Srijan Nikhar

Srijan received his dual degree in B.E. in Electronics and Communications Engineering and MSc. in Physics from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Goa, in 2021. He interned in the hardware acceleration team at AMD (formerly Xilinx). After his graduation, he continued working on developing FPGA-based hardware acceleration platforms with the hardware emulation team at AMD. His research interests include digital VLSI design for HPC, quantum and probabilistic computing, and FPGA designs. He is currently pursuing an MS degree at UCSB with the OPUS lab. Beyond research, Srijan is avid for soccer and is always on the lookout for a scrimmage. He also loves photography, videography, and playing the guitar.