Hi! I’m Rachit Nigam Pronunciation : Ruh-CHITH NI-gum. First name rhymes with “crutch-it”. a visiting researcher at MIT CSAIL working with Jonathan Ragan-Kelley and a PhD candidate at Cornell University working with Adrian Sampson . I will be on the academic and industrial research job market in the 2023-24 cycle.
My research ( Filament , Calyx , Dahlia ) is focused on building high-level programming models for designing hardware accelerators and is supported through the Jane Street Fellowship . I’ve previously been a visiting scholar at the UW PLSE lab and Brown’s PLT group , and did my undergraduate research at the PLASMA research group at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
I started PLTea during PLDI ’20 in hopes of keeping social interactions alive during virtual conferences. PLTea has since been organized several times ( PLDI ’22 , ICFP ’21 , SPLASH ’21 , PLDI ’21 ) and has inspired spin-offs in other communities ( ArchChat ).
Calyx | A Compiler Infrastructure for Accelerator Generators
Sam Thomas
PLTea
Christophe Gyurgyik | PhD Student, Stanford University
Caleb Kim
Filament | Fearless Hardware Design
Joey Eremondi | Assistant Professor, University of Regina