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 the Device to run on TVM CNNIP+DSP.

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. - Led a team of 3, assisting for a small stint of one month in Radar on-field data collection on TI's IWRL6432 with DCA1000 > For varied applications under study using mmWaveStudio. > Synthesize Radar signals to train ML & DL models. > Apply AI techniques to data collected from radar systems. - Supported a team of 5, collaborating on a background subtraction pipeline to detect stationary and moving objects in the indoor environment using Radar data.* ML Media & AI Analytics BU, AI Backend Developer (Aug '21 - Feb '23) 1 yr 7 mos - Developing a bridge for integrating Tensorflow & Pytorch kernels with Device kernels for the targeted AI accelerators. - Led the QA team of 6 engineers to stabilize the TF & Torch backends on the targeted device. - Provided software solutions for performance optimizations and backend stability.

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 Module (GGM) as part of the regression testing for one of the Software APIs on the targeted device for a developed AI Chip startup acquired by a leading Semiconductor Company.

Master Of Technology - Mtech

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