Nikil Dutt

Modern SSDs demand faster I/O completion methods. While polling is a potential alternative to interrupts, it suffers under CPU contention. Hybrid polling mitigates this by sleeping early and polling later, yet it cannot keep up with rapidly varying I/O latencies and incurs context-switch overhead...

Simulating dementia patients with large language models (LLMs) is challenging due to the need to jointly model cognitive impairment, emotional dynamics, and nonverbal behaviors over long conversations. We present DemMA, an expert-guided dementia dialogue agent for high-fidelity multi-turn patient...