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Nayab Hossain

Computer Engineering @ San José State University


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Experience

2026

Design Verification

Polaris

San Jose, CA

accelerated by

Plug and Play Tech Center

Building a local-first agentic AI platform that automates hardware formal verification for RTL teams.

  • Designed a 7-agent verification pipeline that generates, critiques, fixes, and refines SystemVerilog Assertions from RTL and plain-English specs.
  • Grounded assertion generation with RAG across 120+ curated hardware resources, including IEEE 1800, AMBA/AXI specs, and prior assertion failures.
  • Integrated SymbiYosys, Jasper, Questa, and VCS Formal with RCA agents that inspect counterexample VCD traces and rewrite failing properties.
  • Built FastAPI and Next.js dashboards for browsing runs, assertions, coverage, RCA reports, benchmarks, and versioned run manifests.
  • Improved benchmark results to 100 percent proven rate on sync FIFO few-shot tests and raised Float Multiplier HIL results from 62 percent to 100 percent.
Jan 2026 - Present · 5 mos

Officer Lead

AI & Machine Learning Club SJSU

San Jose, California, United States

AI & Machine Learning Club SJSU logo

Leading core club operations across infrastructure, frontend coordination, and event execution for the AI & ML community at SJSU.

  • Manage Supabase and database infrastructure.
  • Collaborate with the UI team on frontend development.
  • Plan and organize club events.
Apr 2024 - Aug 2024

Software Developer

Penta Global

Dhaka, Bangladesh

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Worked on model deployment and data validation workflows to make internal ML systems more reproducible, faster to train, and easier to trust.

  • Containerized LLaMA-3 and Mistral models with Docker for reproducible environments.
  • Built Pandera-based validation pipelines to enforce schemas and cut runtime data issues before training.
  • Used Unsloth to speed up fine-tuning and reduce training cost by more than 40 percent.
  • Automated internal analytics reports with Python and Matplotlib, improving turnaround time by 3x.

Current Project

A larger spotlight for the system currently in progress.

In Progress

AI Formal Verification for Chips

LLM-driven formal verification agent that autonomously generates and proves SVA from RTL/spec inputs, combining agentic generator-critic loops, RAG-grounded prompting, and automated RCA.

Featured Build

AI Formal Verification for Chips

Autonomous multi-agent pipeline that converts RTL designs and specifications into proven SVAs, with SymbiYosys and Verilator.

Human-in-the-loop escalation: improves assertion accuracy and reduces false-positive proof failures.

Rulebook-guided RAG: grounds SVA generation in protocol standards, prior assertions, and historical error/fix patterns to boost proof success rates.

RCA tooling: parses VCD traces, analyzes coverage, and auto-repairs failing proofs with parallel job execution and incremental run persistence.

Darwinian hardware-data evolution

I reproduced and validated verification data on my physical FPGA farm instead of relying only on simulation. Each generation mutates candidate assertions, stimuli, and design variants, runs them on real boards, scores the observed hardware behavior, and retains the highest-signal cases to seed the next generation.

This Darwinian loop turns real device observations into progressively harder verification data, preserving useful failures and corner cases that purely synthetic datasets can miss.

  1. 01Mutate candidates
  2. 02Run on FPGA farm
  3. 03Observe + score
  4. 04Select + reproduce
SystemVerilog
SVA
SystemVerilog Assertions
YAML
Pydantic
GraphRAG
Human-in-the-Loop
Formal Verification
SymbiYosys
Verilator
RTL
RCA
Coverage Analysis
Assertion
FPGA Farm
Evolutionary Search

My Projects

A mix of current startup work, AI systems, and hardware prototypes.

HardwareEmbedded Control

Formally Verified Real-Time Control Gateway

Embedded control, communication, and formal safety checks in one hardware system.

Three-board control stack with STM32, ULX3S FPGA, and Tuya T5AI for safe monitoring, wireless control, and formal verification.

STM32
ULX3S FPGA
Tuya T5AI
RTL
SymbiYosys
Z3
HardwareROBOTICS / DNS SECURITY

Parental Control Robot

Built at a hackathon around embedded systems, networking, and parental controls.

Built a robot-based parental control system at a Seeed Studio hackathon that enforced internet restrictions through a DNS-layer filtering setup. The project was designed to help parents manage screen time, block distracting or unsafe sites, and create a more interactive physical interface for digital safety. It combined robotics, networking, and system design into a working hackathon prototype.

Robotics
DNS Filtering
Parental Control
Embedded Systems
Network Security
Hackathon
SoftwareModel Adaptation

LLaMA 3 Fine-Tuning

Customized datasets, targeted training, and benchmarking for more relevant code output.

Fine-tuned LLaMA 3 on a personalized dataset of personal notes and textbook excerpts to improve code-generation relevance, efficiency, and task-specific performance.

LLaMA 3
Fine-Tuning
JSON Data Prep
Code Generation
Model Evaluation
SoftwareDocument Intelligence

Enterprise Document Intelligence System with RAG

Enterprise search stack with hybrid retrieval, secure backend services, and cloud deployment.

Built a production-grade RAG platform for fast, accurate, context-aware search across enterprise documents by combining scalable ingestion, hybrid retrieval, fine-tuned LLaMA 3 responses, and secure APIs.

RAG
Milvus + Redis
BM25 + FAISS
FastAPI
LLaMA 3
AWS + Kubernetes

Education

2025 - Present

San Jose State University

San Jose, CA

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Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering

Building a strong technical base across mathematics, programming, and data structures while continuing to apply those fundamentals to product engineering, startup execution, and developer tooling.

Relevant Coursework

Calculus I and IIDiscrete MathematicsAdvanced Programming in Java and PythonData Structures

2009 - 2025

Scholastica Uttara

Dhaka, BD

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Primary and Secondary Education

Received a comprehensive academic background that prepared me for higher studies in technology and computer engineering, fostering critical thinking, problem-solving, and lifelong learning.

Core Outcomes

Academic rigorCritical thinkingProblem-solvingLifelong learning

Technical focus

Formal verification, RTL, and AI systems.

A hardware-focused skill set centered on building agentic tools that turn design specs into verified properties, debug failures, and close coverage with real EDA workflows.

Formal Verification

Assertion strategy, proof workflows, failure analysis, and coverage closure.

SystemVerilog AssertionsBounded Model CheckingProperty-Based VerificationCounterexample AnalysisCoverage ClosureFormal Verification PlanningVCD Trace Analysis

AI Applied to EDA

Agentic verification systems that connect LLM reasoning to hardware toolchains.

LLM-Driven Assertion GenerationRulebook-Guided Prompt EngineeringRAG over Hardware StandardsProtocol-Spec GroundingMulti-Agent Verification PipelinesHuman-in-the-Loop VerificationRoot Cause Analysis Agents

Hardware and RTL

Reading designs, extracting intent, and turning specs into verification plans.

RTL AnalysisVerilogSystemVerilogClock Domain CrossingVerification Plan GenerationDesign Specification Parsing

EDA Tools

Formal engines and commercial verification environments used in the flow.

Yosys logoSymbiYosys
Cadence logoJasper Gold
Siemens logoQuesta Formal
Synopsys logoVCS Formal

AI and ML

Applied model workflows for retrieval, evaluation, and agent behavior.

LLaMAMistralGeminiAgentic SystemsRAGSemantic SearchUnslothModel Evaluation

Backend and Data

APIs and storage layers that support product-grade AI systems.

PythonJavaSQLBashFastAPIREST APIsPostgreSQLSQLitepgvectorSSE

Edge Systems

Hardware-adjacent prototypes with cameras, constrained devices, and inference loops.

Raspberry PiCamera ModulesReal-time InferenceResource-constrained Systems

Contact

Get in touch

Open to conversations about developer tools, backend systems, AI products, internships, and startup collaboration.

Nayab Hossain

Computer Engineering Student and Builder

Based in San Jose, California and currently building systems across developer infrastructure, AI workflows, and product-focused software.

Location

San Jose, California

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