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Neeraja J. Yadwadkar

Email: neeraja@austin.utexas.edu
Twitter: @NeerajaJY

I am an assistant professor in the department of ECE at UT Austin.

At UT, I lead UT-SysML.

I am a Cloud Computing Systems researcher, with a strong background in Machine Learning (ML). Most of my research straddles the boundaries of Systems and ML. Advances in systems, machine learning, and hardware architectures are about to launch a new era in which we can use the entire cloud as a computer. New ML techniques are being developed for solving complex resource management problems in systems. Similarly, systems research is getting influenced by properties of emerging ML algorithms, and evolving hardware architectures.  Bridging these complementary fields, my research focuses on using and developing ML techniques for systems, and building systems for ML.

Previously, I spent a year working with the VMWare Research Group. Prior to that, I was a post-doctoral research fellow in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, working with Christos Kozyrakis. I graduated with a PhD in Computer Science from the RISE Lab at University of California, Berkeley, working with Randy Katz and Joseph Gonzalez. My dissertation was on Automatic Resource Management in the Datacenter and the Cloud. Before starting my PhD, I received my masters in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, and my bachelors from the Government College of Engineering, Pune.

In Spring 2023, I introduced a new grad class, SysML: Computer Systems and Machine Learning Interplay (link).

Current students in my group, UT-SysML

I am very fortunate to be working with the following exceptional graduate students!

  • Prasoon Sinha (Ph.D., starting Fall’22)
  • Dan Jacobellis (Ph.D., starting Fall’23)
  • Ruihao Li (Ph.D., co-advised with Lizy John, starting Fall’23)
  • Dimitrios Liakopoulos (Ph.D., starting Fall’23)
  • Tianrui Hu (M.S., starting Fall’23)
  • Saarth Deshpande (Ph.D., co-advised with Venkat Arun, starting Fall’24)

Alumni:

  • Erika Susana Alcorta (Ph.D., now at Ampere Computing, co-advised with Andreas Gerstlauer)
  • Sidharth Babu (Undergrad, now a masters student at CMU)

I am also working closely with the following amazing graduate students:

  • Anyesha Ghosh (Advised by Mattan Erez)
  • Wenqi Yin (Advised by Mattan Erez)
  • Shagnik Pal (Advised by Lizy John)

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I’m looking for graduate students!
Please apply if you are interested in research towards building a Smart cloud by resolving challenges in Serverless Computing, using Machine Learning for Systems and building Systems for Machine Learning!
Mention my name in your application and send me an email once you submit your application. That way, I will be able to look for your application!

Recent News

  • [NEW] Hermod accepted at ACM SoCC'22
  • [NEW] Serving on the Organizing Committee for Rising Stars in EECS'22 EECS Rising Stars 2022
  • [NEW] Serving as co-general chair for HotNets'22 ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks
  • [NEW] Keynote talk and panel at MLSys'22 Workshop on Cloud Intelligence
  • [NEW] Invited talk and panel at MLSys'22 Workshop on Practical Adoption Challenges of ML for Systems in Industry
  • Keynote talk at ICML'21 Workshop on ML deployment
  • Panelist for the Academic Job Search Panel in ACM SMS Workshop at MobiSys'21
  • Panelist for the ML for Computer Architecture and Systems (MLArchSys) workshop at ISCA'21
  •  Co-organizing ML for Computer Architecture and Systems (MLArchSys) co-located with ISCA'21
  • Serving on the Program Committee of WORDS 2021: Workshop On Resource Disaggregation and Serverless co-located with ASPLOS'21
  • SmartHarvest accepted at EuroSys'21!
  • Thrilled to be serving as the “Diversity and Inclusion Chair” for ACM SoCC'21
  • Co-founded the Journal of Systems Research (JSys)
  • Moderating "Ask Me Anything” session with Kim Keeton as the guest at OSDI'20
  • Serving on the Program Committee of MLSys 2021
  • Panelist for “Serverless Computing” panel at ACM SoCC'20
  • Served on the Program Committee of Workshop on ML for Systems at NeurIPS'20
  • Serving on the Program Committee of ACM SoCC'20
  • Serving on the Program Committee of HotStorage'20. Call for papers available now!
  • Serving as a reviewer for ICML'20. Call for papers available now!
  • Serving on the organizing committee for “ML for Computer Architecture and Systems workshop at ISCA”
  • Serving on the Program Committee of the AAAI-20 Workshop on Cloud Intelligence. Call for papers available now!
  • Invited to talk about "Research in Machine Learning for Systems: Insights and Guidelines", at the IBM Research Student Workshop on Systems and Cloud, Nov. 19th!
  • Selected to participate in Rising stars in EECS 2019
  • INFaaS pre-print available on Arxiv
  • Serving as Poster Co-chair for ACM SoCC 2019. Call for posters available now!
  • Serving on the Program Committee of SysML 2020
  • Serving on the Program Committee of ACM SoCC 2019
  • INFaaS source code available now!

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