I am a Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, advised by Prof. Umit Ogras. My research focuses on thermal modeling and management of 2.5D-3D architectures, thermal-aware design, domain-specific SoCs, and specialized hardware accelerators, leveraging machine learning to optimize system performance.

Previously, I worked at Samsung Electronics, where I contributed to 3D IC test chips as part of the system architecture and RTL design engineering team. I completed my undergraduate studies at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur, where I collaborated with Dr. Neeraj Goel, Dr. Dip Sankar Banerjee, and Prof. Muhammad Shafique on various projects.

In case you want to know more about my research or want to collaborate with me, please feel free to send me an email at ahkanani@wisc.edu.

CV

Updates:

[Aug-2025]: Our paper “MFIT: Multi-Fidelity Thermal Modeling” has been accepted at the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES).

[July-2025]: Gave an invited talk at the Dutt research group on “MFIT: Multi-Fidelity Thermal Modeling”.

[Jun-2025]: Two papers have been accepted at ESWEEK 2025: “THERMOS: Thermally-Aware Multi-Objective Scheduling of AI Workloads on Heterogeneous Multi-Chiplet PIM Architectures” and “eMamba: Efficient Acceleration Framework for Mamba Models in Edge Computing”.

[May-2024]: Started my summer internship at Ayar Labs, working on AI/ML network topology and performance analysis.

[Feb-2024]: Presented a poster on “MFIT: Multi-Fidelity Thermal Modeling” at the Wisconsin CHIPS Meeting.

[Oct-2024]: Completed my Research Readiness/Qual. Exam.

[Oct-2024]: Gave a talk on “Runtime Monitoring of ML-based Scheduling Algorithms Toward Robust Domain-Specific SoCs” at the Computer Engineering Department Seminar Series.

[Jun-2024]: I have been selected as a DAC Young Fellow to attend the 61st Design Automation Conference (DAC) in San Francisco, CA.

[May-2024]: Paper on “Runtime Monitoring of ML-based Scheduling Algorithms Toward Robust Domain-Specific SoCs” has been accepted at ESWEEK 2024.

[Mar-2024]: Paper on “Thermal Modeling and Management Challenges in Heterogenous Integration: 2.5 D Chiplet Platforms and Beyond” has been invited for a special session at VTS 2024.

[Nov-2023]: Our paper “Ellora: Exploring Low-Power OFDM-based Radar Processors using Approximate Computing” has been accepted at LASCAS 2024.

[Aug-2023]: I started my Ph.D. studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

[Apr-2023]: I was awarded the Employee of the Month at Samsung Electronics.

[Jul-2022]: Started working at Samsung Electronics as a System Architecture and RTL Design Engineer.

[Nov-2021]: Our paper “Approximating Communication Systems: Reality or Fantasy?” has been accepted at HiPC SRS 2021 for a poster presentation.

[Aug-2021]: Our paper “LightFPGA: A Lightweight Approximate FPGA for Energy-Efficient Approximate Computing” has been accepted at VDAT 2021.

[Jul-2021]: Started working at Imagination Technologies as a Hardware Engineer.

[Jul-2021]: Our paper “ApproxBioWear: An Approximate Computing Framework for Energy-Efficient Wearable Biomedical Devices” has been accepted at EMBC 2021.

[Jul-2020]: Our paper “ReARM: A Reconfigurable Approximate Reconfigurable Multiplier for Energy-Efficient Approximate Computing” has been accepted at VDAT 2020.

[May-2020]: Our paper “ACA-CSU: An Approximate Carry-Aware Compressor Selection Unit for Energy-Efficient Approximate Multipliers” has been accepted at ISVLSI 2020.

[May-2020]: Started my Summer Internship at TU Wien, working with Prof. Muhammad Shafique.

[May-2020]: Started my Summer Internship at TCS Research.

[Dec-2019]: Won a bronze medal at the Inter IIT Tech Meet 2019, held at IIT Roorkee.

[May-2019]: Our team reached the semifinals of the IICDC 2019 competition, organized by Texas Instruments and DST, India.

[May-2019]: Started my Summer Internship at IIT Ropar, working with Dr. Neeraj Goel, My research journey started here.

[Aug-2017]: Started my undergraduate studies at IIT Jodhpur.