Sandeep Kumar

Hello

This is Sandeep Kumar. I am currently working as a research scientist at Intel Labs in Bangalore, India. At Intel Labs, I am a part of the Processor Architecture Research Lab.

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 "Modelling the Performance Gluster FileSystem."

Research Interest

Upcoming memory technology, Memory management, System security, Intel SGX, Linux kernel.

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

Recent News

[Oct-2024] Our work, "A Tug-of-War between Static and Dynamic Memory in Intel SGX", Sandeep Kumar, Abhisek Panda, Advait Nerlikar and Smruti R. Sarangi, VLSI Design 2025.

[Jul-2024] Successfully defended the Ph.D. thesis.

[May-2024] Our work, "Telescope: Telemetry for Gargantuan Memory Footprint Applications," has been accepted in ATC 2024 as a full paper.

[18-Apr-2023] Presented our work, "Perspector: Benchmarking Benchmark Suites", at DATE 2023, Antwerp, Belgium.

[16-Apr-2022] Our work "Perspector: Benchmarking Benchmark Suites", has been accepted in DATE 2023 as a full paper.

[10-Nov-2022] Presented our work SecureLease at Middleware 2022.

[8-Apr-2022] Our work on Intel SGX benchmarks suite and a secure leasing mechanisms using Intel SGX has been accepted in ISPASS 2022 and Middleware 2022, respectively. More details in the publication section.

[7-March-2022] Joined Intel Labs as a research scientist.

This page was last updated on 09-June-2025.