Akanksha Baranwal is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years’ experience specializing in high-performance computing, AI/ML systems, and hardware-aware optimization. Currently at AMD, she maps and tunes AI inference benchmarks on NPUs and prototypes architectural features to improve array data movement and performance-per-watt. Her background includes GPU architecture and full-chip performance analysis at NVIDIA and a Master’s from ETH Zürich where she developed platform-portable optimizations for GPU convolutional networks. She combines hands-on systems engineering with analytical modeling to influence product specifications and drive measurable efficiency gains. Based in Cambridge, she brings a rare blend of chip-level insight and software performance tuning that speeds ML workloads across diverse hardware.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at ETH Zürich
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Honours, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Honours, Electronics and Communications Engineering at International Institute of Information Technology
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Akanksha Baranwal - Senior Software Engineer at AMD