Welcome!

I lead the UT Systems and Storage Lab. My group builds the next generation of data systems with a focus on performance and reliability. We open-source our software and collaborate closely with industry. I am also part of the UT Data Sytems group and the LASR research group at UT Austin.


Research group out at lunch in 2018!


Recent Publications
  1. Faster-than-light coordination for networked systems with quantum non-local games
    Venkat Arun, Vijay Chidambaram, Scott Aaaronson
    24th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets 2025)
  2. GPEmu: A GPU Emulator for Faster and Cheaper Prototyping and Evaluation of Deep Learning System Research
    Meng Wang, Gus Waldspurger, Naufal Ananda, Yuyang Huang, Kemas Wiharja, John Bent, Swaminathan Sundararaman, Vijay Chidambaram, Haryadi S Gunawi
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Volume 18, Issue 6
  3. Tigon: A Distributed Database for a CXL Pod
    Yibo Huang, Haowei Chen, Newton Ni, Yan Sun, Vijay Chidambaram, Dixin Tang, Emmett Witchel
    19th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 25)

Vijay Chidambaram

  • Ph.D. University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • M.S University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • B.E Computer Science, CEG

News

Sep 2025

Our work on using quantum systems for coordination in distributed systems was accepted to HotNets 25!

Aug 2025

I will be serving on the PC for OSDI 2026.

Aug 2025

Four new students (Minh, Talia, Nitin, and Shurang) are joining the group. Welcome!

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