I am a PhD student at the CSE department at IIT Bombay, and a part of the Systems and Network Research Group. I work with Prof. Mythili Vutukuru in the broad field of networks and systems. I got my bachelors degree in Computer Science and Engineering from R.V College of Engineering in Bengaluru in the year 2017. After that I went on to work for a couple of startups (Perpule and Pitstop) as a software engineer before starting my PhD.

My PhD seminar was on the topic of Novel Network stacks where I reviewed state-of-the-art research network stacks covering a number of design techniques to improve network I/O. [Seminar Report]

I also spent the summer of 2020 and 2021 interning with Telco Cloud team at IBM Research India, Bengaluru. I worked under the supervision of Praveen Jayachandran, Palanivel Kodeswaran, Sayandeep Sen and Priyanka Naik exploring various novel networks stacks in the Telco Cloud environment.

You can reach out to me at ashkumar@cse.iitb.ac.in.

Academics

Publications

  • Ashwin Kumar, Priyanka Naik, Sahil Patki, Pranav Chaudhary, Mythili Vutukuru,  "Evaluating Network Stacks for the Virtualized Mobile Packet Core",  5th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking (APNet 2021)

Courses

  • CS 601 - Algorithms and Complexity, Rohit Gurjar, Fall-20
  • CS 695 - Topics in Virtualization and Cloud Computing, Mythili Vutukuru, Spring-20
  • CS 684 - Embedded Systems, Kavi Arya, Spring-20
  • CS 699 - Software Labs, Kavi Arya, Fall-19
  • CS 744 - Design and Engineering of Computing Systems, Umesh Bellur, Fall-19
  • CS 742 - Foundations of Network Security and Cryptography, Kameswari Chebrolu, Fall-19

Teaching Assistantship

  • CS 347M - Operating Systems (Minor), Autumn-20
  • CS 744 - Design and Engineering of Computing Systems, Spring-20, Autumn-22
  • CS 347 - Operating Systems, Autumn-21, Autumn-23
  • CS 695 - Topics in Virtualization and Cloud Computing, Spring-22
  • CS 101 - Basics of Computer Programming, Spring-21