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Varun Agrawal

Systems Research, AMD Research — CPU Hardware & Software for AI · Bengaluru, India

I'm a computer architect working on CPU hardware and software for AI — and more recently, exploring hardware‑software co-design at AMD.

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About

I'm a computer systems researcher, trained as a computer architect, working primarily on CPU hardware and software technologies for AI. I completed my PhD in Computer Science at Stony Brook University (COMPAS Lab, advised by Prof. Michael Ferdman), and joined AMD Research in Boxborough, MA right after graduating. I moved to India in 2024 and have continued with AMD Research since, where I've also started exploring hardware‑software co-design.

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Research focus

Areas I actively work and publish in:

CPU Hardware for AI CPU Software Optimization AI Compilers & Runtimes Hardware‑Software Co‑Design (new)
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Experience

Systems Research — AMD Research
Boxborough, MA → Bengaluru, India (2024–present)

CPU hardware and software technologies for AI. More recently, exploring hardware‑software co-design.

10+ patents filed

Selected publications

Parallelization Strategies for DLRM Embedding Bag Operator on AMD CPUs
IEEE Micro, 2024

A Research Retrospective on AMD's Exascale Computing Journey
ISCA '23

Massively Parallel Server Processors
IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, 2019

Architectural Support for Dynamic Linking
ASPLOS '15

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Elsewhere