Mentoring

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).