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Santosh Nagarakatte
PhD Student
Architecture and Compilers Group,
Computer and Information Science,
University of Pennsylvania

email	santoshn at figure out the domain name
office	001-267-254-4521
address	614, Levine Hall, 3330 Walnut Street,
	Philadelphia, PA 19104

About me
I am a ~~first~~ ~~second~~ third year PhD student in the Computer and Information Sciences department at the University of Pennsylvania. I am advised by Milo Martin.
I interned at Microsoft Research with Madan Musuvathi and Sebastian Burckhardt from June-September 2009.

Collaborators
Amir Roth , Steve Zdancewic , Jianzhou Zhao, Andrew Hilton, Madanlal Musuvathi, Sebastian Burckhardt, Pravesh Kothari, R Govindarajan.

Research Interests
Broadly architecture and compilers. Specifically, architectural and runtime support for security, hardware and language support for concurrency.

CV(last updated: March 2009)

Current Projects
SoftBound is a technique to provide spatial safety guarantees for the C programming language. Download
iCFP is a micro-architecture technique to make in-order processors, cache miss tolerant at all levels

Publications

Peer reviewed

iCFP: Tolerating All-Level Cache Misses in In-Order Processors [pdf]
Andrew Hilton, Santosh Nagarakatte, and Amir Roth
IEEE MICRO's "Top Picks of Architecture Conferences of 2009" Issue(Micro Top Picks'10)
January-February 2010
SoftBound: Highly Compatible and Complete Spatial Memory Safety for C [pdf]
Santosh Nagarakatte, Jianzhou Zhao, Milo M K Martin, Steve Zdancewic
In the Proceedings of ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), June 2009
Acceptance Rate: 21% (41 out of 196 submissions)
iCFP: Tolerating All-Level Cache Misses in In-Order Processors [pdf]
Andrew Hilton, Santosh Nagarakatte, Amir Roth
Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Feb 2009
Acceptance Rate: 19% (35 out of 184 submissions)
Register Allocation and Optimal Spill Code Scheduling in SWP loops
Santosh Nagarakatte, R. Govindarajan
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC), March 2007
Acceptance Rate: 23% (14 out of 60 submissions)

Reports

SoftBound: Highly Compatible and Complete Spatial Memory Safety for C [pdf]
Santosh Nagarakatte, Jianzhou Zhao, Milo M K Martin, Steve Zdancewic
University of Pennsylvania Technical Report MS-CIS-09-01, January 2009

Teaching

I was the TA for CIS 371 in Spring 2009 and CIS 501 in Fall 2008.

Biography

I obtained my B.E in Computer Engg. and M.S(Engg) from the National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, Surathkal (NITK/KREC) and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore respectively.

Awards and Honors

University Gold Medal by NITK Surathkal for the excellent academic performance in Computer Engineering for the period 2001-2005

Philips Research Fellowship by Philips and IISc for the period 2005-2007

University of Pennsylvania Graduate Fellowship

Course work

CIS 500, Software Foundations (Fall 2007)

CIS 501, Computer Architecture (Fall 2007)

CIS 670, Program Analysis (Fall 2007)