Nandeeka Nayak
Graduate Student Researcher
United States
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Top SchoolNandeeka Nayak is a PhD candidate and graduate student researcher at UC Berkeley with nine years of experience designing compiler and accelerator technologies for tensor algebra and related domains. Her work blends theoretical methods for efficient kernel design with practical implementations, producing compilers, DSLs, and accelerator designs that have driven multi-× speedups and energy reductions (e.g., a 6.7× speedup for attention accelerators) and earned industry funding and awards. She has led large, collaborative open-source efforts—mentoring 27 researchers across 15 institutions to build an accelerator “zoo” and organizing workshops at MICRO—while applying formal verification (Z3) and performance modeling tools (Timeloop, Accelergy) to validate results. Prior industry internships at NVIDIA and Qumulo informed hardware-aware heuristics and systems work, and she has translated novel insights (like recasting RTL simulation as tensor algebra) into competitive tooling. Known for bridging precise DSL-driven descriptions with real-world accelerator evaluation, she combines deep systems intuition with a knack for communicating complex designs to both academia and industry.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Harvey Mudd CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Henry M Gunn High School
English, Spanish, Korean
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Github Skills (50)
factor10
aws-services9
git-repo9
stack9
parser9
parse9
einsum8
lark8
tree8
programming-language8
cyk7
parsing7
grammar7
earley7
python7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
FPSG-UIUC/fibertree
Jun 2021 - Nov 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 232 pushes, 62 branches in 3 years 5 months
emulatoremulation
FPSG-UIUC/micro24-fusemax-artifact
Aug 2024 - Sep 2025
MICRO 2024 Evaluation Artifact for FuseMax
Contributions:3 releases, 4 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year
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