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, 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:
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.
7th Dec 2023: Delivered online lecture on "SSD securities & Challenges" as part of Short Term Course in Cyber Security at North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong.
31st Oct 2023: NSM Course on High Performance Computing
Rohith presented GraphVine at Shell.AI Conference 2023, during 4th & 5th Oct 2023, at Bengaluru.
11th May 2023: Work titled "Voltage Reduced Self Refresh (VRSR) for Optimized Energy Savings in DRAM Memories" Accepted in Elsevier journal of Memories - Materials, Devices, Circuits and Systems, an Open Access journal.
17th Apr 2023: Delivered lecture on "GPUs and Multi GPUs", hosted by Department of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Saveetha Engineering College, Tamil Nadu.
Nov 2022: A consultancy project titled ``Large scale GPU graph analytics and portability across architectures'' has been granted to Dr. Rupesh Nasre, Dept of CSE, IIT Madras and Dr. T V Kalyan, Dept of CSE, IIT Ropar by SHELL India Pvt Ltd.
25th - 30th July 2022: National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) mini-course on "Concurrent Programming". Completed successfully. Thanks NSM!
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.
