Researcher · Engineer · Educator
I build systems with logic, explore ideas with curiosity, and live with awareness. This page collects the concrete facts — education, experience, skills and achievements.
Systems that scale intellectually
I am Charudatta Gurudas Korde — an engineer, developer, researcher, and educator driven by curiosity and depth. I think in systems. I build with intention. I research with discipline. And I teach to simplify complexity. My work lives at the intersection of architecture and abstraction — where ideas become structured systems and theory becomes implementation. I am drawn to decentralized technologies, open knowledge, and designing solutions that are minimal yet comprehensive.
Beyond engineering, I am a lifelong learner — anime, food, gardening, reading, and coding as a creative outlet. I value rest and reflection as much as productivity, and I believe technology should not only advance capability but also elevate awareness. Growth for me is holistic — intellectual, creative, and inner.
Academic background
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2017 — 2026 (Expected)Ph.D. in VLSI & Reconfigurable Computing
Research focus: hardware acceleration of GANs on FPGA-based edge devices. National Institute of Technology Goa.
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2015 — 2017 · 80%M.Tech. in Microelectronics
Master's project: multifractal analysis of ionospheric TEC as a seismic precursor (GEC Goa & IIT Bombay).
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2011 — 2015 · 76%B.E. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Bachelor's project: handwritten Devanagari script recognition with FPGA pre-processing (GEC Goa).
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2009 — 2011 · 72%Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC)
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1999 — 2009 · 69%Secondary School Certificate (SSC)
Where the work happens
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2024 — PresentContract Lecturer, National Forensic Sciences University
Teaching Incident Response and Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing (VAPT), integrating applied cybersecurity practice with system-level analysis and research-informed instruction.
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2024Visiting Faculty, Goa Polytechnic College
Laboratory instruction in Basic Electronics — circuit fundamentals, measurement techniques and applied engineering principles.
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2018 — PresentResearch Scholar, National Institute of Technology Goa
Doctoral research in FPGA-based AI acceleration — GAN architectures, hardware-software co-design, and resource-efficient intelligent systems. Academic mentoring and laboratory guidance as Teaching Assistant.
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2019Software Validation Engineer, Intel
Validated Quartus tool flows, contributing to verification processes, workflow robustness and software quality assurance.
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2015 — PresentIndependent Research & Open-Source Development
Analytical and software development projects spanning medical signal analysis, data-intensive systems and automation tooling; open-source utilities for documentation generation, file-system organization and programmatic graphics.
Tools and disciplines
Achievements & mentorship
- Guided 6 postgraduate students in thesis writing — mentored research scholars across problem formulation, experimental design, system implementation and academic structuring in AI, GAN optimization and hardware-accelerated architectures.
- Cleared Stage 1 — AI Grand Challenge — qualified in the initial evaluation round of the national-level AI Grand Challenge (PS12, Underwater Acoustic Systems).
- Completed a 5K marathon — discipline, endurance and long-term consistency, applied to sustained research and systems engineering.
- Poster presentation on edge computing optimization — clarity of communication across technical and non-technical audiences.
- State-level chess tournament competitor — strategic reasoning, foresight and pattern recognition transferable to AI modeling and distributed systems design.