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Saksham Agarwal

PhD Student
Cornell University
saksham (at) cs.cornell.edu


About me

I’m a PhD student in Computer Science department at Cornell University, advised by Prof. Rachit Agarwal. My research interests broadly lie in the intersection of networking, systems and hardware.

I build across-the-stack solutions, including re-architecture of network protocols, host hardware and OS stacks with the goal of providing end-to-end correctness and performance guarantees for applications.

I am a recipient of Cornell University Fellowship and Google PhD Fellowship. Prior to coming to Cornell, I was an undergrad at IIT Kanpur.

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Recent Publications [Google Scholar]

  1. NSDI '24
    Harmony: A Congestion-free Datacenter Architecture
    Saksham Agarwal, Qizhe Cai, Rachit Agarwal, David Shmoys, Amin Vahdat
    NSDI 2024.
    PDF

  2. SIGCOMM '23
    Host Congestion Control
    Saksham Agarwal, Arvind Krishnamurthy and Rachit Agarwal
    SIGCOMM 2023.
    PDF Code Project Page

  3. HOTNETS '22
    Understanding Host Interconnect Congestion
    Saksham Agarwal, Rachit Agarwal, Behnam Montazeri, Masoud Moshref, Khaled Elmeleegy, Luigi Rizzo, Marc Asher de Kruijf, Gautam Kumar, Sylvia Ratnasamy, David Culler and Amin Vahdat
    HOTNETS 2022.
    PDF Talk Slides

  4. NSDI '21
    CodedBulk: Inter-Datacenter Bulk Transfers using Network Coding.
    Shih-Hao Tseng, Saksham Agarwal, Rachit Agarwal, Hitesh Ballani and Ao Tang
    NSDI 2021.
    PDF Code Talk Slides

  5. SIGCOMM '18
    Sincronia: Near-optimal Network Design for Coflows
    Best Student Paper Award
    Saksham Agarwal, Shijin Rajakrishnan, Akshay Narayan, Rachit Agarwal, David Shmoys and Amin Vahdat
    SIGCOMM 2018.
    PDF Code Talk Slides

Teaching

Contact

Address: Bill and Melinda Gates Hall, Ithaca, NY
Office Location: Gates 440
Email: saksham (at) cs.cornell.edu



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