{"622043":{"#nid":"622043","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Google and Facebook Name Tushar Krishna Recipient of Research Awards","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo tech giants, Google and Facebook, have each recognized \u003Cstrong\u003ETushar Krishna\u003C\/strong\u003E with their annual faculty research awards.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKrishna, an assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech and affiliate faculty member of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ml.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EMachine Learning Center at Georgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E, is working to address challenges in custom hardware accelerators.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor Facebook, Krishna\u0026rsquo;s proposal focused on generating custom artificial intelligence hardware platforms that are optimized for target algorithms. The hardware is also optimized for performance or energy constraints on the cloud or edge. His idea is to create a library of lego-like heterogeneous hardware building blocks to run machine learning computations and assemble them via an automated tool-flow.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKrishna was one of eight scholars selected for the Facebook Faculty Research Award, each worth $50,000.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHis Google proposal shifted gears and focuses on enabling rapid design and development of machine learning accelerators for the cloud or edge. This grant will allow him to further explore his idea to leverage reinforcement learning algorithms to efficiently represent and search through the hardware design-space of a machine learning accelerator and determine an optimal configuration. He is one of 158 recipients worldwide. Each grant is worth $66,000.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;These awards will allow me to explore a novel research direction of using machine learning to facilitate and automate hardware design, and interact with domain-experts from Google and Facebook. I am grateful for the support from two of the biggest companies in the world,\u0026rdquo; said Krishna.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe awards go into effect in June 2019.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Two tech giants name Georgia Tech assistant professor recipient of their faculty research awards."}],"uid":"34773","created_gmt":"2019-05-29 14:00:41","changed_gmt":"2019-05-29 14:00:41","author":"ablinder6","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-05-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-05-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"490461":{"id":"490461","type":"image","title":"Tushar Krishna","body":null,"created":"1453827600","gmt_created":"2016-01-26 17:00:00","changed":"1475895245","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:05","alt":"Tushar Krishna","file":{"fid":"204433","name":"tushar_krishna.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tushar_krishna_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tushar_krishna_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":30703,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tushar_krishna_0.jpg?itok=qdXz5K4E"}}},"media_ids":["490461"],"groups":[{"id":"576481","name":"ML@GT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAllie McFadden\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Eallie.mcfadden@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["allie.mcfadden@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}