Credentials

Patents

• US11508416B2

  Management of Thermal Throttling in Data Storage Devices

  +50 MBps throughput at 85–95 °C on SanDisk Extreme Portable SSDs.

• US11487439B1

  Utilizing Host Memory Buffers for Storage Device Recoveries

  Recoverable SSDs after brick events via Secure HMB.

Education

• UC San Diego

  Jacobs School of Engineering · La Jolla, CA

  Sep 2021 — Jun 2023

  Master of Science, Computer ScienceGPA 4.0 / 4.0

  • Recommender Systems
  • Algorithm Design & Analysis
  • Data Mining & Analytics
  • Statistical NLP

  TA for undergraduate Computer Science courses across 2 academic years. Researched LLM-based movie recommendation systems with Prof. Julian McAuley (SASRec + ChatGPT).

• Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology

  Patiala, India

  Jul 2015 — Jun 2019

  Bachelor of Engineering, Computer EngineeringGPA 9.27 / 10

  • Data Structures & Algorithms
  • Operating Systems
  • Software Engineering
  • Computer Architecture
  • Database Management

  Co-authored the IEEE ICMLDS 2018 paper on three-phase transformer fault detection (85.65% ensemble accuracy).

Publications

• Conference paper

  Fault Detection in a Three Phase Transformer Using Ensemble Model

  IEEE ICMLDS — Dec 2018

  Ensemble of 7 feature-selection × 7 classification models on 420 simulated fault samples — 85.65% accuracy.

  Authors: Tejasvi Roop Singh, Viplove Verma, Shivam, Shivam Chawla, Sargam Ghorela, Sukirat Singh Mann, Prashant Singh Rana

• Research

  LLM-based Movie Recommendation (SASRec + ChatGPT)

  UC San Diego · advised by Prof. Julian McAuley

  Research on combining sequential recommender models (SASRec) with LLM rerankers to improve movie discovery.

  Authors: Shivam Chawla