Summary
Shashank Obla is a PhD student and Graduate Research Assistant in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, specializing in reconfigurable computing, computer architecture, and ASIC design. With a decade of experience that spans research internships at Intel and The University of Tokyo, teaching roles at CMU and IIT Bombay, and top academic performance (IIT Bombay degrees with 9.85/10 and a 3.96/4 at CMU), he blends deep theoretical rigor with practical hardware design skills. He contributes to teaching advanced FPGA and reconfigurable logic courses while driving research under Prof. James Hoe on next-generation architectures. Known for strong microelectronics and VLSI foundations, he also brings hands-on system design experience from student engineering projects and industry collaborations.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School, Science, High School, Science at R N Podar School
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3.96/4, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3.96/4 at Carnegie Mellon University
Japanese, English, French, Hindi, Tamil