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
Heterogeneous Memory design
Secure Memory design

High-Performance Computing

Graph analytics on GPUs

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Recent:

20th-21st July 2026: Presented Strata, VIKRAM and RADP at IndoSys2026, at IIIT Delhi.
5th May 2026: Acceptance of ``VIKRAM: Virtual-address Informed K-level Radix Acceleration Mechanism'' in IEEE International Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI) 2026. Congratulations to Pravesh S Jamgade and Debiprasanna Sahoo (IIT BBS).
5th May 2026: Acceptance of ``RADP: Region-Aware Data Placement for Write Amplification Reduction in SSDs'' in IEEE International Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI) 2026. Congratulations to Aditya Rathi, Waqar Hassan Mir and Neeraj Goel.
4th Apr 2026: Acceptance of ``Strata: Proactive Page Placement in Hybrid Memory Systems'' in ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF ’26). Congratulations to Upasna.
6th Mar 2026: Acceptance of ``RASP: Region-Aware Single Use Page Predictor for SSD Workloads'' in IEEE Embedded Systems Letters. Congratulations to Waqar Hassan Mir, Aditya Rathi and Neeraj Goel.
6th Feb 2026: Participated in panel discussion in ISEA Phase-III, a National Level Workshop on Secure and Intelligent IoT Systems, Edge–Cloud Intelligence, and 6G Networks, at Chandigarh University.

Students' corner

I am looking for bright students (MS, PhD) with good enthusiasm to work in Computer Architecture and Graph analytics HPC. 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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