Farhad Merchant
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Farhad Merchant, Ph. D.
Postdoctoral researcher
Room: 501+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 received 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 the recipient of the HiPEAC technology transfer award in 2019.
Research Interests
- Hardware Security
- Hardware Assisted Security
- Computer Architecture
- Performance Modeling
- Computer Arithmetic