FNU RAUNAK is pursuing an MS in Computer Engineering from Arizona State University graduating in May 2021. He has work experience as an Embedded Researcher at ASU developing fault injection techniques for hardware reliability and previously worked as a Manager at Reliance Industries in India. His technical skills include C, C++, Java, Python, and embedded systems. His academic projects involve Linux device drivers, cache replacement policies, and Red-Black trees.

1. FNU RAUNAK
rraunak@asu.edu|602-587-6826|www.linkedin.com/in/rraunakk|github.com/rraunak
EDUCATION
MS in Computer Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe (GPA: 3.77/4.0) Graduating May’21
- Relevant Courses – Embedded Operating System Internals, Advanced Computer Architecture,
Foundation of Algorithms, Digital Systems and Circuits.
B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, MIT, Manipal (GPA: 8.5/10) May’17
- Relevant Courses – Microcontroller System Design, Embedded Systems, Computer Architecture.
EMPLOYMENT
Embedded Researcher, Compiler Microarchitecture Lab, ASU, Tempe, Arizona Spring’20–Present
- Development of a framework for fault injection setup in Gem5 to analyze single-bit soft error
mitigation techniques in the computer hardware.
- Implementation and comparison of nZDC (Near Zero Silent Data Corruption), and EDDI (Error
Detection by Duplicated Instruction) fault tolerance techniques on the LLVM compiler.
Manager, Reliance Industries Limited, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Aug’17–Jul‘18
- Prevented a revenue loss of $1 million by reducing major downtime loss, collaborating with the
plant shutdown team.
- Achieved increased efficiency of motors by 15% through FMEA (Failure mode and effects
analysis), successful replacement, and overhauling strategies.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Programming Languages: C, C++, JAVA, OpenCL, CUDA, Python3, Shell Scripting, Assembly
- Others: Gem5, Verilog, ModelSim, Cadence, MATLAB, LabVIEW, Spice, Eclipse, Eagle-PCB,
PyCharm, Keil, Kernel Programming, Linux Device Drivers, Intel Galileo Board
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
Generic Netlink Socket and SPI Device Programming Spring’20
- Programmed LED SPI device to display animation based on distances measured by the HC-SR04.
- Utilized Netlink socket communication to transfer display patterns, SPI chip select, echo, trigger
pins, and a distance measure signal to and from the kernel space to display the animation sequence.
Device Drivers for HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Sensor Spring’20
- Designed a Linux miscellaneous driver module to enable the user-space interface for HC-SR04.
- Developed a platform driver and device infrastructure for the HC-SR04 sensor, which permits any
HC-SR04 devices defined as platform devices to be instantiated and bound with the platform driver.
Red-Black Tree and Kprobes in Linux Kernel Spring’20
- Implemented a character device driver as a Linux kernel module to manage Red-Black Tree and
multi-threaded program using pthreads to perform different file operations on Red-Black Tree.
- Devised a kernel module, which used kprobe API to add or remove probes in the kernel, inserted
probes, and obtained the timestamp and nodes at the read and write file operations of the tree.
RefCount Cache Replacement Policy Spring’20
- Synthesized a cache replacement policy based on a reference counter for L2 cache in the Gem5.
- Analyzed and compared the Refcount with LRU replacement policy on different benchmarks.
Dynamic Stack Dumping in Linux Kernel Spring’20
- Built new system calls to insert and remove dump stack in the execution path of kernel programs.
Capacity Computation of National Airspace System Fall’19
- Executed a breadth-first search using python program to pick the path with the minimum number
of edges to find the residual graph in the Ford-Fulkerson algorithm with a 99.7% success rate.
Microcontroller Based Protection of Three Phase Induction Motor Spring’17
- Designed and implemented the hardware for the protection of three-phase induction motor from
over/under voltage, overload, and single-phasing to achieve a cost saving of 37.5%.