Soudeh Ghorbani

About

Soudeh Ghorbani is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and concurrently an Associate Professor at Rutgers University, where she directs the RAIN Lab (Rutgers AI Networking). Her research focuses on the intersection of AI and large-scale networked systems — both building the networks that power distributed AI and using AI to manage those networks intelligently. This work spans AI Datacenters (network architecture, congestion, and collective communication) and AI for Datacenters (multi-agent LLMs for autonomous infrastructure management). Her systems and tools have been deployed in some of the largest production networks in the world, shaping how modern AI infrastructure is built and operated. More about her research and the RAIN Lab is available at soudeh.net.

Her work appears regularly at top venues such as SIGCOMM, NSDI, and IMC, and has been recognized with Best Paper Awards (ACM IMC 2025 and ACM HotSDN 2014), an NSF CAREER Award, and faculty research awards from Meta and Intel. Previously, she was a scientist at Meta. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, her M.Sc. from the University of Toronto, and her B.Sc. from Sharif University of Technology. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Meta, Intel, Microsoft, HPE, Google, and VMware.