dr.ir. Kumar

Postdoc
Signal Processing Systems (SPS), Department of Microelectronics

PhD thesis (Sep 2015): Thermal-Aware Design and Runtime Management of 3D Stacked Multiprocessors
Promotor: Alle-Jan van der Veen, René van Leuken

Expertise: Neuromorphic computing, multi-processor architectures, network-on-chip interconnects

Themes: Autonomous sensor systems

Biography

Sumeet was a post-doc with the Circuits & Systems group until Nov 2020, responsible for leading collaborative R&D programmes with industry on computing systems for highly automated vehicles.

Prior to this, he was a PhD student at CAS and graduated in September 2015.

Computational neuroscience and bio-inspired circuits and algorithms

Low-power neuro-inspired or neuromorphic circuits and algorithms; low-power circuits and systems for neural interfacing.

Projects history

Programmable Systems for Intelligence in Automobiles

(a) fail-operational sensor-fusion framework, (b) dependable embedded E/E architectures, (c) safety compliant integration of AI approaches for object recognition, scene understanding, and decision making

RESIST

Design approach for resilient integrated electronic systems in automotive and avionics applications

Computing Fabric for high performance Applications

Develop an open, flexible and high performance platform by substituting heterogeneous mixed HW/SW specialized sub-systems by application specific processor arrays.

  1. Comprehensive MPSP for Fast Optimal Control: Algorithm Development and Convergence Analysis
    Prem Kumar; Geethu Joseph; Chandra R. Murthy; Radhakant Padhi;
    Transactions of the Indian National Academy of Engineering,
    2024.

  2. Vector Doppler imaging of small vessels using directionally filtered Power Doppler images
    B. Generowicz; L. Verhoef; F. Mastik; S. Dijkhuizen; N. van Dorp; J. Voorneveld; J. Bosch; K. Kumar; G. Leus; C. de Zeeuw; S. Koekkoek; P. Kruizinga;
    In 2020 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS),
    pp. 1-4, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/IUS46767.2020.9251356
    document

  3. An Energy-Efficient BJT-Based Temperaure-to-Digital Converter with ±0.13 °C (3σ) Inaccuracy from -40 to 125°C
    R.K. Kumar; H. Jiang; K. A.A. Makinwa;
    In Proc. IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (ASSCC),
    11 2019.

  4. An Energy-Efficient BJT-Based Temperature-to-Digital Converter with ±0.13°C (3σ) Inaccuracy from -40 to 125°C
    Kumar, Rushil K.; Jiang, Hui; Makinwa, Kofi A. A.;
    In 2019 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC),
    pp. 107-108, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/A-SSCC47793.2019.9056962

  5. A sub-nW neuromorphic receptors for wide-range temporal patterns of post-synaptic responses in 65 nm CMOS
    X. You; A. Zjajo; S. Kumar; R. van Leuken;
    Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing,
    2018. DOI: 10.1007/s10470-018-1276-4
    document

  6. Advances in the electronics for cyclic voltammetry: the case of gas detection by using microfabricated electrodes
    Giorgio Pennazza; Marco Santonico; Luca Vollero; Alessandro Zompanti; Anna Sabatini; Nandeesh Kumar; Ivan Pini; William F Quiros Solano; Lina Sarro; Arnaldo D'Amico;
    Frontiers in Chemistry,
    Volume 6, pp. 327, 2018.
    document

  7. Energy-Efficient Multipath Ring Network for Heterogeneous Clustered Neuronal Arrays
    A. Ardelean; A. Zjajo; S.S. Kumar; R. van Leuken;
    In IEEE Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI),
    Las Vegas (USA), IEEE, pp. 190-193, March 2018. DOI: 10.1109/BHI.2018.8333401
    document

  8. Multi-layer neuromorphic synapse for reconfigurable networks
    A. Zjajo; S. Kumar; R. van Leuken;
    In IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing,
    Beijing, China, pp. 997-1000, 2018.
    document

  9. Uncertainty in noise-driven steady-state neuromorphic network for ECG data classificaiton
    A. Zjajo; J. Mes; E. Kolagasiogly; S. Kumar; R. van Leuken;
    In IEEE International Symposium on Computer Based Medical Systems,
    Karlstad, Sweden, pp. 434-435, 2018. ISSN 2372-9198. DOI: 10.1109/CBMS.2018.00082
    document

  10. Fighting Dark Silicon: Toward Realizing Efficient Thermal-Aware 3-D Stacked Multiprocessors
    S.S. Kumar; A. Zjajo; T.G.R.M. van Leuken;
    IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems,
    Volume 25, Issue 4, pp. 1549-1562, 2017. ISSN 1063-8210. DOI: 10.1109/TVLSI.2016.2642587
    document

  11. Immediate Neighborhood Temperature Adaptive Routing for Dynamically Throttled 3-D Networks-on-Chip
    S. S. Kumar; A. Zjajo; R. van Leuken;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs,
    Volume 64, Issue 7, pp. 782-786, July 2017. ISSN 1549-7747. DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2015.2503613
    document

  12. Neuromorphic spike data classifier for reconfigurable brain-machine interface
    A. Zjajo; S. Kumar; R. van Leuken;
    In 2017 8th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER),
    pp. 150-153, May 2017. DOI: 10.1109/NER.2017.8008314
    document

  13. Neuromorphic Self-Organizing Map Design for Classification of Bioelectric-Timescale Signals
    J. Mes; E. Stienstra; Xuefei You; S. Kumar; A. Zjajo; C. Galuzzi; R. van Leuken;
    In Int. Conf. on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling and Simulation (SAMOS XVII),
    July 2017.

  14. Energy-Efficient Neuromorphic Receptors for Wide-Range Temporal Patterns of Post-Synaptic Responses
    Xuefei You; A. Zjajo; S. S. Kumar; R. van Leuken;
    In IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (2017 NorCAS),
    Linkoping (Sweden), October 2017. DOI: 10.1109/NORCHIP.2017.8124951
    document

  15. Exploration of the thermal design space in 3D integrated circuits
    S.S. Kumar; A. Zjajo; R. van Leuken;
    In Physical Design for 3D Integrated Circuits,
    CRC Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-4987-1037-4.

  16. Immediate neighborhood temperature adaptive routing for 3D networks-on-chip
    S. Kumar; A. Zjajo; R. van Leuken;
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II: Express Briefs,
    2015. DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2015.2503613
    document

  17. Thermal Design of 3D Systems-on-Chip
    S. S. Kumar; A. Zjajo; R. van Leuken;
    In Physical Design for 3D Integrated Circuits,
    CRC Press, 2015. DOI: 978-87-929-8271-1
    document

  18. Physical characterization of steady-state temperature profiles in three-dimensional integrated circuits
    S. Kumar; A. Zjajo; R. van Leuken;
    In IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems,
    Lisbon, Portugal, pp. pp. 1969-1972, 2015.
    document

  19. Ctherm: A integrated framework for thermal-functional co-simulation of systems-on-chip
    S. Kumar; A. Zjajo; R. van Leuken;
    In IEEE International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing,
    Turku, Finland, pp. pp. 674-681, 2015.
    document

  20. Thermal-Aware Design and Runtime Management of 3D Stacked Multiprocessors
    S.S. Kumar;
    PhD thesis, TU Delft, Fac. EEMCS, September 2015. ISBN 978-94-6186-513-7.
    document

  21. Pronto: A Low Overhead Message Passing System for High Performance Many-Core Processors
    S.S. Kumar; Mitzi Tijin-A-Djie; T.G.R.M. van Leuken;
    International Journal of Networking and Computing,
    Volume 4, Issue 2, pp. 307-320, July 2014. ISSN 2185-2839.
    document

  22. A System Level Methodology for Interconnect Aware and Temperature Constrained Power Management of 3D MP-SoCs
    S.S. Kumar; A. Aggarwal; R. Jagtap; A. Zjajo; R. van Leuken;
    IEEE Tr. Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems,
    Volume 22, pp. 1606-1619, 2014.

  23. Improving data cache performance using Persistence Selective Caching
    S.S. Kumar; T.G.R.M. van Leuken;
    In IEEE Int. Conf. Circuits and Systems (ISCAS),
    Melbourne, Australia, IEEE, pp. 1945-1948, June 2014. DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2014.6865542
    document

  24. A System Level Methodology for Interconnect Aware and Temperature Constrained Power Management of 3D MP-SoCs
    S. Kumar; A. Aggarwal; R. Jagtap; A. Zjajo; R. van Leuken;
    IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems,
    2013. in press.
    document

  25. Cit: A GCC Plugin for the Analysis and Characterization of Data Dependencies in Parallel Programs
    S.S. Kumar; A. Chahar; R. van Leuken;
    In Int. Conf. Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems,
    San Sebastian (Spain), 2013.
    document

  26. Low Overhead Message Passing for High Performance Many-Core Processors
    S.S. Kumar; M.E. Tjin-A-Djie; R. van Leuken;
    In Int. Symp. Computing and Networking,
    Matsuyama (Japan), 2013.
    document

  27. Interconnect and Thermal Aware 3D Design Space Exploration
    S. Kumar; A. Aggarwal; R. Jagtap; A. Zjajo; R. van Leuken;
    In ICT.OPEN,
    Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2013.
    document

  28. Temperature Constrained Power Management Scheme for 3D MPSoC
    A. Aggarwal; S. Kumar; A. Zjajo; T.G.R.M. van Leuken;
    In Proceedings of SPI 2012,
    Sorrento, Italy, May 2012.
    document

  29. A Methodology for Early Exploration of TSV Placement Topologies in 3D Stacked ICs
    R. Jagtap; S.S. Kumar; T.G.R.M. van Leuken;
    In 15th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design,
    Cesme, Turkey, September 2012.

  30. Low Power Time-of-Flight 3D Imager System in Standard CMOS
    P. Kumar; E. Charbon; R.B. Staszewski;
    In Proc. IEEE Intl. Conference of Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS),
    December 2012.
    document

  31. Low power time-of-flight 3D imager system in standard CMOS
    P. Kumar; E. Charbon; R. B. Staszewski; A. Borowski;
    In 2012 19th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS 2012),
    pp. 941-944, Dec 2012.

  32. A 3D network-on-chip for stacked-die transactional chip multiprocessors using through silicon vias
    S.S. Kumar; T.G.R.M. van Leuken;
    In 2011 6th Int. Conf. on Design and Technology of Integrated Systems in Nanoscale Era (DTIS),
    Athens, Greece, IEEE, pp. 1-6, April 2011.
    document

  33. TMFab--A Transactional Memory Fabric for Chip Multiprocessors
    S.S. Kumar; R. van Leuken;
    In Designing for Embedded Parallel Computing Platforms: Architectures, Design Tools, and Applications (DEPCP 2011),
    Grenoble, France, March 2011.

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