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.
[ASPLOS'25] 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.
[MICRO'24] Proceedings of the 57th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, 2024.
Faastlane: Accelerating Function-as-a-Service Workflows
Swaroop Kotni, Ajay Nayak, Vinod Ganapathy, Arkaprava Basu.
[ATC'21] 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.
[AsiaCCS'21] 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