Sairam Sri Vatsavai

Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA

Title: Cross-Layer Design of Highly Scalable and Energy-Efficient AI Accelerator Systems Using Photonic Integrated Circuits

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Biography

Sairam Sri Vatsavai is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he is part of the Systems, Architectures, and Emerging Technologies group. His research focuses on leveraging AI to develop performance modeling and simulation frameworks for hardware accelerators in High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems. Sairam earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kentucky, USA, in 2024. His PhD thesis focused on the co-design of photonic integrated circuits (PIC)-based AI accelerator systems, addressing challenges in scalability, energy efficiency, and reconfigurability. He completed his bachelor's degree at the Jawaharlal Institute of Technology, India. His research interests span a broad spectrum of advanced computing technologies, including photonic computing, performance modeling and simulation, emerging technology-based hardware accelerators, in-memory computing, in-materio computing, and computer architecture. He is also interested in applying AI/ML to modeling, system design and optimization of next-generation HPC systems. In addition to his research, Sairam have conducted labs and delivered lectures in Embedded Systems Lab, Computer Architecture, and Introduction to VLSI courses for sophomore and junior undergraduate students in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

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