Rakesh Nadig

PhD Student · SAFARI Research Group · ETH Zürich
Rakesh Nadig

I am a PhD student in the SAFARI Research Group at ETH Zürich, advised by Prof. Onur Mutlu. My research is in computer architecture and systems, with a focus on moving computation closer to where data lives — near-data processing and in-storage computation inside modern solid-state drives.

My work spans the storage stack, from near-data processing within storage devices to data management across heterogeneous storage systems.

You can find my publications, talks, and resume on this site. Feel free to reach out at rakesh.nadig [at] gmail [dot] com.

Recent Papers

ICS 2026 Harmonia: Enhancing Data Placement and Migration in Hybrid Storage Systems via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
ISCA 2026 GRAINS: Enabling High-Performance and Low-Cost Graph-Based Genome Analysis via Storage-Aware Algorithm-Architecture Co-Design
HPCA 2026 Conduit: Programmer-Transparent Near-Data Processing Using Multiple Compute-Capable Resources in Solid State Drives
HPCA 2026 SAGe: A Lightweight Algorithm-Architecture Co-Design for Mitigating the Data Preparation Bottleneck in Large-Scale Genome Sequence Analysis

See all papers on the publications page.