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TL for the PaLM project which is the largest language model to dateT5 - Built the text-to-text framework and model which has set the state-of-the-art in several NLP tasks

DeepBench - Built a deep learning benchmark to measure the performance of neural network operations on different hardwareSparse Recurrent Neural Networks - Built a technique to introduce sparsity in RNNs for efficient inferenceDeep Learning Framework - Built Baidu's internal deep learning framework which was used in projects like DeepSpeech and DeepVoice.

Next gen Tegra SoC:- Technical Lead for SoC verification of Direct Memory Access (DMA) engine - Developed C++ tests to verify connectivity of all units across the Network Fabric and Direct Memory Access (DMA) engine across the SoC- Designed and implemented C++ based APIs to program DMA engine and fetch current status and statistics. - Developed Python based test plans to identify and create various use-cases for Network Fabric and DMA engineTegra X1:- Developed C++ tests to verify functionality and connectivity of Memory controller at SoC level.- Defined SoC testplan by identifying scenarios and use-cases for Memory Controller.- Implemented a new python based test plan to create scenarios for Memory controller.

- Led a team of 3 verification engineers on the Load Store Data (LSD) memory unit- Served as a trusted advisor to the design and architecture leadsTechnical contributions:- Defined test plan to ensure verification completeness- Developed object oriented models and checkers to ensure functionality and performance of the LSD memory unit- Developed software to simulate hardware blocks that interact with the LSD unit, to generate inputs for testingAnalytical contributions:- Analyzed functional/code coverage data to determine gaps and false positives. This uncovered bugs in the models and helped prioritize important test scenarios- Tracked various metrics like code & functional coverage hit, design and verification bug rates, regression failures to measure progress over time

- Developed C++ based models to ensure functionality of one of the most important memory units of the CPU- Responsibilities included writing functional coverage, directed tests, checkers for performance counters & formal verification