I am currently an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at IIT-Hyderabad.
I lead NetX lab.
- Research Domain: AI, Systems, Networks, and Security
- My lab design and build systems for AI infrastructure.
- Key terms: AIOps, Distributed AI Learning and Serving, Networked Robotics, GPU-centric Packet Processing, Software-Defined Networking, Programmable Data Planes (P4, eBPF, DPUs, PISA switch).
Jobs:
- For research positions: Apply here
- For industry positions in AI domain: Full time, Internship
Courses:
- I’m offering a Applied AI Professional Certification Program – Register here
Recent News:
- Yaksha-Prashna on eBPF bytecode verification is accepted to ACM CoNEXT’26
- BEACON on benchmarking hardware-offloaded congestion control algorithms is accepted to NAIC’26, ACM SIGCOMM Workshop
- FaultSense on fault localization in large-scale MoE model serving infra is accepted to APSys’26, ACM SIGOPS Workshop
- FlexMesh on size-aware crypto primitives for FPGA-based Accelerators is accepted to ACM CoNEXT’26
- PerfMon on performance monitoring of host network stack is accepted to ACM SOCC’25
- P4Auth on securing control messages in P4 data planes is accepted to IFIP DSN’25
- Funding from Marvell Technology on Data Acceleration Offload
- iGuard on in-network malicious traffic classification is accepted to ACM CoNEXT’24
- Funding from ZF, India on Efficient Load-balancer for Edge offload Applications
Recent Publications
- GLENFINNAN: SmartNIC-Accelerated Data Processing for Efficient Vision AI Pipelines
NAIC'26, ACM SIGCOMM workshop [pdf] - BEACON: Benchmarking Adaptability of Hardware-Offloaded Congestion Control Algorithms
Meet, Ranjitha, Saptarshi, Sneha, Hrushi, Abed, Satanand, Hemanth, Praveen
NAIC'26, ACM SIGCOMM workshop [pdf] - PerfMon: Performance Monitoring of Host Network Stack
Ranjitha, Ankit, Sailo, Arun, Amrit, Praveen T, Pravein G, Priyanka
ACM/SOCC'25 [pdf] - Securing In-Network Traffic Control Systems with P4Auth
Ranjitha, Medha, Stavan, Havya, Hari, Dheekshitha, Rinku, Praveen
IEEE/IFIP DSN'25 [pdf] - iGuard: Efficient Isolation Forest Design for Malicious Traffic Detection in Programmable Switches
Sankalp Mittal, HariKrishnan, Patel Heetkumar, Praveen Tammana
ACM CoNEXT'24 ,UCLA, Dec 2024 [pdf] - DL3: Adaptive Load Balancing for Latency-critical Edge Cloud Applications
Prashanth, Ranjitha, Ankit, Arjun, Rinku Shah, Praveen Tammana
IEEE CNSM'24 ,Prague, Oct 2024 [pdf] - Anamoly Detection in In-Network Fast ReRoute Systems
Divya Pathak, Harish SA, Prathyush, Dilip, Praveen Tammana
IFIP/Networking'24 ,Greece, June 2024 [pdf] - AdaFlow: Efficient In-Network Traffic Classification using Programmable Switches
Sankalp Mittal, Kotha Harshith, Anand, Praveen Tammana
IFIP/Networking'24 ,Greece, June 2024 [pdf] - In-Network Probabilistic Monitoring Primitives under the Influence of Adversarial Network Inputs
Harish, Shiv, Anibrata, Amogh, Praveen Tammana, Pravien Govindan Kannan, Rinku Shah
APNet'23 , Hong Kong, June 2023 [pdf][slides] - A Case for Cross-Domain Observability to Debug Performance Issues in Microservices
Ranjitha K, Praveen Tammana, Pravein Govindan Kannan, Priyanka Naik
IEEE CLOUD , Barcelona, Spain, July 2022 [pdf] [slides] - IoT MUD Enforcement in the Edge Cloud Using Programmable Switch
Harish S A, Hemanth Kothapalli, Shubham Lahoti, Kotaro Kataoka, Praveen Tammana
ACM SIGCOMM FFSPIN , Amsterdam, Aug 2022 [pdf] [slides] - Implementing ChaCha Based Crypto Primitives on Programmable SmartNICs
Shaguftha Zuveria Kottur, Krishna Kadiyala, Praveen Tammana, and Rinku Shah
ACM SIGCOMM FFSPIN , Amsterdam, Aug 2022 [pdf] - Packet Processing Algorithm Identification using Program Embeddings
S. VenkataKeerthy, Yashas Andaluri, Sayan Dey, Rinku Shah, Praveen Tammana, and Ramakrishna Upadrasta
APNet'22 , Fuzhou, China, Aug 2022 [pdf] - Closed-loop Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnosis with SpiderMon
Weitao Wang, Xinyu Wu, Praveen Tammana, Ang Chen, T.S. Eugene Ng
USENIX NSDI , Mar 2022 [pdf] [talk] - DBVal: Validating P4 Data Plane Runtime Behavior
K Shiv Kumar, Ranjitha K, PS Prashanth, Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo, Venkanna U, Praveen Tammana
ACM SIGCOMM SOSR , Sep 2021 [pdf] [talk] [slides] - Anomaly Detection in Data Plane Systems using Packet Execution Paths
Archit Sanghi, Krishna P. Kadiyala, Praveen Tammana, Saurabh Joshi
ACM SIGCOMM SPIN , Aug 2021 [pdf] [slides]
PhD Students
- Ranjitha (PMRF, OC done)
- Prashanth (TiHAN fellowship, OC done)
- Harish (PMRF)
- Animesh (jointly with Dr. Rama Krishna)
- Sakshi
- Harshitha
Technical Program Committee
- 2026: ACM SIGCOMM, NCC
- 2024: APNet, IEEE COMSNETS
- 2023: APNet, IEEE ICNP, ACM CoNEXT Posters
- 2022: IEEE ICNP, APNet
- 2021: ACM/IEEE ANCS