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Akhilesh Jaiswal

Dr. Akhilesh Jaiswal is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His wider research interests include device-circuit co-design using existing and alternate state variables for future computing systems. More specifically, Dr. Jaiswal's current research interests include enabling intelligence at extreme-edge using processing-in-pixel and processing-in-sensor technology, in-memory-computing, hardware-software co-design for efficient distributed computing, bio-inspired paradigms for sensing and compute including neuromorphic systems, electro-optic general-purpose computing among others.

Dr. Jaiswal has authored some of the initial pioneering works on Processing-in-Pixel and SRAM based in-memory computing. Prior to University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Jaiswal was with University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (USC-ISI) as a Research Assistant Professor and Scientist from 2019 to 2023. Before USC, Dr. Jaiswal served as a Senior Research Engineer for Technology Solutions Group at GLOBALFOUNDRIES. Dr. Jaiswal was an intern with GLOBALFOUNDRIES Differentiating Technology Lab, Malta, in the summer of 2017 and with ARM Devices-Circuits-System Research Group, Austin, in summer 2018. Dr. Jaiswal received his Ph.D. degree in Nano-electronics from Purdue University in May 2019 and his Masters degree from the University of Minnesota in May 2014.

He is recipient of ISI Exploratory Research Award in 2020, Keston Exploratory Research Award in 2021, IEEE Brain Community Best Paper Award in 2022, and Best Paper Nomination in VLSI-SoC 2022. He has authored several articles in leading peer-reviewed journals and conferences including Nature, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Physics Review Applied, Scientific Reports, Journal of Applied Physics, Frontiers in Neuroscince, IEEE-TVLSI, IEEE TED, IEEE TCAS, IEEE JETCAS, IEEE Mag. Letters etc. Dr. Jaiswal has 27 issued patents with USPTO and several pending patents.

Md Abdullah-Al Kaiser (Joined Fall 2021)

Md Abdullah-Al Kaiser is a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research interests span analog and mixed-signal circuit design, in-memory and neuromorphic computing, photonic computing, in-sensor computing, and device-circuit-algorithm codesign. He earned his M.S. from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2022 and his B.Sc. in EEE from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 2017.

At USC, he received the Jenny Wang Excellence in Teaching Award and the Charles Weber Teaching Award as a teaching assistant, and was a USC Annenberg Graduate Fellow (2019–2023). He was also named a DAC Young Fellow in 2024. His industry experience includes summer internships at Apple (2024) and Meta Reality Labs (2023). Kaiser has authored over 20 peer-reviewed publications in venues such as DAC, Frontiers, npj Unconventional Computing, ICASSP, GLSVLSI, among others. He also serves as a reviewer for IEEE TCAD, IEEE TVLSI, and IEEE TED.

Zihan Yin (Joined Fall 2021)

Zihan Yin received his Bachelors in Electronic Information Engineering from Shanghai Tech University (Shanghai) in 2021. He was working towards his PhD degree in University Southern California from 2021 and has recently transferred to UW Madison with his advisor Prof. Akhilesh Jaiswal to continue pursuing his Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering. His research interests include in-memory computing circuit design and emerging new memory design. He has published 2 journals for in-pixel computing concerning in-memory operations and movement detection. He has strong interest in hardware chip design and is currently working in projects concerning optical CAM design and further investigation into in-pixel computation circuit design.

Subhradip Chakraborty (Joined Fall 2024)

Subhradip Chakraborty is currently a Ph.D. and Master’s research student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He completed his undergraduate studies in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT), India. During his undergraduate years, he was a research assistant at both IIT Bombay and IIT Roorkee. His research interests span in-memory and in-pixel computing, photonic computing, and neuromorphic computing. He was also selected as a DAC Young Fellow in 2025.

Ankur Singh (Joined Fall 2024)

Ankur Singh is a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He received his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2024 from the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea, and his B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering in 2021 from the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Guwahati, India. At GIST, he was awarded the prestigious Korean Government Scholarship Program (KGSP) and served as a research assistant. His research interests include in-memory computing, ultra high-speed memory design, photonic computing, and brain-inspired computing.

Rouhan Noor (Joined Fall 2024)

Rouhan Noor is a Graduate Fellow and Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He received his M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Florida in 2024, and his B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 2020. Before joining UW–Madison, he gained 2.5 years of industry experience in the VLSI sector, working as a Design Engineer II at Neural Semiconductor Limited, Dhaka, in the Analog Circuit, Layout, and Automation department. His research interests include neuromorphic computing, in-memory computing, and hardware security assurance. In his free time, he enjoys brewing coffee, traveling, and reading.

Adebunmi Kayode Oluwaseyi (Joined Fall 2024)

Adebunmi Kayode Oluwaseyi is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He received his M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan, in 2024, supported by the Abay Kunanbayev Scholarship. He holds a B.Tech in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria. His research interests encompass analog and mixed-signal circuit design, in-memory computing with CMOS and emerging devices, and neuromorphic computing.

Kapish Singh (Joined Fall 2024)

Kapish Singh is currently a second year Master's research student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He completed his undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) in 2020. He has four years of professional experience as a Semiconductor Design Engineer in Technology Development Department at Micron Technology, focussing on characterizing future DRAM and NAND memory nodes and process flow validation. He has worked on tape-out of several advanced DRAM designs. His research interests include Analog and Mixed-Signal circuit design, in-memory computing and high speed memory designs.