Varun Venkitaraman

Advisor: Prof. Virendra Singh Contact Computer Architecture and Dependable Systems Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai-400076, India. Email: varunvenkat[at]ee.iitb.ac.in

Research Interests

• High Performance Computer Architecture

• Energy Efficient Micro-architectures

• Efficient Memory Subsytem Design

• Multi-kernel GPGPU Architecture Design

• Efficient Cache Hierarchy Design for High Throughput Systems

Publications

• Varun Venkitaraman, Ashok Sathyan, Shrihari P. Deshmukh and Virendra Singh, "Novel Efficient Synonym Handling Mechanism for Virtual-real Cache Hierarchy",Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), Antwerp, Belgium, 2023.
  

• Shubham Singhania, Neelam Sharma, Varun Venkitaraman, and Chandan Kumar Jha, "CAR: Community Aware Graph Reordering for Efficient Cache Utilization in Graph Analytics",VLSI Design and Test (VDAT) 2022, Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1687. Springer, Cham.
  

• Neelam Sharma, Varun Venkitaraman, Newton, Vikash Kumar, Shubham Singhania and Chandan Kumar Jha, "Data-Aware Cache Management for Graph Analytics",Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), Antwerp, Belgium, 2022.
  

• Arindam Sarkar, Newton Singh, Varun Venkitaraman and Virendra Singh, "DAM: Deadblock Aware Migration Techniques for STT-RAM-Based Hybrid Caches" in IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 62-4, 1 Jan.-June 2021.
  

• Varun Venkitaraman, Ashok Sathyan and Virendra Singh, "CBIT - A Synonym Handler for Low-latency and Energy-efficient Cache Hierarchy", in 2019 IEEE 37th International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD). (Poster)
  

Educational Background

• Ph. D. (Pursuing) in Electronic Systems from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. (IIT Bombay)
  

• M. Tech. (2014) in VLSI Design from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur. (VNIT Nagpur)
  

• B. E. (2012) in Electronics from Datta Meghe College of Engineering, Mumbai University. (DMCE)
  

Teaching Assitantships

• EE-739: Processor Design
  

• CS-683: Advanced Computer Architecture
  

• EE-748: Advanced Topics in Computer Architecture
  

• EE-309: Microprocessors
  

• EE-224: Digital Systems
  

• CS-226: Digital Logic Design
  

• CS-254: Digital Logic Design Lab
  

• EE-709: Testing and Verification of VLSI Circuits
  

• EE-677: Foundations of VLSI CAD