SANU PK

About

Electronics and Communication Engineering undergraduate with hands-on experience in digital hardware design, sensor-based systems, and hardware-software integration. Has worked with Verilog RTL,FSM design, Python, MATLAB, and system-level experimentation.

Experience

• Research Intern
  NIT Rourkela
  May 2026 – Jul 2026

  Conducting research on deep-learning-based semantic communication for reliable image transmission over wireless channels. Exploring semantic feature extraction, image reconstruction and task-oriented classification under different channel conditions.

Education

• Bachelor of Technology
  Indian Institute of Information Technology Kottayam
  Electronics and Communication Engineering · Aug 2023 – Apr 2027

Skills

Tools / apps / platforms

Projects

• Edge Sentinel: Landslide Detection System
  Verilog, Xilinx Vivado XSim

  Designed a multi-module Verilog RTL system for landslide detection using vibration sensing and energy computation. Implemented clock-gating and multi-cycle confirmation logic, and verified functionality through simulation and waveform analysis.

• Saliency-Aware Elastic Adder for Energy-Efficient Edge Computing
  Verilog, Brent-Kung, stochastic computing, BUFGCE, Xilinx Vivado

  Developed a 16-bit Elastic Adder in Verilog with high-precision and power-saving operating modes. Designed clock-gating, optimized LSB computation, and performed post-synthesis analysis for resource and power trade-offs.

• Semantic Communication for Diabetic Retinopathy Detection
  MobileNetV2, EfficientNet-B0, IQ Modulation, AWGN, Rayleigh, Rician channels, MMSE equalization, CNN

  Developed a reconstruction-based semantic communication system for DR grading over wireless channels. Implemented semantic encoding, channel simulation, image reconstruction and CNN classification, achieving 67–80% grading accuracy with quadratic kappa up to 0.84.

Courses & certifications

• Hands-on Workshop on VLSI Test Engineering · IIIT Kottayam & TTTC India · 2026
• VLSI SoC Design using Verilog HDL · Maven Silicon · 2025
• MATLAB Onramp · MathWorks
• MicroPython for Beginners · NIELIT

🏆 Achievements & awards

• 3rd Prize at ChipThink

  Secured 3rd Prize at a National-Level 24-hour VLSI Hackathon at Christ College of Engineering.

• Winner of IGNITE’24 Ideathon · 2024

  Winner of IGNITE’24 Ideathon organized by Thinkspire, Kozhikode.

⚽ Extracurricular activities

• Badminton Lead

  IIITK Sports Club

• Active Member

  ELIX Club – Official ECE Club of IIIT Kottayam