Saad Ahmed
Research Scientist II at Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolSaad Ahmed is a research scientist and embedded software engineer with nine years’ experience specializing in compilers, runtimes, and hardware–software co-design to deliver energy-efficient, high-performance applications on next-generation embedded platforms. His work at Georgia Tech includes novel cache architectures for energy-harvested RISC-V systems and compiler front-ends for microcontrollers that yielded dramatic gains in inference energy efficiency and DNN compression on memory-constrained devices. He combines low-level assembly tuning and ISA-aware debugging with algorithmic model pruning to squeeze maximal performance from constrained hardware, and his projects have attracted attention from ACM Tech News and Forbes. A postdoctoral fellow focused on performance optimization for embedded sensing systems, he is driven to translate research into practical health-wearable and environmental sensing applications. Notably, he has reduced non-volatile memory accesses by 86% with minimal metadata overhead and produced hand-crafted assembly patches that more than doubled completion speed in hot code paths.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Lahore University of Management SciencesPostdoctoral Fellow, Performance Optimization for Embedded Sensing Systems, Postdoctoral Fellow, Performance Optimization for Embedded Sensing Systems at Georgia Institute of TechnologyIntermediate, Computer Science, Intermediate, Computer Science at Government College University (GCU), LahoreBachelors of Science, Computer Science, Bachelors of Science, Computer Science at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
English, Urdu, German, PunjabiProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ch-saad-ahmed/saad-ahmed
Jan 2022 - Feb 2025
personal webpage
Contributions:27 PRs, 90 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
tinysystems/easeIO
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:43 pushes in 1 month
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