Gringotts Vault Keeper
keeper of
valuable secrets in
confidential workloads
Neelu S. Kalani
PhD Candidate at EPFL
Ecublens, Vaud, 1024
Switzerland
neelukalani7@gmail.com
The vault keeper has experience ranging from low-level software stack, ISA, as well as microarchitecture.
Building Secure Systems for RISC-V 
PhD thesis | present
Trusted Boot and Confidential Computing: A Dynamic Root of Trust solution for removing firmware from the trusted compute base. Then using Physical Memory Protection to create secure enclaves. Formally proved desired security for the Dynamic Root of Trust solution. [Euro S&P'26, SOSP'25, KISV'24, HotOS'23, SysTEX'23].Your workload's secret data will remain secure in the deepest vaults of the system.
Security Group at IBM Research, Zurich 
Research Intern | 2024
Secure context switches for zero leaks at the ISA-level [USENIX Security 2025].
Processor Architecture Research Group at Intel Labs, Bangalore 
Research Intern | 2021
Optimizing the front-end of the processor pipeline with new insertion and replacement policies [US Patent US2023/0103206A1, US Patent US2023/0418757A1].
Cache prefetching
Master's thesis | 2021Energy-efficient data prefetching and high-performant
instruction prefetching for L1 caches.
