👋 Hi, I'm Varatheepan Paramanayakam

🎓 Ph.D. Student in Electrical & Computer Engineering
📍 Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA
💡 Working at the intersection of Machine Learning, Embedded Systems, and Digital Design

🚀 About Me

I’m passionate about bridging the gap between AI algorithms and efficient hardware implementation.
My journey began with developing embedded IoT solutions and evolved into machine learning model design, optimization, and hardware-aware deployment.

• 💻 Experience with Agentic AI, Multi-DNN Workload Optimization, ML pipelines, embedded firmware, and FPGA-based digital design
• 🔍 Always exploring how software and hardware co-design can make ML more efficient and adaptable

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⭐ “Exploring intelligent systems that learn and operate efficiently across scales — from edge devices to large language models.”