I am a first-year PhD student at EPFL (IC), where I work with Prof. George Candea in the Dependable Systems Lab (DSLAB).

My research lies at the intersection of storage systems, emerging storage and memory technologies, and performance modeling. I develop abstractions and simulation techniques for understanding how application behavior, storage-system design, and device-internal mechanisms interact at scale. My current work focuses on performance interfaces for SSD-backed systems: compact representations that expose the mechanisms governing performance and enable efficient reasoning and design-space exploration.

If you are an EPFL student looking for a semester project, check out the DSLAB projects page and follow the instructions on the page to apply. You are also welcome to contact me if you have a project idea related to my research interests.

Before joining EPFL, I spent five years at Samsung Research, where I worked as a researcher and developer. Prior to that, I completed my Master’s in Mathematics and Bachelor’s in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from BITS Pilani, Goa.

Feel free to shoot me an e-mail at roshan [vader] nair [maul] epfl [sidious] ch with the appropriate replacements for the Sith Lords if you’d like to discuss interesting research ideas.