Aditya Akella

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Aditya Akella
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Born
Hyderabad, India
Alma mater Carnegie Mellon University (PhD 2005)
IIT Madras (B.Tech 2000)
Spouse Shuchi Chawla
Scientific career
Fields Computer Science, Computer Networking, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning
Institutions University of Texas at Austin

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Stanford University
Doctoral advisor Srinivasan Seshan
Website www.cs.utexas.edu/~akella/

Srinivasa Aditya Akella is a computer scientist, professor and Regents Chair Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is notable for research in software-defined networking, [1] big data systems, [2] low latency networking, content distribution [3] and network function virtualization.

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Career

Akella completed his undergraduate studies at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 2000, then received his PhD in 2005 from Carnegie Mellon University with a thesis titled End Point-based Routing Strategies for Improving Internet Performance and Resilience. His doctoral advisor was Srinivasan Seshan. [4] [5] He completed a post-doc at Stanford University working with Nick McKeown where he worked on early efforts in SDN. [6] In 2006 Akella joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an assistant professor, then later became an associate professor in 2012 and a full professor in 2017. In 2021, he joined the UT Austin Computer Science Department.

He leads the UT Networked Systems (UTNS) Research Group [7] and is one of the Principal Investigators leading CloudLab. [8] In 2014, SIGCOMM gave him their Rising Star Award for contributions to network management and content delivery. [9] Akella holds over 15 patents related to computer networking and distributed systems. [10] He has published 225 research papers in refereed international conferences and journals with his coworkers and his publications have been cited over 10,000 times (H-index=53). [4] [11]

Akella was chosen as a finalist in Physical Sciences and Engineering for both the 2021 and 2020 Blavatnik National Award for his contributions to improving the speed, efficiency and reliability of data center infrastructure. [12] [13] His ongoing research focuses on systems for machine learning, low latency networking, big data systems and intent-driven networking. [14]

Awards

Personal life

Akella is a native of Hyderabad, India, and currently resides in Austin, Texas. His wife Shuchi Chawla is also a computer science professor at the University of Texas-Austin.

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References

  1. ↑ Aditya Akella. "CloudNaaS: A Cloud Networking Platform for Enterprise Applications" . Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  2. ↑ Aditya Akella. "Multi-Resource Packing for Cluster Schedulers" (PDF). Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  3. ↑ "EndRE: An End-System Redundancy Elimination Service for Enterprises" (PDF). Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  4. 1 2 "Curriculum vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  5. ↑ Aditya Akella at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ↑ "SANE: A Protection Architecture for Enterprise Networks" (PDF). Proceedings of the 15th conference on USENIX Security Symposium - Volume 15. July 2006. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  7. ↑ "UT Networked Systems" . Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  8. ↑ Jennifer Smith (8 December 2017). "UW-Madison cloud computer research moves into new phase". University of Wisconsin-Madison . Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  9. 1 2 "SIGCOMM Rising Star Award Winners". SIGCOMM . Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  10. ↑ "Patents by Inventor Srinivasa Aditya Akella". Justia . Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  11. ↑ "Aditya Akella". Google Scholar . Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  12. 1 2 "Blavatnik Family Foundation, New York Academy of Sciences Name 31 Finalists for 2021 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists". Blavatnik Family Foundation. 15 June 2021. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  13. 1 2 "Announcing the Finalists of the 2020 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists". Blavatnik Family Foundation. 17 June 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  14. ↑ Subramanian, Kausik; d'Antoni, Loris; Akella, Aditya (January 2017). "Genesis: Synthesizing Forwarding Tables in Multi-tenant Networks". ACM SIGPLAN Notices. ACM SIGPLAN. 52: 572–585. doi:10.1145/3093333.3009845 . Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  15. ↑ "Aditya Akella". awards.acm.org. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  16. ↑ "Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists announces the finalists of 2021". American Association for the Advancement of Science. 15 June 2021. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  17. ↑ "Professor Akella Selected as 2020 Finalist for Blavatnik Nation Award for Young Scientist". 30 June 2020. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  18. ↑ Smith, Jennifer (7 February 2018). "Prof. Akella selected for H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship". University of Wisconsin-Madison Computer Sciences. Archived from the original on 23 December 2018. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
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