Aditya Akella

Professor & Regents Chair · ACM Fellow
Director: LDOS & InfraAI

I'm interested in rethinking systems infrastructure through the lens of advanced AI. I lead two centers doing this work: the Learning Directed Operating System (LDOS) project, an NSF CISE Expedition in Computing reimagining the OS for data-driven decision-making, and the InfraAI Center, an industry–UT collaborative effort to build systems infrastructure from the ground up for next-gen AI.

I also co-lead the UTNS Lab. I'm married to Shuchi Chawla.

Email: akella@cs.utexas.edu
Twitter: @adityaakella
LinkedIn: Aditya Akella

Recent Highlights

Jun 2026	MatchBox wins Distinguished Paper Award at PLDI 2026!
Nov 2025	Excited to launch the InfraAI Center!
May 2024	LDOS NSF Expedition in Computing awarded. See NSF and UT Austin press releases.
Jan 2024	Became an ACM Fellow.

Recent Work — full list

OSDI 26	Mimesys: Generating Realistic Executable Testing Environments from Resource Usage Traces Donghyun Kim, Zichao Hu, Joydeep Biswas, Aditya Akella, Daehyeok Kim.
OSDI 26	TrainMover: An Interruption-Resilient and Reliable ML Training Runtime ChonLam Lao, Minlan Yu, Aditya Akella, Jiamin Cao, Yu Guan, Pengcheng Zhang, Zhilong Zheng, Yichi Xu, Ennan Zhai, Dennis Cai, Jiaqi Gao.
ICML 26	When Do Graph Foundation Models Transfer? A Data-Centric Theory J. Zhu, Y. Chen, P. Wang, Y. He, P. Li, A. Akella, and Z. Wang.
PLDI 26	MatchBox: A Semantic Foundation for Data Plane Portability Distinguished Paper Award Eric Hayden Campbell, Robert Zhang, Divyanshu Saxena, Aditya Akella, Isil Dillig.
ACL 26	Improving the Throughput of Diffusion-based Large Language Models via a Training-Free Confidence-Aware Calibration Jack Shen, Gaurav Sarkar, Yeonju Ro, Sharath Nittur Sridhar, Zhangyang Wang, Aditya Akella, Souvik Kundu.
NSDI 26	UNUM: A New Framework for Network Control Jiayi Chen, Nihal Sharma, Debajit Chakraborty, Saurabh Agarwal, Jeffrey Zhou, Aditya Akella, Sanjay Shakkottai.
NSDI 26	Towards Performance Robustness for Microservices Divyanshu Saxena, Gaurav Vipat, Jiaxin Lin, Jingbo Wang, Isil Dillig, Sanjay Shakkottai, Aditya Akella.
NSDI 26	SYMPHONY: Improving Memory Management for LLM Inference Workloads Saurabh Agarwal, Bodun Hu, Anyong Mao, Aditya Akella, Shivaram Venkataraman.
NSDI 26	Express Lane to Efficiency and Reliability: Multi-Dimensional Control in Meta's Express Backbone Network Faisal Iqbal, Vitaly Neganov, Brian Chang, Rong Rong, Yuanjun Yao, Marek Denis, Qin Zhang, Alexandru Manea, Anton Marchenko, Ulas Kozat, Aditya Akella, Ying Zhang.
EuroSys 26	Canopy: Property-Driven Learning for Congestion Control Chenxi Yang, Divyanshu Saxena, Rohit Dwivedula, Kshiteej Mahajan, Swarat Chaudhuri, and Aditya Akella.