Rakesh Kumar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He is affiliated with Computer Architecture Lab (CAL) in the Computing Unit. Before joining NTNU, he was a post-doctoral researcher at Uppsala University, Sweden and the University of Edinburgh, UK. He received his PhD from UPC, Barcelona in 2014.

Research

His current research focuses on improving the efficiency of large-scale datacenters through improvement in processor microarchitecture and memory systems. His previous work explored hardware/software co-designed processors (think of Nvidia Denver) as an energy-efficient alternative to conventional (hardware only) processors. He has also investigated dynamic code translation and optimizations, especially vectorization.

Teaching

• TDT4258 Low Level Programming, Autumn 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018
• TDT01 Architecture of Computing Systems, Autumn 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018
• TFE4208 Embedded Systems Design Project, Spring 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019