Laurels: Niket Kumar Choudhary. Telegraph picture

Patna, Jan. 19: Computer engineering student Niket Kumar Choudhary’s PhD project has been selected as one of 12 best research papers in computer architecture by Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), New York.

Niket (29), a student at North Carolina State University in the USA, hails from Patna.

He submitted his research paper “FabScalar” in October 2011. “Under the guidance of my professor Eric Roternberg, I submitted my paper to IEEE which selected it as one of the 12 research papers to feature in the annual ‘Top Picks from the Computer Architecture Conferences’ in its magazine IEEE Micro.” Niket’ project has been selected from 77 papers that the IEEE reviewed this year. “The research work will be published in IEEE Micro Top Picks 2012, May/June issue,” he said.

About FabScalar, Niket said it’s a combination of “fabricate (a microchip) and superscalar central processing unit (CPU)”. “The research aims to reduce the design cost of CPUs and increase the productivity of CPU designers,” he said. “It will be cost effective too. In the age of information technology, it will provide the best and immediate architectural configuration for running a programme. FabScalar would be the first processor to explore a number of other interesting questions and challenges with respect to designing heterogeneous multi-core processors,” he added.

Niket’s father Ajay Kumar Choudhary is working with the Bihar government as joint secretary, general administration department, Patna. After completing his Plus Two from Delhi Public School, Mathura Road, New Delhi, Niket enrolled for engineering in information and communication technology at DhirubhaiAmabani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, in 2005.

“In 2007, I went to the US to complete pursue PhD in computer engineering. Initially, it was really difficult to stay away from my family but slowly I got along with the people there,” said Niket.

About his other achievements, he said: “I took part in an international conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques in Vienna, Austria, in September 2010 and won a gold medal in student research competition. During my PhD, I got the privilege to do a three-month internship in Microsoft Corporation’s research wing.”

The feat has brought big job offers for Niket; the latest one from California-based company Qualcomm, which he will join in April. “I will work in the research and design wing of the company in North Carolina,” he said.

Job in the US is not Niket’s first choice though. He wants to be a professor at IIT, Patna. “It’s true that I am getting many job offers but my ultimate dream is to teach the students at IIT, Patna. I will not think twice if I get an offer. After all, Bihar is my birthplace. I have seen the improvement in the education system of Bihar. I firmly believe that the state has the potential to produce scientists and technical experts in computer engineering,” said Niket.