Prakash Raghavendra
Senior Fellow at AMD
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolPrakash Raghavendra is a senior research-oriented engineer with 12+ years driving performance engineering and deep neural network optimization for accelerators such as GPGPUs and FPGAs, currently serving as Senior Fellow at AMD. His career spans OS kernels, drivers, compilers, JVMs, profilers and high-performance computing across industry leaders including AMD, HPE, Adobe and HP, plus an academic stint as an associate professor at NITK. He blends hands-on compiler and runtime expertise with application-level performance tuning for server and HPC products, having led OpenCL/HSA compiler work and application performance engineering for AMD APUs and servers. A passionate educator and independent researcher, he holds advanced degrees from IISc and IIT Madras and scored top ranks in his undergraduate class, reflecting sustained academic rigor. Less obvious is his rare combination of kernel-level systems experience with deep learning accelerator optimization, enabling end-to-end performance wins from silicon to models.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Computer Science, Secured VII Rank for the University (1991), BE, Computer Science, Secured VII Rank for the University (1991) at University of MysoreResearch Doctorate, Computer Science, Research Doctorate, Computer Science at Indian Institute of ScienceMaster of Technology (MTech), Computer Science, A, Master of Technology (MTech), Computer Science, A at IIT Madras
hindi and kannada
Github Skills (28)
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
data-science9
ml9
deep-neural-networks9
neural-network9
scalable9
extensible9
bazel-rules8
bazel8
build-system8
compile6
preprocessor5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
HSAFoundation/HSAIL-HLC-Stable
May 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:12 commits in 3 months
srp1970/https---github.com-HSAFoundation-builtins
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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