Divya Mahajan

Divya Mahajan is an Assistant Professor holding dual appointments in the College of Computing and College of Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. She directs the Systems Infrastructure and Architecture Research Lab, focusing on sustainable computing platforms for large-scale AI, machine learning, and data storage systems. Her research integrates computer architecture, distributed systems, and database technologies to optimize end-to-end data pipelines.

Mahajan earned her PhD from Georgia Tech and Bachelor's from IIT Ropar (President's Gold Medal). Prior to academia, she was a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Azure, leading communication collective designs for distributed DNN training. Awards include NCWIT Collegiate Award (2017) and HPCA Distinguished Paper Award (2016).

Research spans hardware-software co-design for ML systems, efficient recommendation architectures, federated learning optimization, and PIM/NPU acceleration. Recent projects address challenges in large-scale model serving, edge-cloud integration, and sustainable computing. Student advisees include PhD and MS researchers in systems and architecture.

Publications demonstrate consistent innovation in accelerating ML workloads through novel hardware/software techniques, with work appearing in ISCA, MICRO, ASPLOS, NeurIPS, and VLDB. Current projects explore energy-efficient AI infrastructure and domain-specialized systems for emerging economies.