About
I am a Ph.D. student at the Systopia Lab at the University of British Columbia, working with Alexandra Fedorova and Margo Seltzer. My research interests lie in Operating Systems, Computer Architecture, and Systems Performance.
I completed my Master's in Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where I was part of the PLASMA group, advised by Emery Berger and Hui Guan.
Prior to UMass, I worked at Morgan Stanley on improving the performance of distributed applications. I completed my undergraduate degree from Nirma University in Ahmedabad.
Research
My research explores the intersection of operating systems and hardware, with a focus on how better OS abstractions can leverage emerging hardware features to improve system performance.
During my Master's at the PLASMA group, advised by Emery Berger, I investigated how thread scheduling algorithms can be improved using statistical techniques to reduce thread co-degradations.
I also worked with Hui Guan on a project proposing a novel compression-based memory management policy for deep learning training workloads, showing that compression can be at least 2× faster than conventional swapping.
Publications
CHERI-picking: Leveraging Capability Hardware for Prefetching
Programming Languages and Operating Systems Workshop (PLOS ’23), co-located with SOSP 2023
FreeLunch: Compression-based GPU Memory Management for Convolutional Neural Networks
IEEE/ACM Workshop on Memory Centric High Performance Computing (MCHPC), 2021
Professional Experience
Software Developer Intern
- Updated a cache library for indexing location data used by multiple teams, reducing latency by up to 6% across multiple projects.
- Added a feature to low-latency ad-serving infrastructure enabling faster auctions through early rejection of 5% of total ads.
Senior Associate
Morgan Stanley
- Optimized scalability of a distributed trading platform using containerization, machine learning, and improved load balancing — increasing throughput by 300%.
- Developed a distributed platform to calculate trade fees using GemFire, increasing business process efficiency by 200%.
Awards & Grants
- OSDI and PLMW Student Grant 2020
- Morgan Stanley Global Tech Excellence Award 2018
- Morgan Stanley Outstanding Delivery Award 2018
- Morgan Stanley Best Project Award 2018
- Regional Mathematical Olympiad Scholarship — 3rd in city 2009
- Outstanding Student of the Year 2007
Service & Leadership
President, CSI Nirma
Led a team of over 60 students in managing the Computer Society of India (CSI) chapter at Nirma University.
Core Planning Team, NUTech
Planned and organized a technical symposium for over 5,000 students at Nirma University.