Embedded Systems · VLSI Design & Verification · Edge AI
Final-year B.E. Electronics & Communication Engineering (VLSI Honors) at Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Chennai. I build connected hardware end to end and design and verify digital hardware in Verilog.
- 🔧 Now: Embedded Engineer Intern at Tivor, building end-of-line test software for automotive electronics (CAN / CAN FD, LIN, SCPI, GigE vision).
- 🧠 Focus: RTL design and verification, embedded and IoT systems, and on-device machine learning.
- 📜 Two published Indian patent applications (Patent Office Journal 24/2026).
- 🏆 Hackathons: Smart India Hackathon 2025 national finalist, K-Hacks (CEG) Special Track winner, plus 10+ hackathon wins and top finishes.
- 🎯 Looking for: full-time roles in RTL design, design verification, FPGA prototyping and embedded systems.
| Role | Organization | Period | Highlights |
|---|---|---|---|
| Embedded Engineer Intern | Tivor, Chennai | Sep 2026 – Present | End-of-line functional test platform for automotive electronics; hardware abstraction layer with runtime driver binding across CAN, DAQ, SCPI and GigE devices; proof of concept on a live production line |
| Embedded & Software Engineer Intern | Rela Hospitals, Chennai | Feb 2026 – Apr 2026 | Non-invasive blood group prediction from fingerprints on ESP32 hardware: 94% accuracy, under 5 s; tested against clinical requirements |
| Industrial IoT Project Intern | Ashok Leyland, Chennai | Nov 2025 – Apr 2026 | ESP32 → MQTT battery and GPS monitoring for 30+ forklifts: −60% manual inspection, −40% unplanned downtime, +20% battery life |
| RAG & Application Development Intern | Playful Python, Chennai | Dec 2024 – Jan 2025 | Production RAG assistant over 1,000+ documents; +35% retrieval precision with chunk-aware indexing and query rewriting |
| Project | What it is | Key results |
|---|---|---|
| Adaptive Reconfigurable Cache Controller | 32-bit, 1–16 KB, 2/4-way write-through cache in Verilog with Random, LRU and Pseudo-LRU replacement and a set-dueling runtime policy selector | 218/218 regression tests vs a Python reference model (~3.7 M requests); +0.43% area; up to −38.7% stall cycles vs LRU (Yosys + Nangate 45 nm) |
| ARINC 429 Health-Aware Controller | Transmitter, receiver and controller RTL for the ARINC 429 avionics bus, with a fault-injection testbench (final-year project) | 271/271 tests; 100% single-bit parity error detection |
| Gesture-to-Speech on FPGA | FSM-based RTL turning flex-sensor and MPU6050 data into speech | 200 MHz in Cadence Genus, critical path < 2 ns, power < 25 mW; validated on an Altera FPGA |
| Project | What it is | Key results |
|---|---|---|
| AgroSmart · patent published | ESP32 → MQTT → Flask → MongoDB → React precision-agriculture platform with a sensor rover, ML-driven drip irrigation and rainwater harvesting | 92% oilseed yield-forecast accuracy; −30% water use |
| PROTECT-R: AI-Powered Offline Women Safety Wearable | ESP32-S3 wearable running three on-device models (TinyML audio, CNN gesture, LSTM motion), with GSM, GPS and LoRa 433 MHz alerting, MongoDB telemetry and a custom KiCad PCB | 96% model accuracy; zero cloud dependency; Top 10 at PEC Hacks 4.0 |
| Forklift Fleet Monitoring (Ashok Leyland) | Battery health, charge cycles and GPS across a forklift fleet with predictive alerts | 30+ forklifts; −40% downtime |
| End-of-Line Test Platform (Tivor) | Configurable automotive ECU test platform with a hardware abstraction layer | In progress |
| Project | What it is | Key results |
|---|---|---|
| B-Logic · patent published | Blood group prediction from fingerprints with a MobileNet / EfficientNet-B0 / ResNet-50 ensemble, ESP32 capture unit, Flask and React | 94% accuracy, all 8 ABO/Rh groups |
| RecoverAI | AI agent that ranks failed payments by expected recovery, picks an intervention and passes it through guardrails | Next.js, FastAPI, OpenAI, Razorpay (test mode) |
| RAG Knowledge Assistant (Playful Python) | Retrieval-augmented generation over large document collections | +35% retrieval precision |
| AgriOS (GIS & field data) | FastAPI services for farm registration, field observations, pest traps and hotspot mapping | Team project |
➡️ Full case studies with diagrams and results: pranayviswaraj.github.io/projects
- A Non-Invasive Biometric System for Blood Group Prediction Using Fingerprint Analysis and Adaptive Deep Learning: IN202641051215 A1, published 12 Jun 2026
- An IoT-Enabled Intelligent System for Adaptive Irrigation and Rainwater Harvesting Using Machine Learning: IN202641051218 A1, published 12 Jun 2026
- Smart-Wear: IoT-Enabled AI Healthcare System for Women and Geriatric Care: published
- Paper presentations: AI-powered health bands, energy management, 5G to 6G, radar and sonar signal processing
VLSI & digital design
Embedded & protocols
AI / ML & software
- National-level results: Smart India Hackathon 2025 (AICTE), national finalist · K-Hacks 2025 (CEG, Anna University), Special Track winner · PEC Hacks 4.0, Top 10 · IETE Convention, finalist
- Hackathon wins & top finishes (10+): Hack-Erupt 2026 · Hack-Infinity 2025 · Make-a-thon 2025 · Hack-Elite 2024 · Elite-Com · Startup Surge
- Leadership: Joint Secretary, ECE Association, SVCE · Web Developer, Science Club, SVCE
VLSI Digital Design: Chip Design and Verilog Programming (Infosys Springboard) · Application-Driven Electronics & Embedded Technology with IoT (IITM Pravartak) · Oracle Agentic AI Foundations (Oracle University) · GenAI, LLMs, AI Agents & RAG (Yuva AI, MeitY) · Concepts of Cybersecurity (Microsoft) · Getting Started with Docker (Simplilearn)