Love Singhal

Center for Embedded Computer Systems, 
Information and Computer Science, 
University of California, 
Irvine, California 92697-3425 USA 
Phone: (+1) 949.824.8168 (office) 
       (+1) 949.202.7754 (mobile) 
Fax:   (+1) 949.824.4056 
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~lsinghal 
Email: lsinghal-at-ics.uci.edu 

OBJECTIVE 

Research internship for summer 2006. 

RESEARCH INTERESTS 

Reconfigurable computing, architecture for FPGAs, synthesis,physical design (floorplanning, placement and 
routing algorithms), runtime reconfiguration in FPGAs, and embedded system design methodologies. 

EDUCATION 

M.S., Ph.D. Candidate, Embedded GPA: 3.98/4 Present 
Systems 
University of California, Irvine, CA, US 
Advisor: Dr. Elaheh Bozorgzadeh 

B. Tech, Computer Science and GPA: 8.64/10 Received. Aug, 2001 
Engineering 
Indian InstituteofTechnology, Delhi
Delhi, India


PUBLICATIONS 

1. L. Singhal and E. Bozorgzadeh,"FastTiming Closure Through Interconnect Criticality Driven Delay 
Relaxation", in International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), November 2005. 
2. L. Singhal and E. Bozorgzadeh,"Physically-aware Exploitation of Component Reuse in a Partially 
Reconfigurable Architecture",to appear in IEEE Reconfigurable ArchitectureWorkshop, April 2006. 

EXPERIENCE 

A. Graduate Student Researcher July 2004--Dec 2004, Since June 2005. 
University of California, Irvine, CA, USA 
Advisor: Dr. Elaheh Bozorgzadeh. 

   1. Design Closure/Budgeting: Introduced the problem of interconnect budgeting to improve critical path. 
   2. Dynamic Reconfiguration: Developed a placement tool for reducing reconfiguration time in designs 
                               implementated on Xilinx Virtex 4 FPGA. 

B. Teaching Assistant Jan 2005--June 2005 
University of California, Irvine, CA, USA 
Courses: Digital Logic Design (ICS151). Computer Systems Architecture (ICS152). 

C. (Senior) Software Engineer July 2001--June 2004 
firstRain, Inc. New Delhi, India 
Worked on developing a publish-subscribe framework for real-time XML messaging. 

D. Summer Intern May 2000--July 2000 
Ecole Polytechnique Federal De Lausanne (EPFL) Lausanne, Switzerland 
Developed a software to automatically create programs for handling communication in synchronous Java. 


HONORS 

• Recieved gradesAandA+in all Systems graduate courses, 2004–2006. 
• Computer Science Departmental rank 6 in IIT Delhi, 2001. 
• Scholarship for GPAin top 10 in the batch, 1997. 
• All India Rank 67 (out of about 150, 000 students) in the Joint Entrance Examination to the Indian 
Institutes ofTechnology, 1997. 
• Rank 37 in Delhi level Mathematics Olympiad, 1995. 

SKILLS 

• Languages: C/C++,Java,Verilog, VHDL, Perl, VC++, VB6, Shell and batch Scripting. 
• Operating Systems: Linux,Windows XP/NT/2000/98, UNIX, Solaris. 
• DesignTools: Xilinx (ISE, PlanAhead), Synplicity (Synplify), Synopsys (Design Compiler,Tetramax). 
• Other: HTML,LATEX, COM, .NET. 

COURSE PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN 

• Developed an optimizing compiler for copypropagation, dead code elimination and register allocation 
for DLX architecture, Fall 2005. 
• Developed a floorplanner and scheduler for multiple voltage supply based architecture using ILP, simulated annealing and branch and bound techniques. Winter 2005. 
• Integrated a framework for automatic hardware and software synthesis using profiler and C2VHDL 
converter, 1996--1997. 
• Developed a C2VHDL converter for handling synchronous communication between multiple processes, 1996. 

RELEVANT GRADUATE COURSEWORK 

Advanced Compiler Construction, Design Description and Modelling, Analysis of Algorithms,
Computer Networks, Digital System Verification and Testing, Parallel Computing, 
Computer Systems Architecture, Introduction to Computer Design.

REFERENCES 

Dr. Elaheh (Eli) Bozorgzadeh (Advisor) 
Information and Computer Science, 
University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3425 
Email: eli-at-ics.uci.edu
Phone: (+1) 949.824.8860
Fax: (+1) 949.824.4056

Prof. Isaac D. Scherson 
Information and Computer Science, 
University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3525 
Phone: (+1) 949.824.8144
Fax: (+1) 949.824.8060
Email: isaac-at-ics.uci.edu

Dr. Tony Givargis 
Information and Computer Science,
University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3525 
Email: givargis-at-uci.edu
Phone: (+1) 949.824.9357

Dr. Ian G. Harris
Information and Computer Science,
University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3525 
Email: harris-at-ics.uci.edu

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