Suhail Basalama
Ph.D. Student At The VAST Lab at University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSuhail Basalama is a Ph.D. student at UCLA’s VAST Lab specializing in computer architecture, high-level synthesis, hardware/VLSI design, and algorithm–hardware co-design with eight years of hands-on experience. He has applied his research to real-world acceleration problems through internships at Micron and Microsoft and built multiple parameterizable systolic array processors and SoC components on Xilinx and Zynq platforms. His work blends low-level Verilog/IP core development, FPGA system integration, and performance/memory optimization—evidenced by innovations like vertical mapping of large register files and Booth algorithm optimizations. Based in Los Angeles, he balances deep research with teaching and tutoring experience, making complex hardware concepts accessible while pushing ML and heterogeneous computing toward practical accelerators.
7 years of coding experience
Hinds Community CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of California, Los AngelesBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering, Junior, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering, Junior at University of Arkansas
English, Arabic
Github Skills (31)
sparse10
toolbox9
image-reconstruction9
neuroscience9
inverse-problems9
mri9
medical9
medical-imaging9
computer-vision8
scale8
hpc8
computed-tomography8
large-scale8
image-processing8
medical-image-processing7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
UCLA-VAST/recut
May 2021 - Jun 2021
Large-scale medical image processing and reconstruction toolbox
Contributions:4 commits in 1 month
neurosciencemedical-imagesparsemedicaltoolbox
SuhailB/MiniMap
Oct 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:32 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
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