Hello

I am currently working as a research scientist at Intel in Bangalore, India, and I am a part of Systems Architecture Lab. My research interests are memory management, including memory tiering for generic and domain-specific workloads, and memory optimization for LLM inference.

Before this, I finished my Ph.D. from the School Of Information and Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi. I worked with Prof. Smruti R Sarangi and was a part of the Srishti Research Group. My Ph.d. thesis title is "Hardware-Assisted Secure Execution on Remote, Untrusted Systems"

I finished my Master's in engineering from the Department of Computer Science and Automation (CSA) at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India, in 2013. At IISc, I worked with Prof. K. Gopinath, and my thesis title was "Modeling the Performance of the Gluster File System."

Selected Publications

• TierScape: Harnessing Multiple Compressed Tiers to Tame Server Memory TCO
  Sandeep Kumar, Aravinda Prasad, Sreenivas Subramoney , EuroSys (2026)
• TierTrain: Proactive Memory Tiering for CPU-Based DNN Training
  Sathvik Swaminathan, Sandeep Kumar, Aravinda Prasad, and Sreenivas Subramoney , ISMM, Seoul, South Korea (2025)
• Efficient Memory Tiering in a Virtual Machine
  Chandra Prakash, Aravinda Prasad, Sandeep Kumar, Sreenivas Subramoney , arXiv (2025)
• A Tug-of-War between Static and Dynamic Memory in Intel SGX
  Sandeep Kumar, Abhisek Panda, Advait Nerlikar and Smruti R. Sarangi , VLSID, Bangalore, India (2025)
• Telescope: Telemetry for Gargantuan Memory Footprint Applications
  Alan Nair, Sandeep Kumar, Aravinda Prasad, Ying Huang, Andy Rudoff, Sreenivas Subramoney , USENIX, ATC, USA (2024)
• Managing Large Enclaves in a Data Center
  Sandeep Kumar, and Smruti R. Sarangi , arXiv (2024)

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Education

PhD in Computer Science and Engineering [2017 - 2024 ]
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India

Master of Engineering in Computer Science and Automation [2011 - 2013]
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering [2007 - 2011]
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, India

Work Experience

Research Scientist [March 2022 - ]
Processor and Architecture Labs, Intel Labs, Bangalore, India

Research Intern [June 2020 - Jan 2021]
Intel Labs, Bangalore, India

Research Associate [2014 - 2017]
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Software Development Engineer [2013 - 2014]
Dell R&D, Bangalore, India