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Researcher

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) - RoMoL/CAOS/SONAR

Conducting research in computer architecture, arithmetic, and HPC. Exploring co-designed hardware/software acceleration of posit arithmetic, developing Kulisch/Quire accumulators, and designing Systolic Array architecture for HPC workloads.

• Thesis: Floating-Point Arithmetic Paradigms for High-Performance Computing: Software Algorithms and Hardware Designs.
• Co-designed hardware/software acceleration of posit arithmetic.
• Developed Kulisch/Quire accumulators for any floating-point representation.
• Designed Systolic Array architecture for HPC workloads.
• Explored very slow but very little floating-point division designs for SIMD/Vector paradigms.

Hardware Engineer

b<>com

Engaged in R&D focused on FPGA acceleration in the cloud. Successfully integrated an IP for real-time SDR to HDR video conversion, developed the IP integration using HDLs, and tweaked PCI-e drivers to maximize bandwidth.

• Deployed a custom IP core for real-time SDR to HDR video conversion on cloud-based FPGAs.
• Optimized PCI-e drivers, achieving sustained data transfer rates of up to 15.8 GB/s, maximizing hardware utilization and performance.
• Evaluated nascent FPGA cloud platforms such as Amazon AWS f1 with a focus on virtualization and partial reconfiguration.
• Integrated with OpenCL with pipelining of nvme writing/reading, FPGA writing/reading with multithreaded FIFOs.

Back End Developer

WaryMe

Developed the entire back end of a people security application. Ensured secure data transmission and deployed the application on AWS.

• Developed backend services and APIs.
• Deployed and managed the application on AWS.

Back End Developer

ASKIA

During this summer internship, I developed an automated CLI tool for publishing surveys on popular platforms.

• Designed a REST API in Node.js to handle event-driven, asynchronous processes efficiently.
• Implemented Test-Driven Development (TDD) using frameworks like Jasmine, ensuring flow verification in an environment-agnostic manner with a focus on mock and stub methodologies.
• Enhanced security by deploying HTTPS with Let's Encrypt for secure data transmission.

Electronics Technician

Radio Electronique Rennaise (R.E.R)

Responsible for repairing various electronic devices, with an emphasis on audio equipment.

• Repaired various electronic devices, focusing on audio equipmenters.
• Soldered and reverse engineered amplifier circuits.

PhD

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)

Computer Architecture

Engineer diploma and Master's degree

Université de Rennes

Computer Science

Classe Préparatoire

Université de Rennes

Mathematics and Computer Sciences

LLMMMM: Large Language Models Matrix-Matrix Multiplications Characterization on Open Silicon

2024 11th BSCSymposium

Characterization of matrix-matrix multiplications for large language models using open silicon platforms.

The Grafted Superset Approach: Bridging Python to Silicon with Asynchronous Compilation and Beyond

2024 4th Workshop on Open-Source Design Automation (OSDA), hosted at DATE

The Grafted Superset Approach aims to bridge Python programming with silicon-level execution through asynchronous compilation.

An Open-Source Framework for Efficient Numerically-Tailored Computations

2023 33rd International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)

An open-source framework aimed at enhancing the efficiency of numerically-tailored computations.

Open-Source GEMM Hardware Kernels Generator: Toward Numerically-Tailored Computations

2023 10th BSCSymposium

A generator for open-source GEMM hardware kernels aimed at enabling numerically-tailored computations.

A Generator of Numerically-Tailored and High-Throughput Accelerators for Batched GEMMs

2022 IEEE 30th Annual International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM)

A generator for creating numerically-tailored and high-throughput accelerators specifically designed for batched GEMMs.

Accelerating DL inference with (Open)CAPI and posit numbers

OpenPOWER summit 2019, Lyon, France: Linux Foundation

Methods to accelerate deep learning inference using (Open)CAPI and posit numbers.

MPW 5

Taped out a Systolic Array for Matrix Multiplication with Posit numbers and Quires accumulators.

• Posit Numbers
• Quires Accumulators

MPW 1

My first taped-out chip on the first-ever open shared Multi-Project Wafer in collaboration with Google, SkyWater, and Efabless.

• Open Source Silicon

SUF

Developed a Python-to-ASIC compiler with a focus on arithmetic, including novel placement visualization.

• Python-to-ASIC Compiler
• Placement Visualization

OSFNTC

Developed an Open-Source Framework for Efficient Numerically-Tailored Computation, systematically improving energy efficiency and accuracy.

• Numerically-Tailored Computation
• Energy Efficiency

POF

Designed the Posit Operators Framework, a comprehensive SW/HW co-designed library for arithmetic computations using the Posit numerical format on FPGAs.

• Posit Numerical Format
• FPGA

VH2V

Designed a VHDL-to-Verilog translation tool tailored to convert FloPoCo outputs to OpenLane/OpenROAD inputs.

• VHDL-to-Verilog Translation

Synthesizers

Crafted analog and digital synthesizers for modular synthesis and Eurorack systems.

• PCB Manufacturing
• Digital Design