Alish Kanani

Alish Kanani

Ph.D. Student

Alish Kanani

Biography

Alish Kanani received his B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur. Prior to joining UW–Madison, he worked at Samsung Electronics on 3D IC test chips as part of the system architecture and RTL design engineering team. He is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Research Focus: Workload scheduling and thermal modeling/management for emerging AI systems, including hybrid Mamba-Transformer LLM acceleration, disaggregated prefill/decode accelerator packages, adaptive expert prefetching for edge MoE inference, and heterogeneous chiplet/PIM architectures. Research overview: Slides Abstract [Contact][web]