I’m a PhD student at the Australian National University working under the guidance of Prof. Steve Blackburn and Sara Hamouda.
My PhD is on understanding and improving the efficiency of memory management on mobile devices such as phones.
We specifically focus on the Android operating system since it is both open source and also supports a wide range of hardware.
I’m also a member of the MMTk research group, working on the next generation of the memory management toolkit.
My interests extend from programming language design and implementation to performance evaluation and low-level hardware implementation.
Publications
Kunal Sareen, Stephen M. Blackburn: Reclaiming Energy: Quantifying the Energy Overheads of Garbage Collection on Mobile Devices. IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS) 2026.
Kunal Sareen, Stephen M. Blackburn, Sara S. Hamouda, Lokesh Gidra: Memory Management on Mobile Devices. International Symposium of Memory Management (ISMM) 2024: 15-29 DOI: 10.1145/3652024.3665510
Kunal Sareen, Stephen M. Blackburn: Better Understanding the Costs and Benefits of Automatic Memory Management. Managed Programming Languages and Runtimes (MPLR) 2022: 29-44 DOI: 10.1145/3546918.3546926
Zhiwu Xu, Hongxu Chen, Alwen Tiu, Yang Liu, Kunal Sareen: A permission-dependent type system for secure information flow analysis. J. Comput. Secur. 29(2): 161-228 (2021) DOI: 10.3233/JCS-200036