Biswabandan Panda

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." - Thomas Henry Huxley

Learner and Researcher (a.k.a. member of faculty) exploring the path to enlightenment
Office: KD 203
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Broad Area of Research: Computer Architecture (Systems)
biswap[AT]cse[DOT]iitk[DOT]ac[DOT]in
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Openings

Looking for Masters/Ph.D. students to work on computer architecture security, security issues at the architecture-OS interface, memory and storage hierarchy for emerging applications, and OS-architecture interaction. If you want to join CARS for your masters/Ph.D. THESIS then please see these NOTE1 and NOTE2 for details.
If you are looking for internships/remote internships for at least six months then apply here. I am currently not offering any summer/winter internships as a summer/winter is not enough to do something substantial (especially in computer architecture). I write recommendation letters only for students who have worked with me for a significant amount of time (at least six months).

Updates

Sept. 2019: Research grant for 3 years on "memory hierarchy optimizations and virtual memory systems" from Intel labs through SRC. Thanks SRC.
July 2019: Finally started blogging about Computer Architecture Research. Check it out Computer Architectue Research 101.
May/June/July 2019: Two papers got through at HASP co-located with ISCA-19 . One got through at DPC3@ISCA-19, WOOT@USENIX-SECURITY, and PACT'19.
June 2019: Completed two years at CSE-IITK. Englightened :)
Sept. 2018: Research grant for research on secure OS and architecture interface as part of defence corridor project.
August 2018: Research grant for research on "It is Time for Secure Memory Hierarchies" from SRC . Thanks SRC.
July 2018: Paper on Cache Compression in PACT '18.
Summer School on Computer Architecture CASS'18.

Research Interests

I am broadly interested in the areas of computer architecture and systems. Please visit current research interests for an overview.

Recent Publications

[SRC@MICRO 2019 ] Aditya Rohan, Biswabandan Panda, and Prakhar Agarwal “Whispering Streamers: Covert Channel through Stream Prefetchers”, in SRC of 52nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, Columbus, USA, 2019.
[PACT 2019 ] Biswabandan Panda, “Fooling The Sense of Cross-core Last-level Cache Eviction Based Attacker By Prefetching Common Sense” , in Proceedings of 28th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques, Seattle, USA, 2019.
[WOOT19@USENIXSEC-2019 ]Dixit Kumar, Chavhan Sujeet Yashavant, Biswabandan Panda, and Vishal Gupta “How Sharp is SHARP?” [source code: coming soon]
[CVP*@ISCA20** ] Arpit Gupta, Parv Mor, Hrithvik Taneja, and Biswabandan Panda, “STEVES: Pushing the Limits of Value Predictors with Sliding FCM and EVES” [Leading the leaderboard in the unlimited track]][Source code]
[DPC3@ISCA-2019 ] Samuel Pakalapati and Biswabandan Panda, “Bouquet of Instruction Pointers: Instruction Pointer Classifier-based Hardware Prefetching” [Winner of the Championship ] [Slides][Source code]
[HASP@ISCA-2019 ] Santhosh Kumar T, Debadatta Mishra, Biswabandan Panda, Nayan Deshmukh, “CoWLight: Hardware Assisted Copy-On-Write Fault Handling for Secure Deduplication”
[PACT 2018 ] Biswabandan Panda and André Seznec, “Synergistic Cache Layout for Reuse and Compression”, in Proceedings of 27th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques, Limassol, Cyprus, 2018.
[CVP-1@ISCA '18 ] Nayan Deshmukh*, Snehil Verma*, Prakhar Agrawal*, Biswabandan Panda, and Mainak Chaudhuri, “DFCM++: Augmenting DFCM with Early Update and Data Dependence-driven Value Estimation”, In Value Prediction Championship(CVP-1), 2018. [Placed 2nd in the unlimited track]