Faculty
Santosh Pandey
Assistant Professor
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Biography
Assistant Professor Santosh Pandey joined the USF Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing in 2025. He teaches computer architecture, a core subject that explores how hardware and software interact to execute computing tasks efficiently and reliably. Before joining USF, he held research positions at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and, most recently, Google, where he contributed to projects focused on accelerating microarchitecture simulation with machine 羞羞视频ing.
Research Interests
An expert in machine 羞羞视频ing and high-performance computing, his research focuses on designing better computing systems for machine 羞羞视频ing and scientific applications.
His research explores how intelligent models can accelerate the evaluation and optimization of computing systems, allowing researchers and developers to efficiently design next-generation hardware and software stacks. His contributions include scalable machine 羞羞视频ing-based microarchitecture simulators, instruction embeddings for fast simulation, and system design frameworks that optimize computing from the program level to the hardware level. His work has been published in top conferences and has led to an international patent application. The 鈥淎ccelerating Microarchitecture Simulation with Machine Learning鈥� (RU Docket 2024-101) patent was awarded in 2025 (PCT/US25/24808).
At USF, Pandey continues research in this space, with applications spanning scientific computing, chip design, and performance modeling across devices from smartphones to supercomputers.
Honors and Awards
His work has earned the champion title at the MIT Graph Challenge in 2019 for his work on GPU-accelerated triangle counting and received the IEEE TCHPC Student Travel Award in 2022 to present his work on scalable ML-based microarchitecture simulation. In 2025, he was recognized with the Rutgers ECE Leadership and Service Award for his contributions to the department and broader research community.
He has presented his research at leading conferences and workshops, including the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), the ACM SIGMETRICS Conference, the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), and the European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys).
Education
He earned two doctoral degrees, both in computer engineering: one from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, and one from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. Pandey received a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering from Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal.