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<h2 align="left" id="about"> About Me </h2>


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I am a Principal Research Scientist (साइंसदान्) at <a href="https://www.iitb.ac.in">Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay)</a>. I am a member of the 
  <a href="https://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/student/~cadsl/">Computer Architecture and Dependable Systems Lab (CADSL)</a> led by  
  <a href="https://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/~viren/">Prof. Virendra Singh</a>. I am working in the area of VLSI Design and Computer Architecture. 
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<h2 align="left"> Education </h2>

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    PhD in Electrical Engineering, <a href="https://www.iitb.ac.in">Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IIT Gandhinagar)</a> <br>
    Thesis: “Approximate Designs and Frameworks for Error Resilient Applications” <br>
    (Advisor: <a href="http://joycee.people.iitgn.ac.in/">Prof. Joycee Mekie</a>) <br>
    CGPA : 9.16/10 (JUL 2015 - NOV 2020)<br><br>
    B.Tech in Electronics and Communcations Engineering, <a href="http://nitm.ac.in">National Institute of Technology Meghalay (NIT Meghalaya)</a> <br>
    CGPA : 9.38/10 (JUL 2011 - MAY 2015)
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<h2 align="left"> Internships </h2>
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 I worked with the <a href="https://safari.ethz.ch">SAFARI Research Group</a> led by <a href="https://people.inf.ethz.ch/omutlu/">Prof. Onur Mutlu</a> 
at <a href="https://ethz.ch/en.html"> ETH Zurich</a>. The area of research was in-memory computing. (JUL 2019 - JAN 2020)<br><br>
I worked with the Big Core Group at Intel Banagalore India. The area of research was On Chip Power Distribution Networks. (JAN 2017 - JUN 2017)
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<h2 align="left" id="publications"> Publications</h2>
<h2 align="center"> Conferences </h2>

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  <li> Neelam Sharma, Varun Venkitaraman, Newton Singh, Vikash Kumar, Shubham Singhania, and <u>Chandan Kumar Jha</u>, "Data-aware Cache Management for Graph Analytics," Accepted in Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference 2022 <font color="red">(DATE '22)</font>.<font color="red"> Accepted!!</font></a></li>
  <li> <u>Chandan Kumar Jha</u>, Sumit Walia, Gagan Kanojia, and Joycee Mekie, "FPCAM: Floating Point Configurable Approximate Multiplier for Error Resilient Applications," Accepted in IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems 2021 <font color="red">(ISCAS '21)</font>. [<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9401341"><font color="blue">Paper</font></a>]</li>
  <li> Ankita Nandi, <u> Chandan Kumar Jha</u>, and Joycee Mekie, "Tunable Inexact Subtractors for Division in Image Processing Applications," Accepted in IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems 2020 <font color="red">(MWSCAS '20)</font>. [<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9184460"><font color="blue">Paper</font></a>]</li>
  <li> <u>Chandan Kumar Jha</u>, Kailash Prasad, Arun Singh Tomar, and Joycee Mekie, "SEDAAF: FPGA Based Single Exact Dual Approximate Adders for Approximate Processors," Accepted in IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems 2020 <font color="red">(ISCAS '20)</font>. [<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9181185"><font color="blue">Paper</font></a>] </li>
  <li> <u>Chandan Kumar Jha</u><sup>*</sup>, Kailash Prasad<sup>*</sup>, Vibhor Kumar Srivastava, and Joycee Mekie, "FPAD: A Multistage Approximation Methodology for Designing Floating Point Approximate Dividers," Accepted in IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems 2020 <font color="red">(ISCAS '20)</font>. [<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9180768"><font color="blue">Paper</font></a>] </li>
  <li> <u>Chandan Kumar Jha</u>, Ankita Nandi, and Joycee Mekie, "Quality Tunable Approximate Adder for Low Energy Image Processing Applications," Accepted in IEEE International Conference on Electronics Circuits and Systems 2019 <font color="red">(ICECS '19)</font>. [<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8965205"><font color="blue">Paper</font></a>] </li>
  <li> Ankita Nandi, <u>Chandan Kumar Jha</u>, and Joycee Mekie, "Should We Code Differently When Using Approximate Circuits?," 2019 Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems <font color="red">(APCCAS '19)</font>. [<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8953113"><font color="blue">Paper</font></a>] </li>
  <li> <u>Chandan Kumar Jha</u> and Joycee Mekie, "Design of Novel CMOS based Inexact Subtractors and Dividers for Approximate Computing: An In-Depth Comparison with PTL based Designs," 2019 22nd Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design <font color="red">(DSD '19)</font>. [<a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8875219&isnumber=8875008"><font color="blue">Paper</font></a>] </li>
  <li> <u>Chandan Kumar Jha</u> and Joycee Mekie, "SEDA - Single Exact Dual Approximate Adders for Approximate Processors," 2019 56th Annual Design Automation Conference <font color="red">(DAC '19)</font>. [<a href="https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3316781.3322475"><font color="blue">Paper</font></a>] </li>
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<h2 align="center"> Journals </h2>

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  <li> <u>Chandan Kumar Jha</u>, Shreyas Singh, Riddhi Thakker, Manu Awasthi and Joycee Mekie, "Zero Aware Configurable Data Encoding by Skipping Transfer for Error Resilient Applications," in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (2021) <font color="red">(TCAS-I)</font>.[<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.07432.pdf"><font color="blue">Preprint</font></a>]</li>
  <li> <u>Chandan Kumar Jha</u>, Ishita Doshi and Joycee Mekie, "Analysis of Worst-Case Data Dependent Temporal Approximation in Floating Point Units," in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (2020) <font color="red">(TCAS-II)</font>. [<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9149887"><font color="blue">Paper</font></a>]</li>
  <li> <u>Chandan Kumar Jha</u>, Sneha N. Ved, Ishant Anand and Joycee Mekie, "Energy and Error Analysis Framework for Approximate Computing in Mobile Applications," in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (2019) <font color="red">(TCAS-II)</font>. [<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8685148&isnumber=4358609"><font color="blue">Paper</font></a>] </li>
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<h2 align="center"> Posters </h2>

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  <li><u>Chandan Kumar Jha</u>, Sumit Walia, Gagan Kanojia, and Joycee Mekie, "Floating Point Configurable Approximate Multiplier," <i>Work-in-Progress</i>, 56th Annual Design Automation Conference 2019 <font color="red">(DAC '19)</font>. </li>
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  * Authors have contributed equally