Farhad Merchant
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- Karl Sturm (bachelor)
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- Daniyar Kizatov
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Farhad Merchant, Ph. D.
Postdoctoral researcher
Room: 502+49 241 80-27630
+49 241 80-28306
farhad.merchant(at)ice.rwth-aachen.de
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Biography
Farhad Merchant received his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (India), in 2016. His Ph.D. thesis title was "Algorithm-Architecture Co-design for Dense Linear Algebra Computations." He was receipt of the DAAD fellowship during his PhD. He worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, from March 2016 to December 2016. In December 2016, he moved to Corporate Research in Robert Bosch in Bangalore as a Researcher, where he worked on numerical methods for ordinary differential equations. He joined Institute for Communication Technologies and Embedded Systems, RWTH Aachen University, in December 2017 as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Chair for Software for Systems on Silicon. Farhad is receipt of the HiPEAC technology transfer award in 2019.
Research Interests
- Hardware Security
- Hardware Assisted Security
- Computer Architecture
- Performance Modeling
- Computer Arithmetic
Publications
Šišejković, D., Merchant, F., Leupers, R., Ascheid, G. and Kegreiss, S.: Inter-Lock: Logic Encryption for Processor Cores Beyond Module Boundaries, in 2019 IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS), pp. 1-6, May. 2019, ISSN: 1530-1877, 10.1109/ETS.2019.8791528 ©2019 IEEE
Šišejković, D., Merchant, F., Leupers, R., Ascheid, G. and Kegreiss, S.: Control-Lock: Securing Processor Cores Against Software-Controlled Hardware Trojans, in Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI'19), May. 2019, 10.1145/3299874.3317983 ©2019 IEEE
Šišejković, D., Merchant, F., Leupers, R., Ascheid, G. and Kiefer, V.: A Critical Evaluation of the Paradigm Shift in the Design of Logic Encryption Algorithms, in 2019 International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation and Test (VLSI-DAT), IEEE, p. 4, Apr. 2019, 10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2019.8741531 ©2019 IEEE
Merchant, F., Vatwani, T., Chattopadhyay, A., Raha, S., Nandy, S. K., Narayan, R. and Leupers, R.: Applying Modified Householder Transform to Kalman Filter, in Proceedings of the International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID), Jan. 2019, accepted for publication, 10.1109/VLSID.2019.00092
Merchant, F., Vatwani, T., Chattopadhyay, A., Raha, S., Nandy, S. K., Narayan, R. and Leupers, R.: A Systematic Approach for Acceleration of Matrix-Vector Operations in CGRA through Algorithm-Architecture Co-design, in Proceedings of the International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID), Jan. 2019
Chaurasiya, R., John, G., Shrestha, R., Jonathan, N., Sangeeth, N., Kaustav, N., Merchant, F. and Leupers, R.: Parameterized Posit Arithmetic Hardware Generator, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), pp. 334-341, Oct. 2018, 10.1109/ICCD.2018.00057 ©2018 IEEE
Merchant, F., Vatwani, T., Chattopadhyay, A., Raha, S., Nandy, S. K. and Narayan, R.: Achieving Efficient Realization of Kalman Filter on CGRA through Algorithm-Architecture Co-design, in Applied Reconfigurable Computing, May. 2018, 10.1007/978-3-319-78890-6
Merchant, F., Vatwani, T., Chattopadhyay, A., Raha, S., Nandy, S. K. and Narayan, R.: Efficient Realization of Householder Transform through Algorithm-Architecture Co-design for Acceleration of QR Factorization, in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE, Mar. 2018, 10.1109/TPDS.2018.2803820 ©2018 IEEE
Merchant, F., Chattopadhyay, A., Raha, S., Nandy, S. K. and Narayan, R.: Accelerating BLAS and LAPACK via Efficient Floating Point Architecture Design, in Parallel Processing Letters, Vol. 27, No. 03n04, World Scientific, pp. 1--17, Dec. 2017, 10.1142/S0129626417500062
Bhattacharjee, D., Merchant, F. and Chattopadhyay, A.: Enabling in-memory computation of binary {BLAS} using ReRAM crossbar arrays, in VLSI-SoC, Sep. 2016, ISBN: 978-1-50903-561-8, 10.1109/VLSI-SoC.2016.7753568 ©2016 IEEE
Merchant, F., Vatwani, T., Chattopadhyay, A., Raha, S., Nandy, S. K. and Narayan, R.: Achieving Efficient QR Factorization by Algorithm-Architecture Co-design of Householder Transformation, in VLSI Design, pp. 98--103, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-46738-700-2, 10.1109/VLSID.2016.109 ©2016 IEEE
Merchant, F., Nimash, C., Nandy, S. K. and Narayan, R.: Efficient Realization of Table Look-Up Based Double Precision Floating Point Arithmetic, in VLSI Design, pp. 415--420, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-46738-700-2, 10.1109/VLSID.2016.113 ©2016 IEEE
Merchant, F., Maity, A., Mahadurkar,, M., Vatwani, K., Munje, I., Krishna C, M., Sivanandan, N., Gopalan, N., Raha, S., Nandy, S. K. and Narayan, R.: Micro-architectural Enhancements in Distributed Memory CGRAs for LU and QR Factorizations, in VLSI Design, pp. 153--158, 2015, ISBN: 978-1-47996-658-5, 10.1109/VLSID.2015.31 ©2015 IEEE
Rákossy, Z. E., Merchant, F., Acosta Aponte, A., Nandy, S. K. and Chattopadhyay, A.: Scalable and Energy-Efficient Reconfigurable Accelerator for Column-Wise Givens Rotation, in 22nd IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC)(Playa-del-Carmen, Mexico), IEEE, Oct. 2014, 10.1109/VLSI-SoC.2014.7004166 ©2014 IEEE
Rákossy, Z. E., Merchant, F., Acosta Aponte, A., Nandy, S. K. and Chattopadhyay, A.: Efficient and Scalable CGRA-based Implementation of Column-wise Givens Rotation, in 25th IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors(Zuerich, Switzerland), Jun. 2014, 10.1109/ASAP.2014.6868659 ©2014 IEEE
Merchant, F., Chattopadhyay, A., Garga, G., Nandy, S. K. and Narajan, R.: Efficient QR Decomposition Using Low Complexity Column-wise Givens Rotation (CGR) , in 27th International Conference on VLSI Design, IIT Bombay, Mumbai India January 7-9, pp. 258 - 263 , 2014, ISSN: 1063-9667, 10.1109/VLSID.2014.51 ©2014 IEEE
Das, S., Madhu, K., Krishna C, M., Sivanandan, N., Merchant, F., Biswas, I., Pulli, A., Nandy, S. K. and Narayan, R.: A framework for post-silicon realization of arbitrary instruction extensions on reconfigurable data-paths., in Journal of Systems Architecture - Embedded Systems Design, Vol. 60, No. 7, pp. 592--614, 2014, 10.1016/j.sysarc.2014.06.002
Mahadurkar,, M., Merchant, F., Maity, A., Vatwani, K., Munje, I., Gopalan, N., Nandy, S. K. and Narayan, R.: Co-exploration of NLA kernels and specification of Compute Elements in distributed memory CGRAs, in SAMOS 2014, pp. 225--232, 2014, 10.1109/SAMOS.2014.6893215 ©2014 IEEE