**Rajath Shashidhara** Ph.D. Student | Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington Student Researcher | Systems Research Group, Google rajaths@cs.washington.edu [CV](cv.pdf) • [GitHub](https://github.com/rajathshashidhara) • [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=47vhbO8AAAAJ&hl=en) • [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajath-s) • [Goodreads](https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/17609812-rajath-shashidhara) ![ ](rajaths_072023.jpg width="35%" border="1") I am a Ph.D. student in the [UW Computer Systems Lab](https://syslab.cs.washington.edu/) advised by [Dr. Simon Peter](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~simpeter/). Broadly, my research is in the design and implementation of scalable, efficient and resilient networked systems. Presently, I am working on: - **Datacenter transport offload**: Flexible high-performance transport protocol offload to programmable network devices. - **Energy-efficient ML data preprocessing**: In-network data ingestion acceleration for large-scale ML training. At Google, I am a student researcher in the [Systems Research Group](https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/systems/google-creates-new-systems-research-group) advised by [Dr. Kimberly Keeton](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wR_tv-kAAAAJ&hl=en). My research is on: - **Tiered memory management**: Understanding the impact of swapping on application performance at datacenter scale. - **Representative benchmarks**: Methodology to synthesize memory tiering benchmarks representative of fleet behavior. Publications ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - [FlexTOE: Flexible TCP Offload with Fine-Grained Parallelism](https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi22/presentation/shashidhara)
Rajath Shashidhara, Timothy Stamler, Antoine Kaufmann, Simon Peter
*USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'22)*
[Slides](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/nsdi22-paper-shashidhara.pdf) | [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sRLk2zNrdE) | [Code](https://tcp-acceleration-service.github.io/FlexTOE/) Star
Talks: [Google Networking Research Summit 2022](https://events.withgoogle.com/networking-research-summit-2022/) • VMware, 2022 • [NSDI 2022](https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi22/presentation/shashidhara) • [SmartNICs Summit 2022](https://smartnicssummit.com/thursday/) • Microsoft, 2023 - [A Reinforcement Learning Framework for QoS-Driven Radio Resource Scheduler](https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOBECOM42002.2020.9322182)
Jitender Singh Shekhawat, Rishabh Agrawal, K Gautam Shenoy, Rajath Shashidhara
*IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM'20)* - [Phase transition in an Aubry-André system with a rapidly oscillating magnetic field](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.94.053612)
Tridev Mishra, Rajath Shashidhara, Tapomoy Guha Sarkar and Jayendra N. Bandyopadhyay
*Physical Review A (2016)*