Sharath Pendyala

I am a highly skilled FPGA and RTL Design Engineer with over a decade of experience in hardware design, digital systems, and cutting-edge research. Currently, I am pursuing a PhD in Hardware Security at North Carolina State University, where I focus on post-quantum cryptography and FPGA-based designs. I am passionate about cycling and running, and would love to bike up Alpe d'Huez.

North Carolina State University, USA -- August 2024 - present

PhD Research Assistant

Research on post-quantum cryptography algorithms, including FALCON and FRODO.
Developed FPGA-based RTL designs for discrete Gaussian sampling in FALCON, low-latency and high-throughput 64-bit multipliers, and LLM-based RTL/HLS generation.
Published research in LightSec 2025 and VLSI-SOC 2025.

Independent Contractor -- August 2023 - July 2024

Developed FPGA RTL designs for medical imaging and high-speed communication systems.
Integrated Ethernet 802.3 baseband RTL into Keysight M8000 BERT, implemented Partial Reconfiguration and floorplanning optimizations, designed a novel cascaded PLL structure for precise clock generation with limited clocking resources.

Keysight Technologies, USA -- November 2018 - August 2023

R&D IC Engineer

Designed baseband RTL for 5G-NR and Wi-Fi physical layers.
Migrated and optimized Wi-Fi baseband RTL to Keysight UXM - Wireless Test Platform.
Led over-the-air testing for 5G-NR millimeter-wave systems.

Hughes Network Systems, USA -- August 2015 - November 2018

MTS Hardware Engineer 3

Architected and designed baseband modem RTL for satellite-based 3G base stations.
Developed novel DDR memory arbitration scheme and arbiter design for low-latency high-throughput real-time memory access to optimize the FPGA design bottleneck.

PhD in Computer Engineering (Hardware Security)

North Carolina State University, USA

2024 - present

Master of Science in Computer Engineering

North Carolina State University, USA

2013 - 2015

Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering

National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India

2009 - 2013

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