Hi there! My name is Krishna Teja Chitty-Venkata. I am a passionate and enthusiastic researcher, working primarily at the intersection of Systems and Deep Learning. I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at Argonne National Laboratory (US Department of Energy, Office of Science). I obtained my PhD at Iowa State University, Ames, IA, under the supervision of Dr. Arun Somani. My dissertation title is "Hardware-Aware Design, Search, and Optimization of Deep Neural Networks."
Broadly, I am interested in optimizing Deep Learning models on Hardware accelerators.
- Large Language and Multimodal Model Optimization
- Efficient Finetuning and Inference methods
- Hardware-aware Neural Architecture Search
- Pruning, Quantization, KV Cache eviction
- High Performance Computing for AI
- Performance Benchmarking
- AI for science applications
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Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- August 2017 - July 2023
- Dissertation Title: Hardware-aware Design, Search and Optimization of Deep Neural Networks
- PhD Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Arun Somani
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University College of Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India
- Bachelor of Engineering
- Electronics and Communication Engineering
- 2013 - 2017