Srinivasa Aditya Akella is a computer scientist, professor and Regents Chair Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is notable for research in software-defined networking,[1] big data systems,[2] low latency networking, content distribution[3] and network function virtualization.
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| Alma mater | Carnegie Mellon University (PhD 2005) IIT Madras (B.Tech 2000) |
| Spouse | Shuchi Chawla |
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| Fields | Computer Science, Computer Networking, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning |
| Institutions | University of Texas at Austin
University of Wisconsin–Madison Stanford University |
| Doctoral advisor | Srinivasan Seshan |
| Website | www |
Career
editAkella completed his undergraduate studies at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 2000, then received his PhD in 2005 from Carnegie Mellon University with a thesis titled End Point-based Routing Strategies for Improving Internet Performance and Resilience. His doctoral advisor was Srinivasan Seshan.[4][5] He completed a post-doc at Stanford University working with Nick McKeown where he worked on early efforts in SDN.[6] In 2006 Akella joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an assistant professor, then later became an associate professor in 2012 and a full professor in 2017. In 2021, he joined the UT Austin Computer Science Department.
He leads the UT Networked Systems (UTNS) Research Group[7] and is one of the Principal Investigators leading CloudLab.[8] In 2014, SIGCOMM gave him their Rising Star Award for contributions to network management and content delivery.[9] Akella holds over 15 patents related to computer networking and distributed systems.[10] He has published 225 research papers in refereed international conferences and journals with his coworkers and his publications have been cited over 10,000 times (H-index=53).[4][11]
Akella was chosen as a finalist in Physical Sciences and Engineering for both the 2021 and 2020 Blavatnik National Award for his contributions to improving the speed, efficiency and reliability of data center infrastructure.[12][13] His ongoing research focuses on systems for machine learning, low latency networking, big data systems and intent-driven networking.[14]
Awards
edit- 2023: ACM Fellow[15]
- 2021: Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists, Finalist[12][16]
- 2020: Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists, Finalist[13][17]
- 2018: H.I. Romnes Faculty Associate[18]
- 2017: Vilas Associate[19]
- 2015: Internet Research Task Force Applied Networking Research Prize[19]
- 2014: SIGCOMM Rising Star Award[9]
Personal life
editAkella is a native of Hyderabad, India, and currently resides in Austin, Texas. His wife Shuchi Chawla is also a computer science professor at the University of Texas-Austin.
References
edit- ^ Aditya Akella. "CloudNaaS: A Cloud Networking Platform for Enterprise Applications". Retrieved 21 June 2020.
- ^ Aditya Akella. "Multi-Resource Packing for Cluster Schedulers" (PDF). Retrieved 21 June 2020.
- ^ "EndRE: An End-System Redundancy Elimination Service for Enterprises" (PDF). Retrieved 21 June 2020.
- ^ a b "Curriculum vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 27 February 2020.
- ^ Aditya Akella at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "SANE: A Protection Architecture for Enterprise Networks" (PDF). Proceedings of the 15th conference on USENIX Security Symposium - Volume 15. July 2006. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
- ^ "UT Networked Systems". Retrieved 6 February 2022.
- ^ Jennifer Smith (8 December 2017). "UW-Madison cloud computer research moves into new phase". University of Wisconsin-Madison. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
- ^ a b "SIGCOMM Rising Star Award Winners". SIGCOMM. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
- ^ "Patents by Inventor Srinivasa Aditya Akella". Justia. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
- ^ "Aditya Akella". Google Scholar. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
- ^ a b "Blavatnik Family Foundation, New York Academy of Sciences Name 31 Finalists for 2021 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists". Blavatnik Family Foundation. 15 June 2021. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
- ^ a b "Announcing the Finalists of the 2020 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists". Blavatnik Family Foundation. 17 June 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- ^ Subramanian, Kausik; d'Antoni, Loris; Akella, Aditya (January 2017). "Genesis: Synthesizing Forwarding Tables in Multi-tenant Networks". ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 52. ACM SIGPLAN: 572–585. doi:10.1145/3093333.3009845. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
- ^ "Aditya Akella". awards.acm.org. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
- ^ "Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists announces the finalists of 2021". American Association for the Advancement of Science. 15 June 2021. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- ^ "Professor Akella Selected as 2020 Finalist for Blavatnik Nation Award for Young Scientist". 30 June 2020. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
- ^ Smith, Jennifer (7 February 2018). "Prof. Akella selected for H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship". University of Wisconsin-Madison Computer Sciences. Archived from the original on 23 December 2018. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- ^ a b "SCS Seminar Talk: Aditya Akella". Georgia Tech. 11 February 2020. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
External links
edit- Home page
- Aditya Akella publications indexed by Google Scholar