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Welcome to my personal page. Here, I try to keep an up-to-date account of projects I have worked on, and also write blog posts on the side. I have worked intimately with FPGAs in the past, and I believe they will play an increasingly important role in the post-Moore future of computing. Lately, apart from hardware engineering, my interests have also revolved around the fast-evolving space of deep learning.

 
Academic/Work Summary
Machine Learning Engineer (Contract Role) (June 2020 - Present), SAP Asia, Singapore
CTO/Founder (May 2020 - Sep 2021), Inpact Technologies, Singapore
Founder in Residence (SG7) (Jan 2020 - May 2020), Entrepreneur First, Singapore
Postdoctoral Researcher (Oct 2017 - Dec 2019), University of Sydney, Australia
PhD Candidate (Jan 2013 - Jan 2019), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Thesis Advisor: Nachiket Kapre )
BEng (Oct 2009 - Jun 2012), Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Imperial College London

Curriculum Vitae | CV ; CV (with publications list)
PhD Dissertation | PDF ; DrNTU
Google Scholar | Link
GitHub | Link

Note: My PDF CVs tend to get outdated every few months, as I don't have the time to update them regularly. I update the website content more diligently, and please feel free to get in touch with me directly.


Contacts

E-mail: sidmontu AT gmail.com

Elsewhere
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News

09/08/21:   Completed module 2 , Machine Learning Data Lifecycle in Production, in the MLOps specialization offered by DeepLearning.AI on Coursera.
25/06/21:   I've joined SAP Asia as a Machine Learning Engineer on a contract role. I'd be helping the AI technology team build scalable and production-ready NLP applications.
25/03/21:   inPact is now part of the 500 startups global launch SF accelerator (batch 3)!
01/02/21:   Proud to be selected into the inaugral Auctus Allens Legal Accelerator!
24/07/20:   Check out our SG7 demo day company profile and promotional video .
21/05/20:   Launched https://www.inpact.ai website.
15/05/20:   inPact.ai is now officially an incorporated entity as Inpact Technologies Pte Ltd!
03/05/20:   Success! inPact.ai is now officially backed by Entrepreneur First, as we are one of only ten companies to secure the pre-seed capital from the SG7 batch!.
10/03/20:   Paper accepted for full presentation at the RAW'20 workshop (co-located with IPDPS'20 conference). See More..
19/02/20:   I have joined Entrepreneur First Singapore (SG7 batch), and would be embarking on an entrepreneurial journey to try and launch my own company! Watch this space for announcements!
27/01/20:   FPGA'20 paper has been awarded two ACM badges: "Artifacts Evaluated (Functional)" & "Results Replicated". Reproducible research FTW. Code can be found here .
14/12/19:   I have finished my postdoctoral stint at University of Sydney. I had a great time and learnt a lot from my supervisors and colleagues, and while leaving the lab was a tough decision, I look forward to returning home to Singapore to take on a fresh challenge.
22/11/19:   Full paper on a novel FPGA architecture proposal, titled LUXOR, accepted for presentation at FPGA'20. See More..
07/10/19:   Short paper on real-time automatic modulation classification accepted to be presented as a poster at FPT'19 proceedings. See More..
24/07/19:   My NTU PhD Graduation photo collage
02/04/19:   Added a new 'Cache' page to document oddities, or useful links, that I found during my day-to-day project developments.
14/03/19:   Final revisions accepted and hard-bound dissertation submitted. Officially a PhD graduate now - only a convocation to look forward to.
17/01/19:   One of my goals for this year is to improve my overall physical health, so I'm going to maintain a detailed fitness log by creating and maintaining this R Shiny app to visualize my progress.
11/01/19:   Defended my dissertation today successfully. Many thanks to the defense panel to take their time out to sit through my presentation, and also for their feedback/suggestions on specific topics. Special thanks to my PhD advisor, Nachiket, for extending his stay in Singapore to attend the defense.
20/11/18:   Marked thesis received with recommendation for minor revisions. Oral defense has been scheduled for 11th January, 2019. Big thanks to the examiners for taking the time to give valuable feedback.
16/09/18:   Two papers accepted at FPT 2018: DaCO (Regular)  and  On-chip training (Short).
19/07/18:   Paper on real-time RF spectral prediction using LSTMs on FPGAs accepted as a full paper at MILCOM 2018 proceedings. See More..
06/03/18:   Paper on Priority-Aware Hoplite-Q router accepted as a full paper at FCCM 2018. See More..
09/10/17:   I've joined the Computering Engineering group at the University of Sydney as a postdoctoral researcher (group led by Philip Leong , and David Boland )
23/01/17:   Position paper on out-of-order dataflow scheduling accepted for OLAF 2017 workshop (co-located with FPGA 2017). See More..
11/11/16:   Paper on eBSP Communication Optimizations for the Parallella development board accepted at DATE 2017 conference proceedings. See More..
06/10/16:   Paper on Embedded Deep Learning at CASES 2016 wins the BEST PAPER Award. See More..
02/07/16:   Paper on Embedded Deep Learning accepted at CASES 2016. (Best Paper candidate) See More..
18/06/16:   Short paper (co-author) on 1-D DWT Vector Acceleration accepted at FPL 2016. See More..
27/04/16:   Completed the Data Science Specialization from the John Hopkins University on Coursera.
Check out the text prediction demo I made for the project.
23/02/16:   Two posters accepted as part of FCCM 2016 proceedings. See More..
06/12/15:   Hackathon team got runners-up at the local Geohackathon.
22/10/15:   New blog post on how to convert an image to ASCII art using R.
19/08/15:   Revamped the website look. Added a music page to share music-related posts.
29/05/15:   Attended IPDPS 2015, as part of the PhD forum. Great experience.
12/03/15:   Completed the confirmation exercise at NTU, now a confirmed PhD student.
14/02/15:   Paper accepted at RAW 2015 (part of IPDPS proceedings). See More..
07/01/15:   Paper accepted at SCF 2015. See More..
03/01/15:   Started an online data science specialization course on Coursera, run by the John Hopkins University. Program is part-funded by IDA Singapore, in a bid to promote big data science in Singapore.
22/11/14:   Paper accepted as a poster presentation at FPGA 2015. See More..
01/08/14:   Completed a successful one-week Croucher Summer Course on Performance-aware Programming with Application Accelerators at the Hong Kong University (HKU).
21/07/14:   Paper accepted at DFM 2014 Workshop Proceedings. See More..
03/06/14:   Short paper accepted in the 2014 FPL Proceedings. See More..
12/03/14:   Paper accepted as a short paper (4-pages) in the 2014 FCCM Proceedings. See More..
25/04/13:   Awarded the Young Richard Newton Fellow Award to attend DAC 2013. See More..
14/01/13:   Started my PhD Candidature at NTU under Asst Prof Nachiket Kapre's supervision.
01/07/12:   Started a research attachment under the UROP scheme at Imperial College London with Dr. Kapre.
26/06/12:   Graduated from Imperial College London.
03/09/09:   Undergraduate journey begins at Imperial College London.