Darshika G. Perera

Darshika G. Perera is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS). Her research focuses on FPGA-based hardware acceleration, neuromorphic computing, and embedded systems optimization with applications in machine learning, cryptography, and battery management systems. She holds a PhD and has extensive experience in designing reconfigurable architectures for compute-intensive tasks. Her work bridges theoretical algorithms with practical hardware implementations, emphasizing efficiency and real-time performance.

Key research areas include FPGA design methodologies, neuromorphic hardware for AI applications, and embedded systems security. She has published widely on topics such as hardware-software co-design for edge computing, optimization algorithms for genomics, and blockchain applications in healthcare IoT. Her contributions also span data mining hardware accelerators and dynamic reconfiguration techniques for cryptographic systems.

Dr. Perera’s work is characterized by interdisciplinary collaborations, combining principles from electrical engineering, computer science, and applied mathematics. She is committed to advancing next-generation edge-computing platforms through innovative architectures and methodologies.