Sunny Sanyal
I am a PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin, advised by Prof. Sujay Sanghavi in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. For my research, I work on simple things and simple things works for me. Nowadays, I am working on in efficient pre-training and inference of foundational models (mostly LLMs). I am fortunate to be mentored by industrial researchers; Abhishek Kumar (Google Brain), Abhinav Mathur (Alexa) and Stephen Rawls (Alexa).
Before moving to Austin, I graduated with an M.Eng. degree in Information and Communication Engineering from Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China in 2019, and received a B.Tech degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (formerly known as West Bengal University of Technology), Kolkata, India. During my undergrad, I gloriously failed to scale up my startup, Tronix India, and later worked in an Indian multinational IT firm, TechMahindra.