Improving Instruction Cache Performance For Modern Processors With Growing Workloads [abstract] (PDF)
Nayana Prasad Nagendra
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, September 2021.

AsmDB: Understanding and Mitigating Front-End Stalls in Warehouse-Scale Computers [abstract] (PDF, Top Picks Version)
Grant Ayers, Nayana P. Nagendra, David I. August, Hyoun K. Cho, Svilen Kanev, Christos Kozyrakis, Trivikram Krishnamurthy, Heiner Litz, Tipp Moseley, and Parthasarathy Ranganathan
Proceedings of the 46th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2019.
Selected for IEEE Micro's "Top Picks" special issue "based on novelty and potential for long-term impact in the field of computer architecture" in 2019.

Architectural Support for Containment-based Security [abstract] (PDF)
Hansen Zhang, Soumyadeep Ghosh, Jordan Fix, Sotiris Apostolakis, Stephen R. Beard, Nayana P. Nagendra, Taewook Oh, and David I. August
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), April 2019.

Hardware MultiThreaded Transactions [abstract] (ACM DL, PDF)
Jordan Fix, Nayana P. Nagendra, Sotiris Apostolakis, Hansen Zhang, Sophie Qiu, and David I. August
Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2018.