Mikail Yayla

I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chair of Embedded Systems at Ruhr University Bochum. From 2023 to 2025, I worked in the semiconductor industry as a Senior R&D Engineer and Team Lead at Racyics GmbH, focusing on system-on-chip (SoC) design. From 2019 to 2023, I was a researcher at the Technical University of Dortmund at the Chair of Design Automation for Embedded Systems, where I earned my PhD.

My experience spans research, teaching, and industry, with expertise across multiple abstraction layers, ranging from SoC architecture and digital hardware design to RTL-to-GDS flows, low-level systems software, and high-level software, including machine learning frameworks.
  
Research focus: 
- HW/SW co-design, with a focus on embedded ML
- Networked embedded systems
- System-on-chips (SoCs) 
- Digital hardware design
- Open-source RTL-to-GDS tools

Practical expertise: 
- Digital hardware design for ASICs and FPGAs (VHDL/SystemVerilog)
- Low-level software and scripting for embedded systems (C, C++, CUDA)
- High-level software and ML frameworks (Python, PyTorch).

Google scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dkU2YU0AAAAJ
Github page: https://github.com/myay
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikail-yayla/