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.

Shoot me an email at ahkanani@wisc.edu if you are interested in talking to me!

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Updates:

[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 CompE 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.