Manya Ghobadi

Manya Ghobadi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, affiliated with the Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Her research focuses on efficient systems for machine learning, cloud infrastructure, and reconfigurable networks. She holds appointments in both the School of Engineering and the Department of EECS at MIT.

Education: PhD from the University of Toronto, prior experience at Microsoft Research and Google before joining MIT.

Research Interests: Systems for ML, cloud infrastructure, data center networks, optical networks, hardware-software co-design, and network optimization.

Publications: Over 50+ papers in top venues including SIGCOMM, NSDI, HotNets, and MLSys, with awards such as the NSF CAREER and Sloan Fellowship.

Students: Advises 10+ PhD candidates including Mingran Yang (Microsoft Research Fellow) and Sudarsanan Rajasekaran.

Awards: Sloan Fellowship, ACM SIGCOMM Rising Star, Optica Simmons Memorial Speakership.

Labs/Teams: Leads research on photonic computing (NetBlocks, Lightning) and network optimization (Cassini, TopoOpt). Collaborates with industry partners like Juniper and Google.