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Bharghava Rajaram

Associate Professor
bharghava.rajaram@mahindrauniversity.edu.in

Dr. Bharghava Rajaram is an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at École Centrale School of Engineering, Mahindra University. Dr. Bharghava did his Ph.D. in Computing Systems Architecture from University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. Prior to joining MU, he was an Assistant Professor (Sr.) at VIT University, Chennai. Bharghava’s research interests include Internet of Things, Computer Architecture and Embedded System Design (including Automotive Embedded Systems).

During his tenure at Mahindra University, Bharghava has been involved in DST funded and Consultancy projects. He has mentored two teams to victory at the Smart India Hackathon (2019 and 2020). He also co-founded COVINDIA, India’s first district-wise COVID tracker during the period March-June 2020. Bharghava has also handled guest lectures and industrial courses for Mahindra Institute of Quality, Mahindra Technical Academy, Daimler etc.

  • October 2010 – July 2015 – Ph.D. in Computing Systems Architecture University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom Thesis: “Efficient, Scalable, and Fair Read-Modify-Writes”
  • August 2007 – July 2010 – M.S. (by Research) in VLSI and Embedded Systems International Institute of Information Technology – Hyderabad, India Thesis: “Design of Low Power Applications using Inexact Logic Circuits”
  • August 2003 – May 2007- B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering SSN College of Engineering (affiliated to Anna University), India FYP: “Study of Reversible Logic Circuits for Zero power System Design”

 

August 2017 – Present: currently Associate Professor (EE), Mahindra University

  • Hackathon mentor for Smart India Hackathon. Two 1stplace finishes.
  • Finance Chair for International Symposium on Smart Electronic Systems (iSES 2018)
  • Part of Board of Studies for the School of Electronics Engineering, and in the syllabus committee for B.Tech. (EEE and ECE) and M.Tech. (Autonomous Electric Vehicles) courses.
  • Rapporteur of the Department of Telecom’s Working group on Smart Villages and Agriculture. Part of Core drafting committee for the Technical Report released by the group. https://tec.gov.in/pdf/M2M/IoT_ICT enablement in Smart Village & Agriculture.pdf
  • Primary Instructor for Industrial course on Automotive Electronics for Daimler (MBRTI)

June 2015 to July 2017: Assistant Professor (Sr.) at School of Electronics (VIT University, Chennai)

  • Embedded Systems Research Group Chair
  • In-charge of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) Lab.
  • Rapporteur of the Department of Telecom’s Working group on Smart Villages and Agriculture.
  • Part of Board of Studies for the School of Electronics Engineering, and in the syllabus committee for B.Tech. and M.Tech. courses.
  • Co-chair for the Intelligent Embedded Systems Symposia as part of the International Conference of NextGen Electronic Technologies: Silicon to Software.

October 2010 – October 2014 – Graduate Research Scholar, Institute of Computing Systems Architecture, University of Edinburgh

  • awarded the Intel EU PhD Fellowship in the year 2012-13.
  • Student Volunteer for ACM PLDI 2015 and ACM PACT 2014.
  • Teaching assistant for Computer Architecture (Spring 2012), Parallel Architectures (Fall 2013).

Feb to July 2010 – Intern at Xilinx Research Labs, Xilinx Inc., Hyderabad, India

  • Worked on High level Synthesis of Network Stacks (Ip router, MPLS Router) targeted at NetFPGA, and Xilinx EPP. Also aided in a preliminary communication model for accelerating applications on Xilinx EPP

Jun 2007 to May 2010 – Graduate Research Scholar, International Institute of Information Technology – Hyderabad, India

  • resource person for workshops organized by Cypress Semiconductors.
  • Server administrator for the Cell Bladeserver donated by IBM, and an UltraSPARC T2 server hosting Synopsys EDA tools donated by NVIDIA.
  • Teaching assistant for Microprocessor based System Design (Fall 2008), Multicore Architectures (Spring 2009), Computer Architecture (Fall 2009).

2022

Aditya Goturu, Sheila Mallavarapu, Sahishnu Meneni, Aaliya Ahmad, Bharghava Rajaram (2022) BGM4Life: A Platform for Bio-metrically driven Music Selection and Playlist Generation. HCI International 2022.

2020

Vishal Reddy Gade, Ashish Soni, Bhargava Rajaram, Deep Seth (2020) Semi-Autonomous Collaborative Mobile Platform with Pre-Diagnostics for Hospitals. HCI International 2020.

Udatha L., Pasupuleti V.D.K., Rajaram B. (2020) Structural Health Monitoring from Human-Induced Vibrations Using Accelerometer Sensors. In: Babu K., Rao H., Amarnath Y. (eds) Emerging Trends in Civil Engineering. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 61. Springer, Singapore.

2019

Abhinav Kolla, Aditya Verma, Dileep Kumar Pasupuletti, Prafull Kalaputapu, Bharghava Rajaram. DisCom: A Robust Post-Disaster Communication Infrastructure. Urban Safety of Mega Cities in Asia (USMCA) 2019, Hyderabad.

2018

Daka, Trishala & Udatha, Lokesh & Pasupuleti, Venkata & Kalapatapu, Prafulla & Rajaram, Bharghava. (2018). Ancient Sandbox Technique: An Experimental Study Using Piezoelectric Sensors: 7th International Conference, EuroMed 2018, Nicosia, Cyprus, October 29 – November 3, 2018.

Kamalhas T, Sakshi Singh, Akinepalli Varsha Rao, Bharghava Rajaram. Age and Gender Estimation using Random Forests for Social Robots. ICMLDS 2018.

Francis F., Vishnu P.L., Jha M., Rajaram B. (2018) IOT-Based Automated Aeroponics System. In: Thalmann D., Subhashini N., Mohanaprasad K., Murugan M. (eds) Intelligent Embedded Systems. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 492. Springer, Singapore.

2017

Vinayak Garg, Anish Mukherjee and Bharghava Rajaram, "Classifying human-robot interaction using handshake data," 2017 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Banff, AB, 2017, pp. 3153-3158, doi: 10.1109/SMC.2017.8123112.

2013

Bharghava Rajaram, Vijay Nagarajan, Susmit Sarkar, Marco Elver: Fast RMWs for TSO: semantics and implementation. PLDI 2013: 61-72.

2012

Bharghava Rajaram, Vijay Nagarajan, Andrew J. McPherson, Marcelo Cintra: Su-perCoP: a general, correct, and performance-ecient supervised memory system. Conf. Computing Frontiers 2012.

Changhui Lin, Vijay Nagarajan, Rajiv Gupta, Bharghava Rajaram: Ecient sequen-tial consistency via conict ordering. ASPLOS 2012: 273-286.

2010

Bharghava Rajaram, Abinesh Ramachandran, Suresh Purini, R. Govindarajulu: De-sign of Low Power Systems Using Inexact Logic Circuits. Journal of Low Power Electronics 6(3): 401-414. (2010)

Bharghava Rajaram, Abinesh R, Suresh Purini, Govindarajulu Regeti: Inexact De-cision Circuits: An Application to Hamming Weight Threshold Voting. VLSI Design 2010: 158- 163.

Abinesh R, Bharghava Rajaram, Suresh Purini, Govindarajulu Regeti: Transition Inversion Based Low Power Data Coding Scheme for Buered Data Transfer. VLSI Design 2010: 164-169.

2009

Abinesh Ramachandran, Bharghava Rajaram, Mandalika B. Srinivas: Transition In-version Based Low Power Data Coding Scheme for Synchronous Serial Communica-tion. ISVLSI 2009: 103-108.

Bharghava Rajaram, Jyothish Soman, K S Rajan: Applicability and Performance of Cell BE as a Mobile GIS High Performance Platform. Joint International Workshop of ISPRS on Geospatial Data Cyber Infrastructure and Real-time Services 2009.

Uma Rajaram, Raja Paul Perinbam, Bharghava Rajaram: EHW Architecture for Design of FIR Filters for Adaptive Noise Cancellation. International Journal of Com-puter Science and Network Security, Vol. 9 No. 1 pp. 41-48. (2009)

Consultancy Project:

Project: Implementation of ZDD formation and traversal using Frontier Based Search on FPGAs. Organization: Ground INC. (Japan) (Consultancy). Grant amount: USD 20,000. Role: Principal Investigator

DST Project:

Co-PI for DST sanctioned project “Development of IoT Devices for upgrading existing SCADA systems to Smart Grids
(Power Utilities)”

  • Sanctioned Amount: INR 21,31,734/-
  • Sanction Number: DST/ICPCS/CPS-Individual/2018/268(C)