Education
Ph.D. | Computer Science and Automation
2021 - Now
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
Masters | Computer Science and Automation
2018 - 2021
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
Bachelors | Computer Science and Engineering
2012 - 2016
The National Institute of Engineering, Mysuru
Gold medalist - Batch 2016
Publications
vAttention: Dynamic Memory Management for Serving LLMs without PagedAttention
Ramya Prabhu, Ajay Nayak, Jayashree Mohan, Ramchandran Ramjee, Ashish Panwar.
To appear in the proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 2025.
Over-synchronization in GPU Programs
Ajay Nayak, Arkaprava Basu.
Proceedings of the 57th International Symposium on Microarchitecture, 2024.
Faastlane: Accelerating Function-as-a-Service Workflows
Swaroop Kotni, Ajay Nayak, Vinod Ganapathy, Arkaprava Basu.
Proceedings of the 2021 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2021.
(Mis)managed: A Novel TLB-based Covert Channel on GPUs
Ajay Nayak, B. Pratheek, Vinod Ganapathy, Arkaprava Basu.
Proceedings of the 16th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2021.
Experience
Microsoft Research India
February 2024 - April 2024
Research Intern
Motorola Mobility India Pvt. Ltd.
June 2016 - July 2018
Associate Engineer, Software
Motorola Mobility India Pvt. Ltd.
January 2016 - May 2016
Software Engineering Intern
Courses
- Computer Architecture Aug-Dec 2018
- Theory and Practice of Computer Systems Security Aug-Dec 2018
- Operating Systems Jan-Apr 2019