Akshitha Sriraman

Akshitha Sriraman is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University with joint appointments in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science. Her research bridges computer architecture and software systems to enable sustainable, equitable, and efficient hyperscale web infrastructures. 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).

Research Focus: Dr. Sriraman redesigns computing stacks to achieve high-performance web systems while addressing critical ethical implications like sustainability (e.g., reducing hardware carbon footprint) and equity (e.g., eliminating demographic bias in web scheduling). Her solutions span from analytical models to production deployments at hyperscale, influencing industry hardware designs including Intel's CPUs and Infrastructure Processing Units.

Publications: Her 15 most recent publications demonstrate consistent focus on optimizing data center systems through architectural innovations. Key themes include carbon-efficient cloud servers, hardware-accelerated metadata management, and profile-guided microarchitectural optimizations. Work appears in premier venues like ISCA, MICRO, ASPLOS, and IEEE Micro, with two papers receiving IEEE Micro Top Picks distinctions.

Awards & Honors:

• Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award (2025)
• NSF CAREER Award (2023)
• Intel Rising Star Award (2023)
• George Tallman Ladd Research Award (2024)
• IEEE Micro Top Picks (2020, 2024)
• ACM SIGARCH/TCCA Outstanding Dissertation Award HM (2022)
• Meta Systems Research Award
• Facebook Fellowship

Students & Funding: Advises 10+ PhD/Master's students working on sustainable systems, equitable computing, and hyperscale architectures. Student achievements include NSF Graduate Fellowships and K&L Gates Presidential Fellowships. Research supported by NSF, Google, Meta, Intel, VMWare, and AWS grants.

Lab & Service: Leads the Ethical Computer Systems Lab focusing on hardware/software co-design for societal impact. Founded workshops like HotEthics and initiated DEI activities recognized by CMU's Service Award. Regularly serves on program committees for OSDI, ISCA, and ASPLOS.