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title: "Srikanth Sridharan - Associate Technical Director in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Srikanth Sridharan, Associate Technical Director | Marie Curie Fellow | HW, SW & System Architecture | Extreme HPC & Hard Real-Time Solutions | R&D Proof-of-Concepts | Ex - (CERN, Applied Materials, Xilinx/AMD, Samsung Semiconductor) based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes gemini."
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# Srikanth Sridharan on Tal

## Headline

Associate Technical Director \| Marie Curie Fellow \| HW, SW & System Architecture \| Extreme HPC & Hard Real\-Time Solutions \| R&D Proof\-of\-Concepts \| Ex \- \(CERN, Applied Materials, Xilinx/AMD, Samsung Semiconductor\)

## About

With over 17 years of cross\-functional experience in HW, SW, FPGA and System Architecture, I specialize in solving Extreme HPC, DAQ, and hard realtime challenges\. I have a strong track record in leading R&D and Proof of Concept initiatives anticipating technological needs 5\-6 years ahead\. My experience includes reporting to CXOs, collaborating with subject matter experts, and academic and industry partners to develop innovative, future\-ready solutions

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

gemini

## Work experience

Associate Technical Director at Samsung Semiconductor India, Mar 2023 \- May 2026 · 3 yrs 3 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Associate Technical Director @ Samsung Semiconductor India Research

AECG MTS IC Design Engineer at AMD, Feb 2022 \- Mar 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

DCG Staff Design Engineer at Xilinx, Jan 2020 \- Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Worked on Product Planning and Competitive Analysis for Xilinx Data Center Group Benchmarked Xilinx and Competitors solutions for Computational Storage and AI/ML workloads Created containerized apps for Alveo FPGA cards for ease of deployment and use

Senior Technical Lead \(HPC Architect\) at Applied Materials India, Nov 2018 \- Nov 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bangalore, As Primary Member of CTO\-HPC group, worked on Custom HPC System Architecture and Algorithm development for Digital manufacturing \- Tasked with solving an N\+2 problem with Hard real\-time \(sub 5us\) and HPC \(\~500X speedup over existing accelerated solution\) requirements \- Successfully developed an innovative and radically new way of solving the problem with theoretically proven linear scaling \- Worked towards a Proof of Concept co\-developed Hardware, Software solution based on Virtex UltraSCALE\+ FPGA containing HBM2 memory and IBM Power 9 processors respectively linked via OpenCAPI interconnect \- Wrote a detailed whitepaper on realizing the said system with in depth analysis of compute, memory and bandwidth tradeoffs for different scenarios of requirements, design choices and technology road maps \- Initiated and maintained engagements with IBM and OpenCAPI consortium for above purpose

Senior Staff Engineer \(Algorithm Developer\) at Applied Materials, Aug 2017 \- Oct 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bangalore

## Education

Doctor of Philosophy \(PhD\) \- All but Dissertation, Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs, Maynooth University

Master of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida

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