Research Area

Systems & Architecture

Systems research covers computer architecture, memory and storage systems, cloud and edge platforms, networked systems, software engineering, embedded systems, and deployment-oriented computing.

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Research Themes

What the group works on

Computer architecture, memory, storage, and accelerators Network function virtualization, SDN, edge, and cloud systems Software testing, evolution, maintenance, and repositories Sensing systems and deployed computing for sustainability Embedded systems, VLSI, operating systems, and public-scale infrastructure

Faculty

People shaping this area

Manu Awasthi

Associate Professor of Practice

Computer architecture, memory and storage, cloud systems, performance optimization, and RISC-V pedagogy.

Sameer G Kulkarni

Assistant Professor

NFV, SDN, edge/cloud platforms, distributed systems, network security, and resource management.

Shouvick Mondal

Assistant Professor

Software testing, evolution, maintenance, mining repositories, logging, and empirical software engineering.

Rajat Moona

Professor and Director

Computer architecture, VLSI, operating systems, embedded systems, smart cards, and RFID.

Nipun Batra

Associate Professor

Scalable sensing systems, sustainable computing, health sensing, and deployed AI systems.

Selected Publications

Recent Publications

MCP-Diag: A Deterministic, Protocol-Driven Architecture for AI-Native Network Diagnostics

COMSNETS 2026 - AI-native network diagnostics.

Memory Bottlenecks in Quantum Simulation: Cache Contention and Adaptive Allocation Policy

COMSNETS 2026 - memory and cache behavior in simulation.

Hardware-Software Co-Design of a Collaborative DNN Accelerator for 3D Stacked Memories with Multi-Channel Data

ASP-DAC 2024 - accelerator architecture and memory systems.

VulNet: Towards Improving Vulnerability Management in the Maven Ecosystem

EMSE 2024 - software engineering and vulnerability management.

Projects & Outputs

Representative Projects

Development of Quantum Machine Learning Use Cases and Applications

MeitY-sponsored project led by Sameer G Kulkarni.

Specialized language models deployable on endpoints with low compute resources

ISRO-sponsored project led by Anirban Dasgupta with systems relevance.

Project Madhava

Hands-on computer systems pedagogy and RISC-V based microcontroller development led by Manu Awasthi.

Department compute infrastructure

GPU-based department servers and HPC resources supporting systems and AI experiments.