Rakesh Kumar

Rakesh Kumar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science (IDI) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), affiliated with the Computer Architecture Lab (CAL) within the Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering. Prior to joining NTNU, he held postdoctoral and research associate positions at Uppsala University and the University of Edinburgh, and interned at Intel Barcelona Research Center.

Research Interests include improving large-scale datacenter efficiency through microarchitecture and memory system optimizations, hardware/software co-designed processors, dynamic code translation, vectorization, and serverless function execution. His work explores ready-aware instruction scheduling, branch prediction organization, and address translation mechanisms.

Scientific Contributions span publications at top-tier conferences like

• MICRO (2024, 2023, 2018, 2016)
• HPCA (2020, 2019, 2023, 2022)
• ASPLOS (2018)
• DATE (2019, 2021)

Journal articles appear in ACM Transactions on Computer Systems and IEEE Computer Architecture Letters.

Awards include

• Intel Spontaneous Level II/Excellence Award (2014)
• Best Presentation Award at HiPC-SS08 (2008)
• Best Paper Award at National Conference on High Computing Technologies (2008)
• Distinguished Artifact Award at MICRO 2023

PhD Supervision involves advising students like Roman Kaspar Brunner, Elias Orrem, and Truls Asheim on topics spanning microarchitecture, vector units, and runahead execution policies.