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Aditya Akella

Professor

Aditya Akella is a Regents Chair professor of Computer Science at UT Austin. He obtained his Ph.D. from CMU and B. Tech. from IIT Madras. Prior to joining UT Austin, he spent fifteen years as a professor at UW-Madison. Prof. Akella works on improving the performance, reliability, and correctness of Cloud and Internet infrastructure. His research straddles the boundary between computer networking and adjacent areas such as operating systems, databases, and formal methods. Prof. Akella has won numerous awards for his research, teaching, and service contributions. Akella's research has impacted production systems run by some of the world’s largest tech companies.

Research

Research Areas:
Research Interests:
  • Programmable networks
  • Hardware acceleration
  • Automated reasoning for networks
  • Systems for big data and machine learning
  • Serverless computing

Select Publications

PANIC: A High-Performance Programmable NIC for Multi-tenant Networks. Jiaxin Lin, Kiran Patel, Brent Stephens, Anirudh Sivaraman, Aditya Akella. OSDI 2020.

1RMA: Re-envisioning Remote Memory Access for Multi-tenant Datacenters. Arjun Singhvi, Aditya Akella, Dan Gibson, Thomas F. Wenisch, Monica Wong-Chan, Sean Clark, Milo M. K. Martin, Moray McLaren, Prashant Chandra, Rob Cauble, Hassan M. G. Wassel, Behnam Montazeri, Simon L. Sabato, Joel Scherpelz, Amin Vahdat. SIGCOMM 2020.

Themis: Fair and Efficient GPU Cluster Scheduling for Machine Learning Workloads. Kshiteej Mahajan, Arjun Balasubramanian, Arjun Singhvi, Shivaram Venkataraman, Aditya Akella, Amar Phanishayee, Shuchi Chawla. NSDI 2020.

Tiramisu: Fast and General Network Verification. Anubhavnidhi Abhashkumar, Aaron Gember-Jacobson, Aditya Akella. NSDI 2020.

Dynamic Query Re-Planning using QOOP. Kshiteej Mahajan, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Aditya Akella and Shuchi Chawla. OSDI 2018.

Awards & Honors

  • 2020 - Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists, Finalist
  • 2019 - SACM Student COW (Choice of Wisconsin) Award
  • 2018 - H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship, UW-Madison
  • 2017 - Vilas Associate, UW-Madison
  • 2017 - SACM Student COW (Choice of Wisconsin) Award
  • 2015 - Internet Research Task Force Applied Networking Research Prize
  • 2014 - SIGCOMM Rising Star Award