Ashwin Rohit Alagiri Rajan

Ashwin Rohit Alagiri Rajan

University of California, San Diego

About Me

I am a Master's student in Computer Engineering at UC San Diego, advised by Prof. Hadi Esmaeilzadeh. My research focuses on computer architecture, with projects in designing custom accelerators for robotics and secure LLM inference, and repurposing hardware for sustainable computing.

Research Interests

I'm interested in Computer Architecture, Robotics, and LLM accelerators.

Experience

ACT Lab, UCSD

Designed and simulated custom hardware accelerators for robotics and secure LLM inference workloads, gaining experience in full-stack system design and performance analysis.

Kastner Research Group, UCSD

Developed course material for parallel programming course. Worked as TA for CSE 160, Prof. Ryan's parallel programming course. Contributed to research on sustainable computing, published at IGSC-'24, gaining experience in benchmarking and performance analysis.

Qualcomm Institute, UCSD

Developed systems for computing HRTF models based on 3D scans of human head models. Tested in AR/VR setup along with real-time audio ray tracing setup.

Publications

"Reducing the Carbon Footprint of EdTech with Repurposed Devices"

J. Switzer, S. Katel, J. C. Lee, A. R. A. Rajan, R. Kastner, P. Pannuto. IEEE 15th International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC), 2024

[Paper]

Projects

Autonomous UAV

Developed an autonomous UAV using PX4 and Jetson nano, implementing computer vision algorithms for obstacle avoidance and SLAM. [Github]

Relativity Simulator

A C++ based renderer for visualizing special relativity effects using path tracing. [Demo]