Suhail Basalama
Ph.D. Student At The VAST Lab at University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolSuhail Basalama is a Ph.D. student at UCLA’s VAST Lab specializing in computer architecture, high-level synthesis, hardware/VLSI design, and algorithm–hardware co-design with eight years of hands-on experience. He has applied his research to real-world acceleration problems through internships at Micron and Microsoft and built multiple parameterizable systolic array processors and SoC components on Xilinx and Zynq platforms. His work blends low-level Verilog/IP core development, FPGA system integration, and performance/memory optimization—evidenced by innovations like vertical mapping of large register files and Booth algorithm optimizations. Based in Los Angeles, he balances deep research with teaching and tutoring experience, making complex hardware concepts accessible while pushing ML and heterogeneous computing toward practical accelerators.
8 years of coding experience
Hinds Community CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of California, Los AngelesBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering, Junior, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering, Junior at University of Arkansas
English, Arabic
Github Skills (14)
neuroscience10
sparse10
medical-imaging10
discovery10
genetic-algorithm10
evolutionary-algorithms10
evolutionary-computation9
hpc9
llm-inference8
medical-image-processing8
cpp4
pytorch4
dataflow3
fpga-accelerator2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
UCLA-VAST/recut
May 2021 - Jun 2021
Large-scale medical image processing and reconstruction toolbox
Contributions:4 commits in 1 month
medical-image-processinghpcmedical-imagingneurosciencereconstruction
SuhailB/openevolve
Jun 2025 - Aug 2025
Open-source implementation of AlphaEvolve
Contributions:32 pushes, 12 branches in 1 month
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