News
2025VeriGen received the Best Paper Award from ACM TODAES
2025Serving on Program Committee for AAAI 2025, AI for Social Impact Track
2024Serving on Program Committee for WiML 2024, EMNLP 2024 (MRL Workshop)
2024Our paper VeriGen accepted in ACM TODAES
2023Two papers on bug fixing and assertion generation using LLMs accepted in IEEE TIFS
2023Nominated for Best Paper Award — Benchmarking LLMs for Verilog RTL generation, DATE 2023
2023Invited Reviewer for WiCV at ICCV 2023, AAAI 2023
2022Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the NSF National AI Institute for Edge Computing (Athena)
Selected Talks
- GHCI 2025 — Grace Hopper Celebration India, 2025
- GHCI 2024 — Innovations and Challenges of AI in Cyber-Physical Systems, Emerging Technologies Track, 2024
- IBM-IISc AI Day — Data Processing Pipeline/Toolkits from IBM for Gen AI Models Development, Bangalore 2024
- IIIT Hyderabad — Large Language Models for Hardware Design Automation, September 2024
- PALS Industry-Assisted Lecture Series — Building Successful LLM Applications: Power of High-Quality Data, August 2024
- MSRIT Invited Talk — Large Language Models for Code Generation, Reasoning and Preference Alignment, 2024
- CDS@IISc, IIT Kanpur, IISER Pune, IIIT Delhi, IIT Mandi — Secure, Interpretable, and Scalable ML for Cyber-Physical Systems, Feb–Sep 2024
- Intel, AI and Security CoP — Automating Verilog RTL Code Generation with LLMs, New York 2023
- MLCAD 2023 — Tutorial: Intersection of HW, Security & Large Language Models, Snowbird, Utah
- CEDAR, INRIA & Ecole Polytechnique — Security and Interpretability in Automotive Systems, January 2022
- Arizona State University — Security and Interpretability in Automotive Systems, October 2021
- Duke University, CPS Lab — Security and Interpretability in Automotive Systems, November 2021
In the Media
- AI creates a specialized chip design language, earning top marks — Tech Xplore, 2025
- NYU Tandon Engineers Create First AI Model for Specialized Chip Design Language, Earning Top Marks — NYU Tandon School of Engineering, 2025
Service
- Program Committee, AAAI 2023, 2024, 2025
- Invited Reviewer, NeurIPS 2023, 2024, 2025
- Invited Reviewer, EMNLP 2023, 2024, 2025
- Invited Reviewer, ACM TODAES 2024, 2025
- Invited Reviewer, WiCV at ICCV 2023
- Member, IEEE 2020–Present