Charles received a Bachelors from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India and a Ph.D. degree from Purdue University in 2004 and 2011, respectively. He is currently working as a circuit design engineer at NVIDIA. Prior to that in his 14-year career at Intel Charles has designed 7 test-chips across 5 advanced process technology nodes. His focus has been on two areas which are high-performance design and power delivery research. Charles also worked at Texas Instruments, and Philips Semiconductors. In addition to 75 publications in the referred conferences and journals, Charles has authored 50 patents.
Charles currently lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and two kids. Charles hobbies include running outdoors and recently completed Hood To Coast relay.