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I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology, advised by Prof. Ada Gavrilovska.
I work on memory disaggregation, vector databases, and systems for AI and emerging hardware. My current work explores memory disaggregation and near-data processing for datacenter workloads.
Earlier, I was on the GeForce Now team at Nvidia and in the Server Performance Group at AMD.

News

Started as an AI/HPC Systems Research Intern at SoLab, SK Hynix America. Sep. 2026
Passed the systems qualifier exam at GaTech! Aug. 2025
Presented Grudon at the SAL Tech Talk Series at Hewlett Packard Labs. Jul. 2025
Joined the Systems Architecture Lab at HPE Labs as a Research Associate Intern. May 2025
Grudon is accepted to HPDC 2025! Apr. 2025
Our work on Graph Analytics on disaggregated NDP platforms is accepted to the RESDIS Workshop at Supercomputing '24! Sep. 2024

Publications

HPDC 2025
Grudon: A System for Deploying Graph Workloads on Disaggregated Architectures with Near-Data Processing
Vishal Rao, Nikhil Ram Shashidhar, Suyeon Lee, Ada Gavrilovska
RESDIS 2024
Towards Disaggregated NDP Architectures for Large-scale Graph Analytics
Suyeon Lee*, Vishal Rao*, Ada Gavrilovska
*equal contribution
JSSPP 2021
Scheduling microservice containers on large core machines through placement and coalescing
Vishal Rao, Vishnu Singh, KS Goutham, Bharani Ujjaini Kempaiah, Ruben John Mampilli, Subramaniam Kalambur, Dinkar Sitaram

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