Varun Agrawal

PhD student Computer Science Stony Brook University

I am a member of the COMPAS lab which is headed by Prof. Mike Ferdman. My research interests are computer architecture and systems.

Before coming to Stony Brook University, I completed my undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur. I also spent 2 years working as a Software Associate in Strand Life Sciences, Bangalore (India).

Contact

vagrawal@cs.stonybrook.edu

You can download my CV here.

Publications

• Architectural Support for Dyanmic Linking (PDF) ASPLOS ’15

Posters

• JIT Kernels: An Idea Whose Time Has (Just) Come (Poster), SOSP ’13

Projects

• Elider

  • Eliding redundant execution of instructions

• MPSP

  • Design a massively parallel server processor for high throughput

• Graph Algorithm Optimization

  • Improving graph algorithm performance by reducing LLC misses

• Dremel (JIT Kernels)

  • JIT compile OS kernels to boot hardware optimized kernels

Course Projects

• Superscalar out-of-order processor with speculative execution for a reduced x86 instruction set.

• FuseGit, a git-based FUSE file system

• Protoplasm, a compiler for a minimal programming language Proto

Work Experience

Graduate Intern, Advanced Micro Devices, Boxborough, MA, USA (Fall 2017)

Graduate Intern, Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR, USA (Summer 2015)

Associate Software, Strand Life Sciences, Bangalore, KA, India (2010 - 2012)

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, Stony Brook University

• Computer Architecture (Graduate) (Spring 2014)

• Data Structures & Algorithms (Undergraduate) (Spring 2013, Fall 2012)

• Introduction to Programming in C (Undergraduate) (Spring 2013)

Instructor, Shiksha Sopan, IIT Kanpur

• Chemistry (High School) (Summer 2008)