About Me

I am currently a PhD student at Penn State CSE, working with Professor Aasheesh Kolli.

Links:
Curriculum Vitae (Nov 2019)
LinkedIn
Github

Research

I am interested in designing efficient Disaggregated Memory Systems to improve resource utilization in rack-scale computing. I am currently working on efficient provisioning and orchestration of serverless applications from Cloud providers’ perspective.

News

• 05/20: Summer Research Internship @ VMware Research Group
• 05/19: Summer Research Internship @ Facebook, Menlo Park (AI HW/SW Codesign Team)
• 02/19: Presented “Rethinking Resource Disaggregation” @ Young Architect Workshop, HPCA’19
• 08/18: Started Grad School @ Penn State CSE

 

Background

I am a technology enthusiast – intrigued by the utility, organization and implementation of everything with a digital heartbeat.

I have long been interested in bridging the hardware and software worlds. This has led me to pursue Robotics in undergrad, followed by developing low-level JTAG interfaces with embedded boards at Mentor – a Siemens Business (formerly Mentor Graphics), leading up to my current endeavor with Computer Systems and Architecture: exploring HW-SW co-design.

Food, travel, world affairs, movies and sometimes cars devour my attention occasionally as I attempt to attain some balance with non-binary side of things. (TODO: Consider if Quantum Computing should be in this list now)

Contact

Email: timran -AT- psu -DOT- edu 

Address:
W209 Westgate Building,
University Park, PA, 16802