Ashwin Rohit Alagiri Rajan

I study Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, advised by Prof. Hadi Esmaeilzadeh. My research interests center on computer architecture, with a focus on acceleration for emerging workloads.

Publications

IroKnight: Ownership-Preserving Neural Acceleration for Inference Serving

H. Santhanam, A. R. A. Rajan, H. Esmaeilzadeh

53rd International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) · June 2026

Paper

@inproceedings{santhanam2026iroknight,
  title={IroKnight: Ownership-Preserving Neural Acceleration
         for Inference Serving},
  author={Santhanam, Harsha and Alagiri Rajan, Ashwin Rohit and
          Esmaeilzadeh, Hadi},
  booktitle={International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA)},
  year={2026}
}

Accelerator Polymorphism: Transcending Domain-Specific Architectures with Robotics

H. Xu, S. Oh, Y. Lee, A. R. A. Rajan, R. Mahapatra, O. Patil, Y. Li, J. Park, H. Esmaeilzadeh

53rd International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) · June 2026

Paper

@inproceedings{xu2026polymorphism,
  title={Accelerator Polymorphism: Transcending Domain-Specific
         Architectures with Robotics},
  author={Xu, Hanyang and Oh, Seongryong and Lee, Yubin and
          Alagiri Rajan, Ashwin Rohit and Mahapatra, Rohan and
          Patil, Om and Li, Yuchuan and Park, Jongse and
          Esmaeilzadeh, Hadi},
  booktitle={International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA)},
  year={2026}
}

Reducing the Carbon Footprint of EdTech with Repurposed Devices

J. Switzer, S. Katel, J. C. Lee, A. R. A. Rajan, R. Kastner, P. Pannuto

IEEE 15th International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC) · November 2024

Paper

@inproceedings{switzer2024reducing,
  title={Reducing the Carbon Footprint of EdTech with Repurposed Devices},
  author={Switzer, Jennifer and Katel, Subash and Lee, Jaemok Christian and
          Alagiri Rajan, Ashwin Rohit and Kastner, Ryan and Pannuto, Pat},
  booktitle={IEEE 15th International Green and Sustainable
             Computing Conference (IGSC)},
  pages={59--63},
  year={2024},
  doi={10.1109/IGSC64514.2024.00020},
  organization={IEEE}
}

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