Nehal Baganal Krishna, M. Sc.

Curriculum Vitae:

Nehal Baganal received his Bachelor's in Electronics and Communications Engineering from India and his Master's in Communication and Information Technology from Ulm University in 2021. He started his PhD in 2021 at the University of Duisburg-Essen in 2021 and has continued his research at Leibniz University Hannover since 2024.

Research Interest:

• Data Plane-integrated Network Applications (NAs)

  • In-network implementation of NAs on the data plane

  • Modeling and simulating network dynamics

• Implementation and evaluation of network applications on

  • Fixed pipeline architecture (like Intel Tofino)

  • FPGA-based dynamic pipeline (like Xilinx Alveo)

• Optimization of cross-platform data plane workflows

Teaching:

• Hardware Accelerated Communication Systems (Winter)
• Hardware Praktikum (Summer)