Publications

A collection of my research papers, preprints, and associated materials.

Research Publications

RapidQ: Queueing-based Performance Modeling Framework for Rapid Simulation and Automated Tuning of Input-Dependent Streaming FPGA Pipelines
Shashank Obla, James C. Hoe, Bin Li
IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC 2026) — To appear
2026
RapidScan: High-Throughput Parameterized HLS-based Streaming String Matching Library for FPGAs
Shashank Obla, Tommy Tracy II, Matthew Beck, James C. Hoe, Kevin Skadron, Wajih Ul Hassan
Reconfigurable Computing Challenge, FCCM 2026 — We won 3rd place 🥉!
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2026
Lightweight Queueing Abstraction for Rapid Simulation and Automated Tuning of Input-Dependent Streaming Pipelines on FPGAs
Shashank Obla, Bin Li, James C. Hoe
Poster, FCCM 2026
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2026
Pigasus 2.0: Making the Pigasus IDS Robust to Attacks and Different Workloads
Zhipeng Zhao, Nirav Atre, Hugo Sadok, Siddharth Sahay, Shashank Obla, James C. Hoe, Justine Sherry
Demo, SIGCOMM 2022
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2022
Exploiting the Common Case When Accelerating Input-Dependent Stream Processing by FPGA
Zhipeng Zhao, Joseph Melber, Siddharth Sahay, Shashank Obla, Eriko Nurvitadhi, James C. Hoe
IEEE Transactions on Computers, May 2023
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2022

Other Projects & Preprints

Accelerating Input-Dependent Streaming Applications on FPGAs
Shashank Obla
PhD Dissertation, Carnegie Mellon University, August 2026
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2026
High Performance Multigrid V-Cycle using SIMD Intrinsics
Shashank Obla, Eric Tang
18-645 Course Project, Dec 2022
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2022
Enabling Hardware Design Tradeoffs at Runtime with Dynamically Composable Designs for FPGAs
Shashank Obla
ECE Qualifiers, Apr 2021
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2021
Accelerated Circuit Simulation: Harmonic Balance and Logic Partitioning
Shashank Obla
Masters Dissertation, IIT Bombay, May 2019
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2019