Aishwarya Lekshmi Chithra

•Digital System Fundamentals (ECE 352) -Lab based course to design an Electric skateboard using System Verilog. •Introduction to Computer Engineering (ECE 252)

• Implemented high throughput FIPS 197 compliant AES encryption IP, supporting XTS, ECB and CFB modes in Verilog, targeted for use in high performance FPGA acceleration cards in Data Center applications. • Analyzed and identified bottlenecks in AES hardware implementation by profiling and improved the performance by 50%. • Validated RFC 1951 compliant GZIP, ZLIB Compression IP in Verilog using standard benchmark datasets (Silesia, Canterbury and Calgary) for Data Center applications. Optimized the validation system and reduced the resource consumption by 50%.

• Enhanced the performance of applications by offloading the compute intensive operations to FPGA using the Xilinx SDAccel tool and validated using Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 F1 FPGA platform. • Verified and validated SHA-3 Secure Hashing IP Core compliant with NIST FIPS-202. Identified bugs, which facilitated a successful release of the IP. • Developed test libraries and ran test applications for end-to-end system integration and validation of SmartSSD, a Computational Storage Device in U.2 form factor co-developed by Xilinx and Samsung. Automated the validation flow, which helped identify design bugs early in the production cycle.

• Validated the video processing software application for configuring audio/video capture data flow of the Thermal Imaging Camera, Foxhound, on DM365 DaVinci Digital Media Processor. • Offloaded the CPU-intensive task of displaying the On-Screen Display (OSD) components of the Thermal Imaging Camera to hardware using framebuffers to reduce the CPU usage by 60%.

• Worked in the post production department. • Helped in making a social awareness documentary for the government of Kerala.

Pursuing my Masters in ECE with an interest in Computer Architecture and also exploring Systems and Machine Learning. I am also a part of the WISEST Research group. Courses taken- • CS 552: Intro. to Computer Architecture (Instructor: Prof. Karu Sankaralingam) • CS 760: Machine Learning (Instructor: Prof. Yingyu Liang) • ECE 699 : Graduate Research Course (Instructor: Prof. Younghyun Kim) • ECE 752 : Advanced Computer Architecture (Instructor: Prof. Matt Sinclair) • ECE 751 : Embedded Computing Systems (Instructor: Prof. Younghyun Kim)