Gourav Datta

Gourav Datta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). He holds a PhD from the University of Southern California (USC) and a B.Tech. from IIT Kharagpur. His research focuses on energy-efficient algorithm-hardware co-design for machine learning at the edge, with specializations in In-Sensor Computing, Neuromorphic Computing, and Embedded Machine Learning. Prior to CWRU, he worked as an Applied Scientist at Amazon AGI, contributing to Amazon Nova's video understanding capabilities.

Education:

• PhD in Electrical Engineering, USC (2023)
• B.Tech. in Instrumentation Engineering, IIT Kharagpur (2018)

Research Interests:

• Energy-efficient computer vision and multimodal deep learning
• In-sensor computing and neuromorphic architectures
• Efficient model deployments on FPGAs/microcontrollers
• Multi-modal KV cache compression and retrieval-augmented generation

Awards:

• 2024 William Ballhaus Best PhD Dissertation Award
• 2023 USC ECE Best RA Award
• 2022 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship finalist
• 2018 USC Annenberg Fellowship

Academic Service:

• Program committee member for ISQED, VLSID, DAC (2024–2025)
• Reviewer for IEEE journals and conferences including ICASSP, ICLR, and WACV

Labs/Teams: Leads research on edge computing and neuromorphic systems at CWRU's ECSE department, collaborating with industry partners like Edge Impulse.