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Sandeep Kumar R.

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Senior AI System Architect at Qualcomm
📍 San Diego, California, United States

Sandeep is a Senior AI System Architect at Qualcomm, specializing in AI hardware-software co-design and system optimization for deep learning. He holds a Masters from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a TinyML certification. People who have worked with him describe him as self-motivated and passionate about learning.

He has a keen interest in AI education, having previously designed and delivered a deep learning course from the ground up and more recently given a university guest lecture on advances in Transformer models.

He played a key role in engineering the Micro NPU (Neural Processing Unit), an AI hardware accelerator purpose-built for ultra-low power, on-device deep learning inference.

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Experience
5 Years
Current Role
Senior AI System Architect
Location
San Diego, California, United States
Personality Overview

How Sandeep shows up

Upfront
Judgemental
Hard To Convince

They care equally about the product and its potential impact. They can be nudged to make faster decisions by offering what they value. They don’t always try to control the conversation but neither do they like yielding it fully.

Priorities

Topics Sandeep cares about

On-Device AI
Engineered the Micro NPU for ultra-low-power, on-device inference and celebrates pushing the boundaries of on-device intelligence with the Qualcomm Sensing Hub.
Hardware-Software Co-Design
His core specialty is bridging hardware and software, taking a full-stack approach from low-level kernels and runtime tuning to hardware validation frameworks.
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Career

Work history

2-2021
Senior AI System Architect
Qualcomm
5-2020 - 8-2020
Machine Learning Engineering Intern
Qualcomm
2-2019 - 7-2019
Machine Learning Consultant
LEMA LABS
12-2018 - 3-2019
Research Assistant
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
9-2018 - 11-2018
AI Technology Consultant
Panamon Technologies LLP
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Education
Master of Science - MS
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bachelor of Engineering - BE
Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering
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