Research

Research areas

Doctoral research at NIT Goa on hardware acceleration of Generative Adversarial Networks, alongside applied cybersecurity and intelligent-systems work. Each area below is backed by publications and, where it exists, open-source implementation.

Efficient AI

Resource-efficient synthetic image generation: multifractal and evolutionary methods embedded in GAN training so models are small, stable and deployable on constrained edge hardware.

GAN MFDFA Wavelet Edge AI

Hardware Acceleration

FPGA / VLSI design for AI: synthesising GAN discriminators on the AMD Kintex-7 KC705 and earlier Vedic-math arithmetic cores, targeting low latency and power at the edge.

FPGA VLSI Vedic math Edge AI

Cybersecurity

Applied security through teaching: Incident Response and Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing at the National Forensic Sciences University, plus forensic and malware-research experiments in the open.

VAPT Incident response Forensics Malware research

Intelligent Systems

Optimisation-driven learning: PSO and hybrid evolutionary techniques for GAN training, and exponential-variation PSO for analog circuit sizing in constrained design spaces.

PSO Evolutionary Analog EDA MNIST
Research → code

From publication to implementation

Research and software are treated as one pipeline. Every paper maps to a method, an implementation and — where it exists — an exact source repository. Nothing here links to a vague "view profile".

Research problem
GAN instability on edge hardware
Method
evolutionary · wavelet · MFDFA
Implementation
PyTorch · Python · HDL
Results
latency · power · FID
Publication
IEEE Access · iSES · INDICON
Source code
open research repos

Some publications have no public code yet — those are listed as paper-only rather than inventing links. Verified implementations are shown with their exact repository.

Publications

All nine publications

Every entry verified against ORCID and Crossref. DOIs resolve to the publisher; the two conference papers without DOIs link to their ORCID records.

  • 2026

    MFDFA-Enhanced GAN: A Hardware-Optimized Architecture for Efficient Synthetic Image Generation

    C. G. Korde, K. G. Shreeharsha, R. K. Siddharth, M. H. Vasantha, Y. B. Nithin Kumar

    IEEE Access  vol. 14, pp. 46700–46713 · −92.05% latency, −86.03% power

  • 2025

    Evolutionary-Enhanced GAN With Wavelet-Based Discrimination: A Hardware-Accelerated Architecture for Efficient Synthetic Image Generation

    C. G. Korde, K. G. Shreeharsha, R. K. Siddharth, M. H. Vasantha, Y. B. Nithin Kumar

    IEEE Access  vol. 13, pp. 209009–209022 · 138 µs vs 570 µs, 24 mW vs 47 mW

  • 2025

    Generating Synthetic Data Using 2D Multifractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis Generative Adversarial Networks

    C. G. Korde, K. G. Shreeharsha, R. K. Siddharth, M. H. Vasantha, Y. B. Nithin Kumar

    IEEE Access  vol. 13, pp. 150794–150805 · 85% FID gain, 94% faster, −81% power

  • 2024

    An Exponential Variation Based PSO for Analog Circuit Sizing in Constrained Environment

    K. G. Shreeharsha, R. K. Siddharth, C. G. Korde, M. H. Vasantha, Y. B. Nithin Kumar

    AEU — Int. J. Electron. Commun.  vol. 187, art. 155531

  • 2021

    Training of Generative Adversarial Networks using Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm

    K. G. Shreeharsha, C. G. Korde, M. H. Vasantha, Y. B. Nithin Kumar

    IEEE iSES  pp. 127–130 · ~5× fewer iterations to plausible MNIST images

  • 2019

    Training of Generative Adversarial Networks with Hybrid Evolutionary Optimization Technique

    C. G. Korde, K. Manikantta Reddy, M. H. Vasantha, Y. B. Nithin Kumar

    IEEE INDICON  pp. 1–4

  • 2018

    FPGA Implementation of Square and Cube Architecture Using Vedic Mathematics

    S. Barve, S. Raveendran, C. Korde, T. Panigrahi, Y. B. Nithin Kumar, M. H. Vasantha

    IEEE iSES  pp. 6–10

  • 2017

    Multifractal Analysis of Ionospheric Disturbances Triggered by Earthquakes

    C. G. Korde (IAMG Conference paper)

    IAMG Conference  paper-only · no DOI

  • 2015

    Implementation of FPGA Based Pre-Processing Algorithms for Devnagri Script Recognition System

    C. G. Korde (ISVLSI Conference paper)

    IEEE ISVLSI  paper-only · no DOI

ORCID · Google Scholar · Scopus · Web of Science

Projects

Flagship open source

The pinned, maintained core of the charudatta10 profile. Every link resolves to the exact repository or site.

Flagship · pinned

orbit

A ~160-line minimalist LLM framework for Lua. Zero dependencies, zero vendor lock-in; agents, workflows and RAG in one file.

Lua LLM Agents
Flagship · pinned

forensic-fathers-library

Static site with a client-only RAG chatbot over the founding figures of forensic science — WebLLM in the browser, no server, no API keys.

HTML RAG WebLLM
Flagship · pinned

license · MPLS

A composable, SPDX-compatible licensing framework — modular legal clauses instead of rewriting licenses, with monetisation built in.

Python Licensing Open source
Flagship · pinned

link-net

Aggregated link hub — a curated, categorised collection of useful resources with custom link icons and fast setup.

Python Flask Jinja2
Projects

Notable projects

Automation, AI tooling, security and knowledge systems built for research workflows and teaching.

Automation

task-runner-SDLC

Automates init, deploy, licence, readme and maintenance tasks across projects (now maintained as PowerShell modules).

AI tooling

ai-orb · ai-rag · ai-translate

Agent framework, retrieval-augmented generation and code translation, each running on local models.

Security

one-time-share · sandLua

Secure single-download file sharing, and a Lua reverse-engineering sandbox with static and dynamic analysis.

Knowledge

wiki-notes · ibrain

Foam + Raito personal knowledge graph, and a Docsify-powered notes & wiki site.

Projects

Research implementations

Code directly tied to the publication record — the same lines of work from the earliest papers to the doctoral GAN research.

Research · academic

Devanagari Recognizer

Handwritten Devanagari script recognition system from the Bachelor's project (2015) — the same line of work as the ISVLSI publication on FPGA pre-processing.

MATLAB OCR ML
Research

PGAN-DNN

2019 GAN research implementation (perceptual adversarial training experiments) — part of the doctoral exploration into stable GAN training that led to the INDICON publication.

PyTorch GAN Research
Academic

Education projects

Degree projects that started the research lines now published.

  • Handwritten Devanagari Script Recognition (2015) — Machine learning-based character recognition system with FPGA pre-processing (Bachelor's Project, GEC Goa). Published at ISVLSI.
  • Total Electron Content as Seismic Precursor (2017) — MFDFA-based ionospheric pattern analysis for earthquake detection (Master's Project, GEC Goa & IIT Bombay). Presented at IAMG.
  • Hybrid Evolutionary Optimization of GANs (2019) — Evolutionary + backprop training framework for improved GAN convergence (PhD Work, NIT Goa). Published at INDICON.
Lab

Experiments & archive

Exploratory and laboratory work — some published, some living on the profile, all listed without invented links.

  • AI Grand Challenge — PS12 (Underwater Acoustic Systems).
  • P2P Distributed Blockchain for Postmortem Reason-of-Death Prediction.
  • Blockchain-based Malware Detection Research.
  • Decentralized Federated Learning Infrastructure Lab Setup.
  • Experimental Rust blockchain — DAO-driven educational governance.
  • Federated LLM architecture — torrent-based decentralised training.
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