I am always happy to mentor juniors on any aspects of undergraduate programs or research – be it related to courses, specializations, undergraduate research, research internship programs, or even application procedures for these. I’d also be happy to review application packages for research internship programs and graduate school applications. If you feel our backgrounds align and I might be of help to you, feel free to shoot me an email at shashanknag@utexas.edu. If you are from IIT Madras, check out the EE Research Club that a few of us initiated!

Undergraduate Research Mentoring

• Melanie Saenzpardo, Junhan Shen & Richard Huang for applied research on WNNs (ongoing).
• Dhananjay Rao (BITS Pilani) for his Bachelor’s thesis on “Hardware Accelerators for MLP Mixers” (Fall ‘24 - Spring ‘25). Published findings at CF ‘26.
• Logan Liberty, Rathna Sivakumar & Xun Zhou for research on hardware for WNNs (Spring ‘24 - Spring ‘25). Published findings at MLArchSys ‘24.
• Capstone Design team on “Tiny Language Translator”, building a tiny language model for text translation (Fall ‘24 - Spring ‘25).

I was a Teaching Assistant for the ECE Capstone Design class offered by Prof. Leonard (Frank) Register in the Fall’23 - Spring ‘24 iteration. My responsibilities included mentoring student groups, conducting weekly progress reviews, and evaluating students.

Check out the Capstone Design Showcase event details here

I was a Teaching Assistant for the EE2703 Applied Programming Lab course offered by Prof. Nitin Chandrachoodan in Spring’23.

Responsibilities

• Lab checkouts and evaluations for a group of 12 students
• Hold office hours, and assist students with labs

Resources

• Course Moodle Page : https://coursesnew.iitm.ac.in
• Remote Access to Python Notebooks on Lab Machine : https://jup.dev.iitm.ac.in

I was a Teaching Assistant for the EE2003 Computer Organization course offered by Prof. Nitin Chandrachoodan in Fall’22. My responsibilities included conducting weekly lab sessions, and evaluating students. I also held periodic discussion and feedback sessions with my assigned group of students.

Responsibilites

• Conduct weekly lab sessions, which include demonstrations of assignments on FPGA boards.
• Hardware evaluations of weekly assignments.
• Answer script evaluation for quizzes.

Resources

The following resources can be accessed using the Institute intranet only.

• Course Moodle Page : https://ee5332.dev.iitm.ac.in
• Course Gitea Page : https://git.ee2003.dev.iitm.ac.in
• Remote Access to Lab Machine : https://ee2003.dev.iitm.ac.in
• Remote FPGA Access : https://pynq6.dev.iitm.ac.in