Prashant Nair

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Office: 4014 Fred Kaiser, UBC
prashantnair [at] ece.ubc.ca
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Short Bio: Prashant Nair is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) where he leads the “Systems and Architectures (STAR) Lab”. He is also an Affiliate Fellow at the Quantum Algorithms Institute. His primary interests are in the areas Computer Architecture and Systems, Quantum Computing Systems, AI/ML Systems, Memory Systems, Security, and Reliability.

Dr. Nair has published over 30 papers in top-tier venues such as ISCA, MICRO, HPCA, ASPLOS, DSN, SC, NeurIPS, and VLDB. He has received several awards, including the 2024 TCCA Young Architect Award, the Best Paper Award at HPCA 2023, two Honorable Mentions in IEEE MICRO Top-Picks, and the ECE Graduate Research Assistant Excellence Award at Georgia Tech.

News

Jul 20, 2024 Prof. Seokin Hong’s team and Dr. Nair’s paper on accelerating address translation on GPUs is accepted at MICRO 2024. Congratulations Dr. Hong and his team!
Jul 20, 2024 Meng Wang’s paper on optimizing Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) in the cloud is accepted at MICRO 2024. Congratulations Meng!
Jul 02, 2024 Dr. Nair is honored with the TCCA Young Architect Award at ISCA 2024
May 26, 2024 Dr. Nair will be serving on the Program Committee for HPCA 2025
Apr 27, 2024 Muhammad Adnan is selected for the NSERC Postgraduate Fellowship - Doctoral program


Most Recent Papers

  1. A Case for Speculative Address Translation with Rapid Validation for GPUs
    Junhyeok Park, Osang Kwon , Yongho Lee , Seongwook Kim, Gwangeun Byeon, Jihun Yoon, Prashant J. Nair, and Seokin Hong
    In the Proceedings of the 57th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) , 2024
  2. Qoncord: A Multi-Device Job Scheduling Framework for Variational Quantum Algorithms
    Meng Wang, Poulami Das, and Prashant J. Nair
    In the Proceedings of the 57th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) , 2024
  3. Heterogeneous Acceleration Pipeline for Recommendation System Training
    In the 2024 ACM/IEEE 51st Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) , 2024
  4. Red-QAOA: Efficient Variational Optimization through Circuit Reduction
    Meng Wang, Bo FangAng Li, and Prashant J. Nair
    In the Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Volume 2 , 2024


Papers: 100+ citations

  1. A Case for Multi-Programming Quantum Computers
    Poulami DasSwamit S. TannuPrashant J. Nair, and Moinuddin Qureshi
    In the Proceedings of the 52nd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) , 2019
  2. DEUCE: Write-Efficient Encryption for Non-Volatile Memories
    Vinson YoungPrashant J. Nair, and Moinuddin K. Qureshi
    In the Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) , 2015
  3. DSN
    AVATAR: A Variable-Retention-Time (VRT) Aware Refresh for DRAM Systems
    Moinuddin K. Qureshi , Dae-Hyun Kim, Samira KhanPrashant J. Nair, and Onur Mutlu
    In the Proceedings of the 45th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) , 2015
  4. ArchShield: Architectural Framework for Assisting DRAM Scaling by Tolerating High Error Rates
    Prashant J. Nair , Dae-Hyun Kim, and Moinuddin K. Qureshi
    In the Proceedings of the 40th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) , 2013
  5. A Case for Refresh Pausing in DRAM Memory Systems
    Prashant J. NairChia-Chen Chou, and Moinuddin K. Qureshi
    In the Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA) , 2013
  6. CAL
    Architectural Support for Mitigating Row Hammering in DRAM Memories
    Dae-Hyun Kim, Prashant J. Nair, and Moinuddin K. Qureshi
    IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), 2014
  7. Low-Cost Inter-Linked Subarrays (LISA): Enabling Fast Inter-Subarray Data Movement in DRAM
    In the Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA) , Mar 2016