Ph.D
Students
- Akanksha Dixit
- Rahul Kanyal
- Shruti Pandey
- Abhisek Panda
- Ani Sunny
- Yosep Ro
Graduated Ph.D Students
- Dr. Nivedita Shrivastava (July, 2025)
Thesis
title: Design of Secure Hardware Architectures for Neural Networks
First job: CEO, Thought2Design Systems Pvt. Ltd.
- Dr. Sandeep Kumar (July, 2024)
Thesis
title: Hardware Assisted Secure Execution on Remote, Untrusted Systems
First job: Intel Research, Bangalore
- Dr. Priyanka
Singla (July, 2023)
Thesis
title: Efficient Architectures and Networks for Energy Harvesting Systems
First job: Intel, Bangalore
- Dr. Shubhankar Suman Singh (May, 2023)
Thesis
title: A Comparative Approach for Understanding, Analyzing, and Predicting the Behavior of Full Systems
First job: Huawei Research, Bangalore
- Dr. Diksha Moolchandani
(co-advisor Prof. Anshul Kumar) (March, 2022)
Thesis
title: Scheduling and
Characterization of Computer
Vision Workloads on
Heterogeneous Systems
First job:
IMEC, Belgium
- Dr. Hameedah Sultan (Oct,
2021).
Thesis
title: Ultra-Fast
Temperature Estimation Methods
for Architecture-Level Thermal
Modeling.
First job:
Qualcomm, Singapore
- Dr. Janibul Bashir (June,
2020)
Thesis
title: Leveraging
Silicon Nanophotonics for
On-chip and Off-chip
Communication
First job:
NIT Srinagar
- Dr. Neetu Jindal (co-advisor:
Prof. Preeti Panda) (October,
2019)
Thesis
title: Reusing
Design-for-debug Hardware to
Enhance Performance
First job:
Intel, Bangalore
- Dr. Prathmesh Kallurkar
(October, 2018) [Doctoral distinction in resesarch]
Thesis
title: Architectural
Support for Enhanced Performance
of OS Intensive Applications
First job:
Intel Research Labs, Bangalore
- Dr. Sandeep Chandran
(co-advisor Prof. Preeti
Panda)(November, 2017) FITT award
Thesis
title: FlexDFD:
Flexible DFD Hardware For
Efficient Post-Silicon
Validation
Award: Best
industrially relevant Ph.D by
FITT, IIT Delhi
First job:
AMD Bangalore. (Now faculty in
IIT Palakkad)
- Dr. Rajshekar Kalayappan
(September, 2017)
Thesis
title: Employing
Redundancy based Techniques to
provide Reliability, Security,
and Accountability in Modern
Processors
First job:
Assistant Professor, IIT Dharwad
- Dr. Gayathri
Ananthanarayanan
(co-advisor Prof. M.
Balakrishnan) (Aug 2017)
Thesis
title: Techniques to
Estimate and Mitigate the
Effects of Thermal Coupling and
Process Variation in Manycore
Processors
First job:
Post-doc NUS Singapore
- Dr. Eldhose Peter (Jan 2017)
Thesis
title: Power-efficient
On-chip Optical Interconnects
First job:
NVidia Bangalore
- Dr. Pooja Aggarwal (June 2016)
Thesis
Title: Theory and
Applications of Non-Blocking
Slot Schedulers
First job:
IBM Research Labs, Bangalore
M.Tech/
M.S/Dual Degree Students
2025-26
1. Manan Sharma (MSR)
2. Vedant Sharma (MSR)
3. Harsh Vardhan Singh (MSR)
4. Ritik Gangwar
5. Anish Tukaram Guduri
6. Anamika Patel
7. Kanishka Gajbhiye
8. Karissa Khonglam
9. Mridul Singh
2024-25
1. Raheen Junaid Wani (MSR) (first job: Higher Colleges of Technology, Dubai)
2. S. U. Swakath (first job: Qualcomm, Chennai)
3. Ganraj Borade (first job: Qualcomm, Bangalore)
4. Mitesh Pandey (first job: Intel Research, Bangalore)
2023-24
1. Yashashwee Chakraborty (first job: Qualcomm, Bangalore) [SCM Award]
2. Soham Nag (first job: Oleria, Bangalore)
3. Aman Shreshtha (co-advisor: Prof. Brejesh Lall) (MSR)
(first job: NVIDIA, Bangalore)
2022-23
1. Akshin Singh (MSR) (first job: Qualcomm Bangalore)
2. Mehul Bose (first job: AMD, Bangalore)
3. Bivas Dutta (first job: Oracle, Bangalore)
4. Harshit Verma (first job: General Electric, Hyderabad) [SCM Award]
5. Nikita Bhamu (first job: Amazon, Bangalore) [SCM Award]
2021-22
1. Dipika
Tanwar (first job: Samsung Technologies)
2. Satyam
Jay (first job: Pepperfry Technologies)
2020-21
1. Anjali Agrawal (first job: Intel) [FITT award]
2. K. Yadav (Air Force Officer)
3. Samiksha Agarwal (first job: Indie Semiconductors, Edinburgh, Scotland)
2018-19
1. Shashank Varshney
(first job: Intel)
2.
Ankit Gola (first job:
Intel)
3.
Anand Singh (first job:
Dell)
4.
Ravi Shankar Singh (first
job: PayU Technologies)
2016-2017
- Apoorva
Temurnikar
(first job:
Intel)
- Sakshi
Goel (first job:
Goldman Sachs)
- Bhumika
Singh (first
job: Goldman
Sachs)
- Saurabh
Kapoor (first
job: Intel)
2015-2016
1.
Srishty Patel (first
job: Microsoft)
2. Pallavi Sethi
(first job:
Microsoft)
3. Sanjog Patil
(first job: Cypress)
2014-2015
- Hameedah Sultan (first
job: joined Ph.D at IIT
Delhi)
- Priyanka Bhayana
(first job: Oracle)
- Coca Sai Prajeeth
(first job: Google)
- Akriti Bagaria (first
job: Intel)
- Karishma Agarwal
(first job: Oracle) [SCM Award]
- Seep Goel (first job:
IBM Research)
- Ishani Mahajan (first
job: Cisco)
- Arpit Katiyar (first
job: Samsung Research)
- Monica Mahsalkar
(first job: Citibank)
- T. A. Mahadevan (first
job: Netapp)
2013-2014
- Geetika Malhotra
(first job: Intel) [SCM Award]
- Rohan Bhalla (first
job: Samsung)
- Anuj Arora (first job:
Cisco)
2012-2013
1. Eldhose Peter
(first job: joined Ph.D at
IIT Delhi)
2.
Nitin Gupta (first job:
Amazon)
3.
Mayur Harne (first job:
Nvidia)
4. Harsh Prasad
(co-supervisor Prof. M.
Balakrishnan)
2011-2012
1.
Rajshekar Kalayappan (first
job: joined Ph.D at IIT
Delhi)
2.
Prathmesh Kallurkar (first
job: joined Ph.D at IIT
Delhi)
3.
Moksh Upadhyay (first job:
IBM Microelectronics)
4. Abhishek Sagar
(co-supervisor Prof. M.
Balakrishnan) (first job:
Adobe Systems)
5.
Kapil Khanna
(co-supervisor Prof. M.
Balakrishnan) (first job:
Microsoft)
6. Pavan Jayaram Joshi
(co-supervisor Prof. M.
Balakrishnan)
7. Lalitha Vurakaranam
(co-supervisor Prof. M.
Balakrishnan)
8. Solomon Abera Bekele
(co-supervisor Prof. M.
Balakrishnan)
9. Seema Sethia
(co-supervsior Prof. Shouri
Chatterjee, Prof. Amit
Gupta)
10. Soumit Biswas
(co-supervisor Prof. Shouri
Chatterjee)
SCM Award
Suresh Chandra Memorial award for the best project in software systems
FITT award
FITT Award: Best industrially relevant PhD thesis