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Rupesh is just another AMP. He troubles his students a lot! In the course, he almost always does not extend assignment deadlines, blocks internet in the lab courses forcing students to use man, and also roams around in class maneuvering students to do classwork -- that too in the era of readymade LLM answers. On the research front, he does not do research at all -- makes his students do it, and still becomes a co-author on all their papers. He does not let students enjoy their time -- holds weekly meetings! Thankfully, he does not ask students to contact him by hand-written letters, as he does know using old-fashioned emails. He protects his mobile number like a password. It is a mystery how IIT has still kept him on the job. Oh! By the way, AMP means Absent Minded Professor.
Rupesh is a faculty member in the CSE Department at IIT Madras. He completed BE from VRCE Nagpur, MTech from IIT Bombay, PhD from IISc Bangalore, and Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the University of Texas at Austin. His research focus is in Compilers and Parallelization. He is a recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award at IIT Madras, APJ Abdul Kalam Cray HPC Award, NVIDIA Special Prize for CodeForScience, and ICPC Coach Award. He chaired the Curriculum Task Force 2024 which recommended the new BTech curriculum at IIT Madras. He holds ten patents, has contributed to 9 PhD theses, and is an author of two books. He is an associate editor of the CCPE journal and was a Coordinator of the NSM Nodal Center at IIT Madras for Training in HPC and AI.
And an illeist is a person who refers to themselves in the third person.
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Rupesh is a proud alumnus of the following institutions / companies:
- UT Austin (where I learned parallel programming in Keshav Pingali's group)
- IISc Bangalore (where R. Govindarajan taught me how to do research)
- IIT Bombay (where I learned keyword searching in relational databases)
- VRCE Nagpur (which built my foundation in computing)
- NetApp Bangalore (I still miss the Friday Bash)
- VERITAS Pune (my first stint as a software engineer)
Rupesh's group, named Gajendra, has received the following honors:
- Anju co-won the IBM Best PhD thesis award in the department in 2024. Shouvick Mondal received the Honorable Mention in 2021.
- Tejasvi Malladi, Barenya Nandi, Shahbaz Husain won the H N Mahabala Award for the Best MTP in the department in 2025, 2024, 2020.
- Ashwina Kumar and Nibedita Behera's proposal was selected for Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2023.
- StarPlat's Sycl backend was featured at Intel.
- Dileep Pattipati, Shouvick Mondal, Saurabh Kalikar received the Institute Research Awards in 2022, 2021, 2019.
- Vimarsh's BTP with NVIDIA won the Prof. C S Krishnamoorthy Endowment Prize in 2022.
- Saurabh Kalikar co-won the Distinguished Paper Award at PPoPP 2016 at Barcelona. The paper was invited to the TOPC journal.
- Anurag Ingole co-won the Best Paper Award at HiPC Student Research Symposium 2015.
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News
Apr 26: StarPlat featured at ACR LinkedIn by Story99.
Mar 26: Congratulations Dr. Mullai Thiagu.
Jan 26: Rupesh is recognized as a Distinguished Reviewer for PPoPP'26 (15 / 79).
Dec 25: Ullas (IISc) wins the Best Lighning Talk Award at HiPC.
Sep 25: Robert's work on parallel XML parsing is accepted at HiPC (and nominated for the Best Paper Award).
Sep 25: Rupesh talks about Parallel Graph Algorithms at KLA Conference.
Aug 25: Dhruv's work on address sanitizer for AMD GPUs is patented.
Aug 25: Anirudh joins the group for MS.
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