Dr. Shreejith Shanker

Dr. Shreejith Shanker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Ireland, where he has been a faculty member since April 2019. He graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the former University of Kerala in 2006, and received his PhD from Nanyang Technological University and the Technical University of Munich in 2016.

From 2015 to 2016, he was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Hardware and Embedded Systems Lab, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he worked on cognitive radio architectures and techniques for commercial and aeronautical communication systems. In 2017, he took up the role of Teaching Fellow at the School of Engineering, The University of Warwick, UK, where he continued his research on in-network computation and accelerators while primarily delivering undergraduate modules on Computer Architecture and Programming. He later served briefly as a Research Fellow at the Electrification Suite and Test Lab, TUM CREATE Ltd, Singapore, exploring decentralised compute systems for smart energy systems and power grids before joining Trinity College Dublin.

His current research explores reconfigurable architectures and frameworks for distributed accelerators that are tightly coupled to the network fabric, with applications in autonomous systems, media processing, communication networks, and smart energy infrastructure.

Dr. Shanker started his professional career in 2006 as a Design Engineer at Processor Systems India, where he worked on the design and verification of high-speed custom logic for network switches and compute accelerators. He later joined the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, one of the premier research centres under the Indian Space Research Organisation, as a Scientist working on the design of real-time, mission-critical subsystems for launch vehicles and satellite systems.