2025

• Kvalsvik, Amund Bergland; Själander, Magnus; Jahre, Magnus; Kumar, Rakesh; Kaxiras, Stefanos. (2025) Haunt Me No Longer! Finding Meaningful Solutions to Speculative Side-Channel Attacks. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
  Doctoral dissertation

2024

• Brunner, Roman Kaspar; Kumar, Rakesh. (2024) Weeding out Front-End Stalls with Uneven Block Size Instruction Cache.
  Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
• Allam, Abdullah; Kumar, Rakesh. (2024) Vector Unit for Deeply-embedded, Low-power RISC-V Processors. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
  Masters thesis
• Haahjem, Ingrid Margit Eikeland; Kumar, Rakesh. (2024) Continued Prefetching Post-Branch Misprediction. NTNU NTNU
  Masters thesis
• Orrem, Elias; Kumar, Rakesh; Brunner, Roman Kaspar. (2024) Effective microarchitectural support for interpreted languages. NTNU NTNU
  Masters thesis
• Halvorsen, Markus; Kumar, Rakesh. (2024) Delayed runahead exit policies. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
  Masters thesis
• Asheim, Truls; Kumar, Rakesh. (2024) Analyzing and Optimizing Serverless Function Execution. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
  Doctoral dissertation

2023

• Ghabeli, Sara Roberg; Kumar, Rakesh. (2023) Quantifying the Criticality of Critical Instructions in Out-of-Order Execution. NTNU NTNU
  Masters thesis
• Baumann, Henrik; Kumar, Rakesh. (2023) The Mosaic IQ Microarchitecture. NTNU NTNU
  Masters thesis
• Kanellopoulos, Konstantinos; Nam, Hong Chul; Bostanci, Nisa; Bera, Rahul; Sadrosadati, Mohammad; Kumar, Rakesh. (2023) Victima: Drastically Increasing Address Translation Reach by Leveraging Underutilized Cache Resources.
  Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
• Kanellopoulos, Konstantinos; Bera, Rahul; Stojiljkovic, Kosta; Bostanci, Nisa; Firtina, Can; Ausavarungnirun, Rachata. (2023) Utopia: Fast and Efficient Address Translation via Hybrid Restrictive & Flexible Virtual-to-Physical Address Mappings.
  Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
• Asheim, Truls; Grot, Boris; Kumar, Rakesh. (2023) A Storage-Effective BTB Organization for Servers.
  Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2022

• Kumar, Rakesh; Grot, Boris. (2022) Shooting Down the Server Front-End Bottleneck. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
  Academic article
• Kumar, Rakesh; Alipour, Mehdi; Black-Schaffer, David. (2022) Freeway to Memory Level Parallelism in Slice-Out-of-Order Cores. arXiv.org
  Academic article
• Asheim, Truls; Khan, Tanvir Ahmed; Kasikci, Baris; Kumar, Rakesh. (2022) Impact of Microarchitectural State Reuse on Serverless Functions.
  Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
• Ugedal, Odin; Kumar, Rakesh. (2022) Mitigating Unnecessary Throttling in Linux CFS Bandwidth Control.
  Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
• Asheim, Truls; Grot, Boris; Kumar, Rakesh. (2022) A Specialized BTB Organization for Servers.
  Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
• Kumar, Rakesh; Alipour, Mehdi; Black-Schaffer, David. (2022) Dependence-aware Slice Execution to Boost MLP in Slice-out-of-order Cores. ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO)
  Academic article

2021

• Khan, Tanvir Ahmed; Brown, Nathan; Sriraman, Akshitha; Soundararajan, Niranjan; Kumar, Rakesh; Devietti, Joseph. (2021) Twig: Profile-Guided BTB Prefetching for Data Center Applications.
  Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
• Kumar, Rakesh; Ugedal, Odin. (2021) Bandwidth Control And Fairness In The Linux Scheduler. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
  Masters thesis
• Kumar, Rakesh; Martínez, Alejandro; Gonzalez, Antonio. (2021) A Variable Vector Length SIMD Architecture for HW/SW Co-designed Processors. arXiv.org
  Academic article
• Asheim, Truls; Grot, Boris; Kumar, Rakesh. (2021) BTB-X: A Storage-Effective BTB Organization. IEEE computer architecture letters
  Academic article

2020

• Caccialino, Marco; Kumar, Rakesh. (2020) Eliminating Unnecessary Broadcasts to Simplify Out-of-Order Instruction Scheduling. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
  Masters thesis
• Alipour, Mehdi; Kumar, Rakesh; Kaxiras, Stefanos; Black-Schaffer, David. (2020) Delay and Bypass: Ready and Criticality Aware Instruction Scheduling in Out-of-Order Processors. IEEE Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA)
  Academic article
• Strupe, Fredrik; Kumar, Rakesh. (2020) Probing the Armv8-A ISA for Hidden Instructions through Processor Fuzzing. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
  Masters thesis
• Asheim, Truls; Kumar, Rakesh; Grot, Boris. (2020) Fetch-Directed Instruction Prefetching Revisited. arXiv.org
  Academic article

2019

• Alipour, Mehdi; Kumar, Rakesh; Kaxiras, Stefanos; Black-Schaffer, David. (2019) FIFOrder MicroArchitecture: Ready-Aware Instruction Scheduling for OoO Processors. Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE)
  Academic article
• Kumar, Rakesh; Alipour, Mehdi; Black-Schaffer, David. (2019) Freeway: Maximizing MLP for Slice-Out-of-Order Execution. IEEE Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA)
  Academic article