Experience

Bridging the Gap: My PhD Journey at RISC-V Summit 2025 The RISC-V Summit North America 2025 (October 21-23) in Santa Clara was an absolutely pivotal event for my research. Having completed my first year of PhD focused on the next frontier of RISC-V verification—specifically utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs) to verify complex Out-of-Order (OoO) and superscalar cores; this summit felt less like a conference and more like a direct injection of industry validation and technical insight. ...

Winning the ICLAD Hackathon 2025 & My Experience at ICLAD Conference On June 26–27, 2025, I had the privilege of attending the International Conference on Large-Scale AI for Design (ICLAD) at Paul Brest Hall, Stanford University and even more exciting, I participated in (and my team won!) the ICLAD Hackathon, a competition focused on NVIDIA’s Comprehensive Verilog Design Problems (CVDP) benchmark and agentic AI debugging for real hardware. This blog is a reflection of the hackathon journey, what I learned about agentic LLM-based hardware debugging, my mentorship experience with Mark from NVIDIA, and my overall impressions of the conference, which was co-located with DAC 2025. ...

RISC-V Summit North America 2024: A PhD Student’s Deep Dive into the Open ISA Revolution I was incredibly fortunate to attend the RISC-V Summit North America 2024 in Santa Clara, California, on a scholarship. As a PhD student actively working with RISC-V processors, the experience was truly immersive and fully packed with invaluable insights, connections, and hands-on learning. This year, attending as a researcher focused on processor design, the conference was the most enriching experience, offering a significant and targeted academic experience. ...

Reflecting on the RISC-V Summit 2023: Innovation and Collaboration in Santa Clara Earlier this November, I had the chance to attend the RISC-V Summit in Santa Clara, California. It was an exciting two-day event (November 7-8), full of energy and innovation. Organized by RISC-V International, the Summit brought together a mix of tech experts and enthusiasts, all contributing to the growing momentum behind RISC-V – the open-standard instruction set architecture that’s shaking things up in the industry. ...