I prefer emails as the first point of contact.
If you would like to request a meeting, please send me an email with your schedule for the week.
If I do not respond to your first email within a week, you could send me an email reminder or stop by my office. If you do not receive a response after a reminder email, it is unlikely that any future reminders will lead to a response.
Office: 411C Gates Hall
Email: alpha@beta.edu [alpha = ragarwal, beta = cs.cornell]
Rachit is an associate professor in Department of Computer Science at Cornell University, where he works with an awesome group of students on problems related to systems, networking and algorithms.
Rachit is a Sloan Research Fellow and a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, and has received an NSF CAREER award. Work from his group has been recognized with the IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize (for HostCC, SIGCOMM'23), best student paper awards at SIGCOMM'24 (for Understanding the Host Network) and SIGCOMM'18 (for Sincronia), a SIGMETRICS Best-of-the-rest selection (for Understanding the Host Network), and a distinguished paper award at Usenix Security'20 (for Pancake). He has also received a Google research scholar award, a Google faculty research award, the Rambus research fellowship (for outstanding performance in computer science and engineering research) and the Yi-Min Wang and Pi-Yu Chung research award (for excellence in computer engineering research).
Rachit loves teaching. He has received the 2025 Tau Beta Pi Professor of the Year award, and the James and Mary Tien teaching award, the highest teaching award in Cornell College of Engineering, for sustained excellence and innovation in engineering education.
In another life, Rachit was a very mischievous undergrad at IIT Kanpur.
I still don't do research. I research.
I still do crazier things than most of my crazy friends. Currently, I am working on my pilot license. No, I do not plan to change jobs.
I still travel more than I should. And, I have been to truly out-of-the-box places.
I still drink more beer than most of my friends (Irish ones do come close though :-D). I am learning to mix cocktails, and have gotten much better at mixing recently. No, I do not plan to change jobs.
I still have the lowest undergraduate GPA of any professor I have ever met. Jeff Erickson does come close though. I am not proud of this.
I still wonder if I am a scientist, a mathematician, an engineer, or just a student.
I still am proud of being an IITian.
I still think a lot along the directions:
Finally, my views on education are best captured in: "Creativity is as important in education as literacy!"