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Rachee Singh is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University, leading the sysphotonics group which focuses on photonic interconnects and distributed machine learning systems. She is also an Amazon Scholar in the SageMaker Hyperpod team, specializing in large-scale ML infrastructure. Her research spans photonic fabrics for cloud workloads, WAN optimization, and secure networking.
Key research interests include photonic interconnects for multi-accelerator servers, automated reasoning in network systems, and sustainability in cloud infrastructure. She has pioneered solutions like Aqua for memory offloading in LLMs and PipSwitch for programmable photonics-based circuit switching.
Major grants include a 2024 NSF grant ($1M) for chip-to-chip photonic fabrics and DARPA/SRC funding via the JUMP 2.0 program. Notable awards include the 2025 Cisco Research Award and 2024 Amazon Research Award. Her work has been featured in top venues like ASPLOS, SIGCOMM, and NSDI.
Rachee advises students such as Abhishek Vijaya Kumar (distributed ML) and Zhiying Xu (WAN optimization). Her sysphotonics group collaborates with industry partners like Amazon and Cisco, addressing challenges in photonic connectivity and planet-scale cloud systems.
