This talk includes some of the key engineering contributions made by Dr. Abhik Sarkar. He will highlight one of his recent work on Binary Translation (BT) for multi-core platforms, particularly Translation Cache management. This work shares the translation cache across multiple BT instances while maintaining interrupt safety through novel scheduling of BT-threads. He will also present one of his earlier pieces of work on parallel implementation of MPEG-2 video decoder. The video decoder design lends itself to using low power single-port memories, thereby targeting speed-up while reducing power consumption and area of handheld devices.