Anirudh Sivaraman

Assistant Professor of Computer Science
60 5th Avenue, Room 408, New York, NY 10011
anirudh@cs.nyu.edu

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

Muhammad Haseeb (PhD)
Jessica Berg (PhD)
Xiangyu Gao (co-advised with Srinivas Narayana) (PhD)
Tao Wang (co-advised with Aurojit Panda) (PhD)
Fabian Ruffy (PhD)
Nicholas Yang (Undergrad)
Khanh Nguyen (Undergrad)

Former students

Michael Dean Wong (Spring 2019 - Spring 2021) (undergrad), now in the CS PhD program at Princeton
Aatish Varma (Fall 2018 - Spring 2020) (undergrad), now a software engineer at Fidelity Investments
Jiayang Wang (Fall 2018 - Fall 2019) (undergrad), now a software engineer at Oracle and in the EE MS program at Stanford
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-UA.0480-062: Computer Networks, Fall 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017
CSCI-GA.2620-001: Networks and Mobile Systems, Spring 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018
Undergrad networks draft lecture notes

Publications

Preprints
- Nezha: Deployable and High-Performance Consensus Using Synchronized Clocks
  Jinkun Geng, Anirudh Sivaraman, Balaji Prabhakar, and Mendel Rosenblum
- Learned Autoscaling for Cloud Microservices with Multi-Armed Bandits
  Vighnesh Sachidananda and Anirudh Sivaraman
2022
- Revelio: ML-Generated Debugging Queries for Finding Root Causes in Distributed Systems
  Pradeep Dogga, Karthik Narasimhan, Anirudh Sivaraman, Shiv Saini, George Varghese, and Ravi Netravali
  MLSys 2022
- Isolation mechanisms for high-speed packet-processing pipelines
  Tao Wang, Xiangrui Yang, Gianni Antichi, Anirudh Sivaraman, and Aurojit Panda
  NSDI 2022
- NetVRM: Virtual Register Memory for Programmable Networks
  Hang Zhu, Tao Wang, Yi Hong, Dan Ports, Anirudh Sivaraman, and Xin Jin
  NSDI 2022
2021
- Snicket: Query-Driven Distributed Tracing
  Jessica Berg, Fabian Ruffy, Khanh Nguygen, Nicholas Yang, Taegyun Kim, Anirudh Sivaraman, Ravi Netravali, and Srinivas Narayana
  HotNets 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

Amazon Research Award 2021
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