Rinku Shah

Assistant Professor, CSE department,
Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi

B-511 R&D Block
Delhi Okhla Industrial Estate, Phase III, New Delhi, India - 110020
rinku(at)iiitd(dot)ac(dot)in

Brief Bio

I am an assistant professor in the CSE department at IIIT Delhi since July 2021. I completed my Ph.D. in February 2021 from IIT Bombay, where I was advised by Prof. Mythili Vutukuru and Prof. Purushottam Kulkarni. After my Ph.D., I spent seven months as a Project Research Scientist on a Huawei project at IIT Bombay.

[CV] [Google Scholar] [Github (personal)] [Lab Github page]

Research

I am broadly interested in networked systems and security, specifically for programmable network architectures (Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and programmable data planes). My current focus is to: (1) design tools and frameworks that simplify the management of applications offloaded to programmable data planes, (2) design flexible, scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant solutions for data center, cloud, and telco applications.

Funded Projects and Awards

Programmable cryptosystem for 5G telecommunication networks, Rinku Shah (PI), Praveen Tamanna (co-PI) and Sumit Darak (co-PI), C3iHub, IIT Kanpur, 2023-2026 (Grant amount: ₹32 lakh)
Siegebreaker II: End-to-middle Covert Internet Communication Using Programmable Network Hardware (Deceptive Communication Strategies), Sambuddho Chakravarty (PI) and Rinku Shah (co-PI), C3iHub, IIT Kanpur, 2023-2026 (Grant amount: ₹28 lakh)
FastCrypt – a smart security hardware for data centers, Rinku Shah (PI), NIDHI PRAYAS Program at IIITD Innovation & Incubation Center (IIITD-IC), 2023-2024 (Grant amount: ₹7 lakh)

Teaching

CSE232 Computer Networks: Monsoon 2021, Monsoon 2022, Monsoon 2023
CSE567 Programmable Networking: Winter 2022, Winter 2023

For Prospective Students

I am looking out for highly motivated interns/RAs/undergrad/PhD students to contribute in building scalable, secure, and robust networked systems. The candidate must have decent knowledge of Operating Systems and Computer Networks, and strong programming skills (C/C++). Prior knowlege of distributed systems and network security is a plus. The candidate must be ready to commit for long term (at least a year).

If you fit the bill and are interested in working with me, send me your CV along with a brief writeup on why you are interested in the networked systems domain.

Current Students

I have got the opportunity to work with some excellent students. The complete list is here.

PhD

Neeraj Kumar Yadav (Jan'22)

Masters thesis

Aditya Peer (Dual degree) (Aug'23)
Arjun Temura (Dual degree) (July'23)
Shambhavi Pathak (May'23)
Siddharth Nayak (Jan'23)

Undergrad thesis

Vedant Bothra (Aug'23)
Mohammed Kaif, coadvised with Dr. Sujay Deb (Jan'23)
Ritika Nagar, coadvised with Dr. Sumit Darak (Jan'23)
Shivansh Mittal, coadvised with Dr. Sujay Deb (July'22)
Yashasvi Chaurasia, coadvised with Dr. Sumit Darak (July'22)

Publications

2023

In-Network Probabilistic Monitoring Primitives under the Influence of Adversarial Network Inputs
Harish S A, K Shiv Kumar, Anibrata Majee, Amogh Bedarakota, Praveen Tammana, Pravein Kannan, Rinku Shah
ACM APNet 2023
[pdf] [slides] [talk]

Microservice-based in-network security framework for FPGA NICs
Lasani Hussain, Mayank Rawat, Neeraj Kumar Yadav, Sumit Darak, Praveen Tammana, Rinku Shah
Student and Eary Career Showcase @ IEEE/ACM CCGRIDW 2023
[pdf] [poster] [talk]

2022

AccelUPF: Accelerating the 5G user plane using programmable hardware
Abhik Bose, Shailendra Keshav Kirtikar, Shivaji Chirumamilla, Rinku Shah, Mythili Vutukuru.
ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR) 2022
[pdf] [slides] [talk]

Implementing ChaCha Based Crypto Primitives on Programmable SmartNICs
Shaguftha Kottur, Krishna Kadiyala, Praveen Tammana, Rinku Shah.
ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on FFSPIN 2022
[pdf] [slides] [talk]

Packet Processing Algorithm Identification using Program Embeddings
S. VenkataKeerthy, Yashas Andaluri, Sayan Dey, Rinku Shah, Praveen Tammana, and Ramakrishna Upadrasta.
ACM APNet 2022
[pdf] [slides] [talk]

2021

Leveraging Programmable Dataplanes for a High Performance 5G User Plane Function
Abhik Bose, Diptyaroop Maji, Prateek Agarwal, Nilesh Unhale, Rinku Shah, Mythili Vutukuru
ACM APNet 2021
[pdf] [slides] [talk]

2020

TurboEPC: Leveraging Dataplane Programmability to Accelerate the Mobile Packet Core
Rinku Shah, Vikas Kumar, Mythili Vutukuru, Purushottam Kulkarni
ACM SOSR 2020
[pdf] [slides] [talk] [Code]

2018

Cuttlefish: Hierarchical SDN Controllers with Adaptive Offload
Rinku Shah, Mythili Vutukuru, Purushottam Kulkarni
IEEE ICNP 2018
[pdf] [slides] [Code]

pcube: Primitives for network data plane programming
Rinku Shah, Aniket Shirke, Akash Trehan, Mythili Vutukuru, Purushottam Kulkarni
IEEE ICNP 2018
[pdf] [slides] [Code]

Visit the Google Scholar page for complete list

Technical Program Committee

2024: IEEE International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS) 2024
2023: Academic Research and Careers for Students Symposium (ARCS)
2022: ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR)
2022: ACM SIGMETRICS PerfNA Workshop
2020: Shadow PC committee member, The ACM SIGOPS European Conference on Computer Systems(EuroSys)

External talks and tutorials

Invited Panellist for panel discussion on “Transitioning from student to a Research career", Maitreyee 2023, IBM Research - India, July 27, 2023
Invited tutorial on "P4 for All" , Workshop on "SDN: Software Defined Networking Architectures and Applications" at IIIT Kottayam, July 17-23, 2023. Sponsored by SERB, Accelerate Vigyan, Karyashala. Tutorial contents are available here
Invited talk at ACM SIGMETRICS PerfNA'22 . Title: Building programmable networks.
Tutorial conducted on P4 Language and Programable Data Planes at COMSNETS 2022

Collaborators

The people whom I work with (i.e., students and collaborators) are the crucial contributors to the motivating work environment.

Dr. Sambuddho Chakravarty, IIIT Delhi
Dr. Sumit Darak, IIIT Delhi
Dr. Praveen Tammana, IIT Hyderabad
Dr. Vinayak Naik, BITS Pilani, Goa campus
Dr. Mythili Vutukuru, IIT Bombay
Dr. Priyanka Naik, IBM Research Labs, India
Chander Govindarajan, IBM Research Labs, India
Kavya Govindarajan, IBM Research Labs, India
Seep Goel, IBM Research Labs, India