PhD student @CSDatCMU. Studying the Internet, a series of tubes. She/they. An alphabet soup of marginalization.

Joined October 2017
Some actionable unsolicited advice for first-year PhD students: 1- when you are confused or lost, SAY IT OUT LOUD. You are very smart. If something is confusing it is not a sign of weakness to point it out so that it can be explained better. Alot of research communication is bad.
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My PhD advisor taught me *a lot*. I wrote down a few of the lessons to pass them on to my own PhD students. web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/l…
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TIL what Airplay is and that I can Airplay my MacBook to my Roku. I've had this Roku and MacBook since 2015. Why am a whole computer scientist and know nothing about the latest technology???? 😭😭😭
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I am now at the point in graduate school where I enjoy reading the method sections of papers. Please clap.
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Hypergiants #Google, #Facebook and #Netflix have invested heavily in deploying servers deep inside other networks over the past seven years. @GigisPetros and fellow researchers investigate: blog.apnic.net/2021/12/20/se… #CDNs #TLS #measurement
As @ACMSIGCOMM IMC'22 PC chairs, @DotTheophilus and I would like to invite a diverse program committee. To that end, we encourage (self-)nominations for Internet measurement experts to serve on the PC, via this form: forms.gle/DL7QhaKhUax8ccHG7 Apply by Dec. 20 for full consideration
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The internet wouldn’t exist without the talents of disabled people. Vint Cerf is a VP at Google & one of the Fathers of the Internet. He’s also deaf. I showed him my braille tech when we met in 2019, & this year we shared a stage. @vgcerf thanks for advocating for accessibility!
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Dr vs Ms debate is outdated now. The most appropriate salutation has been identified. Best r̶e̶g̶a̶r̶d̶s̶ simultaneous multithreading, Processor 😂
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I'm hiring multiple PhD students for Fall'22 at CMU. My research bridges computer architecture & systems software to enable datacenter computing. If you're interested in related topics, come work with me! RTs appreciated! More info: akshithasriraman.com ece.cmu.edu/admissions/index…
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Replying to @ACMSIGCOMM
@ACMSIGCOMM 2022 Call for Papers is posted. Abstracts due Jan 26, papers Feb 2. New this year: early notification for papers not selected for the second round of reviews. I'm looking forward to co-chairing with Bruce Maggs. Send us your best work! conferences.sigcomm.org/sigc…
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Writing a statement of purpose (SOP) for PhD admissions – please do not make me read another “as a kid, when I looked at the sky…” a thread.
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Is it harder to get long or short papers into IMC? Anecdotal knowledge for long, now @MatthewLuckie shared data: it is harder to get short papers accepted to IMC than long papers. Recently, the number of short paper submission is thus declining / long increasing. @ACM_IMC2021
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My student Adithya Abraham Philip is presenting *now* at IMC! Philip's work looks at how congestion control algorithms (CCAs) behave at the scale of the core of the Internet. youtube.com/watch?v=Z6qzMExz…
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Hey Tweeps: one of my PhD students had emergency surgery Monday to remove a large brain tumor. Another of my students organized a GFM to help support him, his wife, and their baby as he recovers. If you're willing and able, every little bit helps: gofund.me/d922f9f9
Super thankful for the award and all my collaborators on this paper. For those attending @sosp2021, come see our presentation and ask me questions during the flash session at tomorrow!
"Kangaroo: Caching Billions of Tiny Objects on Flash" receives a #SOSP21 best paper award!! 🏆🏆🏆 Congratulations to Sara McAllister, Benjamin Berg, Julian Tutuncu-Macias, Juncheng Yang, Sathya Gunasekar, Jimmy Lu, Daniel Berger, Nathan Beckmann, and Gregory R. Ganger.
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Are you a student from underrepresented groups and applying for graduate school in CS this year? Check out many wonderful (student-led) pre-application programs for supporting PhD applicants!
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This is my best friend here in Pittsburgh, a PhD student @ Pitt. Everything helps, please share!
Hi all, this past weekend I was the victim of a home fire and lost my home and all of my belongings. Pls share my story to help us get back on our feet. Anything helps! Thank you ❤️ gofund.me/3fc4b787
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