About

Hi, I'm Pinxu — currently wrapping up an M.Eng in ECE at UIUC (Dec 2026) and spending most days deep in UVM testbenches, RISC-V microarchitecture, and the RTL-to-GDSII flow. Right now I'm owning pre-silicon verification on a 22 nm CNN inference NPU heading to tape-out, which has been equal parts terrifying and the best learning of my degree.

Outside of work, I'm usually outdoors — hiking trails around Illinois, planning the next road trip across a US national park, or chasing decent coffee in whatever city I land in. I also recently adopted Raspberry, a Domestic Shorthair kitten who now supervises most of my late-night debugging. I keep notes on what I'm learning here so future-me can find them again.

Looking for US new-grad roles in Digital IC Verification or RTL Design. If you're hiring or just want to talk silicon, feel free to reach out.