Mukund Ramakrishnan is a second-year PhD student advised by Prof. Brandon Reagen. He earned his B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University in 2024. His past work has broadly focused on hardware acceleration for various math and science applications, while his current research primarily focuses on designing accelerators for privacy-preserving computing and homomorphic encryption. Outside of the lab, Mukund is involved with choral music and writing new choral works incorporating underrepresented traditions in the choral repertoire.