Srikanth Kandula
Senior Principal Researcher
About
I am a partner researcher in the Networking group at Microsoft Research, Redmond. My interests are broadly in building and analyzing networked systems. I completed my PhD in Computer Science from MIT (opens in new tab)in 2008.
News:
- 9/23: Securing Public Clouds using Dynamic Communication Graphs; at HotNets; with the ZTN team.
- 9/23: Enhancing Network Management Using Code Generated by LLMs; at HotNets; with Lesley and the ZTN team; recognized as a HuggingFace Daily Paper (opens in new tab).
- 9/23: Anticipatory Resource Allocation for ML Training Clusters; at SoCC; with Tapan Chugh, Arvind, Ratul and Ishai.
- 8/23: NetVigil: Robust and Low-Cost Anomaly Detection for East-West Data Center Security; at NSDI; with Kevin and the ZTN team.
- 8/23: Solving Max-Min Fair Resource Allocations Quickly on Large Graphs; at NSDI; with Pooria, Behnaz, Santi, the SWAN team in Azure and others.
- 4/23: Disaggregating Stateful Network Functions; (opens in new tab) at NSDI; with the Sirius team in Azure and AMD Pensando; talk (opens in new tab); now in public preview (opens in new tab).
- 4/23: Rethinking (Predictive) Traffic Engineering (opens in new tab); at NSDI; with Yarin, Michael, Aviv and Ishai (‘best paper‘)
- 4/23: Unifying a Split Wide-Area Network Architecture with OneWAN (opens in new tab); at NSDI; with the SWAN team in Azure; in GA at Azure.
- 11/22: Minding the gap between fast heuristics and their optimal counterparts (opens in new tab); at HotNets; with Behnaz, Ryan, Santi and Pooria.
- 03/22: Handling workload and data drift in learned cardinality estimation models (opens in new tab) using, in part, query GANs; at SIGMOD; kudos to Beibin (opens in new tab) and Yao (opens in new tab).
- 10/21: Pre-training summarization models for structured datasets (opens in new tab) at VLDB; kudos to Yao and team.
- 10/21: A simple problem-agnostic parallelization method for granular optimization problems (opens in new tab) at SOSP; kudos to Deepak, Firas, Fiodar and team.
Current project: SWAN (opens in new tab), Lazy approximations (opens in new tab), Cluster scheduling (opens in new tab)
Past projects: Seawall (opens in new tab), Flyways (opens in new tab), CloudCmp (opens in new tab), Netmedic (opens in new tab), Broom, EXpose (opens in new tab), VL2 (opens in new tab), FatVAP (opens in new tab), Sherlock (opens in new tab), TeXCP (opens in new tab), Flare (opens in new tab), Kill-Bots (opens in new tab)