Project Electrical Engineering

Ankur Sharma

University of California, Los Angeles Cell: 310-***-****

Electrical Engineering E-mail: ***********@****.***

Information

Eng IV, 53-109

University of California, Los Angeles (September 2011 - present )

Education

MS, Electrical Engineering, GPA 3.62/4.00

Courses: Design of VLSI Circuits and Systems, Advanced Computer Ar-

chitecture, VLSI Design Automation (Ranked 2 nd ), VLSI Circuit Modeling,

Convex Optimization, VLSI Signal Processing, Special Topics in Circuits and

Embedded Systems

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (2006-2010 )

B.Tech., Electrical Engineering, GPA 8.95/10

Courses: Matrix Computations, Laboratory and Computational Techniques,

Advanced Network Analysis

C/C++, MATLAB, TCL, Perl, Python

Programming:

Skills

Calibre, Encounter, RTL Compiler, SPICE, OpenAccess

EDA Tools:

SoftJin Technologies, Bangalore, India (Aug 2010 - Aug 2011 )

Employment

As member of an IP developement group, conceptualized and implemented

an optimized polygon partitioning algorithm in C++. Partitioner im-

proved runtime by as nuch as 2X and was integrated within the tool chain.

Awarded Star of the Quarter award for the contribution.

CRL India, Pune, India (2009 Summer Internship )

Designed POSIX threads based parallel matrix-vector multiplication kernel

in C++ to optimize performance on multi-core machine.

Projects Maze Router Course Project Spring 2012

Developed a grid based maze router for standard cell M1 routing in C++

while satisfying width and spacing contraints.

Router featuring pin-aware grid placement, multi-criteria net ordering,

multipin routing strategies and multiple novel ripup-reroute algorithms,

was ranked #1.

Sensitivity Analysis of SOI based FINFet (Course Project Winter 2012 )

Studied the sensitivity of delay and power consumption in FINFet logic

family to gate width, supply voltage etc. 45nm PTM models for SOI

devices were simulated in HSPICE.

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Extracted a linear power and delay model based on the observed sensitivity

values and employed it for tuning a simple SOI based FINFet circuit

Pattern Dependent Correlation in Process Variations Course Project

Fall 2011

Studied the spatial similarity between layout patterns using the Open Ac-

cess library interfaced with C++, such that it correlates with the similarity

in their observed variations.

Based on empirical results, proposed a metric to quantify the similarity.

Variation-Aware Dynamic Power Management Course Project Fall 2011

Conceptualized self-adaptive power management methodology based on

periodic value iteration to dynamically compute the optimal power man-

agement policies as the power characteristics of the system change.

Carried out a simulation-based study in MATLAB of the proposed method-

ology. Compared the power savings against a static power policy.

Papers Towards Understanding Software Application Behaviour in Presence

of Permanent Hardware Faults (DATE 2013 ) link

Submitted

As part of MS thesis, under the guidance of Prof. Puneet Gupta, analyzed the

impact of permanent faults on applications. Applications with larger num-

ber of instructions sharing an operand, are more susceptible to permanent

faults. Proposed a simple code transformation to optimize the worst-case

fault count.

Adaptive Hardware Sorting (Embedded Systems Letter ) link

Proposed a design for hardware sorting unit comprising of quick sort and in-

sertion sort that outperforms a stand-alone quick sort on data sets of varying

sizes and pre-sortedness.

Awards and

Star of the Quarter award at SoftJin for the quarter May-July 2011

Recognitions

Graduate Student Researcher at UCLA, Sep2011 - present

All India Rank 90 (top 0.1%) in Joint Entrance Examination 2006 - a nation

wide examination.

Amongst top 30 students across the nation selected for training for Interna-

tional Chemistry Olympiad 2006.

Extra

Co-founder of P2P Stude Club at IIT Bombay. Club was established in

Curricular

2009 with the aim to foster regulated and healthy lifestyle practises amongst

Activities

students (especially, freshmen) for high e ciency and productivity.

Represented hostel in Inter-hostel Table Tennis tournament.

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