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Vishal Rao

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


About Me

Vishal Rao is a third-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Georgia Tech, advised by Prof. Ada Gavrilovska. He is broadly interested in distributed systems with a focus on systems for emerging memory technologies and high-performance computing. His current work explores the use of memory disaggregation and near-data processing for datacenter workloads (HPDC ‘25). Prior to pursuing his Ph.D., he worked at the GeForce Now team at Nvidia and the Server Performance Group at AMD.

News

  1. [Aug. 2025] Passed the systems qualifier exam at GaTech!

  2. [Jul. 2025] Presented Grudon at SAL Tech Series at Hewlett Packard Labs.

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

  4. [Sep. 2024] Our work on Graph Analytics on disaggregated NDP platforms is accepted to the RESDIS Workshop at Supercomputing '24!

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 (RESDIS), 2024.

Service/Teaching

Artifact Evaluation Committees

  1. OSDI 2024, 2025
  2. SOSP 2025

Teaching Assistantships

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

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