PhD Students

Ph.D. awarded from the group (20) 

Dr. Narendra Singh Dhakad

Ph.D. Thesis Title: SRAM Based In-Memory Computing Architectures for AI Hardware

Internship/Award: 

Graduation: November 2024

Present Affiliation: Postdoctoral Researcher, Technical University of Munich, Germany 

Dr. Ravi Kumar

Ph.D. Thesis Title: Low Power CMOS Integrated Circuits for Phase Locked Loop Frequency Synthesizers

Internship: Ph.D. Research Intern at NXP Semiconductors

Graduation: July 2024

Past Affiliation: Staff Analog Designer at Huawei Singapore 

Dr. Gopal Raut

Ph.D. Thesis Title: Design Exploration and VLSI Implementation of Deep Neural Network Accelerator with Configurable Architecture 

Internship/Award: 

Graduation: September 2022

Present Affiliation: Knowledge Associate at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), Bangalore, India

Dr. Gunjan Rajpoot

Ph.D. Thesis Title: Hardware Implementation of an Efficient Deep Neural Network for Biomedical Applications

Internship: Ph.D. Research Intern at NXP Semiconductors from July 2019 to June 2020.

Graduation: December 2021

Dr. Pooja Bohara

Ph.D. Thesis Title: Performance Assessment of Scaled Charge Trap Flash Memory for Improved Reliability

Internship: Ph.D. Research Intern at NXP Semiconductors from July 2019  to June 2020.

Graduation: July 2021

Present Affiliation:  PDK Circuit Simulation QA Engineer at Intel Corporation, Bangalore, India.

Dr. Neha Gupta

Ph.D. Thesis Title: Design Techniques for Radiation Hardened, Reliable and Low Power Circuits   

Graduation: June 2021

Present Affiliation: Lead Design Engineer at Cadence, Pune.

Dr. Sajid Khan

Co-supervisor: Dr. Jai Gopal Pandey, CSIR-CEERI, Pilani, Rajasthan, India

Ph.D. Thesis Title: Low Power Secure Circuits and their Design Techniques for Internet of Things

Internship: Ph.D. Research Intern at INTEL, Bangalore from Sept 2019  to June 2020.

Graduation: June 2021

Present Affiliation: Verification Engineer at Cisco Systems India Bangalore, India.

Dr. Mahesh Kumawat

Ph.D. Thesis Title: On-Chip Circuit Design Techniques for High-Speed Serial Links

Graduation: May 2020

Present Affiliation: Assistant Professor at Bennett University, Greater Noida, India.

Dr. Swati Misra

Co-supervisor: Dr. M. Santhakumar, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Palakkad

Ph.D. Thesis Title: Investigations on Robust Motion Control Designs for Mobile Manipulators

Graduation: May 2020

Present Affiliation: Assistant Professor at Medicaps University, Indore, India.

Dr. Vishal Sharma

Ph.D. Thesis Title: High Stable, Low-Power and Error Tolerant SRAM Memory Design for Wireless Sensor Nodes and FPGA 

Graduation: July 2019

Present Affiliation: SoC Design Engineer at Intel Corporation, Bangalore, India. 

Past Affiliation: Post Doc Research Fellow at NTU Singapore.

Senior R&D Engineer, Synopsys Bangalore, India Pvt. Ltd.

Dr. Abhishek Upadhyay

Ph.D. Thesis Title: Compact Modeling of Graphene Field-Effect Transistors for RF Circuit Applications

Graduation: July 2019

Present Affiliation: Scientific Staff at Technische Universität Dresden

Dr. M. Gopal

Ph.D. Thesis Title: Performance Enhancement of CMOS Digital Circuits using Strain Engineered Asymmetric Dual-k Spacer FinFETs

Graduation: May 2019

Present Affiliation: Associate Professor at Sumathi Reddy Institute of Technology for Women, Telangana.

Dr. Ambika Prasad Shah

Ph.D. Thesis Title: Design Techniques for Bias Temperature Instability Aware and Soft-Error Resilient Nanoscale Circuits

Graduation: April 2019

Present Affiliation: Assistant Professor and Associate Dean Corporate Relations at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jammu, India.

Dr. Ankur Beohar  

Ph.D. Thesis Title: Performance Enhancement of 3D Cylindrical Gate-all-around Tunnel FET and Its Applications for Ultra Low Power Cross Coupled Voltage Doubler Circuit Design

Graduation: Jan 2019 

Present Affiliation: Assistant Professor at VIT Bhopal, India.

Dr. Pooran Singh

Ph.D. Thesis Title: Ultra low power, high-stability robust SRAM design for FPGA, image processing, and IoT applications

Graduation: Feb 2018

Present Affiliation: Assistant Professor at Mahindra University Hyderabad, India.

Past Affiliation: SoC Design Engineer, Intel Penang, Malaysia.    

Dr. Deepika Gupta  

Ph.D. Thesis Title:  Analysis of Charge Trap NAND Flash Memory for Improved Reliability     

Graduation: Sept 2017

Present Affiliation: Assistant Professor at IIIT-Naya Raipur, India.

Dr. Bhupendra Reniwal

Co-supervisor: Dr. Devesh Dwivedi, SRAM Development, System Design Group, IBM Bangalore, India (Now as an Associate Director, ASIC, GlobalFoundries, Bangalore, India)

Ph.D. Thesis Title: Variability-Aware Design of SRAM in Conventional & Non-Conventional MOS Technologies: A Sense Amplifier Prospective 

Award:  Recipient of Best Research Paper Award in "User Track" in VLSI Design Conference-2016.  

Graduation: May 2017 

Present Affiliation: Assistant Professor at IIT Jodhpur, India.

Past Affiliation: Assistant Professor at IIIT Kancheepuram, India.

Senior Product Development Engineer, UST Global, Bangalore.

      Mixed-Signal IP Solution Engineer, Intel Corporation Malaysiya.

      Assistant Professor, BITS Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus, India.

Dr. Vikas Vijayvargiya

Ph.D. Thesis Title: Investigation of Drain Extension Feature in a Double Date Silicon based Tunnel FET for Low Power SoC Applications 

Graduation: October 2015 

Present Affiliation: Assistant Professor at VIT Vellore, India.

Dr. Chandrabhan Kushwah

Co-supervisor: Dr. Devesh Dwivedi, SRAM Development, System Design Group, IBM Bangalore, India (Now as an Associate Director, ASIC, GlobalFoundries, Bangalore, India)

Ph.D. Thesis Title: Ultra Low Power SRAM Design in Nanoscale CMOS and Multigate FinFET Technologies

Internship/Award: 

Graduation: June 2015 

Present Affiliation: Postdoctoral Researcher Associate at the University of Bath, United Kingdom (UK)

Late Dr. Dheeraj Sharma

Ph.D. Thesis Title: Modeling and Analysis of Quadruple and Cylindrical Gate gate-all-around MOSFETs

Internship/Award: 

Graduation: March 2014  

Past Affiliation: Assistant Professor at National Institute of Technology Goa, India.

  Assistant Professor, IIITDM Jabalpur, India