Courses @ Plaksha :

  1. Operating Systems, Spring semester, 2026

We study OS, focusing on the themes of virtualization (cpu and memory), concurrency, and persistence. We broadly follow the excellent textbook “OS: Three Easy Pieces”. We also look at xv6 kernel to see how abstract OS concepts are implemented in code.

  1. Machine Learning Systems, Monsoon semester, 2026

We looked at techniques for efficient inference and training of LLMs so that they make good use of hardware resources. Lecture videos, slides, and reading materials are available at https://ai4103-mlsys.github.io/

  1. Operating Systems, Spring semester, 2025

Same topics as above. For this course, I wrote a tool called code-critique that gives automated feedback on implementation quality of programming assignments.

  1. Foundations of Computer Systems, Monsoon semester, 2024

We looked at the essential concepts a programmer needs to know about computer architecture and operating systems to write correct and efficient programs. We use the very readable textbook “Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective”.

  1. Data Mining, Spring semester, 2024

We discussed databases, data visualization, foundational techniques for data analysis and statistical testing, graph data processing.