Khushboo Chitre

Qualcomm, Hyderabad, India
khushbooc@iiitd.ac.in
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I recently completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from IIIT Delhi, where I worked with Dr. Piyus Kedia and Dr. Rahul Purandare. My research was supported by the prestigious TCS Research Scholar Program. I was a member of the Program Analysis Group at IIIT Delhi, with a primary focus on compiler design and program analysis.

My doctoral thesis, “Exploring Alias Analysis Based Optimizations Missed by the Compiler,” investigates techniques to uncover and exploit optimization opportunities that are typically missed by modern compilers. My research lies broadly in compiler optimizations, combining static and dynamic analysis to improve performance.

I am currently working as a Senior Engineer in the Compiler team at Qualcomm India Private Limited.

Publications

  • Khushboo Chitre, Piyus Kedia, and Rahul Purandare, "HORIZON: Estimating Alias Analysis Precision Bounds and Their Impact on Performance"., In Proceedings of the 35th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC '26). - Click here to access the full paper
  • Khushboo Chitre, Piyus Kedia, and Rahul Purandare, "Rapid: Region-Based Pointer Disambiguation", The ACM SIGPLAN Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications (OOPSLA'23), October 2023. - Click here to access the full paper
  • Khushboo Chitre, Piyus Kedia, and Rahul Purandare, "The Road Not Taken: Exploring Alias Analysis Based Optimizations Missed by the Compiler", The ACM SIGPLAN Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications (OOPSLA'22), December 2022. - Click here to access the full paper

Presentation and Talks

  • Presented our work on "HORIZON: Estimating Alias Analysis Precision Bounds and Their Impact on Performance", at CC 2026, Sydney, Australia, Jan-Feb 2026. This is a joint work with Dr. Piyus Kedia and Dr. Rahul Purandare.
  • Presented our work on "Rapid: Region-Based Pointer Disambiguation", at OOPSLA 2023, SPLASH 2023, Cascais, Portugal, October 2023. This is a joint work with Dr. Piyus Kedia and Dr. Rahul Purandare. Link to the talk
  • Presented our work on "Exploring Alias Analysis Based Optimization Opportunities Missed by the Compiler" at SERI (Software Engineering Research in India) 2022-23 online talks series, March 2023.
  • Presented our work on "The Road Not Taken: Exploring Alias Analysis Based Optimizations Missed by the Compiler", at OOPSLA 2022, SPLASH 2022, Auckland, New Zealand, December 2022. This is a joint work with Dr. Piyus Kedia and Dr. Rahul Purandare. Link to the talk
  • Presented our work on "Exploring Alias Analysis Based Optimization Opportunities Missed by the Compiler" at Ketchup Talk Series, IIIT-Delhi, September 2022.
  • Presented our work on "Exploring Alias Analysis Based Optimization Opportunities Missed by the Compiler" at 17th TCS Research Cafe, June 2022.

Skills

Programming Languages
  • C/C++
  • Java
  • Web designing languages (HTML, CSS, PHP)
  • Python
  • Triton
Tools and Technologies
  • LLVM/Clang
  • Debuggers such as gdb
  • C/C++ profilers such as perf and gprof
  • Soot: Static Analysis framework for Java
  • Qualcomm's Hexagon-MLIR

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Events Attended

  • CC/CGO 2026, Sydney, Australia (In-person, Jan-Feb 2026)
  • SPLASH 2023, Cascais, Portugal (In-person, Oct 2023)
  • 5th Software Engineering Research in India (SERI) Update Meeting, SERI 2023 (In-person, June 2023)
  • SPLASH 2022, Auckland, New Zealand (In-person, Dec 2022)
  • 3rd Software Engineering Research in India (SERI) Update Meeting, SERI 2021 (July 2021)
  • 2nd Software Engineering Research in India (SERI) Update Meeting, SERI 2020 (July 2020)
  • 41st ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, PLDI 2020 (June 20)
  • ACM India Student Webinar
    • "7 Secrets about Programming that No Teacher/Book Ever Told You!" by Anuradha Laxminarayan, Associate Professor of Practice at FLAME University (June 2020)
    • “Is My Code Still Correct?” by Viraj Kumar of IISc Bangalore (May 2020)
    • “Program Synthesis Meets Machine Learning” by Sriram Rajamani, Managing Director, Microsoft Research India (December 2019)
  • ACM India Grad Cohert for women at IIT, Delhi (July 2019)
  • The third Indian SAT-SMT school 2018 at IIIT, Hyderabad (December 2018)

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