Venkata Kalyan Tavva
Namasthe
Kalyan is an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar.
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 optimisations 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:
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.
27th Aug 2024: Acceptance of "GPU Accelerated Construction of Time Respecting Data Structure for Temporal Graphs" paper in 28th IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing (HPEC) 2024. Co-authors: Animan Naskar and Subhasis Banerjee
6th Aug 2024: Two papers accepted in MEMSYS2024.
PROLONG: Priority based Write Bypassing Technique for Longer Lifetime in STT-RAM based LLC by Prabuddha Sinha, Krishna Pratik Bv, Shirshendu Das and Venkata Kalyan Tavva
CARDR: DRAM Cache Assisted Ransomware Detection and Recovery in SSDs by Waqar Hassan Mir, Neeraj Goel and Venkata Kalyan Tavva
11th Jun 2024: Acceptance of "Cache Line Pinning for Mitigating Row Hammer Attack " paper in ICPP2024. Congratulations Praseetha!
29th May 2024: Discussions with AMD Performance modeling team and Qualcomm SoC performance modeling team.
28th May 2024: Yearly review with Shell India Markets Pvt Ltd, HPC team.
9th Feb 2024: Delivered lecture on "SSD Securities & Challenges" during Workshop on Networks and Systems (WONS) in February 2024 at Shiv Nadar University NCR Delhi.
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.
