Rachit Agarwal

Real-world impact and adoption

NVIDIA
Host networking for accelerated computing [OSDI'24] is now part of NVIDIA.
Enfabrica
Parts of i10 [NSDI'20], blk-switch [OSDI'21], NetChannel [SIGCOMM'22] and dcPIM [SIGCOMM'22] incorporated within Enfabrica hardware.
Microsoft Azure
Parts of Colloid [SOSP'24] and Understanding the Host Network [SIGCOMM'24] deployed.
Snowflake
Parts of the elastic SQL engine on disaggregated storage [NSDI'20] deployed.
Databricks
Parts of Succinct [NSDI'15] employed by customers to query compressed RDDs.
Alibaba Cloud
Parts of Confluo [NSDI'19] employed for consuming and analysing telemetry data.
A large cloud provider
Parts of host congestion control [SIGCOMM'23] and host interconnect congestion [HotNets'22] deployed in the network stack.
Android / Signal
Mitigations against injection attacks, proposed in [S&P'24], deployed.
LastPass
Mitigations against injection attacks, proposed in [Security'24], deployed.
Dashlane
Mitigations against injection attacks, proposed in [Security'24], deployed.
Zoho Vault
Mitigations against injection attacks, proposed in [Security'24], deployed.
KeePassXC
Mitigations against injection attacks, proposed in [Security'24], deployed.

Academic impact

Students and postdocs, now faculty 2026Assistant Professor, Purdue UniversityMidhul Vuppalapati
2024Assistant Professor, UIUCSaksham Agarwal
2024Assistant Professor, University of VirginiaQizhe Cai
2022Assistant Professor, University of WaterlooSujaya Maiyya
2022Assistant Professor, University of WaterlooMina Tahmasbi Arashloo
2021Assistant Professor, Sungkyunkwan UniversityJaehyun Hwang
2019Assistant Professor, Yale UniversityAnurag Khandelwal
Student awards 2025ACM SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation AwardSaksham Agarwal, Host Congestion Control
2025Cornell Bowers CIS Dissertation AwardSaksham Agarwal, Host Congestion Control
2022Meta Research PhD FellowshipQizhe Cai
2019Google PhD FellowshipSaksham Agarwal
Paper awards 2025IRTF Applied Networking Research PrizeHost Congestion Control; prize awarded to Saksham Agarwal
2025SIGMETRICS Best-of-the-restUnderstanding the Host Network
2024SIGCOMM Best Student Paper AwardUnderstanding the Host Network
2020Usenix Security Distinguished Paper AwardPancake
2018SIGCOMM Best Student Paper AwardSincronia
Research awards 2023Kavli Fellow, National Academy of Sciences
2021Sloan Research Fellowship
2021NSF CAREER AwardCommunication Synchrony
2021Google Research Scholar AwardDatacenter transport design for terabit Ethernet
2017Google Faculty Research AwardBuilding Interactive Query Systems for Disaggregated Datacenters
Community vision 2023NSF Workshop on Long-term Research Directions in Wired NetworkingCo-organizer
2019CCC Workshop on Wide-area AnalyticsCo-organizer
Teaching 2025Tau Beta Pi Professor of the YearExemplary teaching, dedication and commitment to students
2021James and Mary Tien Teaching AwardSustained excellence and innovation in engineering education

A fuller record is in the CV and on the publications page.