{"693979":{"#nid":"693979","#data":{"type":"news","title":"2026 CRNCH Fellowships Support Innovative Student Research","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEvery year, Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/crnch.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECenter for Research into Novel Computing Hierarchies\u003C\/a\u003E (CRNCH) selects a cohort of Ph.D. student projects that exemplify the cross-stack mission of the center. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThree students - \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/vaibhavb007.github.io\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVaibhav\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EBhosale\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/vimagupta.github.io\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVima\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EGupta\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/marusz.com\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENikola\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EMaruszewski\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E - were selected for the CRNCH 2026 Ph.D. Fellowship based on their research proposals. The new fellows will present their work at the annual CRNCH Summit in February 2027.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBhosale is a computer science Ph.D. candidate advised by Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EAda\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EGavrilovska\u003C\/strong\u003E and Senior Research Engineer \u003Cstrong\u003EKetan\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EBhardwaj\u003C\/strong\u003E. His research focuses on distributed systems for\u202fLow Earth Orbit (LEO)\u202fcompute clouds. His work uses the predictable paths of satellites to build a control system that keeps applications running as satellites move.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEarth observation satellites have onboard GPUs, but onboard energy limits what the model can do. Bhosale\u2019s proposal for the fellowship, \u003Cem\u003EKarna: Energy-Adaptive Inference Serving in Space\u003C\/em\u003E, treats reconfiguration as a control action and schedules it based on the orbital forecast, aiming to serve more queries\u202fin\u202forbit without drawing more from the battery than it can safely supply.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI look forward to sharing my work with, and learning from, the interdisciplinary community of researchers and faculty at Georgia Tech that CRNCH brings together,\u201d Bhosale said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGupta is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in computer science advised by Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EAnand\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EIyer\u003C\/strong\u003E. She is a member of the NEXS Lab. Gupta\u2019s research centers on building efficient artificial intelligence (AI) systems that adapt to both workloads and the underlying hardware. She is currently focused on improving the energy and resource efficiency of agentic AI systems.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer project, \u003Cem\u003EPICKET: Harness\u2013Hardware Co-Design for Efficient Agentic Inference on Heterogeneous Systems\u003C\/em\u003E, bridges the communication gap between agentic AI software and hardware. This would allow the system to make smarter decisions about compute and memory, improving energy efficiency without hindering performance. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIdeally, I would like my work to help the next generation of AI systems to be more hardware-informed and for the hardware to be harness-aware,\u201d Gupta said. \u201cPersonally, I would like this fellowship to shape my Ph.D. thesis and research directions.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMaruszewski is a computer science Ph.D. student advised by Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EJosiah\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EHester\u003C\/strong\u003E. In his research, Maruszewski builds software and hardware systems that make small, power-limited devices more capable.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBatteryless sensors collect and send all readings back to a base station, wasting limited energy on sending readings that aren\u2019t useful. Maruszewski\u2019s proposal, \u003Cem\u003EClassifying With Random Bits: MTJ p-Bits as an Inference Accelerator for Batteryless Sensors, \u003C\/em\u003Elets the sensor flag which samples might be useful and send only those. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis fellowship gives me a semester to take this idea from theory to a working design,\u201d Maruszewski said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEvery year, Georgia Tech\u2019s Center for Research into Novel Computing Hierarchies (CRNCH) selects a cohort of Ph.D. student projects that exemplify the cross-stack mission of the center.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThree students - \u003Cstrong\u003EVaibhav\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EBhosale\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EVima\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EGupta\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u003Cstrong\u003ENikola\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EMaruszewski\u003C\/strong\u003E - were selected for the CRNCH 2026 Ph.D. Fellowship based on their research proposals. 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