• Sep 14th 2015: Successfully defended my doctoral thesis @ UC Riverside, California, USA!
• Sep 2015: Presented paper at IEEE CLUSTER 2015, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
• Sep 2015: Awarded the ‘Best Student Paper’ at LCPC 2015, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
• Sep 2015: Presented paper at LCPC 2015, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
• Aug 2015: Paper acacepted into LCPC 2015. ‘Size Oblivious Programming with Infinimem’.
• May 2015: Successfully defended my thesis proposal.
• May 2015: Paper accepted into IEEE CLUSTER 2015. ‘Optimizing Caching DSM for Distributed Software Speculation’.
• Jun - Sep 2014: Researcher (Intern), Microsoft, Redmond.
• Presented paper at the IPDPS Workshop HIPS 2014, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
• Mar 14, 2014: Paper accepted into HIPS 2014: ‘ABC²: Adaptively Balancing Computation & Communication in a DSM cluster of Multicores for Irregular Applications’.
• Presented paper at PGAS 2013, Edinburg, Scotland, UK.
• Jul 31, 2013: Paper accepted into PGAS 2013: ‘Programming Large Dynamic Data Structures on a DSM Cluster of Multicores’.
• Jun - Sep 2013: Researcher (Intern), Microsoft, Redmond.
• Feb 2013: Invited talk at COSMIC workshop at CGO 2013, Shenzhen, China.
• Sep 2012: Advanced to Candidacy.
• Summer 2012: Started work on large data apps.
• Mar 2012: Completed all required course work (in 3 quarters); Submitted a joint paper on Analysis of Android Bug Reports.
• Summer 2011: Worked monitoring & automatic configuration framework for multi-core processor environments.
• Mar 2011: Started the PhD program at UC Riverside in the spring quarter.

Sai’s research page has the details.