I am a 4th-year PhD candidate in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California San Diego, advised by Prof. Yatish Turakhia.
My research stands at the unique intersection of computer architecture, hardware/software co-design, and computational genomics, with the broader goal of making large-scale genomic analysis fast, scalable, and accessible. I build tools that spans from FPGA-based accelerators for dynamic programming-based sequence alignment to a fully automated, GPU/CPU-parallelized workflow for evolutionary tree inference. These tools are open-sourced and being used by research groups worldwide, with publications at leading venues (PNAS, HPCA).
I collaborate with the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP) consortium led by Genomics Institute at University of California Santa Cruz, researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, and the AMD Omics Group on accelerating bioinformatics workloads at scale.
Beyond research, I serve the community as a member of the Artifact Evaluation Committee for ISCA 2025 and ISCA 2024, as a reviewer for Bioinformatics, RECOMB 2026 and MBE, and as co-organizer of the BioSys Workshop at ASPLOS 2024.
I received my M.S. in Computer Engineering from UC San Diego and my B.Tech. from IIEST Shibpur, India. Before my PhD, I spent 3+ years as a Digital Design Engineer at Analog Devices, gaining ASIC design and chip tape-out experience. During my PhD, I interned at AMD Research. I was also a DAAD WISE Scholar at the University of Bremen, Germany.
