling Correlation Team (Performance Verification) at Samsung Austin Research Center (SARC)
• Wrote directed tests in ARM assembly to find performance bugs in the load-store unit
• Performed deep dives into RTL to fix bugs and make performance improvements
• Tests covered atomics, exclusives, barriers, non-coherent synchronization, cache flush, etc.

Austin, Texas

• GPU Competitive Analysis team at the Samsung Austin Research Center (SARC)
• Wrote a suite of tests for architectural exploration of mobile GPU memory system
• Discovered cache details and the hardware behind different memory spaces (buffers, textures, etc.)
• Contributed to an automated, multi-architecture competitive analysis program
• Analyzed and presented my results on several different GPUs

Austin, Texas Area

• Designed a RISC-V processor with a focus on extremely low power consumption
• Created the entire project development environment, including scripts for simulation, power analysis, C compilation and linking, and basic verification
• Designed custom hardware libraries to implement power saving techniques
• Tested with realistic programs and achieved core power 30% lower than ARM M0 at equal clock speed

Austin, Texas Area

• Worked on a R&D hardware-software co-design project for database acceleration
• Wrote python scripts to automate power analysis and display results of daily changes by generating web updates with charts and graphs
• utilized data from various EDA tools to monitor spikes and bottlenecks in power usage and analyze the effect of architecture changes

Austin, Texas Area

• Instructed Lego Robotics classes and summer camps for 10-20 students
• Guided students in problem solving and computer science fundamentals
• Managed equipment, planned curriculum, coordinated venues
• Developed strong project management and organizational skills

Master Of Science In Engineering, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Science In Engineering, Electrical And Computer Engineering

International Baccalaureate