Akshitha Sriraman

Akshitha Sriraman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Michigan (2021) and an M.S. in Embedded Systems from the University of Pennsylvania (2015). Her research focuses on bridging computer architecture and systems software to design efficient, sustainable, and equitable data center systems, emphasizing hardware-software co-design. Her work has been deployed in real hyperscale data centers, influencing Intel’s Alder Lake CPU architectures and Infrastructure Processing Unit designs.

• Recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2024), Intel Rising Star Award (2023), and multiple dissertation prizes.
• Advances include reducing global carbon emissions via server design and introducing equity as a first-order design concern in web systems.
• Advises PhD and Master’s students on topics like sustainable computing, equitable systems, and hardware optimization.

Key contributions span energy-efficient data center architectures, bias-free scheduling systems, and cloud GPU power management. She leads a research group prioritizing socially responsible computing and has received grants from NSF, AWS, and industry partnerships.