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Vishal Rao

Ph.D. Student
Georgia Institute of Technology
vrao[79] (at) gatech.edu


About Me

I am a CS Ph.D. Student at Georgia Tech specializing in Computing Systems. I am interested in research regarding Distributed Systems/Operating Systems, specifically in improving resource utilization efficiency and reducing network communication overheads for datacenter workloads.

I am currently a part of the Kernel Research Group at Georgia Tech, advised by (Prof. Ada Gavrilovska)[https://sites.cc.gatech.edu/home/ada/]. Prior to pursuing my Ph.D. at Georgia Tech, I worked at the GeForce Now team @Nvidia and the Server Performance Team @ AMD.

News

  1. [Apr. 2025] Grudon is accepted to HPDC 2025!

  2. [Sep. 2024] Our work on Graph Analytics on disaggregated NDP platforms is accepted to the REDIS Workshop at Supercomputing!

Publications

  1. Grudon: A System for Deploying Graph Workloads on Disaggregated Architectures with Near-Data Processing
    Vishal Rao, Nikhil Ram Shashidhar, Suyeon Lee, Ada Gavrilovska
    International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC), 2025.

  2. Towards Disaggregated NDP Architectures for Large-scale Graph Analytics
    Suyeon Lee*, Vishal Rao*, Ada Gavrilovska
    Workshop on Resource Disaggregation in High-Performance Computing (REDIS), 2024.

Service/Teaching

Artificat Evaluation Committees

  1. OSDI 2024, 2025

Teaching Assistantships

  1. Distributed Computing (CS 7210) Spring '22, Fall '23, Spring '25

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