PhD Researcher · National University of Singapore

Savitha Viswanadh
Kandala.

I build wireless embedded systems that compute where the data is — pushing intelligence onto tiny, energy-constrained devices instead of the cloud.

View research School of Computing, NUS Advised by Prof. Ambuj Varshney
Savitha Viswanadh Kandala
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About

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Hello! I'm a PhD student in Computer Science at the National University of Singapore, advised by Prof. Ambuj Varshney.

My work spans the wireless embedded systems pipeline — from sensor-equipped microcontrollers, through edge devices, to the end user — with three projects, each sharpening one segment.

MicroSymphony coordinates several microcontrollers so a single tag can sense, infer, and communicate at once within microwatt budgets. AutoTag pushes battery-free tag-to-tag networks from a few meters to tens. TinyLLM brings language-model intelligence onto edge devices, off the cloud.

Currently
Role
PhD Student, Computer Science
Lab
Systems & Networking, NUS SoC
Focus
Edge AI · Embedded tags · Low-power networking
Based in
Singapore
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Research

// three directions, one umbrella
Umbrella My PhD advances wireless embedded systems — the pipeline from sensor-equipped microcontrollers, through edge devices, to the cloud, and finally to the end user. Each project below sharpens one segment of that pipeline; the recurring theme is that where scaling up hits physical or resource limits, architectural specialization wins.
fig · multi-MCU mesh
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Multi-Microcontroller Platforms MicroSymphony

Many microcontrollers, one coordinated platform — a tag senses, infers, and communicates at once, all on microwatts.

concurrent executionheterogeneous MCUsmicrowatt budgets
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fig · sensor → MCU → model
SENSOR MCU EDGE TINY LLM
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LLMs for the Edge TinyLLM

Language models small enough to run on a microcontroller — near big-model accuracy, fully on-device.

on-device AIfoundational modelsembedded sensing
tinyllm.org
fig · tag-to-tag link
TX TAG RX TAG
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Low-power Tag-to-Tag Networks AutoTag

Battery-free tags that talk straight to each other — peer-to-peer range stretched from a few meters to tens.

battery-freepeer-to-peertens of meters
in progress
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Selected Publications

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News

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Featured Posts

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Contact

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The best way to reach me is email.

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School of Computing, NUS
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