Dr. Parijat Shukla
Associate Professor

Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Iowa State University

Email: parijat.shukla@plastindia.edu.in | 📍 Vapi (Gujarat) India

Biography

Dr. Parijat Shukla specializes in computer architecture, high‑performance computing (HPC), and machine learning accelerators. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University under the guidance of Prof. Arun K. Somani, where his doctoral research focused on efficient similarity computations on parallel machines using data shaping. He earned his M.S. in Computer Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). During his M.S., he worked under guidance of Dr. Jie Hu on thesis focusing on reliance chip multiprocessor architecture based on hardware transaction processing. He holds a B.Tech. in Information & Communication Technology from DAIICT (now Dhirubhai Ambani University), Gandhinagar.

Over the past 15+ years, Dr. Shukla has held research and engineering roles across academia, industry, and supercomputing centers. His career spans contributions to exascale computing execution models, GPU‑accelerated similarity computations, firmware optimization for ML hardware accelerators, and architecture‑specific algorithm design. He has worked with leading organizations including Marvell Semiconductor, Xilinx (now AMD), Cray Supercomputers (now HPE), and the Irish Centre for High-End Computing. He also has a been with Reliance Communications and Nokia Siemens Networks.

Dr. Shukla also has interest in technology entrepreneurship. In Seattle, he founded a startup named Optimely focusing on development of platform-centric optimized solutions for medical applications.

Research Interests

• Machine Learning
• Performance Computing
• Blockchain technologies

Selected Publications

• Evaluation of SARIMAX and ExpectileGAM based approach for Daily Fuel Price Prediction, Parijat Shukla, in Int. Conference on Energy, Infrastructure, and Management (ICEIM) 2026, Gandhinagar, India, Feb 26 – 28 2026.
• The ESCAPE Project: Energy‑efficient Scalable Algorithms for Weather Prediction at Exascale, Geoscientific Model Development, Andreas thriller, Alastair McKinstry, Oisin Robinson, Parijat Shukla, and several other authors, volume 12, issue 10, pg 4425 – 4441, publisher Copernicus GmbH, 2019.
• Fast Document Similarity Computations using GPU, Parijat Shukla and Arun K. Somani, in Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR 18), Oct. 2018, KDIR 2018, Valencia, Spain.
• Efficient Tree Matching on Parallel Machines using Data Shaping, Parijat Shukla and Arun K. Somani, in Services Transactions on Big Data (STBD), 3(3), 2016, pp 1-16.
• A Scalable Record Linkage Technique for NoSQL Databases using GPGPUs, Parijat Shukla and Arun K. Somani, book chapter in NoSQL: Database for Storage and Retrieval of Data in Cloud, published in Taylor and Francis Group, CRC Press, 2016.
• Tree Matching Using Data Shaping, Parijat Shukla and Arun K. Somani, in IEEE Big Data Congress, New York City, June 27 – July 2 2015.
• Context-aware Duplicate Detection in Semi-structured Data Streams, Parijat Shukla and Arun K Somani, in proceedings of IEEE Services, Anchorage, Alaska, June 29, 2014.
• Exploring Hardware Transaction Processing for Reliable Computing in Chip multi-processors against Soft Errors, Chuanlei Zheng; Parijat Shukla, Shun Wang Jie Hu, in IEEE Int. Symp. on DFT, Austin, TX, Oct 3—5 2012.
• Pre-Read and Write-Leak Memory Scheduling Algorithm, Long Chen, Yanan Cao, Sarah Kabala, and Parijat Shukla, in Memory Scheduling Championship (MSC), 3rd JILP Workshop on Computer Architecture Competitions (JWAC3), June 9 2012.

Professional Experience

• Data Science & Machine Learning Faculty at Aegis School of Data Science, Navi Mumbai
• HPC Lead / Senior Principal Engineer – Aira Matrix
• Principal Engineer – Machine Learning, Marvell Semiconductor
• Senior Staff Software Engineer – HPC & ML, Marvell Semiconductor
• Senior Design Engineer 2, Xilinx Inc.
• Computational Researcher, Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC), Galway, Ireland
• HPC System Architecture Researcher, Cray Supercomputers, Seattle, WA
• NSS Engineer, Nokia Siemens Networks
• Switch Engineer, Reliance Communications