Research Publications About

researcher / founder / engineer

Ris(h)i Jaiswal

CTO at Transio AI  |  PhD, Purdue University

Building AI that learns like nature and reasons about the physical world. Energy-efficient, physically grounded, spatially aware.

Research Interests

Spatial Intelligence & Robotics

Understanding and reasoning about 3D space. Spatial perception for autonomous systems, embodied AI, and physical-world reasoning.

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Bio-Inspired Learning

Energy-efficient neural architectures inspired by biological systems. Alternatives to backpropagation, probabilistic computing, and stochastic neural networks.

Physics-Inspired AI

Embedding physics into learning and inference. Probabilistic graphical models, Boltzmann machines, quantum-inspired optimization, and physics-informed learning.

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Hardware & Systems

GPU kernels, FPGA prototyping, and hardware-algorithm co-design. Bridging algorithms and silicon for petaflops-scale probabilistic computing.

Journey

2025 – Present

CTO

Transio AI

Leading technology vision and building AI-powered systems.

2021 – 2025

PhD, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Purdue University

Energy-efficient deep learning, probabilistic computing, quantum-inspired optimization. Advisors: Supriyo Datta & Joseph G. Makin.

2020

Research Intern

Microsoft

Formal verification and assertion-based validation of custom AI accelerator architectures.

2014 – 2019

Senior Design Engineer

NXP Semiconductors

Verification of DSP, RADAR-based ADAS subsystems, and neural network accelerators. US Patent holder.