Meghana Balarama

About Meghana Balarama

Software Engineer with 5 years of diverse industry and research experience in Compiler Design, Computer Graphics, and writing clean, fast, and portable C++ code.I currently work in the Stratus HLS (High Level Synthesis) team on SystemC to RTL code generation and specialize in compiler techniques from front-end parsing and AST generation to back-end optimization and code generation.Prior to this, I worked on OpenGL and Vulkan driver development for GPUs and applying machine learning techniques to computer graphics and rendering.At CMU, my research interests were at the intersection of vision, graphics, and deep learning - in understanding how unsupervised and self-supervised 3D scene understanding and 3D representations can help achieve common sense knowledge and reasoning in vision that can help AI agents generalize to unseen environments and domains with less data

Experience

1. Software Engineer Ii

   Cadence

   Feb 2023 — Present · Pittsburgh, PA, US

   Working in the Stratus HLS (High Level Synthesis) team on compiler optimizations in the C++ front-end and back-end of Stratus for SystemC to Verilog RTL code generation. I focus on optimizing intermediate representations (IR), code generation, and target-specific optimizations to meet PPA and QoR requirements.

Education

• Carnegie Mellon University

  Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• B. M. S. College of Engineering

  BE - Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering