Durga Keerthi Mandarapu

Durga Keerthi Mandarapu

Ph.D. Candidate Computer Science

Purdue University

Hey, there!

I am working on taking over ML and AI by accelerating the tree traversals. Of course not, I’m just kidding! Or maybe not - you never know ¯_(ツ)_/¯.

My actual research interests span Parallel Computing, High-Performance Computing, Databases, and Compilers. I’m working on mapping applications to a particular tree traversal accelerated by Ray-Tracing cores of Nvidia GPUs. Prof. Milind Kulkarni is my Ph.D. advisor.

In the summer 2022, I interned at Katana Graph, where I had the opportunity to work with Roshan Dathathri on accelerating random walks on graphs. Before coming to Purdue, I did my undergrad in Computer Science & Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India. I was also at Simon Fraser Univerity, Vancouver, Canada briefly during the summer 2019 for MITACS internship. Thanks to Prof. Keval Vora, I had an amazing experience building a scalable solution to process computations on streaming graphs.

Interests
  • Parallel Computing
  • High-Performance Computing
  • Databases
  • Compilers
Education
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, Spring 2025*

    Purdue University

  • B.Tech(Honors) in Computer Science and Engineering, Minor in Economics, Spring 2019

    Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad

Publications

(2023). Accelerating Unbounded k-Nearest Neighbor Search using RT Cores. International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS ‘23).

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(2017). EpiStrat: A Tool for Comparing Strategies for Tackling Urban Epidemic Outbreaks. In ICSH.

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Service

  • Student Volunteer, PLDI 2023
  • Student Volunteer, SOSC 2019
  • EML Web Coordinator, IIT Hyderabad, 2017-18
  • Vidyadhaan Coordinator, National Servie Scheme, 2017-18
  • Web Coordinator, IIT Hyderabad Alumni Cell, 2016-17

Teaching

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, Data Structures, Purdue University (Summer 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019)
  • Teaching Assistant, Operating Systems, IIT Hyderabad (Spring 2019, Fall 2018)
  • Teaching Assistant, Database Systems, IIT Hyderabad (Spring 2019)
  • Teaching Assistant, Data Structure, IIT Hyderabad (Fall 2017)
  • Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Programming, IIT Hyderabad (Fall 2017)

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