Saksham Agarwalمشاهده پروفایل
استادیار
- Networking
- Systems
- Hardware
- +۳ مورد دیگر
Saksham Agarwal is an Assistant Professor in the departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His research focuses on the intersection of networking, systems, and hardware, with a particular emphasis on host congestion control, datacenter architectures, and network protocols. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University under the supervision of Prof. Rachit Agarwal and completed his undergraduate studies at IIT Kanpur. Research Interests: Host congestion control, datacenter networks, hardware-software co-design, network protocols, and systems optimization. His work includes seminal contributions like hostCC (host congestion control architecture) and Harmony (congestion-free datacenter architecture). Awards: ACM SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award (2025), Cornell CS Dissertation Award (2025), IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize (2025), Google PhD Fellowship (2019), Best Student Paper Awards (SIGCOMM 2024 and SIGCOMM 2018). Teaching: CS 438/ ECE 438 Communication Networks, ECE 598MCI Modern Cloud Infrastructure. Advising: Current students include Midhul Vuppulapati (SIGCOMM'24 Best Paper recipient), Shreyas Kharbanda, and Omar Eqbal. Labs/Teams: Lead researcher on host congestion control and datacenter network projects. Collaborates on open-source implementations of hostCC and Harmony .










