ViBram Silicon Hub, Govt. of India. R&D Center

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Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, USC, computer arithmetic, number system

Dr. Sonal Yadav is the Director of ViBram Silicon Hub. She has almost ten years of teaching and research experience. She has been Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Raipur, since 2021. Her research interests include networks-on-chip, computer architecture, computer vision, and AI/ML.

She completed her two-year postdoctoral from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati in March 2020. She obtained her PhD and MTech degrees from the Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT), Jaipur, India. She received her BE (honours) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Government Engineering College Bikaner. She investigated power-gating methods for improving static power efficiency during her postdoc experience. Prior this, she explored static power and performance efficiency for manycore network-on-chip architectures during her PhD. Her thesis work was awarded travel grant in DATE 2019 and VLSI-SoC 2020 conferences. In 2018, she got the Best Paper Award by TCVLSI at IEEE-iSES. She has published more than 20 articles in prestigious international conferences and journals. She wrote a book on Computer System Organization published by AICTE, New Delhi, for Indian and international students.

Dr. Vijay Holimath, Deputy Director of ViBram Silicon Hub, a prominent figure in the world of computing. He is also CEO of VivdSparks, Dr. Holimath's expertise and contributions to the industry are truly exceptional. VividSparks operating at the forefront of innovation in AI/ML, Automotive, Graphics Computing, HPC, Edge Computing, Cloud Computing, and IoT. Throughout his career, Dr. Holimath has been involved in key projects with companies like Intel AMD, NXP, C-DAC Government of India, etc. His initiatives aimed at solving critical computational and memory bottleneck challenges faced by his clients. His ability to provide innovative solutions has earned him a stellar reputation in the field.

One of his most remarkable accomplishments has been raising funds, publishing papers, establishing offices across multiple countries, and cultivating a substantial base of satisfied customers. His visionary leadership has steered VividSparks IT Solutions toward continuous growth and excellence.

Dr. Holimath's journey into this dynamic industry began with a solid educational foundation, including a Bachelor of Engineering, Master of Philosophy, and a PhD in Electronics and Computer Science. His academic prowess, coupled with hands-on skills in chip design and application development, has been instrumental in his career's success.

Looking ahead, Dr. Holimath envisions the industry heading toward cloud computing and edge computing in the next 5-10 years. Hardware for computing tasks may increasingly reside in the cloud, transforming the way we use mobile devices and computers for everyday activities.

Academic Journey

Shashank Singh, Veena Anand, and Sonal Yadav, “Trust Based Clustering and Routing in WSNs Using DST-WOA” Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, Springer 2024.

Sonal Yadav, Amit Kumar, Ayu Yaduvanshi, Prateek Meena, A Review of Feature Extraction and Classification Techniques in Speech Recognition, SN Computer Science, 2023.

Perika Puneeth, Ajay Singh Raghuvanshi, Sonal Yadav, Design and Implementation of High Frequency 16-bit full adder on FPGA Families, 4th IEEE International Conference of Emerging Technologies, Belgaum, India, 2023.

Mursina Khatun, Ajay Singh Raghuvanshi, Sonal Yadav, “Comparative Analysis of Hybrid Adders with Different Technology Nodes using Cadence Virtuoso,” Fifth International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Technologies, IEEE, Tamilnadu, India, 2023. DOI:10.1109/ICECCT56650.2023.10179843

Sonal Yadav, Vijay Laxmi, Hemangee K. Kapoor, Manoj Singh Gaur, Amit Kumar, “Adaptive Distribution of Control Messages for Improving Bandwidth Utilisation in Multiple NoC,” Journal of Supercomputing, Springer Nature, 2023. (IF:3, h5-index: 67)

Amit Kumar, Aparajita Ojha, Sonal Yadav, Anupam Kumar, “Real-Time Interception Performance Evaluation of Certain Proportional Navigation based Guidance Laws in Aerial Ground Engagement,” Intelligent Service Robotics (ISR), Springer-Nature, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11370-021-00404-4 (IF: 2.8, SCI)

Amit Kumar, Shashwat Singh, Vibhor Rawal, Shivam Garg, Anand Agrawal, Sonal Yadav, “CNN-based device-free health monitoring and prediction system using WiFi signals”, International Journal of Information Technology. Pages 1-13. 2022.

Neelkamal, Sonal Yadav, Hemangee Kapoor, “i-MAX: Just-in-Time Wakeup of Maximally Gated Router for Power Efficient Multiple NoC,” 26th International Symposium on VLSI Design and Test (VDAT 2022), Springer, July 17-19, 2022.

Sonal Yadav, Ritu Raj, “Power Efficient Network Selector Placement in Control Plane of Multiple NoC,” Journal of Supercomputig, Springer-Nature, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-021-04098-4 (IF: 3, SCI, h5-index: 67)

Sonal Yadav, “Interconnect Paradigm Shift towards Networks-on-Chip in Manycore Processors: A Review on Challenges,” 6th International Conference on Soft Computing: Theories and Applications (SoCTA), Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS) Springer, Dec 17-19, 2021. <\p>

Sonal Yadav, “A Study on Requests Serialization in Directory-Based Protocol for MESI Cache Coherence Protocol,” 6th International Conference on Soft Computing: Theories and Applications (SoCTA), Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS) Springer, Dec 17-19, 2021.

Sonal Yadav, Vijay Laxmi and Manoj Singh Gaur, “Multiple-NoC Exploration and Customization for Energy Efficient Traffic Distribution,” 2020 IFIP/IEEE 28th International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SOC), Salt Lake City, UT, USA, 2020 (h5-index: 12) (Presentation available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr9bhq3F2-s&t=40s)

Neelkamal, Sonal Yadav, and Hemangee K. Kapoor, “Lightweight Message Encoding of Power-Gating Controller forOn-Time Wakeup of Gated Router in Network-on-Chip,” in Ninth International Symposium on EmbeddedComputing and System Design (ISED), IEEE, Kerala, IN, December 2019.

Sonal Yadav, Vijay Laxmi, Manoj Singh Gaur, and Hemangee K. Kapoor, “Improving Static Power Efficiency via Placement of Network Demultiplexer over Control Plane of Router in Multi-NoCs,” in Proc. of Fifty-Sixth Int. Conf. Design Automation Conference (DAC), ACM/EDAC/IEEE, Las Vegas, NV, US, June 2-6 2019.

Sonal Yadav, Vijay Laxmi, Manoj Singh Gaur, Hemangee K. Kapoor, and Mark Zwolinski, “A power efficient crossbar arbitration in Multi-NoC for Multicast and Broadcast Traffic,” in Proc. of Int. Conf. on IEEE International Symposium on Smart Electronic Systems (IEEE-iSES), IEEE, Hyderabad, IN, Dec 2018. (Best Paper Award)

Ashish Sharma, Yogendra Gupta, Sonal Yadav, Lava Bhargava, Manoj Singh Gaur, Vijay Laxmi, “A Power, Thermal and Reliability-Aware Network-on-Chip”, IEEE International Symposium on Nanoelectronic and Information Systems (IEEE-iNIS), Bhopal, December 2017.

Sonal Yadav, Vijay Laxmi, and Manoj Singh Gaur, “A Power Efficient Dual Link Mesh NOC Architecture to Support Nonuniform Traffic Arbitration at Routing Logic,” in Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID), IEEE, Kolkata, pp. 69-74, Jan. 4-8, 2016.

Sonal Yadav, Vijay Laxmi, Manoj Singh Gaur and Megha Bhargava, “C2-DLM: Cache Coherence aware Dual Link Mesh for On-chip Interconnect,” in Proc. 19th IEEE International Symposium on VLSI Design and Test, Ahmedabad, 2015.

Sonal Yadav, Manoj Singh Gaur, Vijay Laxmi, S. Sharma, “Fault tolerant adaptive XY routing for HPC mesh,” in Proc. of 9th IEEE International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS), Gwalior, pp. 1-6, 2014.

Sonal Yadav, Manoj Singh Gaur, Vijay Laxmi, and Megha Bhargava, “Dynamic fault injection model for on-chip 2D mesh network,” in Proc. of the 7th ACM Computing Conference (COMPUTE ’14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 18, 6 pages.

Sonal Yadav, Manoj Singh Gaur, and Vijay Laxmi, “Ns-3 emulation on ORBIT testbed,” in International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), IEEE, pp. 616-619, August 22-25,2013.

Sonal Yadav, Manoj Singh Gaur, and Vijay Laxmi, "Energy Scavenging Based HybridGSM Model for Mobile Towers," Recent Advances in Intelligent Informatics. Pages 343-349, Springer Nature, 2014. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-01778-5

Sonal Yadav, “Tool Chain for Performance Analysis of Chip-Multiprocessor,” 29th National Convention of Computer Engineers and National Seminar on ETICE-2015, Organized by IET and SKIT Jaipur, India. February 7-8, 2015.

Sonal Yadav, “NS-3 Emulation on ORBIT Testbed,” 27th National Convention and National Seminar on Latest Advancements in Computer Engineering (LACE’ 13) , Organized by IET and MNIT Jaipur, India. February 4-5, 2013.

Text Book

Sonal Yadav, Computer System Organization, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi Feb 2024. ISBN: 978-93-6027-498-8. Free to download from AICTE e-KUMBH (aicte-india.org)(Translation of english version of book into 12 Indian languages is on going)

Book Chapter

Sonal Yadav, Ayu Yaduvanshi, Shashank Shekhar, Lokesh Bansal, Prateek Meena, and Amit Kumar. "An Intelligent Interview Bot for Candidate Assessment by Using Facial Expression Recognition and Speech Recognition System." Computational Statistical Methodologies and Modeling for Artificial Intelligence (2023): 142-160.

Awards

Gold Medal in Women Badminton Doubles in All-India Inter-NIT Faculty and Staff Sports Meet held at (NIT Bhopal, 2023) and (NIT Hamirpur, 2022)

Best paper award by TCVLSI of the IEEE Computer Society at the IEEE-iSES 2018 conference in Hyderabad.

Honours

Felicitation by Priti Shankar Stree Shakti Samman for being a feminine faculty in CS & IT given by Rethink India Year - 2022

Outstanding work in the field of Sports by NIT Raipur, March 2023

Life member of Women in Computer Architecture (WICARCH)

Fellowship

Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship by Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, 2018-2021.

Fellowship for Doctor of Philosophy by Ministry of Human Resource and Delepoment, Government of India, 2013-2017.

Travel Grant

A travel grant for my PhD thesis work awarded in DATE 2019 (Florence, Italy) and VLSI SoC 2020 (UT, USA).

Workshop attended on ``Network on Chip,'' Conducted by University of Poletchnica, Valencia, SPAIN from INDO-SPAIN project, July 8-10, 2014.

29th International Conference on VLSI Design 2016 and 15th International Conference on Embedded Systems, Kolkata, India, January 4-8, 2016.

17th International Conference on VLSI Design and Test (VDAT' 15), Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujrat, India 2015.

28th International Conference on VLSI Design 2015 and 14th International Conference on Embedded Systems, Bangalore, India, January 3-7, 2015.

Embedded System (ES) Week, Organized by IIT Delhi, October 12-17, 2014.

PhD Students

Revya Naik V: Thesis Title- Machine Learning for Quantum Computing (July 2022-)

Aditi Singh: Thesis Title- Clustering of Neural Networks in Neuromorphic Processor (Aug 2023-)

Vijay Babu: Thesis Title- Interconnection Networks for Multi-GPU (Aug 2023-)

Shilpi Chaubey: Thesis Title- GP-GPU Computing (March 2024-)

Shashank Singh: Thesis Title- Design a Framework for Routing Schemes in Wireless Sensor Networks using Metaheuristic Approach (Co-supervisor, submitted thesis, 2018-2024)

Computer Vision (Spring 2024, 2023, BTech 6th sem)

Advanced Computer Architecture (Autumn 2023, Autumn 2022, BTech 5th sem)

Computer System Architecture (Spring 2022, BTech 4th sem)

Advanced Data Structures (Autumn 2021, BTech 5th sem)