PDL Talk Series

June 29, 2023

TIME: 12:00 noon - to approximately 1:00 pm EDT
PLACE: Virtual - a zoom link will be emailed closer to the seminar

SPEAKER: Akshitha Sriraman
Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Lifting the Systems Ostrich’s Head from the Sand: Introducing Ethical Systems
The modern systems and architectures we build today are mostly either in the hands of the privileged or on the ground as e-waste in under-developed communities, since we in the systems community don’t often consider the ethical implications of the systems we build. In this rather non-traditional talk that is more of a call to action (than one that delves into low-level technical details), I will outline how you, as a systems researcher, can make ethical computing as a first-order systems consideration to enable efficient systems that are also sustainable, bias-free, and equitable.

BIO: Akshitha Sriraman is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests are in the area of bridging computer architecture and systems software, with a focus on making hyperscale data centers more efficient, sustainable, and equitable (via solutions that span the systems stack). Sriraman's research has been recognized with the 2022 ACM SIGARCH/TCCA Outstanding Dissertation Award Honorable Mention, the 2022 ACM SIGOPS Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention, an IEEE Micro Top Picks distinction, the 2021 ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award, the 2022 BenchCouncil Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award, and the 2021 David J. Kuck Dissertation Prize. She was awarded a Facebook Fellowship, a Rackham Merit Ph.D. Fellowship, and a CIS Full-Tuition Scholarship. She was also named a 2019 Rising Star in EECS. Sriraman completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan.

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