Akiho Kawada

Incoming Ph.D. Student @ University of Texas at Austin

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I’m an incoming Ph.D. student in ECE at The University of Texas at Austin. I will be working with Professor Neeraja Yadwadkar.

My research interests lie in computer architecture, with a particular focus on software–hardware co-design for machine learning systems and heterogeneous computing.





news

Oct 31, 2025 I’ve been selected for the Funai Overseas Scholarship.
Nov 01, 2024 I will be presenting our paper, titled ‘A 250.3μW Versatile Sound Feature Extractor Using 1024-Point FFT 64-ch LogMel Filter in 40nm CMOS’, on November 8, 2024 in Taipei at APCCAS 2024.
Oct 20, 2024 I will be visiting UCSB Computer Architecture Lab as a visiting student from October 25th - December 20th, 2024.

publications

  1. A 250.3μW Versatile Sound Feature Extractor Using 1024-point FFT 64-ch LogMel Filter in 40nm CMOS
    Akiho Kawada* ,  Kenji Kobayashi* ,  Jaewon Shin , and 3 more authors
    In 2024 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS) , 2024
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