Adithya Venkataraman

Experience

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  John Deere

  Jul 2013 - Jul 2015

  Section Manager

  • Worked with SAP plant maintenance module for part creation, material management and shop floor maintenance planning.• Introduced biometric authentication in material handling equipment, reducing unauthorized usage and accidents to zero.

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  CoreEL Technologies

  Sept 2015 - Dec 2015

  VLSI design and verification Trainee

  • Completed a professional course, encompassing topics from digital design with Verilog, functional verification and chip design methodology. Developed FSMs for input bitstream/frame sequence detectors.• Worked on a VGA controller project (implemented on spartan 3E board), for a 640 X 480 pixel display.

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  Iowa State University

  Aug 2017 - Sept 2018

  -Investigated a critical DRAM (DDR3/DDR4) hardware vulnerability using Rowhammer attack. As DRAM chips become denser, quick and repeated access to a single row (Rowhammer) can leak the charge from that row into neighboring rows, triggering a bit flip. Such flips have the potential to escalate attacker privilege or breach VM isolation on multi-tenant host.-Performed the attack on stand-alone machines including server grade systems, laptops and smartphones (ARM processor).-Evaluated reduced DRAM refresh interval as a possible mitigation technique. -In a practical setup (data centers), it is possible to corrupt data that belongs to a guest OS in multi-tenant cloud setup from another guest OS. Worked on mounting the cross VM attack and explored mitigation techniques. Show less

  • Graduate Research

    Jan 2018 - Sept 2018

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Aug 2017 - Dec 2017

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Aug 2017 - Dec 2017
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  Xilinx

  Nov 2018 - Mar 2022

  • Sr Product Management Engineer

    Jul 2021 - Mar 2022

  • Product Management Engineer - FPGA implementation SW

    Nov 2018 - Jul 2021
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  AMD

  Feb 2022 - now

  Sr. Product Development Engineer