I am an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science Departments at Carnegie Mellon University. My research interests are in the area of bridging computer architecture and software systems, with a focus on making hyperscale data centers more efficient, sustainable, and equitable (via solutions that span the systems stack).
My systems solutions to improve hardware efficiency have been deployed in real hyperscale data centers and currently serve billions of users, saving millions of dollars and meaningfully reducing the global carbon footprint. Additionally, my hardware design proposals have influenced the design of Intel’s Alder Lake (Golden Cove and future generation) CPU architectures and Intel’s Infrastructure Processing Unit.
My research has been recognized with the 2022 ACM SIGARCH/IEEE TCCA Outstanding Dissertation Award Honorable Mention, the 2022 ACM SIGOPS Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention, the 2021 David J. Kuck Dissertation Prize, the 2021 ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award, the 2023 BenchCouncil Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award, a Meta Systems Research Award, and an IEEE Micro Top Picks distinction. I was awarded a Facebook Fellowship and was named a Rising Star in EECS.
PhD in Computer Science, 2021
University of Michigan
M.S. in Embedded Systems, 2015
University of Pennsylvania
[Sep 2021] Serving on the IEEE Micro Top Picks Program Committee. Submit your best work!
[Sep 2021] Serving on the Eurosys 2022 Program Committee. Submit your best work!
[Sep 2021] My first Ph.D. student joins my research group (rather, spawns my research group!) Welcome, Mihailo Rancic!
[Sep 2021] I started as a Visiting Researcher at Google (in the new SRG group!)
[Aug 2021] I graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.
Tanvir Ahmed Khan, Dexin Zhang, Akshitha Sriraman, Joseph Devietti, Gilles A Pokam, Heiner Litz, Baris Kasikci. International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2021
Tanvir Ahmed Khan, Akshitha Sriraman, Joseph Devietti, Gilles A Pokam, Heiner Litz, Baris Kasikci. International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Oct 2020
Akshitha Sriraman, Abhishek Dhanotia. International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), Mar 2020
Selected as an IEEE Micro Top Pick paper (awarded to the top 12 architecture papers of 2020)
Best Presentation Award
ACM Badges: Artifacts Available and Artifacts Evaluated & Functional
Influenced Intel's Infrastructure Processing Unit
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Akshitha Sriraman, Abhishek Dhanotia, Thomas F. Wenisch. International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2019
Deployed across a real global data center fleet
Influenced Intel's Alder Lake servers (Golden cove microarchitecture and beyond)
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Amirhossein Mirhosseini, Akshitha Sriraman, Thomas F. Wenisch. International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Feb 2019
Akshitha Sriraman, Thomas F. Wenisch. USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), Oct 2018
Akshitha Sriraman, Thomas F. Wenisch. IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC), Oct 2018
Liang Luo, Akshitha Sriraman, Brooke Fugate, Shiliang Hu, Gilles Pokam, Chris J. Newburn, and Joseph Devietti. International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Feb 2016
Akshitha Sriraman, Abhishek Dhanotia. IEEE Micro (Top Picks Issue), May 2020
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