Deepanjali Mishra is a PhD student working with Prof. Akshitha Sriraman on enabling efficient data center systems. Her work bridges computer architecture and software systems, demonstrating the importance of that bridge in enabling hyperscale data center systems via solutions that span the compute stack.

Modern web services require data centers that scale to hundreds of thousands of servers, i.e., hyperscale. The key challenge in enabling hyperscale web services arises from two important trends. First, over the past few years, there has been a radical shift in hyperscale computing due to an unprecedented growth in data, users, and web service software functionality. Second, modern hardware can no longer support this growth in hyperscale trends due to a steady decline in hardware performance scaling. To enable the new hyperscale era, hardware architects must become more aware of hyperscale software requirements and software researchers can no longer expect unlimited hardware performance scaling. In short, systems researchers can no longer follow the traditional approach of building each layer of the systems stack separately. Instead, they must rethink the synergy between the software and hardware worlds from the ground up.

Deepanjali's work establishes such a synergy to enable efficient hyperscale web services.

Deepanjali's research has been recognized with the 2024 Carnegie Institute of Technology Dean's Fellowship and the ACM-W Scholarship.

Find out more about Deepanjali here.