Research Interest

My research interests include Computer Aided Design (CAD) of VLSI circuits. I am interested in the problems (especially in floorplanning and placement) emerging due to device scaling. In particular I am developing architectural techniques to improve the runtime performance of thermal-aware floorplanners. I am also probing the impact of thermal optimization through whitespace reallocation on circuit delay. Another area which has fascinated my imagination is leakage-power aware thermal modeling and floorplanning. I am also developing a novel approach to fixed-outline floorplanning that is capable of overcoming the drawbacks of conventional fixed-outline floorplanners.

In short, I find interest in circuit optimization related work and have employed metaheuristics such as Genetic Algorithms and Particle Swarm Optimization Approach in some of my research work. I believe that optimization through Geometric Programming provide immense opportunity to solve some of the emerging circuit optimization problem.