Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi

Assistant Professor (starting in Fall 2020)
Department of Computer Science
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
University of California, Irvine

Email: sangeetha.aj@uci.edu

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I will be starting as an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department at the University of California, Irvine in Fall 2020. My research interests lie at the intersection of computer systems, networking, and machine learning. I am currently spending a year at VMware Research as a postdoctoral researcher. Prior to this, I completed my Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2019 where I was advised by Brighten Godfrey. During my Ph.D., I have also spent time at Google and Microsoft Research as an intern.

My current focus revolves around (a) building efficient systems for machine learning and (b) using learning techniques for building more efficient systems.

I am recruiting students at UC Irvine. Please drop me an email and apply here if you are interested in working with me.

Publications

Refereed Publications

  • [SysML'19] TicTac: Accelerating Distributed Deep Learning with Communication Scheduling [PDF]
    Sayed Hadi Hashemi*, Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi*, Roy H. Campbell
    (* = co-primary authors)
    The Conference on Systems and Machine Learning (SysML), 2019
  • [NSDI'19] Is Advance Knowledge of Flow Sizes a Plausible Assumption? [PDF]
    Vojislav Dukic, Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, Bojan Karlas, Muhsen Owaida, Ce Zhang, Ankit Singla
    The 16th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, 2019
  • [SysML'18] On The Importance of Execution Ordering in Graph-Based Distributed Machine Learning Systems [PDF]
    Sayed Hadi Hashemi, Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, Roy H. Campbell
    Conference on Systems and Machine Learning (SysML), 2018     (Extended Abstract)
  • [OSDI'16] Morpheus: Towards Automated SLOs for Enterprise Clusters [PDF] Open-source code on Hadoop: Reservation module [1] Resource Estimator [2]
    Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, Carlo Curino, Ishai Menache, Shravan Matthur Narayanamurthy, Jonathan Yaniv, Alexey Tumanov, Ruslan Mavlyutov, Inigo Goiri, Subru Krishnan, Janardhan Kulkarni, Sriram Rao
    12th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
  • [SC'16] Measuring and Understanding Throughput of Network Topologies [PDF] [TechReport] [Code]
    Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, Ankit Singla, P. Brighten Godfrey and Alexandra Kolla.
    SC, ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, 2016
  • [SOSR'15] Towards a Flexible Data Center Fabric with Source Routing [PDF]
    Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, Mo Dong, P. Brighten Godfrey
    ACM Symposium on SDN Research 2015
  • [SIGMETRICS '14] Measuring Throughput of Data Center Network Topologies [PDF]
    Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, Ankit Singla, P. Brighten Godfrey and Alexandra Kolla.
    2014 ACM international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems (Short paper)
  • Towards a secure and verifiable future Internet
    Limin Jia, Chen Chen, Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, W. Zhou, Suyog Mapara and Boon Thau Loo
    Off the Beaten Track: Underrepresented Problems for Programming Language Researchers Workshop co-located with POPL, 2012.


    • Technical Reports

  • cISP: A Speed-of-Light Internet Service Provider [PDF]
    Debopam Bhattacherjee, Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, Ilker Nadi Bozkurt, Muhammad Tirmazi, Waqar Aqeel, Anthony Aguirre, Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, P. Brighten Godfrey, Gregory P. Laughlin, Bruce M. Maggs, Ankit Singla
  • Expander Datacenters: From Theory to Practice [PDF]
    Vipul Harsh, Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, Inderdeep Singh, Brighten Godfrey

    • Thesis

  • Network Flow Optimization for Distributed Clouds
    Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Illinois, Urbana, Champaign, Aug 2019.
  • Analysis of Path Diversity in the Internet
    Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi
    Master's thesis, University of Pennsylvania, Aug 2012.

    • Education


    Ph.D. Candidate   (Aug 2013 - Aug 2019)
    Computer Science
    University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

    Master of Science in Engineering   (Sep 2010 - Aug 2012)
    Telecommunications and Networking
    University of Pennsylvania

    Bachelor of Technology   (Jul 2006 - May 2010)
    Electronics and Communication Engineering
    National Institute of Technology, Calicut, Kerala, India

    Experience


    Industry
    Postdoctoral Researcher, VMware Research (Sep 2019 - Present)
    Research Collaborator, Microsoft (Oct 2015 - May 2016)
    Research Intern, Microsoft Research (May 2015 - Aug 2015)
    Software Engineering Intern, Google (May 2014 - Aug 2014)

    Teaching
    Teaching Assistant
    University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
      CS 538: Advanced Computer Networks (Spring 2018)

    University of Pennsylvania
      TCOM 504: Telecommunications lab (Spring 2012)
      TCOM 502: Advanced Networking Protocols (Spring 2012)
      TCOM 500: Introduction to Networks and Protocols (Fall 2011)

    Mentoring
    Graduate
      Vipul Harsh, MS UIUC → Ph.D. UIUC (Jan 2017 - Aug 2019)
      Vojislav Dukic, Ph.D. student, ETH Zurich (Oct 2016 - Jul 2018)

    Undergraduate
      Ruiyang Chen, BS UIUC → MS UIUC (May 2018 - Present)
      Bryant Hong Zhao, BS UIUC (May 2018 - Aug 2018)
      Shekar Brahma, BS UIUC → MS UIUC (Jun 2016 - May 2017)

    Service

    Program Committee
      ATC 2020

    Reviewer
      Transactions on Computer Systems 2019
      IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 2015, 2017, 2018
      External Reviewer: European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par) 2016

    Honors and Awards


  • Invited to attend the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, 2019
  • Invited to attend the Rising Stars in EECS workshop at MIT, 2018.
  • Facebook Ph.D. Fellowship, 2017-2019 (One of 13 students selected worldwide)
  • Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship (awarded by UIUC College of Engineering), 2017-2018
  • Invited to Facebook's Women in Research event, 2017
  • Grad Cohort Workshop CRA Women's Scholarship, 2016
  • Gold Medal for first rank in Bachelor of Technology, National Institute of Technology, Calicut, Oct 2010
  • NTSE scholarship from National Council of Educational Research and Training, India(NCERT), 2004-2010. (One of 1000 students selected nationwide)
  • DMS scholarship for higher studies from Government of Kerala, India for academic excellence, 2004-2010