Dr. Akshitha Sriraman

Biography

Akshitha Sriraman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests bridge computer architecture and systems software, with a focus on making hyperscale data centers efficient through solutions that span the systems stack. The central theme of her work is the design of software-aware hardware that meets new constraints and possibilities, allowing for the efficient architecture of hardware that supports novel hyperscale software requirements. Sriraman's systems solutions enhance hardware efficiency in real hyperscale data centers that currently serve billions of users, significantly reducing costs and contributing to a meaningful decrease in the global carbon footprint. Her hardware design proposals have influenced significant architectures, including Intel’s Alder Lake (Golden Cove CPU) and Intel’s Infrastructure Processing Unit. Sriraman's research has been recognized with the IEEE Micro Top Picks distinction, the 2021 David J. Kuck Dissertation Prize, and she has received several fellowships including the Facebook Fellowship and Rackham Merit Ph.D. Fellowship. She was named a 2019 Rising Star in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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