About Me

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, India. My research interests include high performance computing, applied machine learning, cloud computing, Internet of Things, distributed systems, parallel file systems, edge computing, and big data analysis. I lead the Data, Systems and HPC (DaSH) lab at BITS Pilani, Goa.

Prior to joing BITS Pilani, I was a postdoctoral research associate in the AI, Analytics & Scalable Methods Group at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA. My research focus at ORNL was to find I/O patterns and performance bottlenecks in HPC AI applications and develop a cache to optimize I/O for large-scale deep learning applications.

I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Virginia Tech advised by Dr. Ali R. Butt. My Ph.D. was greatly impacted by three summer internships - Argonne National Laboratory in 2017 under the mentorship of Dr. Ian Foster, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2018 under the guidance of Dr. Kathryn Mohror, and Cray Inc. in 2019 where I learned the industry aspects of HPC storage under the guidance of Cory Spitz and Nathan Rutman.

Apart from research, I enjoy playing and watching cricket. I love listening to songs and take active participation in 10k and half marathon runs. I believe in a happy and balanced lifestyle.


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News & Highlights

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  • April 2 2023TPC Invite

    TPC member of HiPC 2023

  • March 15 2023TPC Invite

    TPC member of SC 2023 AD/AE

  • March 15 2023Co-Chair

    Co-Chair of HiPC 2023 Student Research Symposium

  • February 15 2023Co-Chair

    Co-Chair of HPDC 2023 Technical Posters

  • January 4 2023Paper Presented

    Presented 2 papers at ICDCN 2023

  • December 10 2022Paper Accepted

    Full paper accepted at USENIX FAST 2023

  • November 14 2022Paper Accepted

    Workshop paper accepted at ICDCN 2023

  • October 27 2022Grant Proposal Accepted

    Additional Competitive Grant at BITS Pilani of Rs.30 Lakhs accepted for the proposal titled Setting up EdgeSys Lab at BITS Pilani

  • September 8 2022Grant Proposal Accepted

    BioCyTiH Foundation of Department of Science and Technology, Government of India accepted our grant proposal of Rs. 41 Lakhs titled A Scalable Cloud and Edge-based Framework to Ease The Deployment of IoT-based Applications

  • September 1 2022Paper Published

    Full paper published in the Performance Evaluation journal.

  • July 6 2022Paper Accepted

    Full paper accepted at 2022 IEEE Cluster Conference (Cluster)

  • June 28 2022Grant Proposal Accepted

    Research Initiation Grant at BITS Pilani of Rs.2Lakhs accepted for the proposal titled Optimization of Federated Learning Models on Heterogeneous IoT Devices

  • May 1 2022Papers Accepted

    Two full papers accepted at 2022 ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC)

  • April 10 2022Workshop Chair

    Accepted for organizing the Second Workshop on Re-envisioning Extreme-Scale I/O for Emerging Hybrid HPC Workloads (REX-IO) in conjunction with IEEE Cluster 2022

  • February 17 2022Paper Accepted

    Full paper accepted at 2022 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid)

  • December 18 2021New Job

    Started as an Assistant Professor at BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus

  • October 26 2021Reviewer Invite

    Guest Reviewer for IPDPS 2022

  • September 29 2021Paper Accepted

    Workshop paper accepted at 8th Annual International Workshop on Innovating the Network for Data-Intensive Science (INDIS 2021) held in conjunction with SC 2021

  • September 5 2021Paper Accepted

    Full paper accepted at 2021 IEEE International Symposium on the Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS)

  • August 24 2021TPC Invite

    Reviewer for the Book on Convergence of Deep Learning in Cyber-IoT Systems and Security 2021

  • July 26 2021Paper Accepted

    Workshop paper accepted at 1st Workshop on Re-envisioning Extreme-Scale I/O for Emerging Hybrid HPC Workloads (REX-IO) held in conjunction with IEEE Cluster 2021

  • July 6 2021TPC Invite

    Invitation for the 1st and 2nd International Conference on Advances in High-Performance Computing (AHPC) 2021, 2022 organized by Oklahoma International Publishing (OkIP)

  • June 28 2021Postdoctoral Talk

  • April 29 2021Workshop Chair

    Accepted for organizing the Workshop on Re-envisioning Extreme-Scale I/O for Emerging Hybrid HPC Workloads (REX-IO) in conjunction with IEEE Cluster 2021

  • March 10 2021Data Challenge

    Accepted for SMC Data Challenge 2021: Analyzing Resource Utilization and User Behavior on Titan Supercomputer

  • February 2 2021Special Lecture

    Decoding Process Management in Operating Systems, Netaji Subhash Engineering College, West Bengal, India

  • January 5 2021TPC Invite

    Invitation for Cloud Computing'21 Techinal Program Committee

  • December 7 2020TPC Invite

    Invitation for SC'21 ACM Graduate Poster Committee

  • November 26 2020Paper Award

    Awarded the YESC award for the most innovative student paper at IEEE Services 2020

  • November 6 2020Chapter Published

    Book Chapter on Edge vs Cloud published. https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429288630

  • October 14 2020TPC Invite

    Invitation for SC'21 Doctoral Showcase Committee Member

  • October 13 2020Award Nomination

    Nominated for YESC award for the most innovative student paper at IEEE Services 2020

  • October 12 2020Paper Accepted

    Full paper on analyzing docker images accepted at IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)

  • September 15 2020Paper Accepted

    Full paper on analyzing HPC application I/O behavior accepted at IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC)

  • September 8 2020New Job

    Postdoctoral Research Associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • August 14 2020Ph.D. Complete

    Graduated from Virginia Tech with a Ph.D. in Computer Science

  • July 28 2020Ph.D. Defended

    Defended my Ph.D. dissertation at Virginia Tech

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science & Applications

Virginia Tech, U.S.A.
Advisor: Dr. Ali R. Butt
GPA: 4.0/4.0
2015 - 2020

Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science & Applications

Virginia Tech, U.S.A.
GPA: 3.85/4.0
2015 - 2018

Master of Technology (M.Tech.) in Software Engineering

National Institute of Technology, Rourkela
Advisor: Dr. Bibhudatta Sahoo
GPA: 9.56/10.0 (Gold Medalist - First position in the department)
2013 - 2015

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science & Engineering

West Bengal University of Technology
GPA: 9.02/10.0 (First position in the department)
2009 - 2013

Work/Research Experience

BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus

Assistant Professor
Dept. of Computer Science & Information Systems
Dec. 2021 - present

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S.A.

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Analytics and AI Methods at Scale Group
Sep. 2020 - Oct. 2021

Virginia Tech, U.S.A.

Ph.D. Student
Distributed Systems and Storage Laboratory
Advisor: Dr. Ali R. Butt
Jan. 2016 - Aug. 2020

Cray Inc.

Graduate Research Intern
Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico, U.S.A.
Advisors: Cory Spitz, Nathan Rutman (Cray), and Scott White (LANL)
Jun 2019 - Aug. 2019

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Graduate Student Summer Intern (Computation Scholar)
Location: Livermore, California, U.S.A.
Advisor: Dr. Kathryn Mohror
May 2018 - Aug. 2018

Argonne National Laboratory

Graduate Student Summer Intern (Research Aide)
Location: Lemont, Illinois, U.S.A.
Advisor: Dr. Ian Foster
May 2017 - Aug. 2017

National Institute of Technology, Rourkela

Masters Student
Information Security and Data Communication Laboratory
Advisor: Dr. Bibhudatta Sahoo
May 2014 - May 2015