Research Interests
- High-performance, low-energy memory architecture design with DRAM and NVM
- Workload and environment aware memory design for future systems
- Memory controller and scheduler optimizations
- High-performance processor architecture
Education
PhD in Computer Engineering
University of Utah, 2008 - till date.
Advisor: Dr. Rajeev Balasubramonian
BE in Computer Science & Engineering
Jadavpur University, India. 2003-2007
Professional Experience
HP Labs, Palo Alto. (Fall 2012)
Intern at HP's Intelligent Infrastructure Lab working on memory subsystem design for future servers.
AMD Research, Sunnyvale. (Spring 2012)
Intern at AMD Research working on DRAM controller optimization.
School of Computing, University of Utah. (Fall 2008 - till date)
Graduate Research Assistant at the Utah Arch lab.
Atrenta, Noida. (2007 - 2008)
Software Engineer at Atrenta working on the design and optimization of Verilog and System Verilog parsers and semantic analyzers for the Spyglass tool-suite.
Interra Systems, Kolkata. (Summer 2006)
Intern at Interra Systems working on performance optimization of a VHDL analyzer.
Publications
- Leveraging Heterogeneity in DRAM Main Memories to Accelerate Critical Word Access. [MICRO-2012]
- Staged Reads: Mitigating the Impact of DRAM Writes on DRAM Reads. [HPCA-2012]
- Micro-Pages: Increasing DRAM Efficiency with Locality-Aware Page Placement . [ASPLOS-2010]
- Rethinking DRAM Design and Organization for Energy-Constrained Multicores. [ISCA-2010]
- Optimizing a Multicore Processor for Message-Passing Workloads.[UCAS-2009]
- USIMM: the Utah Simulated Memory Module. A Simulation Infrastructure for the JWAC Memory Scheduling Competition. [JWAC-3]
Patents
- Memory Access Methods and Apparatus
United States Patent Application 61/299155, Filed Jan 2010.
Honors
- First Place in School of Computing's Graduate Research Poster Competition 2010.
- Recipient of School of Computing Graduate Teaching Fellowship 2008-09.
Services
- Co-organizer of the 3rd JILP Workshop On Computer Architecture Competitions.
- Reviewer for HPCA-2012, HiPC-2010, EuroPVM/MPI-2010, IISWC-2011.
