We conduct research in computer architecture and computer systems, with the goal of making computing systems at all scales faster, more energy-efficient, cost-effective, and secure. Our recent work focuses on cloud computing infrastructure, systems for machine learning, and the use of machine learning to optimize systems.

Active Research Themes

AI Efficiency

AI workloads are growing in compute and memory demands far faster than hardware capabilities can keep up. We are developing systems techniques and AI-system interfaces that bridge this efficiency gap.

Scale-out AI systems

Today’s AI infrastructure, rooted in HPC paradigms, is inflexible and expensive. We are designing AI systems around scale-out principles to improve scalability, resilience, and cost effectiveness.

HW/SW co-design

We are co-designing hardware, system software, and applications to improve the efficiency of cloud infrastructure, frequently using AI techniques to automate optimization.

News

2025-05-28

Congratulations to Dr Mark Zhao on submitting his PhD thesis titled “Scalable, efficient, and secure machine learning data systems”. Mark is joining the faculty at Boulder CS in the fall.

2025-05-27

Congratulations to Dr Timothy Chong on submitting his PhD thesis titled “Addressing endpoint-induced congestion with duplicate acknowledgment”.

2025-05-27

Congratulations to Zhiqiang Xie on being awarded an NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship.

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