Raghavan Kumar
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Raghavan Kumar is a leading researcher in energy-efficient hardware acceleration for emerging 3D vision and robotics applications. His work focuses on designing specialized digital architectures, particularly ray-casting accelerators in advanced CMOS nodes, to enable real-time 3D scene reconstruction for edge robotics and augmented reality. Kumar's major contribution is a pioneering ray-casting accelerator fabricated in 10nm CMOS, which simultaneously casts multiple spatially proximate rays to exploit voxel data-locality. The design incorporates a near-memory search for voxel address overlaps and opportunistic approximate trilinear interpolation, achieving significant energy savings. This work, published in 2020, has garnered 8 citations and demonstrates ray-casting capabilities critical for efficient, low-power 3D perception at the edge. Kumar's innovations bridge the gap between high-performance computing and energy-constrained platforms, making him a key figure in the advancement of hardware for autonomous systems and immersive AR experiences.
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