Faculty at School of Engineering

Archit Somani

Archit Somani

Assistant Professor


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Dr. Archit Somani is working as an Assistant Professor at Shiv Nadar University, Delhi. Prior to that, he worked as a Product Research Architect at HARMAN International's Automotive team in Bangalore, India. Before that, he worked as a Research Scientist at Huawei R&D's Storage team in Bangalore. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. from IIT Hyderabad, India.

His research interests span Parallel and Concurrent Data Structures, High-Performance Computing, Distributed Systems, and Blockchains. He has been honored with the "Best Student Paper Award" at SSS'18 and "Best Poster Awards" at NETYS'18 and ICDCN'19 International Conferences. His research contributions include publications in prestigious conferences like PODC, SSS, NETYS, and journals.

Know more about his research through his Google Scholar profile.

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India (2019)
  • M.Tech in Computer Science from Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India (2014)

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR, Dec 2023 - Present
  • Senior Software Engineer (Product Research Architect) HARMAN International May 2023-Oct 2023
  • Research Scientist Huawei Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. Jan 2021-April 2023
  • Postdoctoral Fellow Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Oct 2019-Jan 2021
  • Assistant Professor AITS, Rajkot, Gujarat July 2014-Nov 2014

  • Parallel and Concurrent Data Structures, High Performance Computing, Software Transactional Memory Systems, Distributed System, Blockchains, Storage System, File System, Multi-threading, and Persistent Memory.

  • Silver Medal in Huawei Innovation Contest Huawei Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. 2021
  • Placed as Assistant Professor IIIT Kurnool 2020
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship (from Oct 2019-Oct 2021) Technion's Faculty of Computer Science 2019/20
  • Placed in BEL BEL (Bharat Electronic Limited), Government of India, Ministry of Defence 2019
  • Nominated for National level workshop award for Ph.D. candidates of Visvesvaraya Ph.D. Scheme under the Ministry of Electronics and IT CSE department of IIT Hyderabad 2019
  • Appreciation in Research IIT Hyderabad, India 2019
  • Best Poster Award Doctoral Symposium, 20th International Conference ICDCN 2019-2019
  • Best Student Paper Award 20th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2018) 2018
  • Best Poster Award 6th International Conference on Networked System (NETYS) held at Essaouira, Morocco from 9 th to 11 th May 2018
  • Microsoft Research Travel Grant for IPDPS 2016, Chicago, Illinois, USA Microsoft, India 2016
  • Visvesvaraya Ph.D Fellowship (From 2015-2019) Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India 2015
  • Qualified GATE with 99.05 %il in CS Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineering 2012
  • B. Tech Honors Rajasthan Technical University (RTU), Kota 2010

  • Appreciation in Research IIT Hyderabad, India 2019
  • Best Poster Award Doctoral Symposium, 20th International Conference ICDCN 2019
  • Best Student Paper Award 20th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2018)
  • Best Poster Award 6th International Conference on Networked System (NETYS) held at Essaouira, Morocco from 9 th to 11 th May 2018

  • “Parallel Heuristic Semantic Walk on Large Knowledge Graphs with Text Embeddings”, Raj Singh Bisen, Vipul Kumar Chauhan, Parth Gupta, Sweta Kumari, Archit Somani, 2025 IEEE 18th International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core Systems-on-Chip (MCSoC), Singapore, 2025, pp. 53–59. DOI: 10.1109/MCSoC67473.2025.00019.
  • “OPT-MorphDAG: An Efficient Implementation of Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG)-Based Blockchain”, Anish Gupta, Sweta Kumari, Suryansh Rohil, Archit Somani, 2025 IEEE 18th International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core Systems-on-Chip (MCSoC), Singapore, 2025, pp. 686–693. DOI: 10.1109/MCSoC67473.2025.00111.
  • “Exponentially Fast Collaborative Broadcasting in 3D Space”, Yotam Ashkenazi, Shlomi Dolev, Sergey Frenkel, Manish Kumar, Sweta Kumari, Ram Prasadh Narayanan, and Archit Somani, 10th International Conference on Information and Network Technologies (ICINT 2025), Melbourne, Australia, 2025, pp. 124–128. DOI: 10.1109/ICINT65528.2025.11030906.
  • “MLDPBS: A Machine Learning-based Dynamic Partitioning Buddy System for Efficient Memory Allocation in Embedded Systems”, Sweta Kumari, Dhruv Mishra, Aaradhy Shrama, and Archit Somani, 17th International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core Systems-on-Chip (MCSoC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2024, pp. 261–268. DOI: 10.1109/MCSoC64144.2024.00051.
  • “Store-Collect in the Presence of Continuous Churn with Application to Snapshots and Lattice Agreement”, Hagit Attiya, Sweta Kumari, Archit Somani, Jennifer L. Welch, in 22d International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS) 2020, Austin, Texas, USA, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64348-5_1.
  • “Collect in the Presence of Continuous Churn with Application to Snapshots and Lattice Agreement”, Hagit Attiya, Sweta Kumari, Archit Somani, Jennifer L. Welch, as a brief announcement in 39th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) 2020, Salerno, Italy, pp 51-53, https://doi.org/10.1145/3382734.3405709.
  •  “Efficient Concurrent Execution of Smart Contracts in Blockchains using Object-based Transactional Memory”, Parwat Singh Anjana, Hagit Attiya, Sweta Kumari, Sathya Peri, and Archit Somani, in 8th International Conference On Networked Systems, 2020, Morocco, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67087-0_6.
  •  “Achieving Starvation-Freedom with Greater Concurrency in Multi-Version Object-based Transactional Memory Systems”, Chirag Juyal, Sandeep Kulkarni, Sweta Kumari, Sathya Peri, and Archit Somani in 21st International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2019), Pisa, Italy; pp 209–227, doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-34992-9\_17.
  •  “An Efficient Framework for Optimistic Concurrent Execution of Smart Contracts”, Parwat Singh Anjana, Sweta Kumari, Sathya Peri, Sachin Rathor, and Archit Somani in 27th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP 2019) at Pavai, Italy; pp 83–92, doi: 10.1109/EMPDP.2019.8671637.
  •  “An Innovative Approach to Achieve Compositionality Efficiently using Multi-Version Object Based Transactional Systems”, Chirag Juyal, Sandeep Kulkarni, Sweta Kumari, Sathya Peri, and Archit Somani in 20th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2018), Tokyo, Japan; pp 284-300, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03232-6_19.(Best Student Paper Award)
  •  “Efficient means of Achieving Composability using Object based Semantics in Transactional Memory”, Sathya Peri, Ajay Singh, and Archit Somani in 6th International Conference On Networked Systems, 2018, Essaouira, Morocco; pp 157-174, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05529-5_11.
  •  “Parallel genetic algorithm for solving job shop scheduling problem using topological sort”, Archit Somani and Dhirendra Pratap Singh in IEEE Conference on ICART, Kanpur, Lucknow, June 2014; 2347-9337, doi: 10.1109/ICAETR.2014.7012818.

  • “An Efficient Approach to Achieve Compositionality using Optimized Multi-Version Object Based Transactional Systems”, Chirag Juyal, Sandeep Kulkarni, Sweta Kumari, Sathya Peri, and Archit Somani, in Information and Computation Journal, Volume 285, ISSN 0890-5401, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ic.2021.104696, 2022.
  •  “Store-Collect in the Presence of Continuous Churn with Application to Snapshots and Lattice Agreement”, Hagit Attiya, Sweta Kumari, Archit Somani, Jennifer L. Welch IN Information and Computation Journal, Volume 285, ISSN 0890-5401, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ic.2022.104869, 2022.
  • “OptSmart: a space efficient optimistic concurrent execution of smart contracts” Parwat Singh Anjana, Sweta Kumari, Sathya Peri, Sachin Rathor, and Archit Somani, Distributed and Parallel Databases. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10619-022-07412-y, pp.153,2022.
  • “Achieving Composability Efficiently using Object based Semantics in Transactional Memory”, Sathya Peri, Ajay Singh, and Archit Somani. [In-progress]
  • “Ensuring Starvation-Freedom with Greater Concurrency in Multi-Version Object-based Transactional Memory Systems”, Chirag Juyal, Sandeep Kulkarni, Sweta Kumari, Sathya Peri, and Archit Somani. [In-progress]
  • “Efficient Concurrent Execution of Smart Contracts in Blockchains using Object-based Transactional Memory ”, Parwat Singh Anjana, Hagit Attiya, Sweta Kumari, Sathya Peri, and Archit Somani. [In-progress]

  • I gave presentations in many International Conferences such as “MCSoC 2025/26, IPDPS 2015/16, ICDCN 2017/18/19, NETYS 2018, SSS 2018, PDP 2019, SNIA EMEA 2021, SNIA India 2022, IEEE CCEM 2021.”
  • I gave a talk at IMSc Chennai on “Efficient Multi-Version Object-based STM” in Feb 2020.
  • I gave presentations in many International Conferences such as “IPDPS 2015/16, ICDCN 2017/18/19, NETYS 2018, SSS 2018, PDP 2019, SNIA EMEA 2021, SNIA India 2022, IEEE CCEM 2021.”

  • I gave oral presentations in many International Conferences such as “ MCSoC 2025/26, ICDCN 2017/18/19, NETYS 2018, SSS 2018, PDP 2019, SNIA EMEA 2021, SNIA India 2022, IEEE CCEM 2021.”
  • I gave oral presentations in many International Conferences such as “ ICDCN 2017/18/19, NETYS 2018, SSS 2018, PDP 2019, SNIA EMEA 2021, SNIA India 2022, IEEE CCEM 2021.”

  • “Efficient Concurrent Execution of Smart Contracts in Blockchains using Object-based Transactional Memory”, Parwat Singh Anjana, Hagit Attiya, Sweta Kumari, Sathya Peri and Archit Somani in15th Inter-Research-Institute Student Seminar in Computer Science, India.
  • “Entitling Concurrency to Smart Contracts Using Optimistic Transactional Memory”, Parwat Singh Anjana, Sweta Kumari, Sathya Peri, Sachin Rathor, and Archit Somani in Doctoral Symposium, ICDCN 2019 at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. (Best Poster Award)
  •  “An Innovative Approach to Achieve Compositionality Efficiently using Multi-Version Object Based Transactional Systems”, Chirag Juyal, Sandeep Kulkarni, Sweta Kumari, Sathya Peri, and Archit Somani in 13th Inter-Research-Institute Student Seminar in Computer Science, India.
  •  “An Innovative Approach to Achieve Compositionality Efficiently using Multi-Version Object Based Transactional Systems”, Chirag Juyal, Sandeep Kulkarni, Sweta Kumari, Sathya Peri, and Archit Somani in 6th International Conference On Networked Systems, 2018, Essaouira, Morocco. (Best Poster Award)
  •  “Achieving greater Concurrency using Object based Software Transaction Memory System”, Sathya Peri, Ajay Singh, and Archit Somani in 30th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2016, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

  • Actively involved as a Finance Committee member in the International Conference on Engineering (ICE) 2025 held at SNIoE.

I have reviewed the papers of various conferences and journals like DISC 2020, IndoSys 19, CODS-COMAD 18/19, SRDS 18, HLPP 18, ICDCN 17/18, OPODIS 17, ICDCIT 2016/22/25/26, ICIT 15, IEEE access and Journal of Grid Computing.
I was the PC Committee Member of the following Conferences;

  • International Conference on Distributed Computing and Intelligent Technology (ICDCIT) 2022/25/26.
  • 4th International Workshop on Blockchain Technologies and its Applications (In conjunction with UPCON 2022)