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G S Nitesh Narayana

Researcher

CAIRN/TARAN - IRISA INRIA, AMD Bangalore, IIT Madras, IIITDM Kancheepuram

Biography

Hola! Konnichiwa!

I am a bicycle adventurer, sports and anime geek, accidental poet, passive artist, balcony singer, emergency photographer, design thinker…

I am also an insanely passionate researcher and like to venture into problems related to Memory Systems, Computer Architecture, Parallel Computer Architecture. Typically anything that is in the range of NAND-to-Kernel interests me (Building myself on the above the kernel part!!).

Teaching and Thinking are two of my favourite hobbies. I also like exploring new and crazy things 😎🤘

If you are as crazy as me for new and exciting things and want to collaborate, lets have a chat! or you can write to my mentors as well!

Some of my own quotes:

  • “With Great Talent comes Greater Expectations”
  • “Never join the dots that aren’t even on the same side of the page”
  • “Life is Complex, its upto you to not make it Complicated
  • “Be the Hero of the Actor-Network of your life”
  • “Never compare a SpaceShip and a Submarine, they have their own ‘pressures’ and ‘densities’ to deal with”
  • “If you can’t fight for ‘it’, you have no right to complain about ‘it’ either.”
  • “Amidst all the life complications only the child in us keeps us sane and crazy :P”
  • others in Crazy_Words

I have been mentored by the following brilliant minds:

Interests

  • Parallel Computer Systems Design and Architecture
  • Memory Systems
  • Quantum Computing
  • Design Thinking

Education

  • B.Tech + M.Tech in Computer Engineering, 2016-21

    Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing Kancheepuram

  • School Education, 2003-16

    Delhi Public School Hyderabad

Skills

Computers and Hardware

Synthesizing…!

Design Thinking

100% and increasing

Poetry

80%

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Senior Research Engineer (RE3), CAPG

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)

Jun 2025 – Present Barcelona, Spain
  • Proposing architectures for RISC-V cores and vector processors (vector/matrix extensions, microscaling instruction integration).
  • Benchmarking and profiling floating-point RISC-V applications.
  • Contributing to chip development under the DARE Project (European supercomputer chip initiative).
 
 
 
 
 

SD Research Engineer 1, RADICAL Group

AMD Research and Advanced Development (RAD) · Xilinx

Nov 2024 – Apr 2025 Dublin, Ireland
  • Explored advanced branch prediction strategies for future AMD Zen core architectures.
  • Implemented and upgraded in-house tools and simulators for research-to-product workflows.
 
 
 
 
 

Research Intern, CAIRN/TARAN

Inria · IRISA

Jun 2021 – Aug 2021 Rennes, France
  • Worked on design space exploration for LSTM accelerators on FPGA/DPU using Vitis AI / HLS frameworks.
 
 
 
 
 

Co-Op Engineer, Core Performance Team

AMD India

Aug 2020 – Jul 2021 Bangalore, India
  • Built fast simulation workflows and characterization tooling for core performance studies.
 
 
 
 
 

Teaching Assistant

IIT Madras

Aug 2019 – Dec 2020 IIT Madras
Handling the Advance Computer Organisation and Architecture course(Fall 2019, 2020). Under the guidance of Prof. Madhu Mutyam.
 
 
 
 
 

Research Intern, PACE Labs and RISE Labs

IIT Madras

Jul 2019 – May 2021 IIT Madras
  • Worked on devoloping Value Prediction Techniques for improving processor performance and Hardware Prefecthing in SSDs.
  • Worked on FPGAs, DRAMS and Deep Learning Accelerators.
 
 
 
 
 

Project Intern

Shakti Team - RISE Labs

May 2019 – Jul 2019 IIT Madras
As a part of the verification team, Designed DUT interface with simulator API for SHAKTI Core verification.
 
 
 
 
 

Research Fellow and Lab Incharge(HPC)

HPRCSE Lab

Dec 2018 – Jun 2020 IIITDM Kancheepuram
  • Dealt with research problems related to computer architecture and network systems.
  • Handled projects related to HPC.
  • Gave talks on Code Profiling and CUDA programming at anual HPC workshops by lab.

Talks and Thoughts

Crazy_Words

Some crazy words in the form of a talk for my fellow dipsites (although holds for others too!!)

Quantum Computing for Computer Architects - The Prologue

A prologue (from a Computer Architects perspective) to the Quantum Computing for Computer Architects Series

Problem Solving

An unorthodox session on problems in problem solving

Code Profiling

A session on code profiling in High Performance Computing Workshop

Design Thinking and Thinking Design

A workshop, for class XI Students, dealt with shining light on unorthodox thinking methodologies for solving real world problems.