Venkata Kalyan Tavva

Namasthe

Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar (IIT Rpr).
Associate faculty of Center for Research on Energy Efficiency and Decarbonization (CREED), IIT Ropar.
Adjunct faculty of Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM).

Prior to joining IIT Ropar, Kalyan was a Hardware Performance Architect in Systems and Technology Group (STG) laboratory, IBM Systems, Benguluru. His primary work was to explore memory controller optimizations for next generation IBM POWER processors.

Kalyan received PhD under the guidance of Prof. Madhu Mutyam, Dept. of CSE , IIT Madras. During PhD Kalyan was associated with the Programming Languages, Architecture and Compilers Education (PACE) group in the Dept.

If you are wondering what 'Namasthe' means, in India, it is a formal way of greeting people. It means 'I bow to the God in you'. It acknowledges the fact that there is presence of God in every being.

Education:

PhD, IIT Madras.
MS by Research, VLSI and Embedded Systems, IIIT Hyderabad.
B.Tech., ECE, JNTU Hyderabad.

Primary Research Interests:

Computer Architecture

Memory Hierarchy - Cache, DRAM, SSD, Emerging Memory Technologies
Secure memory design
Low-power/Energy-efficient techniques - Alternate computing technologies

High-Performance Computing

Graph analytics on GPUs

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Recent:

21st Aug 2025: Acceptance of ``Accelerating Temporal Triangle Counting and Betweeness Centrality on GPUs'' in IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference. Congratulations to Tuteja Trimansingh Parvindersingh, Subhasis Banerjee and Chiranjib Sur.
15th Jul 2025: Delivered an invited talk on "Secure and High Performance Enterprise Storage Systems" at Dept. of CSE, IIT Hyderabad. Talk was part of the Workshop on "Research Opportunities in Computer Architecture".
10th Jul 2025: Acceptance of ``Selective Subarray Isolation for Mitigating RowHammer Attack'' in ES Week CODES + ISSS 2025. The work will appear in ACM TECS. Congratulations to Praseetha M and Madhu Mutyam.
31st May 2025: Acceptance of ``VMS: Visual Cache Memory Simulator with Spatio-Temporal Visualization'' in Proceedings of Workshop on Computer Architecture Education (WCAE ’25). In conjunction with the 52nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA’25). Congratulations to Sushant Arun Bhalerao and Smriti Gupta.
29th May 2025: Delivered an invited talk on "Multi-core and Many-core Architectures" at VNR Vignana Jyothi Insitute of Technology, Hyderabad.
7th Feb 2025: Acceptance of ``SmartDeCoup: Decoupling the STT-RAM LLC for even Write Distribution and Lifetime Improvement'' in Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture. Congratulations to Prabuddha Sinha, Mangena Likhit Sai and Shirshendu Das.
9th Jan 2025: Delivered an invited talk titled "A Walk Down the Memory Lane" during Systems Day at CSA, IISc Bengaluru.
15th Nov 2024: Acceptance of "TENDRA: Targeted Endurance Attack on STT-RAM LLC " paper in IEEE Embedded Systems Letters. Congratulations to Prabuddha Sinha, Mangena Likhit Sai and Shirshendu Das.
12th Nov 2024: Acceptance of "RRR : Rethinking Randomized Remapping for High Performance Secured NVM LLC" paper in IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) 2025, Fall cycle. Congratulations to Prathamesh Nitin Tanksale, Guru Raghav S. Seethiraju, and Shirshendu Das.

Students' corner

I am looking for bright students (MS, PhD) with good enthusiasm to work in Computer Architecture. Interested students can contact me via mail (preferably).

No open project positions.

Contact

Office: Room No. 112, Dept. of CSE, S Ramanujan Block, IIT Ropar, Permanent Campus, Birla Farm, Rupnagar - 140001, Punjab.

Email: kalyantv AT iitrpr DOT ac DOT in

email is my preferred method of contact.

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