Pratyush Patel

PhD Student in Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington

Education

University of Washington Seattle, USA
September 2018 – Present PhD in Computer Science & Engineering
Advisor: Thomas Anderson

BITS Pilani Goa, India
August 2013 – July 2017 Bachelor of Engineering with Honours in Computer Science
Advisor: Raj Rajkumar
 Thesis: Predictable GPU Arbitration for Fixed-Priority Real-Time Systems

Publications

Conference Papers

Journal Papers

Workshop Papers and Posters

Experience

Microsoft Azure Redmond, USA
July 2023 – September 2023 Research Intern, Azure Systems Research
Mentors: Esha Choukse, Íñigo Goiri, Chaojie Zhang
 - Improved LLM inference efficiency in large-scale GPU deployments

Microsoft Research Redmond, USA
June 2022 – September 2022 Research Intern, Cloud Efficiency Group
Mentors: Esha Choukse, Pulkit Misra
 - Identified power reduction and overclocking opportunities on modern CPUs and GPUs across diverse datacenter workloads
- Designed and implemented a VM-aware power management framework prototype for heterogeneous servers

Microsoft Research Redmond, USA
July 2019 – September 2019 Research Intern, Cloud Efficiency Group
Mentor: Sameh Elnikety
 - Worked on hypervisor scheduling for virtual machines running on over-subscribed hosts

Microsoft Research Bengaluru, India
September 2017 – May 2018 Research Intern, Systems Group
Mentors: Vivek Seshadri, Muthian Sivathanu
 - Designed a hardware-based virtual memory interface and evaluated its impact on native and virtual machine performance
- Implemented deep-learning training job scheduling and language-level checkpointing in Gandiva

Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, USA
September 2016 – July 2017 Research Intern, Real-Time and Multimedia Systems Laboratory
Mentors: Raj Rajkumar, Hyoseung Kim
 - Developed suspension-based synchronization protocols for efficient accelerator support evaluated on NVIDIA TX2
- Analyzed and implemented a server-based mechanism for predictable GPU access on NXP iMX6

Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Kaiserslautern, Germany
June 2016 – August 2016 Research Intern, Real-Time Systems Group
Mentor: Björn Brandenburg
 - Designed and implemented TimerShield, an interference-free high-resolution timer subsystem, in real-time Linux
- Implemented efficient EDF response-time analysis in SchedCAT and improved hrtimer support in LITMUS-RT

BITS Pilani Goa, India
January 2016 – May 2016 Undergraduate Researcher
Mentor: Santonu Sarkar
 - Developed a checkpoint toolkit that traces program call graphs and probabilistically places checkpoints
- Modified QEMU to trace assembly instructions executed by guest VMs to quantify instruction patterns

Infibeam Ahmedabad, India
May 2015 – July 2015 Software Development Intern
- Containerized production servers for log management with Docker-based ELK stack
- Proposed design recommendations for porting an internal Java Struts web application to console mode

Teaching

Mentoring

Awards and Honours

Service