IIT Hyderabad · M.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering
Jul 2025 – May 2028- Coursework: Advanced Data Structures, Program Verification, Security in Intelligent Systems, Visual Computing, Topics in Networks
Curriculum Vitae
The same content as the PDF version. Last updated September 2026.
Research Interests
Systems for large-scale machine learning: improving the efficiency of training and inference. Current work in LLM inference optimization and in-network computing. Other areas: datacenter congestion control, RDMA, and programmable data planes.
Education
NIT Goa · B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering
Nov 2021 – May 2025- Coursework: Computer Networks, Computer Organization and Architecture, Theory of Computation
IIT Hyderabad · final-year CSE exchange student
Aug 2024 – May 2025- Coursework: Advanced Topics in Cryptology, Network Security, Quantum Computing, Machine Learning
Publications
OCIT’25XF-SISS: XOR-Based Fault Tolerant and Flexible Secret Image Sharing Scheme
OITS International Conference on Information Technology (OCIT), IEEE, 2025. pp. 81–86.
IFIP NET’25Detecting Manipulation to Table Rules in the Programmable Data Planes
IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking), 2025. Limassol, Cyprus. pp. 438–446.
Manuscripts Under Review
TNSMDetecting Manipulation to Table Rules in the Programmable Data Planes
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. Submitted August 2026, under review. Extended version of the IFIP Networking 2025 paper above.
Research Experience
Graduate Researcher · IIT Hyderabad, advised by Dr. Praveen Tammana
Jul 2025 – present- Software-systems-level optimization for AI inference, targeting the cost break-even point at which self-hosting open-weight models becomes cheaper than commercial API access.
- Datacenter congestion control for high-performance networking, using DPDK and RDMA.
In-Network Computing over Quantized Data · IIT Hyderabad, course project
Jul – Nov 2026- Designing hardware support so that in-network computation can operate directly on quantized data, accelerating distributed training and inference.
Demonstration System for P4Auth · IIT Hyderabad
2025- Built the live demonstration for P4Auth, showing three configurations side by side: baseline HULA load balancing, HULA under a compromised switch, and HULA protected by P4Auth.
- Acknowledged in Securing In-Network Traffic Control Systems with P4Auth (IEEE/IFIP DSN 2025). [IEEE Xplore]
Programmable Data Plane Security (P4TVal) · IIT Hyderabad
Aug 2024 – Apr 2025- Implemented Rule Enforcement Verification (REV), the state-of-the-art baseline, in a BMv2–Mininet testbed using P4; simulated adversarial table-rule modification via the switch CLI.
- Measured attack-detection time against network size for both systems, establishing that P4TVal detects rule manipulation 10× faster than REV and stays constant as hop count grows.
- Evaluated data-plane overhead on an Aurora 610 Intel Tofino switch (bf-sde 9.9.0, PTF): ingress-pipeline latency over 5,000 packets, showing ~50 ns added per packet. [code]
Cybersecurity Research Intern · NIT Surathkal
Jun – Jul 2024- Designed a flexible XOR-based secret image sharing scheme enabling partial recovery with perfect secrecy; published as XF-SISS at IEEE OCIT 2025.
- Evaluated PSNR benchmarks over large image datasets using Python, OpenCV, and NumPy.
Projects
BoSy — Reactive Synthesis Tool Extensions · IIT Hyderabad, course project, team of 3
Jan – May 2026- Added AIGER circuit output and integrated the Pedant DQBF solver into BoSy, an open-source bounded-synthesis tool written in Swift.
- Authored the technical documentation for the extended toolchain, covering solver backends, bound-search strategies, and a guide to the codebase. [code]
Teaching
Teaching Assistant, Network Security (CS6903) · IIT Hyderabad
Jan – May 2026- Graduate-level course (CS6903), with Dr. Praveen Tammana and Dr. Saurabh Kumar.
- Designed capture-the-flag problems, quizzes, and assignments; conducted vivas, graded submissions, and invigilated examinations.
Teaching Assistant, Computer Networks (CS3530) · IIT Hyderabad
Jul – Nov 2025- Undergraduate course (CS3530), with Dr. Praveen Tammana.
- Prepared quizzes and assignments, graded submissions, and invigilated examinations.
Industry Experience
GenAI Intern · Mondee Tech
May – Jul 2025- Built a multi-agent system with live voice interaction over WebSockets using Gemini Live; integrated LLMs, VLMs, STT/TTS, and OCR models into agent workflows.
- Engineered FastAPI backends and deployed them to production.
Technical Skills
- Languages
- C++, C, Python, P4, Bash, SQL
- Networking & systems
- Intel Tofino, BMv2, Mininet, P4Runtime, PTF, DPDK, RDMA, Linux, gRPC, Git
- ML / AI
- vLLM, LLMs, VLMs, OCR, agent workflows, LangGraph, Hugging Face
- Other
- FastAPI, WebSockets, PostgreSQL, MySQL, OpenCV, NumPy, Google Cloud