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

Nov 2025	Excited to launch the InfraAI Center!
Jul 2025	Teaching a new grad course on Systems and GenAI in fall '25!
Mar 2025	The first LDOS PhD Research School (May 20–21, 2025) was a great success!
Aug 2024	Taught a new upper-division elective Systems for Machine Learning in fall '24.
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

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.
HotNets 25	Man-Made Heuristics Are Dead. Long Live Code Generators! Rohit Dwivedula, Divyanshu Saxena, Aditya Akella, Swarat Chaudhuri, and Daehyeok Kim.
EMNLP 25	Large Language Models as Realistic Microservice Trace Generators Donghyun Kim, Sriram Ravula, Taemin Ha, Alexandros G. Dimakis, Daehyeok Kim, Aditya Akella.
IROS 25	ConfigBot: Adaptive Resource Allocation for Robot Applications in Dynamic Environments Rohit Dwivedula, Sadanand Modak, Aditya Akella, Joydeep Biswas, Daehyeok Kim, Christopher Rossbach.
ACL 25	StitchLLM: Serving LLMs, One Block at a Time Bodun Hu, Shuozhe Li, Saurabh Agarwal, Myungjin Lee, Akshay Jajoo, Jiamin Li, Le Xu, Geon-Woo Kim, Donghyun Kim, Hong Xu, Amy Zhang, Aditya Akella.
ICML 25	HALoS: Hierarchical Asynchronous Local SGD over Slow Networks for Geo-Distributed Large Language Model Training Geon-Woo Kim, Junbo Li, Shashidhar Gandham, Omar Baldonado, Adithya Gangidi, Pavan Balaji, Zhangyang Wang, Aditya Akella.
ICML 25	On-the-Fly Adaptive Distillation of Transformer to Dual-State Linear Attention for Long-Context LLM Serving Yeonju Ro, Zhenyu Zhang, Souvik Kundu, Zhangyang Wang, Aditya Akella.
HotOS 25	How I learned to stop worrying and love learned OS policies Divyanshu Saxena, Jiayi Chen, Sujay Yadalam, Yeonju Ro, Rohit Dwivedula, Eric H. Campbell, Aditya Akella, Christopher J. Rossbach, Michael Swift.
ICLR 25	CONGO: Compressive Online Gradient Optimization Jeremy Carleton, Prathik Vijaykumar, Divyanshu Saxena, Dheeraj Narasimha, Srinivas Shakkottai, Aditya Akella.
NSDI 25	Portable and High-Performance SmartNIC Programs with Alkali Jiaxin Lin, Zhiyuan Guo, Mihir Shah, Tao Ji, Yiying Zhang, Daehyeok Kim, and Aditya Akella.
NSDI 25	MTP: A Transport for In-Network Computing Tao Ji, Rohan Vardekar, Balajee Vamanan, Brent Stephens and Aditya Akella.
ASPLOS 25	Expressive and Efficient Service Mesh Policies Divyanshu Saxena, William Zhang, Shankara Pailoor, Isil Dillig, and Aditya Akella.