Assistant professor, CSE, IIT Delhi
Office: SIT 412, Khosla School of IT, IIT Delhi
Email: ajindal AT cse.iitd.ac.in

I’m looking for a few students. If you enjoy building systems, we should talk.

About me

I am an assistant professor at CSE, IIT Delhi and am broadly interested in systems. Prior to joining IIT Delhi, I spent an year at Instabase and another couple years as the CTO of Mobile Enerlytics, a startup I co-founded.

I received my Ph.D. from Purdue University where I worked closely with professors Y. Charlie Hu and Samuel Midkiff. I earned my undergraduate degree from IIT Kanpur.

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Research interests

• Operating systems
• Mobile systems
• Software engineering

Conference publications

• [OSDI 2018] Differential energy profiling: energy optimization via diffing similar apps
  Abhilash Jindal; Y Charlie Hu;
  In Proceedings of the 12th USENIX conference on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, 2018 pp 511--526
  
  
• [ATC 2016] Unsafe time handling in smartphones
  Abhilash Jindal; Y Charlie Hu; Samuel Midkiff; Prahlad Joshi;
  In 2016 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2016 pp 115--127
  
  
• [MobiCom 2015] Smartphone background activities in the wild: Origin, energy drain, and optimization
  Xiaomeng Chen; Abhilash Jindal; Ning Ding; Yu Charlie Hu; Maruti Gupta; Rath Vannithamby;
  In Proceedings of the 21st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, 2015 pp 40--52
  
  
• [SIGMETRICS 2015] Smartphone energy drain in the wild: Analysis and implications
  Xiaomeng Chen; Ning Ding; Abhilash Jindal; Y Charlie Hu; Maruti Gupta; Rath Vannithamby;
  In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, 2015 pp 151--164
  
  
• [WWW 2015] Energy and performance of smartphone radio bundling in outdoor environments
  Ana Nika; Yibo Zhu; Ning Ding; Abhilash Jindal; Y Charlie Hu; Xia Zhou; Ben Y Zhao; Haitao Zheng;
  In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2015 pp 809--819
  
  
• [Eurosys 2013] Hypnos: understanding and treating sleep conflicts in smartphones
  Abhilash Jindal; Abhinav Pathak; Y Charlie Hu; Samuel Midkiff;
  In Proceedings of the 8th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems, 2013 pp 253--266
  
  
• [MobiSys 2012] What is keeping my phone awake?: characterizing and detecting no-sleep energy bugs in smartphone apps
  Abhinav Pathak; Abhilash Jindal; Y Charlie Hu; Samuel P Midkiff;
  In Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services, 2012 pp 267--280
  
  
• [SEMMCO 2011] Cricket team selection using evolutionary multi-objective optimization
  Faez Ahmed; Abhilash Jindal; Kalyanmoy Deb;
  In International Conference on Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing, 2011 pp 71--78
  
  

Journal publications

• [Applied Soft Computing 2013] Multi-objective optimization and decision making approaches to cricket team selection
  Faez Ahmed; Kalyanmoy Deb; Abhilash Jindal;
  In Applied Soft Computing, 2013 pp 402--414
  
  

Workshop publications

• [HotPower 2013] On death, taxes, and sleep disorder bugs in smartphones
  Abhilash Jindal; Abhinav Pathak; Y Charlie Hu; Samuel Midkiff;
  In Proceedings of the Workshop on Power-Aware Computing and Systems, 2013 pp 1
  
  
• [HotPower 2013] How much energy can we save from prefetching ads?: energy drain analysis of top 100 apps
  Xiaomeng Chen; Abhilash Jindal; Y Charlie Hu;
  In Proceedings of the Workshop on Power-Aware Computing and Systems, 2013 pp 3
  
  
• [Computational Imaging 2011] Colour image compression by grey to colour conversion
  Mark S Drew; Graham D Finlayson; Abhilash Jindal;
  In Computational Imaging IX, 2011 pp 78730Z
  
  

Patents

• Systems and methods of detecting power bugs
  Yu Charlie Hu; Abhilash Jindal; Samuel Midkiff; Abhinav Pathak;
  US Patent 9,501,382