Vikram is an incoming Research Scientist at NVIDIA Research starting in Fall 2022. Vikram completed his Ph.D. at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. Vikram is interested in solving fundamental systems-level problems and proposing optimizations for emerging applications. He has extensive experience in memory and storage system design, GPUs, and performance optimizations for emerging applications like NLP, recommender systems, GNNs, and graph and data analytics. Vikram is a recipient of the Bahl Fellowship for 2019–21, the Dan Vivoli Endowed Fellowship for 2021–22, and has won several competitions, including the Championship award for the HPEC’20 Graph Challenge and multiple student innovation awards in HPEC Graph Challenge competitions.