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Biosketch
I joined IIT Palakkad as an Assistant Professor (Grade I) in July 2026. I hail from North-East India (Assam) and obtained my MTech & PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Guwahati. My office address is A01-109B, Saraswati Block, IIT Palakkad, Kerala, India 678623.
If you are interested in working with me (in any capacity - PhD, MS, BTP, etc.), please feel free to email me with relevant details. If you are really dedicated, please give a reminder in the same email thread after 3 days (in case you do not receive a reply).
My brief Bio can be found below.
Post-PhD experience:
- Assistant Professor (Grade I), IIT Palakkad (2026–Present)
- Assistant Professor (Grade I & II), IIIT Guwahati (2019–2026)
Research interests (Google scholar profile link):
- Emerging computation paradigm: Memory-centric processing, 3D systems, etc.
- Sustainable, reliable and secure computation: energy-efficient resource management for cloud/edge, program analysis, intermittent computing for IoT, etc.
- Integrating AI/ML with systems: Applying AI/ML in computing systems and designing computing systems for AI/ML.
Sponsored projects:
- Title: Secure Execution of Sensitive Applications by Eliminating Cache Side Channel Attacks using Near Memory Computation Paradigm, Agency: ASTEC, Govt of Assam, Amount: 7.81 Lakh, Status: Ongoing
- Title: Open RAN for Next-Gen 6G Communications Using AI-based Quantum Computing, Agency: SPARC, Govt of India, Amount: 59.40 Lakh, Status: Ongoing
- Title: Design of Automated, Self-Sustaining Collision Avoidance System for Remote Railway Elephant Corridors, Agency: ASTEC, Govt of Assam, Amount: 7.63 Lakh, Status: Ongoing
- Title: Efficient Execution of User Applications on Mobile Edge Computing Platform, Agency: MHRD, Govt of India, Amount: 5.22 Lakh, Status: Complete
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Research Group
News: My research group has developed two full-fledged simulators: MCPSim for Memory-Centric Computing Research, and MECSim for Edge Computing Research. Click here to download.
BTech students:
- Ankit Gupta (Area: 3D NoC)
PhD students:
- Amit Mazumder [IIITG - Ongoing] (Area: - )
- Dhrubajyoti Roy [IIITG - Ongoing] (Area: EdgeAI)
- Panchanan Nath [IIITG - Ongoing] (Area: EdgeAI)
- Simran Preet Kaur [IIITG - Ongoing] (Area: Memory-centric computing)
- Asutosh Kumar Sarma [IIITG - Ongoing] (Area: Program mapping, partition and execution under Intermittent Computing)
- Satanu Maity [IIITG - Thesis submitted] (Area: Memory-centric computing)
- Akhirul Islam [IIITG - Thesis defended in January 2026] (Area: Scheduling & resource allocation in Edge Computing)
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Additional Information
Description
Awards and achievements:
- Outstanding Reviewer Award, Future Generation Computer Systems, 2025.
- Best Paper Award (Embedded), 39th VLSID conference, 2026.
- Best Paper Nomination, 15th SPACE conference, 2025.
- Best Poster (3rd) Award, 15th SPACE conference, 2025.
- Best Paper Award, 18th ANTS conference, 2024.
- Best Paper Award, 1st GCON conference, 2023.
- Best Paper Award, 13th INDICON conference 2016.
Outreach activities:
- Reviewer of Journals, and TPC member of HiPC 2026, HiPC 2025, VLSID 2027, VLSID 2026, etc.
- Fellowship Co-Chair: SPACE 2025, Local Organizing Co-Chair: ANTS 2024, Publicity Co-Chair and Track Chair: GCON 2023, Local Hospitality Co-Chair: INDICON 2021, etc.
- Co-authored the book “An Introduction to Computer Science”, a textbook on Computer Science for class IX under Board of Secondary Education Assam (SEBA), published by Assam State Textbook Production and Publication Ltd, Govt. of Assam in May 2021.
- Co-authored the book “Building Concepts in Computer Science”, a textbook on Computer Science for class X under Board of Secondary Education Assam (SEBA), published by Assam State Textbook Production and Publication Ltd, Govt. of Assam in April 2022.
