Chathura Rajapaksha
PHD Candidate
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolChathura Rajapaksha is a PhD candidate in Computer Engineering at Boston University with nine years of experience bridging Electronic Design Automation and hardware security research. He focuses on practical, hardware-assisted defenses and efficient security testing for chip designs, including hardware fuzzing, microarchitectural side-channel analysis, and DMA attack mitigation. His industry background at Synopsys and internships at AMD and NVIDIA give him production-oriented perspective on CPU/GPU security challenges. Comfortable with HDL-based prototyping and embedded systems from his engineering roots, he blends hands-on hardware design with adversarial research methods. He often uncovers system-level vulnerabilities and prioritizes mitigations that are both effective and implementable in silicon. Based in Boston, he brings a mix of academic rigor and field-tested engineering to strengthen hardware trustworthiness.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Engineer’s Degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at University of MoratuwaGeneral Certificate Examination Advanced Level Physical Sciences, General Certificate Examination Advanced Level Physical Sciences at Mahanama College ColomboDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Engineering at Boston University
English, Sinhalese
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Github Skills (43)
simulator9
risc-v9
simulation9
verilog9
x869
modeling9
chisel9
rocket-chip9
arm9
verification8
multicore8
scala8
vhdl8
hardware8
architecture8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
UniversityOfMoratuwa/RISCV
Sep 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 month
sammy17/vivado_hls_tutorial
Dec 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 7 months
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