I am the Sutterfield Family Junior Professor (Assistant Professor) at Georgia Institute of Technology in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and School of Computer Science. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, I was a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Azure’s Cloud Accelerated Systems & Technologies team since September 2019. In Microsoft, I led the research, design, and deployment of communication collectives for massive-scale distributed DNN training.

I received my Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2019 and obtained my Master’s from The University of Texas at Austin (2014). I obtained my Bachelor’s from Indian Institute of Technology Ropar where I was conferred the Presidents of India Gold Medal, the highest academic honor in IITs.  

I have been fortunate to be awarded the IIT Ropar Young Alumni Award, NCWIT Collegiate Award, and the President of India Gold Medal. My research and group has been recognized with the NSF Career Award, Inaugural Google ML and Systems Faculty Award, IEEE MICRO Top Picks, COC Best Dissertation Award, and Distinguished Paper Award. My PhD students have won the Nvidia Fellowship, CRNCH Fellowship, the NSERC CGS-D Award, and ML Commons Rising Star. My undergraduate student has gotten the PURA Award at Georgia Tech. My research has been published in top-tier venues such as ISCA, HPCA, MICRO, ASPLOS, NeurIPS, MLSys, ICML, and VLDB.  

I lead the Systems for Scalable Intelligence (SCAI) Lab.  We in the SCAI lab are building systems and infrastructure that make intelligence usable, efficient, trustworthy, and effective across real-world deployments, enabling scientific discovery and impact at scale. The work draws insights from a broad set of disciplines such as, computer architecture, systems, and databases.  The work will take a radical approach towards distributed domain-specialized systems that will enable the next generation of massively-large models. We will achieve this by breaking away from the traditional CPU-based stack and integrating closely with data collection and management systems. I aim to offer solutions that are sustainable and can meet the technological demands of emerging economies.

I work with some wonderful and amazing students. I am always excited to meet students interested in research at the cross section of architecture and systems for data intensive applications. Please send your CV and we can setup sometime to chat.