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Saksham Agarwal

259 Coordinated Science Laboratory 1308 W Main Street, Urbana, IL
saksham (at) illinois.edu


About me

I’m an Assistant Professor in the departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Computer Science at UIUC.

My research interests broadly lie at the intersection of networking, systems and hardware.

I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University. Prior to this, I was an undergrad at IIT Kanpur.

Prospective students: Please send me an email with a CV if you’re interested in working with me.

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Recent Publications [Google Scholar]

  1. SIGCOMM '24
    Understanding the Host Network
    Midhul Vuppulapati, Saksham Agarwal, Henry Schuh, Baris Kasikci, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Rachit Agarwal
    SIGCOMM 2024.
    PDF

  2. NSDI '24
    Harmony: A Congestion-free Datacenter Architecture
    Saksham Agarwal, Qizhe Cai, Rachit Agarwal, David Shmoys, Amin Vahdat
    NSDI 2024.
    PDF

  3. SIGCOMM '23
    Host Congestion Control
    Saksham Agarwal, Arvind Krishnamurthy and Rachit Agarwal
    SIGCOMM 2023.
    PDF Code Project Page

  4. HOTNETS '22
    Understanding Host Interconnect Congestion
    Saksham Agarwal, Rachit Agarwal, Behnam Montazeri, Masoud Moshref, Khaled Elmeleegy, Luigi Rizzo, Marc Asher de Kruijf, Gautam Kumar, Sylvia Ratnasamy, David Culler and Amin Vahdat
    HOTNETS 2022.
    PDF Talk Slides

  5. NSDI '21
    CodedBulk: Inter-Datacenter Bulk Transfers using Network Coding.
    Shih-Hao Tseng, Saksham Agarwal, Rachit Agarwal, Hitesh Ballani and Ao Tang
    NSDI 2021.
    PDF Code Talk Slides

  6. SIGCOMM '18
    Sincronia: Near-optimal Network Design for Coflows
    Best Student Paper Award
    Saksham Agarwal, Shijin Rajakrishnan, Akshay Narayan, Rachit Agarwal, David Shmoys and Amin Vahdat
    SIGCOMM 2018.
    PDF Code Talk Slides

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