Saichand Akella Email & Phone Number

Chennai, TN, IN

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

- Currently, leading a team of 10, rewriting and optimizing the Vision, Object Detection, and LLM models to test them on the ASICs for one of the leading AI Chip Startups.- Worked closely with a team of 5, on a project to convert popular Vision and detection models into simplified, quantized, and device-compatible onnx models and port them successfully to.

India

* Frameworks & Tools Technology Unit, AI Backend Developer (Mar '23 - Oct '23) 8 mos - Led a team of 4, kickstarting the project smoothly, developing Vision and LLM models contributing to an open source library for DL inference on the custom AI accelerator. - Worked on rewriting models from hugging face, Timm, and ModelZoo libraries onto target devices..

Inida

- Worked with cuSparse Library to optimize the sparse Matrix Multiplication using varied Algorithmic approaches.- Develop software tools to enhance the performance and stability of the device backendTo support various Deep Learning Models across the applications (classification, detection, etc.,) for the targeted AI accelerator.- Develop Graph Generation.

Master Of Technology - Mtech

Master'S Degree

Bachelor'S Degree