Shashank Obla

Shashank Obla

I am currently on the job market and actively seeking postdoctoral positions and research roles in industry!

I am a final-year PhD Candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Prof. James Hoe. My research interests lie in designing sustainable and programmable accelerators for datacenter-scale computing, alongside the abstractions necessary to model and optimize applications running on them.

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May 2026
Had a great time attending FCCM 2026. I presented our work on using the BoostX NIC for log monitoring at the MangoBoost tutorial, won 3rd place at the Reconfigurable Computing Challenge for our work on RapidScan, and presented our poster on RapidQ!

Selected Publications

RapidScan: High-Throughput Parameterized HLS-based Streaming String Matching Library for FPGAs
Shashank Obla, Tommy Tracy II, Matthew Beck, James C. Hoe, Kevin Skadron, Wajih Ul Hassan
Reconfigurable Computing Challenge, FCCM 2026 — We won 3rd place 🥉!
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2026
Pigasus 2.0: Making the Pigasus IDS Robust to Attacks and Different Workloads
Zhipeng Zhao, Nirav Atre, Hugo Sadok, Siddharth Sahay, Shashank Obla, James C. Hoe, Justine Sherry
Demo, SIGCOMM 2022
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2022
Exploiting the Common Case When Accelerating Input-Dependent Stream Processing by FPGA
Zhipeng Zhao, Joseph Melber, Siddharth Sahay, Shashank Obla, Eriko Nurvitadhi, James C. Hoe
IEEE Transactions on Computers, May 2023
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2022
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