Vikram is a 4th-year Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign advised by Prof Wen-mei Hwu. His research is concentrated on enabling efficient Accelerator-centric system architecture for emerging applications such as Machine learning, graph, and data analytics.  He is a recipient of the Bahl Fellowship for 2019-21. Prior to the graduate program, he worked at Intel and LSI Corporation as a Design engineer for three and one year, respectively. He received his B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering at B .M. S.  College of Engineering.