Sandeep Chandran is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Palakkad. He received his PhD from IIT Delhi where he received the IIT Delhi FITT award for Best Industry Relevant PhD. Prior to joining the Institute, he was a Senior Design Engineer at AMD where he was part of the performance modelling team that designed the Zen microarchitecture. He was also a Research Intern in the Silicon Bring-up Team at Freescale Semiconductors (now NXP semiconductors). His research interests are in areas of design and verification of high-performance systems.