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I am a researcher at NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, NJ. My primary interest is parallel computing and computer architecture. More specifically, I am interested in heterogeneous parallel systems and how they may be used to drive applications of the future.


Over the past few years at NEC Labs, I have worked on a hardware accelerator for logic simulation (SimPLE) and a hash-based lookup engine for networking. SimPLE has since spun-off as an independent start-up. I am currently working on developing non-intrusive mechanisms to improve enterprise application performance and power on heterogeneous machines. Heterogeneous machines include those with accelerators such as GPUs, as well as machines that combine high-end and low-end CPUs within a single node. I have also worked on building a special-purpose processor for machine learning.

Before arriving at NEC Labs, I got my Ph.D.in 2001 from Carnegie Mellon's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, where I was part of a research group working on a reconfigurable architecture called PipeRench. Prior to that, I obtained an M.S. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, which I joined after graduating from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1993. And even before that, what now seems like such a long time ago, I lived in Bangalore, India, where I did most of my growing up and schooling.


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