profile_picture
Nitika Saran
Ph.D.,  Cornell University
nsaran [at] cs [dot] cornell [dot] edu

I am a PhD student in systems & networking at Cornell University, where I work with Hakim Weatherspoon. I am primarily interested in networking problems. I also work with Sylvia Ratnasamy and the Google Systems Research Group on Traffic Engineering for SDNs.

Previously, I was at Microsoft Research India, working with Muthian Sivathanu and Ram Ramjee. Here, I worked on distributed systems to support training for large language models like GPT and BERT.

Before that, I worked at Microsoft’s engineering division for a year and graduated from IIIT Delhi.

Interests

  • Networking
  • Distributed Systems

Academia

Cornell University
2021 - present
Ph.D. in Computer Science
IIIT Delhi
2014 - 2018
B.Tech in Computer Science

Publications

  • Breaking the VLB Barrier: Improving Oblivious Reconfigurable Networks with High Probability, 2024
    Tegan Wilson, Daniel Amir, Nitika Saran, Robert Kleinberg, Vishal Shrivastav, Hakim Weatherspoon
    STOC 2024
  • Varuna: Scalable, Low-cost Training of Massive Deep Learning Models, 2022
    Nitika Saran*, Sanjith Athlur*, Muthian Sivathanu, Ram Ramjee, Nipun Kwatra
    EuroSys 2022
    won Best Paper Award!

Teaching Experience