Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: virenVirendra Singh, Ph.D(NAIST, Japan)

 

PROFESSOR

 

Department of Electrical Engineering, and

Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Powai, Mumbai 400076 India

 

E-mail :

viren@ee.iitb.ac.in, viren@cse.iitb.ac.in

singhv@iitb.ac.in, virendra@computer.org

Tel :

+91-22-2576-9432 (O)

+91-22-2576-8432 (R)

Fax :

+91-22-2572-3707

Office :

122 D, EE Building


 

Associate faculty: Centre for Machine Intelligence and Data Science

 

 

My Calendar

 

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Publications . Teaching . Funding . Professional Activities . Students . Visitors . RASDAT . IWPVTD . WHF

 

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Research Lab.: Computer Architecture and Dependable Systems Lab. (CADSL)

 

 

Coordinator: Indo-Japanese Joint Laboratory for Intelligent Dependable Cyber Physical Systems (IDCPS)

 

Coordinator (PI): Information Security Research and Development Centre (ISRDC)

 

Associated Lab: Centre of excellence for Blockchain research

 

 

New:

Requirements: PDFs, Ph.D Aspirants, Project Associates/Assistants (experience in Cyber Security)

 

New Project: AI powered adaptive cyber defence framework (sponsored by NSCS, GoI)

 

Announcements:

 

Funding: DST-JST funding, DRDO funding, IBM funding, Amazon funding, NSCS funding

 

Papers: ACL-26 paper, ICS-26 paper, HOST-26 papers, CF-26 papers, LATS-26 papers, ICAART-26 papers

 

Conferences: VDAT`26, ITC-India`26, RASDAT`27

 

Received SP Sukhatme excellence in teaching award in 2021

 

Courses: [Current Semester- Spring 2026]: EE-739: Processor Design

[Last Semester- Autumn 2025]: EE-748: Advanced Topics in Computer Architecture, EE-677: Foundation of VLSI CAD

 

Debates at EE-748: End to VN Architecture, Is Microarchitecture dead ?

 

A note for students

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Research Interest:

 

 

 

Education:

 

Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)

Kansai Science City, Nara, Japan

Advisor: Prof. Hideo Fujiwara

Co-Advisors: Prof. Kewal K. Saluja (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

and Prof. Michiko Inoue (NAIST)

Thesis: Instruction-Based Self-Testing of Performance Oriented Faults in Modern Processors

Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT)

Jaipur (Rajasthan) India

Advisor: Prof. MS Gaur

Thesis: Simulation of ATM Networks with Heavy Tail Traffic Distribution

Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT)

Jaipur (Rajasthan)

 

 

Professional Experience:

 

 

Current Major Research Projects:

 

Advancing adaptive multi-turn Human-AI code collaboration (2026 – 2029)

Agency: IBM

 

AI for cryptanalysis of PQC problems (2026-2029)

Agency: IBM

 

ISEA Centre for Research on Security of Futuristic Technology (2024-2029)

         Agency: MEiTY, Govt. of India, Funding: 4.69 Crores

 

            Architecting Trustable Cyber Physical Cognitive Systems (2023-2027)

         Agency: Dept. of Science & Technology (India) & Japan Science & Technology (Japan)

 

Using natural language for aligning reinforcement learning agents (2023 – 2026)

Agency: Amazon

 

AI Powered Adaptive Cyber Defence Framework (2021 – 2023)

Sponsor: National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS), Govt. of India, Funding: USD 16M (INR 1.2 Arab)

 

Architecting Intelligent Dependable Cyber Physical System Targeting IoTs and Mobile Big Data Analysis (2017-2022)

Sponsor: JST & DST, Funding: INR 12.5 Crores (IITB: INR 5.1 Crores, and Tokyo Univ.: Yen 14.8 Crores)

 

Analyzing vulnerabilities in applications and device drivers in Linux and Windows OS platforms using symbolic execution

(with IIT Jammu and MNIT Jaipur)

 

 

 

Publications: List of my publications

 

Recent Publications:

 

Papers in 2026

 

·       Anuj Kumar, Satyadev Ahlawat, Yamuna Prasad, and Virendra Singh, “Revisiting evaluation of question answering system in low resource Indic languages: Bridging human and metric alignment”, 64th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026), San Diego, California, USA, July 2-7, 2026

·       Avinash Kumar, Virendra Singh, and Supratim Biswas, “Continuation-preserving tiling for pointer chasing optimisation in structured mutual recursion”, 40th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS 2026), Belfast, Ireland, UK, July 6-9, 2026

·       Munawira Kotyad, Yashvardhan Rathore, Ganesh Sai Shanmukhi, and Virendra Singh, “FIIP: Flow-based instruction processing for out-of-order scheduling in GPGPUs”, 23rd ACM International Conference on Computing Frontier (CF’26), May 19-21, 2026, Catania, Sicily, Italy

·       Munwiara Kotyad, Ganesh Sai Shanmukhi, Yashvardhan Rathore, and Virendra Singh, “Bypassing blocking instructions to enable out-of-order execution in GPGPUs”, 23rd ACM International Conference on Computing Frontier (CF’26), May 19-21, 2026, Catania, Sicily, Italy [Poster]

·       Tejeshwar Thorawade, Varun Venitaraman, Keerthi Sagar, Samiksha Verma, and Virendra Singh, “VTrack: Defending against all rowhammer attack patterns by tracking victim rows”, IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST 2026), Washington DC, May 4-7, 2026

·       Samiksha Verma, and Virendra Singh, “Beyond defence: A Row-hammer mitigation that boots performance”, IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST 2026), Washington DC, May 4-7, 2026

·       Sonali Shukla, Govind Jadhav, Durgesh Sardan, Suryakant Toraskar, Jaynarayan Tudu, Makoto, Ikeda, Masahiro Fujita, and Virendra Singh, “A SAT-hard compound logic locking scheme with empirical resistance to known structural attacks”, 29th IEEE International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (DDECS 2026), April 27-29, 2026, Bratislava, Slovakia

·       Anuj Kumar, Mahendra Kumar Gurve, Satyadev Ahlawat, Yamuna Prasad, and Virendra Singh, “Toxicbias-reasoning: a multicultural dataset for social bias detection with human-aligned reasoning”, Language Resources & Evaluation, Vol. 60, No. 35 (2026), Springer.

·       Rohit Badjatya, Harsh Gupta, Makoto Ikeda, Masahiro Fujita and Virendra Singh, “LA-SCG: Layout-Aware Scan Chain Grouping for Peak Shift Power and IR-Drop Mitigation in Scan-Based Testing”, 27th IEEE Latin American Test Symposium (LATS 2026), Florianopolis, Brazil, March 17-20, 2026

·       Rohit Badjatya, Harsh Gupta, Makoto Ikeda, Masahiro Fujita and Virendra Singh, “LA-SCG: Layout-Aware Scan Chain Grouping for Peak Shift Power and IR-Drop Mitigation in Scan-Based Testing”, 27th IEEE Latin American Test Symposium (LATS 2026), Florianopolis, Brazil, March 17-20, 2026.

·       Veerendrababu Vakkapatla, Shariq Faraz, and Virendra Singh, “Sparse rewards as preferences: Investigating reward shaping with preference-based RL methods in sparse reward domains”, 18th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2026), Marbella, Spain, March 5-7, 2026

·       Suma Sri Mandru, Uddhav Narayan Gilda, Tarun Bisht, and Virendra Singh, “DREAM: Dynamic, reinforced, and evasive attack model on spatio-temporal GNNs” 18th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2026), Marbella, Spain, March 5-7, 2026

 

Selected Publications (Before 2026):

 

·       Pinaki Das, Virendra Singh, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, and Gholamreza Haffari,  `Video-guided multimodal machine translation: A survey of models, Datasets, and challenges`, International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and Asia Pacific Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics (IJCNLP-AACL 25), Mumbai, India, Dec 20-25, 2025.

 

·       Anuj Kumar, Satyadev Ahlawat, Yamuna Prasad, and Virendra Singh, `LRMGS: A language robust metric for evaluating question answering in very low resource Indic languages`, International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing & Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistic (IJCNLP-AACL 25) 2025, Mumbai, India, Dec 20-24, 2025

 

·       Rohit Badjatya, Kapil Sharma, Makoto Ikeda, Masahiro Fujita and Virendra Singh, `Weight-Aware Scan Chain Stitching for Shift Power Minimization under Routing Constraints`, 34th IEEE Asian Test Symposium (ATS 2025), Tokyo, Japan, Dec 16-19, 2025.

 

·       Avinash Kumar, Virendra Singh, and Supratim Biswas, `Characterizing irregular memory accesses for better prediction prefetching`, 23rd Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS 2025), Mumbai, India, October 27-30, 2025. (Poster presentation).

 

·       Samiksha Verma and Virendra Singh, `TRAP: Time-aware probabilistic In-DRAM Row Hammer solution`, 37th IEEE/SBC International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2025), Bonito, MS, Brazil, October 28-31, 2025.

 

·       Varun Venkitaraman, Tejeshwar Thorawade, Mitul Tandon, Keerthisagar Kokkiligadda, Virendra Singh and Janak Patel, `LiC: Low-Cost Cache Replacement Algorithm for All Cache Levels`, 33rd IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC 2025), Puerto Varas, Chile, October 12-15, 2025.

 

·       Rushikesh Kawale, Sonali Shukla, Makoto Ikeda, Masahiro Fujita and Virendra Singh, `HiPeR-SM: High Performance Reconfigurable Scalar Multiplier over NIST-P256 and CURVE25519`, 34th International Workshop on Logic & Synthesis (IWLS 2025), Verona, Italy, June, 2025.

 

·       Varun Venkitaraman, Rishabh Ravi, Tejeshwar Thorawade, Nirmal Boran, and Virendra Singh, `SCAM: Secure shared cache partitioning to enhance throughput of CMPs`, Proc. of 22nd International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2025), Bilboa, Spain, June, 2025

 

·       Nikhil Kumar Parida, Sarath Babu, Neeraj Pawar, and Virendra Singh, `EDQKD: Enhanced-Dynamic Quantum Key Distributions with Improved Security and key rate`, Proc. of 22nd International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2025), Bilboa, Spain, June, 2025

 

 

·       Anjum Riaz, Gaurav Kumar, Yamuna Prasad, Satyadev Ahlawat, and Virendra Singh, `A New Hardware Trojan Attack on Scan-obfuscated Logic-locked Circuits`, Proc. of 58th IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems 2025 (ISCAS 2025), London, UK, May 2025.

 

·       Prakhar Diwan, Nirmal Kumar Boran, and Virendra Singh, `Li-chen: Leveraging Coupled Heterogeneity`, Proc. of 38th International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID-2025), Bangalore, India, Jan 2025

 

·       Aditi Gupta, Adeiza James Onumanyi, Satyadev Ahlawat, Yamuna Prasad, and Virendra Singh, `B-CAVE: A robust online time series change point detection algorithm based on between-class average and variance evaluation approach`, IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), vol. 37, no. 1, Jan 2025

 

 

·       Suma Sri Mandru, Srikanth Yadav Chakka, Tikaram Sanyasi, and Virendra Singh, `MALAI: ML-based attack on learning with error (LWE) problem`, Proc. of 20th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2024), Jaipur, India, Dec 2024

 

·       Tarun Bisht, Sarath Babu, and Virendra Singh, `Critical behaviour sequence monitoring for early malware detection`, Proc. of 17th International Conference on Security of Information Networks (SINConf-2024), Sydney, Australia, Dec 2024

 

·       Tejeshwar Thorawade, Prajakta Yeola, Varun Venkitaraman, and Virendra Singh, `S-Cflush: Securing against flush-based cache timing side channel attacks`, Proc. of 36th IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2024), Hawaii, USA, Nov 2024

 

·       Samiksha Verma, and Virendra Singh, `SMS: Solving many RowHammer`, Proc. of 11th International Symposium on Memory Systems (MEMSYS-24), Washington DC, Oct 2024

 

·       Tikaram Sanyasi, Nirmal Kumar Boran, and Virendra Singh, `Secure KNN Computation on Cloud`, Proc. of 19th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2023), Raipur, India, Dec 2024

 

·       Neha Hooda and Virendra Singh, “Brutector: A probabilistic detection model for Bruteforce attacks in SSH servers”, Proc. of 16th International Conference on Security of Information Networks (SINConf-2023), Jaipur, India, Dec 2023

 

·       Varun Venkitaraman, Ashok Sathyan, Shrihari Deshmukh, and Virendra Singh, “Novel efficient synonym handling mechanism for virtual real cache hierarchy”, Proc. of IEEE Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE’23), Antwerp, Belgium, April 2023

 

·       Ashwin Lele, Srivastava Jandhyala, Saurabh Gangurde, Virendra Singh, Srinivas Subramoney, and Udayan Ganguly, `Disrupting low-write energy vs fast-read dilemma in RRAM to enable L1 instruction cache`, 26th International Symposium on VLSI Design and Test (VDAT’22), Jammu, India, July 2022.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Funding:

 

·      Project: AI Powered Adaptive Cyber Defence Framework (2021 – 2023)

PI: Virendra Singh

Sponsor: National Security Council Secretariat, Govt. of India, Funding: USD 16M (INR 1.2 Arab)

 

Project: Architecting Intelligent Dependable Cyber Physical System Targeting IoTs and Mobile Big Data Analysis

PI: Virendra Singh, IITB and Prof. Masahiro Fujita, The University of Tokyo

Funding: INR 12.5 Crores (IITB: INR 5.1 Crores, and TU: Yen 14.8 Crores)

 

·      Indo Russian (DST-RMES) Joint Project (2017 to 2020)

Project: Technologies and Toolset for Reliable Control of Production Areas of Internet of Things

PI: Prof. RK Shyamasundar, Co-PI: Virendra Singh, IITB, and Prof. Vsevolod Kotlyarov, SPBSTU, Russia

Funding: INR 60 Lakhs (IITB)

 

Agency: DRDO, Funding: INR 11.4 Crores

PI: Prof. Ashwin Gumaste, Co-PI: Virendra Singh

 

Agency: MCIT, Govt. of India, Funding: INR 7.2 Crores

PI: Prof. Shalabh Gupta, Co-PI: Virendra Singh

 

Agency: MCIT, Govt. of India

PI: Prof. R.K. Shyamasundar, Investigator: Virendra Singh

 

Project: Reflection Aware ICC Analysis Framework for Android Apps

PI: Prof. M.S. Gaur, Co-PI: Virendra Singh

 

Project: Design of Self-healing System Chips

Funding: INR 72 Lakhs

 

Project: Multi-Processor Electronic Design Automation

Funding: INR 22 Lakhs

 

Project: Techniques to Speedup Loading of Scan Pattern

Funding: INR 40 Lakhs (INR 10 Lakhs per year)

 

·      Research grant under strategic Japanese-Indian cooperative program (DST-JST) with Prof. Masahiro Fujita, Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan (2010 - 2013)

Project: Computer aided design of hardware accelerated Tsunami prediction system

     Funding: INR 1.6 Crores

Project: Synthesis of high quality testable circuits and diagnosis of performance oriented faults

Funding: INR 20 Lakhs

 

Project: Development of techniques for metamorphic malware detection and analysis

 

Teaching:

 

Last Semester (Jan-Apr 2018)

 

 

Current Semester (July-Nov 2017)

 

 

Recent Past (at IIT-B)

 

 

 

 

Past (at IISc)

 

 

 

 

 

(VLSI Testing and Formal Verification)

 

 

Other Activities/ Courses:

 

 

 

Professional Activities

 

Convener, Computer Architecture & Dependable Systems Lab., IITB (2011 - till date)

Convener, Computer Design and Test Lab., SERC, IISc (2007-2011)

Member, Departmental Curriculum Committee (DCC), SERC, IISc (2007-2011)

 

Steering Committee member

 

General Co-Chair - RASDAT (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)

Vice General Chair: VLSI Design Conference 2014, Embedded Systems Conference 2014

Program Co-Chair: VLSI Design Conference 2014, Embedded Systems Conference 2014

Program Co-Chair - WRTLT 2011, VDAT 2013, VDAT 2016, VDAT 2017

Finance Chair - ATS 2011

Program Co-Chair - DRV 2011

General Co-Chair - IWPVTD 2011, IWPVTD 2012

General Co-Chair – ATS 2015

 

Technical Program Committee Member

 

 

Current Students (at IITB)

 

1.   Sonali Shukla (Ph.D, EE) - Thesis submitted

Thesis: Securing VLSI systems against hardware attacks

2.   Avinash Kumar (Ph.D, CSE) - Thesis submitted

Thesis: Compiler optimization and their algebraic foundations for irregular programs

3.   Raghunandan K.K (Ph.D, EE) - Thesis submitted

Thesis: Reliable GPGPU architectures

4.   Prokash Ghosh (Ph.D, EE)

Thesis: Securing memory systems against hardware attacks

5.   Keerthi Sagar Kokkiligadda (Ph.D, EE)

Research topic: Efficient virtual memory systems

6.   Veerendrababu Vakkapatla (Ph.D, CSE)

Research topic: Reinforcement Learning

7.   Sravanthi Settaluri (Ph.D, CSE)

Research topic: Natural Language Processing

8.   Sourabh Deoghare (Ph.D, CSE)

Research topic: Machine Translation

9.   Rohit Badjatya (Ph.D, EE)

Research topic: Low power VLSI testing

10.                 Yogesh Gholap (Ph.D, EE)

Research topic: Security issues in cyber physical systems

11.                 Tejeshwar Thorawade (Ph.D, EE)

Research topic: Secure and energy efficient memory hierarchy in computing systems

12.                 Samiksha Verama (Ph.D, CSE)

Research topic: Secure memory subsystems

13.                 Munawira Kotyad (Ph.D, CSE)

Research topic: Performance efficient GPGPU architecture

14.                 Suma Sri Mandru (Ph.D, CSE)

Research topic: Security of AI/ML systems, cryptography

15.                 Nikhil Kumar Parida (Ph.D, CSE)

Research topic: Quantum Key Distribution, Quantum computing

16.                 Hasmita Kurre (Ph.D, CSE)

Research topic: AI/ML powered cybersecurity

17.                 Tarun Bisht (Ph.D, CSE)

Research topic: Trustable and explainable AI, Privacy preserving AI

18.                 Pinaki Das (Ph.D, CSE)

Research topic: Multi-modal machine translation

19.                 Rahul Kumar (Ph.D, EE)

Research topic: Formal verification

20.                 Yogeshwar Nath (Ph.D, EE)

Research topic: High performance and reliable systems

 

 

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