I am Youssef Kandil a TinyMl engineer at Efabless Corporation. Previously a Computer Engineering student, research assistant, and teaching assistant in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the The American University in Cairo. My research interests include but are not limited to Resource-Constrained Machine Learning and Computer Vision, Electronic Design Automation (EDA), Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS), Software/Hardware Co-design and ASIC Machine Learning Acceleration.
Here are some of my key projects:
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❄️ Lighter ❄️: An automatic clock gating utility. Dynamic power reduction tool for open-source standard cell libraries. Check it out
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🧪 PodemQuest 🧪: A Google Summer of Code 2024 (GSoC24) project, focused on implementing the Path-Oriented Decision Making (PODEM) algorithm for Automatic Test Pattern Generation (ATPG). Check it out, Check GH Repo
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🏎️ AUTOPIA 🏎️: My Bachelor's thesis project in collaboration with Siemens. An AUTOSAR-compliant MultiCore Operating System. Check it out
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🎧 KWS MFCC Optimizer 🎧: Enhancing the Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients algorithm for efficient embedded audio machine learning applications.
- Youssef Kandil and Mohammed Shalan, Efficient MFCC Computation for Keyword Spotting on Embedded Systems: Optimization Techniques and Performance Analysis. Accepted for presentation at the 7th IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS 2025), Bordeaux, France, April 28–30, 2025.
- Youssef Kandil and Mohamed Shalan, Lighter: An Open-Source Automatic Clock Gating Tool for Dynamic Power Reduction in ASIC. Presented at the Workshop on Open Source EDA Technologies (WOSET), 2024. https://openreview.net/forum?id=tNriFilLTO
Personal Email: youssefkandil@aucegypt.edu