Anirudh Sivaraman

I am an assistant professor at NYU's Computer Science Department. I am broadly interested in computer networks, and my current research work is in the area of programmable networks. Before coming to NYU, I received a Ph.D. from MIT in 2017, an S.M. from MIT in 2012, and a BTech from IIT Madras in 2010.

Students

• Jessica Berg (PhD)
• Xiangyu Gao (co-advised with Srinivas Narayana) (PhD)
• Tao Wang (PhD)
• Fabian Ruffy (PhD)

Former students

• Michael Dean Wong (Spring 2019 - Spring 2021) (undergrad)
• Aatish Varma (Fall 2018 - Spring 2020) (undergrad), now a software engineer at Fidelity Investments
• Vikas Natesh (Spring 2018 - Spring 2019) (masters), now in the CS PhD program at Harvard
• Salil Kapur (Spring 2018 - Fall 2018) (masters), now a software engineer at Apple
• Thomas Mason (Spring 2018 - Fall 2018) (masters), now at OccamSec LLC
• Pravein Govindan Kannan (summer 2018) (intern), now a research scientist at IBM Research, India
• Sai Anirudh Kondaveeti (Fall 2017 - Spring 2018) (masters), now a software engineer at Microsoft

Teaching

• CSCI-GA.2620-001: Networks and Mobile Systems, Spring 2021
  
• CSCI-UA.0480-062: Computer Networks, Fall 2020
  
• CSCI-GA.2620-001: Networks and Mobile Systems, Spring 2020
  
• CSCI-GA.2620-001: Networks and Mobile Systems, Spring 2019
  
• CSCI-UA.0480-009: Computer Networks, Fall 2018
  
• CSCI-GA.2620-001: Networks and Mobile Systems, Spring 2018
  
• CSCI-UA.0480-009: Computer Networks, Fall 2017
  
• Undergrad networks draft lecture notes
  

Publications

• Preprints
  
  
• 2021
  
  • Synthesizing safe and efficient kernel extensions for packet processing
    Qiongwen Xu, Michael D. Wong, Tanvi Wagle, Srinivas Narayana, and Anirudh Sivaraman
    SIGCOMM 2021
    
    
  • CloudEx: A Fair-Access Financial Exchange in the Cloud
    Ahmad Ghalayini, Jinkun Geng, Vighnesh Sachidananda, Vinay Sriram, Yilong Geng, Balaji Prabhakar, Mendel Rosenblum, and Anirudh Sivaraman
    HotOS 2021
    
    
  • The Case for Model-Driven Interpretability of Delay-Based Congestion Control Protocols
    Muhammad Khan, Yasir Zaki, Shiva Iyer, Talal Ahmad, Thomas Poetsch, Jay Chen, Anirudh Sivaraman, and Lakshmi Subramanian
    ACM SIGCOMM CCR, January 2021
    
    
  • Breaking the Transience-Equilibrium Nexus: A New Approach to Datacenter Packet Transport
    Shiyu Liu, Ahmad Ghalayini, Mohammad Alizadeh, Balaji Prabhakar, Mendel Rosenblum, and Anirudh Sivaraman
    NSDI 2021
    
  
  
• 2020
  
  • Testing Compilers for Programmable Switches Through Switch Hardware Simulation
    Michael D. Wong, Aatish Varma, and Anirudh Sivaraman
    CoNEXT 2020 (short paper)
    Source code
    
    
  • Gauntlet: Finding Bugs in Compilers for Programmable Packet Processing
    Fabian Ruffy, Tao Wang, and Anirudh Sivaraman
    OSDI 2020
    Source code
    
    
  • PANIC: A High-Performance Programmable NIC for Multi-tenant Networks
    Jiaxin Lin, Kiran Patel, Brent Stephens, Anirudh Sivaraman, and Aditya Akella
    OSDI 2020
    Source code
    
    
  • Switch Code Generation Using Program Synthesis
    Xiangyu Gao, Taegyun Kim, Michael Dean Wong, Divya Raghunathan, Aatish Kishan Varma, Pravein Govindan Kannan, Anirudh Sivaraman, Srinivas Narayana, and Aarti Gupta
    SIGCOMM 2020
    Source code
    
    
  • Multitenancy for Fast and Programmable Networks in the Cloud
    Tao Wang^*, Hang Zhu^*, Fabian Ruffy, Xin Jin, Anirudh Sivaraman, Dan Ports, and Aurojit Panda
    ^* Co-primary authors
    HotCloud '20
    
    
  • Network Architecture in the Age of Programmability
    Anirudh Sivaraman, Thomas Mason, Aurojit Panda, Ravi Netravali, and Sai Anirudh Kondaveeti
    ACM SIGCOMM CCR Editorial, January 2020
    
    
  • Programmable Calendar Queues for Packet Scheduling
    Naveen Kr. Sharma, Chenxingyu Zhao, Ming Liu, Pravein Govindan, Changhoon Kim, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Anirudh Sivaraman
    NSDI 2020
    
  
  
• 2019
  
  • NSF Workshop Report on Programmable Networks
    Anirudh Sivaraman, Xin Jin, Vladimir Braverman, and Mohammad Alizadeh
    NSF workshop on programmable networks (Oct 25 and 26, 2018, NYU)
    
    
  • Autogenerating Fast Packet-Processing Code Using Program Synthesis
    Xiangyu Gao, Taegyun Kim, Aatish Kishan Varma, Anirudh Sivaraman, and Srinivas Narayana
    HotNets 2019
    
    
  • A System-Wide Debugging Assistant Powered by Natural Language Processing
    Pradeep Dogga, Karthik Narasimhan, Anirudh Sivaraman, and Ravi Netravali
    SOCC 2019
    
    
  • Sluice: Network-Wide Data Plane Programming
    Vikas Natesh, Pravein Govindan Kannan, Anirudh Sivaraman, and Ravi Netravali
    SIGCOMM 2019 Demo Session
    
    
  • WatchTower: Fast, Secure Mobile Page Loads Using Remote Dependency Resolution
    Ravi Netravali, Anirudh Sivaraman, James Mickens, and Hari Balakrishnan
    MobiSys 2019
    
  
  
• 2017
  
  • Designing Fast and Programmable Routers
    MIT EECS Ph.D. Dissertation, September 2017
    2017 SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award
    
    
  • Language-Directed Hardware Design for Network Performance Monitoring
    Srinivas Narayana, Anirudh Sivaraman, Vikram Nathan, Prateesh Goyal, Venkat Arun, Mohammad Alizadeh, Vimalkumar Jeyakumar, and Changhoon Kim
    SIGCOMM 2017
    Best Paper Award
    
    
  • dRMT: Disaggregated Programmable Switching
    Sharad Chole, Andy Fingerhut, Sha Ma, Anirudh Sivaraman, Shay Vargaftik, Alon Berger, Gal Mendelson, Mohammad Alizadeh, Shang-Tse Chuang, Isaac Keslassy, Ariel Orda, and Tom Edsall
    SIGCOMM 2017
    Code
    Extended version
    SIGCOMM slides
    
    
  • Encoding, Fast and Slow: Low-Latency Video Processing Using Thousands of Tiny Threads
    Sadjad Fouladi, Riad S. Wahby, Brennan Shacklett, Karthikeyan Vasuki Balasubramaniam, William Zeng, Rahul Bhalerao, Anirudh Sivaraman, George Porter, and Keith Winstein
    NSDI 2017
  
  
• 2016
  
  • Hardware-Software Co-Design for Network Performance Measurement
    Srinivas Narayana, Anirudh Sivaraman, Vikram Nathan, Mohammad Alizadeh, David Walker, Jennifer Rexford, Vimalkumar Jeyakumar, and Changhoon Kim
    HotNets 2016
    
    
  • Programmable Packet Scheduling at Line Rate
    Anirudh Sivaraman, Suvinay Subramanian, Mohammad Alizadeh, Sharad Chole, Shang-Tse Chuang, Anurag Agrawal, Hari Balakrishnan, Tom Edsall, Sachin Katti, and Nick McKeown
    SIGCOMM 2016
    Web site
    Talk at Google
    
    
  • Packet Transactions: High-level Programming for Line-Rate Switches
    Anirudh Sivaraman, Alvin Cheung, Mihai Budiu, Changhoon Kim, Mohammad Alizadeh, Hari Balakrishnan, George Varghese, Nick McKeown, and Steve Licking
    SIGCOMM 2016
    Web site
    Talk at Google
    
    
  • Delphi: A Software Controller for Mobile Network Selection
    Shuo Deng, Anirudh Sivaraman, and Hari Balakrishnan
    MIT CSAIL Technical Report, 2016
    
    
  • HULA: Scalable Load Balancing Using Programmable Data Planes
    Naga Katta, Mukesh Hira, Changhoon Kim, Anirudh Sivaraman, and Jennifer Rexford
    SOSR 2016
    Code
    
  
  
• 2015
  
  • Designing a Context-Sensitive Context Detection Service for Mobile Devices
    Tiffany Yu-Han Chen, Anirudh Sivaraman, Somak Das, Lenin Ravindranath, and Hari Balakrishnan
    MIT CSAIL Technical Report, 2015
    
    
  • Towards Programmable Packet Scheduling
    Anirudh Sivaraman, Suvinay Subramanian, Anurag Agrawal, Sharad Chole, Shang-Tse Chuang, Tom Edsall, Mohammad Alizadeh, Sachin Katti, Nick McKeown, and Hari Balakrishnan
    HotNets 2015
    Talk at HotNets 2015
    Slides (pdf)
    Slides (pptx)
    
    
  • In-band Network Telemetry via Programmable Dataplanes
    Changhoon Kim, Anirudh Sivaraman, Naga Katta, Antonin Bas, Advait Dixit, and Lawrence J Wobker
    SIGCOMM 2015 Industrial Demo Session
    SOSR 2015 Demo Session
    Source code for In-band Network Telemetry
    
    
  • Mahimahi: Accurate Record-and-Replay for HTTP
    Ravi Netravali, Anirudh Sivaraman, Somak Das, Ameesh Goyal, Keith Winstein, James Mickens, and Hari Balakrishnan
    ATC 2015
    Ravi's talk at ATC 2015
    Mahimahi web site
    
    
  • DC.p4: Programming the Forwarding Plane of a Data-Center Switch
    Anirudh Sivaraman, Changhoon Kim, Ramkumar Krishnamoorthy, Advait Dixit, and Mihai Budiu
    SOSR 2015
    Talk at SOSR 2015
    Talk slides
    
  
  
• 2014
  
  • WiFi, LTE, or Both? Measuring Multi-homed Wireless Internet Performance
    Shuo Deng, Ravi Netravali, Anirudh Sivaraman, and Hari Balakrishnan
    IMC 2014
    
    
  • Mahimahi: A Lightweight Toolkit for Reproducible Web Measurement (demo)
    Ravi Netravali, Anirudh Sivaraman, Keith Winstein, Somak Das, Ameesh Goyal, and Hari Balakrishnan
    SIGCOMM 2014 demo session
    Mahimahi web site
    
    
  • Protocol Design Contests
    Anirudh Sivaraman, Keith Winstein, Pauline Varley, Joao Batalha, Ameesh Goyal, Somak Das, Joshua Ma, and Hari Balakrishnan
    ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, July 2014
    MIT News Article
    Supplementary material
    
    
  • An Experimental Study of the Learnability of Congestion Control
    Anirudh Sivaraman, Keith Winstein, Pratiksha Thaker, and Hari Balakrishnan
    SIGCOMM 2014
    Web site
    Slides
    Talk at Stanford NetSeminar
    
    
  • All Your Network Are Belong To Us: A Transport Framework for Mobile Network Selection
    Shuo Deng, Anirudh Sivaraman, and Hari Balakrishnan
    HotMobile 2014
    
  
  
• 2013
  
  • No Silver Bullet: Extending SDN to the Data Plane
    Anirudh Sivaraman, Keith Winstein, Suvinay Subramanian, and Hari Balakrishnan
    HotNets 2013
    Selected for the final round of the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
    Web site
    Slides
    
    
  • Stochastic Forecasts Achieve High Throughput and Low Delay over Cellular Networks
    Keith Winstein, Anirudh Sivaraman, and Hari Balakrishnan
    Slides and public summary
    Awarded the 2014 Applied Networking Research Prize
    NSDI 2013
    Keith's talk at NSDI 2015
    Sprout web site
    
  
  
• 2012
  
  • MobiTest: An evaluation infrastructure for mobile distributed applications
    MIT EECS SM. Thesis, September 2012
    
    
  • DIPLOMA: Consistent and Coherent Shared Memory over Mobile Phones
    Jason Gao, Anirudh Sivaraman, Niket Agarwal, HaoQi Li, and Li-Shiuan Peh
    ICCD 2012
    
    
  • Congestion Control for Interactive Real-Time Flows on Today's Internet
    Keith Winstein, Anirudh Sivaraman, and Hari Balakrishnan
    IAB / IRTF Workshop on Congestion Control for Interactive Real-Time Communication 2012
    
  
  
• 2011
  
  • A Realistic Framework for Delay-Tolerant Network Routing in Open Terrains with Continuous Churn
    Veeramani Mahendran, Sivaraman K. Anirudh, and C. Siva Ram Murthy
    ICDCN 2011
    
  
  
• 2009
  
  • Efficient Segmentation Technique for Poor Quality Frontal View Iris Images Using Fourier Spectral Density
    Niladri B. Puhan, N. Sudha, and Anirudh Sivaraman Kaushalram
    Signal, Image and Video Processing, Volume 5, Number 1, 105-119, Published online: 25 November 2009
    MATLAB Source code for Iris Segmentation using Daugman's Integrodifferential Operator

Awards

• SIGCOMM 2017 Doctoral Dissertation Award
  
  
• SIGCOMM 2017 Best Paper Award
  
  
• The Internet Research Task Force's 2014 Applied Networking Research Prize.
  
  
• MIT EECS' Frederick C. Hennie III Teaching Award, 2012