Assistant prof @gatech_scs | Co-founder @ Plix | EE PhD @Stanford

Atlanta, Georgia
Joined August 2021
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Production traces of agentic LLM workloads & deployment from Ant Group are out! Trajectory metrics across OpenClaw-style harness, tool sandbox env, frontier-LLM engine — commercial platform. Part of ARIES, open framework for agentic system research: github.com/hyscale-lab/ARIES…
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The first of two SoCC submission deadlines is coming up soon! First abstract deadline: February 6, 2026 First submission deadline: February 13, 2026 Submission site: socc26.hotcrp.com/ Call for papers: acmsocc.org/2026/papers.html
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The call for papers for SoCC'26 (to be held in Singapore) is now out! acmsocc.org/2026/papers.html !! Important upcoming dates (AOE timezone) !! First round abstract deadline: February 6, 2026 First round submission deadline: February 13, 2026
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Texas ECE assistant professor Neeraja Yadwadkar (@neerajaJY) has been selected to receive an inaugural 2025 Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award in recognition of the significance and promise of her work in Cloud ML Systems.
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La emoción del relator boliviano porque desde 1994 nunca han estado tan cerca de ir a un mundial; Bolivia, qué hermoso es el fútbol.
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My group, UT-SysML (ut-sysml.ece.utexas.edu/), will be hiring new students this fall! Do apply, mention my name in your applications, and finally, don't forget to send me an email after you submit your application! 📢📢📢📢 @UT_SysML
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Congrats @qianl_cs on being selected as @svbizjournal 40 Under 40 honoree 🥂
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Arc, our bi-annual open call for pre-seed and seed stage founders, closes Sunday, August 17th at 11:59 pm PT. If you’re an early-stage founder with the ambition to build the next generational company, apply now: sequoiacap.com/arc/
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$4 million secured. 💰 A team from Georgia Tech just won a massive cash prize for creating an AI system that identifies and fixes cybersecurity issues before you even know they exist. @DARPA's AI Cyber Challenge was designed to bring together experts in AI and cybersecurity to protect software Americans rely on. 🦾🐝#WeCanDoThat #AIxCC
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This morning, ICE agents came to Dodger Stadium and requested permission to access the parking lots. They were denied entry to the grounds by the organization. Tonight’s game will be played as scheduled.
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Today, I’m thrilled to finally share what we’ve been building at @traversal_ai and announce our launch out of stealth—backed by $48M in seed & Series A funding led by @sequoia and @kleinerperkins, with NFDG, @hanabicapital, and an incredible group of angels. Traversal is tackling one of tech’s most stubborn problems: when production software systems go down, why is it still so hard—even with all our dashboards and data—to find the root cause, fast? For my co-founders Raj Agrawal, Raaz Dwivedi, Ahmed Lone, and me, this is a deeply personal problem: we've seen how hard this problem is to solve, but also why it’s the perfect problem for us to solve together. Traversal is building the AI Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for the enterprise: the only AI agent that can autonomously troubleshoot, remediate, and even prevent complex production incidents. Our architecture pushes the frontier of AI agents and combines it with our research in causal machine learning to pinpoint the true root cause—not just symptoms—in real-time. At 99.9% uptime, you get less than 44 minutes of downtime per month. Our agent is engineered to operate within that margin—scaling with your infrastructure to keep you well below the line, learning from your systems, telemetry, and incidents to improve continuously. And it’s already working: @digitalocean, @eventbrite, @Cloudways, and more in the Fortune 100 trust Traversal as their first line of defense, with >90% accuracy on hundreds of high-impact incidents—freeing engineers from endless “dashboard dumpster diving.” Huge thanks to our exceptional investors — @BogieBalkansky, @charliecurnin, @mamoonha, @anaganath, @natfriedman, @pdhsu, @BryanOffutt, Ishani Thakur and @mavolpi — and our early customers for believing in us. We’re also delighted to have shared our news exclusively with @agarfinks at @FortuneMagazine 👇 fortune.com/2025/06/18/trave… At Traversal, our roots remain deeply embedded in AI research, and we’re channeling that scientific rigor and creativity into building the premier AI agent lab for the enterprise. Hence, what we’re proudest of is assembling the most talented yet nicest group of individuals at Traversal to take on one of the hardest problems for AI to solve. If you’re passionate about redefining software reliability and pushing the limits of AI, we’re hiring. Apply here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/tra….
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AI writes your code. Now it talks to your users. We raised $27M from @Sequoia to build @ListenLabs. Listen runs thousands of interviews to uncover what users want, why they churn, and what makes them convert. See how @Microsoft and @canva use it:
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At #EuroSys25, Prof. Dr. Ana Klimovic received the Jochen Liedtke Young Researcher Award.
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The @DeptofDefense story on Jackie Robinson has been restored to its original URL. No longer does it redirect to one with the letters "dei" in it: defense.gov/News/Feature-Sto…
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This used to be the URL for a story on the @DeptofDefense website about Jackie Robinson's time in the Army. The story has been removed. The ghouls who did this should be ashamed. Jackie Robinson was the embodiment of an American hero. Fix this now. defense.gov/News/Feature-Sto…
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Francisco Romero Llamas retweeted
LLM engineers often manage training data with ad hoc scripts and filesystem directory structures, which is tedious and prone to errors. We are releasing Mixtera, a lightweight, declarative data plane for dynamically selecting and mixing data of different modalities on the fly.
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Considered submitting your serverless cloud and AI systems work to SESAME’25 but had no time? You are in luck: we extend the deadline to Jan 28th sesame25.github.io/ See you soon @ASPLOSConf @EuroSysConf Please repost
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Don't miss out on the 3rd ML and Systems Rising Stars program!! Applications for ML and Systems Rising Stars is due Jan 31. This year the workshop will be May 8-9 (the week before @MLSysConf ) at Meta in the Bay Area!!
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Our recent @TheOfficialACM SOSP papers on accelerating LLM inference are featured on @gtcomputing news: cc.gatech.edu/news/new-resea…! Interested to work on similar systems? @gatech_scs PhD application deadline is tomorrow (Dec 15): scs.gatech.edu/phd-programs #academia #AcademicTwitter
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