Current position: Staff Research Engineer · Arm, Cambridge, UK.

Research interests: I work on Systems Architecture & Design, with a focus on memory disaggregation, consistency, coherence, RAS features, persistency, and virtual memory. I bring an ethos of holistic, end-to-end system design that’s driven by real-world applications - incorporating workload understanding / algorithm analysis.

Brief bio: I have pursued research across academia and industry; ranging from targeted, applied research to more open-ended, blue-sky investigations.
Currently, I am a member of the research group at Arm led by Eric Van Hensbergen.
I earned my PhD as an Arm fellow from The University of Edinburgh (2023), following a Master's (by research) from Indian Institute of Science (2017). My thesis explored computer architectures for Co-designing reliability and performance for datacenter memory.
I've previously worked as a Research Scientist at Intel (2017-19) and a Technology Analyst at Goldman Sachs (2012-14), contributing to projects ranging from high-performance systems research to large-scale datacenter infra engineering.
The journey has been a mix of building systems, thinking deeply about how hardware and software meet, and chasing performance across the stack—sometimes all at once!

Endurance sports hobbyist: Marathons, Hyrox, Triathlon, Trekking and more.

Updates

  • Jan 2026: Paper on improving non-coherent interconnects using destination-ordering - accepted at ASPLOS 2026.
  • Jan 2026: Completed two Half Marathon events: Edinburgh MoRun (1:59), Windmill Way Wander (1:52).
  • Dec 2025: I have been elevated to the IEEE Senior Member grade.
  • Aug 2025: I am serving on the external program committee of HPCA 2026.
  • May 2025: Coatyl, Compiler auto-vec for SIMD offload using Arm Streaming SVE - accepted at C3PO @ ISC 2025
  • Apr 2025: I am serving on the external program committee of MICRO 2025.
  • Mar 2025: Completed my first HYROX race in Glasgow! (Solo - Open Men division)
  • Jul 2024: I am serving on the program committee of HPCA 2025.
  • Apr 2024: I am serving on the external review committee of MICRO 2024.
  • Mar 2024: UDON, offloading compute to Arm cores on CXL memory - accepted at HCDS @ ASPLOS 2024Best paper!
  • Feb 2024: I am serving as the Content Editor for ACM SIGARCH.
  • Dec 2023: I have joined the Systems Architecture and Technology group at Arm, Cambridge.
  • Oct 2023: Ran my second full marathon - Loch Ness Marathon.
  • May 2023: Successfully defended my PhD thesis at the viva. I am grateful to my thesis committee Vilas Sridharan (AMD, Senior Fellow) and Antonio Barbalace (Assoc. Professor, Univ of Edinburgh).
  • May 2023: I am serving as the web co-chair for HPCA 2024.
  • Mar 2023: Āpta, a reliable CXL disaggregated memory system - accepted at DSN 2023.
  • Jan 2023: MoU signed between Dr. M R Gorbal Foundation and Karnatak University, Dharwad to provide scholarships for physics PhD students and to support hosting guest lectures from eminent scientists in physics - Media coverage
  • Aug 2022: My family and I have registered a charity - Dr. M R Gorbal Foundation, aiming to promote research in Physics. The charity is in my grandfather's name, who was a researcher in laser spectroscopy.
  • Dec 2021: Presented "FaaS with Disaggregated Shared Memory" at UK Systems Research Workshop
  • Oct 2021: Presented "Improving Reliability & Performance of Datacenter Systems via Coherence" at ARM/UEd Conf
  • Apr 2021: Dvé, a DRAM reliability + performance scheme - accepted at ISCA 2021
  • Mar 2021: Invited to serve on the review committee of IEEE CAL
  • May 2019: Left Intel, Bangalore and moved to Edinburgh, United Kingdom to pursue a PhD
  • Jan 2019: Married Kumudha Narasimhan
  • Oct 2018: Completed Bengaluru Full Marathon in 4hr 17min
  • Feb 2018: Defended my Masters thesis. I am grateful to my thesis examiner Mainak Chauduri (Professor, IIT Kanpur)
  • Jan 2018: Presented HAShCache at HiPEAC 2018 (accepted at ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO) 2017).
  • Aug 2017: Joined Intel Labs at Bangalore as a Research Scientist

Featured and Recent Posts

Projects & publications
Āpta: Fault-tolerant object-granular CXL disaggregated memory

Research Paper (DSN '23) read more →

Dvé: Memory Replication for Reliability and Performance

Research Paper (ISCA '21) read more →

Blogs & journals
Bicycle touring around Cambridge

Long rides on NCN routes around the English countryside read more →

Travelogue - Fife Coastal Path

Walking the 200km East Scottish Coastal Path read more →