February 2025
Zhihao Jia a 2025 Sloan Research Fellow
Congratulations to Zhihao Jia, who has been named a Sloan Research Fellows of 2025. The 126 scholars awarded this honor represent the most promising early-career scientists working today. Their achievements and potential place them among the next generation of scientific leaders in the U.S. and Canada. Winners receive $75,000, which may be spent over a two-year term on any expense supportive of their research.
Zhihao's research interests lie in the intersection of computer systems and machine learning (ML). In particular, his current research focuses on building efficient, scalable, and high-performance software systems for emerging ML applications, such as large language models and generative AI tasks.
-- info from https://sloan.org/fellowships/2025-fellows
January 2025
Gauri Joshi Named 2025 Goldsmith Lecturer
The PDL along with the IEEE Information Theory Society is pleased to announce that Gauri Joshi has been named the 2025 Goldsmith Lecturer. The Goldsmith Lecturer is a woman, no more than ten years beyond having her highest degree conferred, selected for the quality of her research contributions in information theory and related areas and her ability to deliver an excellent lecture at one of the Society's Schools of Information Theory. Gauri will deliver the Goldsmith Lecture at one of the 2025 Information Theory Schools.
Gauri’s research focuses on performance analysis and optimization of computing systems using a broad range of tools from probability, coding theory, and machine learning. She is an associate professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department at CMU, with courtesy/affiliate appointments in the Machine Learning department (MLD) and the Robotics Institute (RI). Before joining CMU in Fall 2017, she was a Research Staff Member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. She completed her Ph.D. from MIT EECS in 2016 and received my B.Tech and M. Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 2010.
-- info from IEEE Information Theory Society and CMU ECE News
January 2025
Ziyue Qiu Wins Best Paper at ValueTools 2024!
Congratulations to Ziyue Qiu, and her co-authors Juncheng Yang and Mor Harchol-Balter who brought home the best paper award at the 17th EAI International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (ValueTools) held in Milan, Italy in December 2024. Their work asks "Can Increasing the Hit Ratio Hurt Cache Throughput?" and ultimately shows that increasing the hit ratio can actually hurt the throughput (and request latency) for many caching algorithms.
November 2024
Sophia (Qingyang) Cao
Wins ACM Student Research Competition at SOSP 2024!
Congratulations to Sophia on winning the ACM Student Research contest at SOSP this year. To participate, for the first round, she had to submit an abstract of her research. In the second round, semi-finalists had to present a poster detailing their research. In the final round she gave a presentation. Evaluations are based on the presenter’s knowledge of his/her research area, the contribution of the research, and the quality of the oral and visual presentation. Sophia's research on "Possum: A Tail of Dynamic Flash Capacity for Sustainability" investigates managing flash storage density for improved performance and device endurance.
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