Akshitha Sriraman
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Akshitha Sriraman is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Her research bridges computer architecture and software systems, with a focus on making hyperscale data centers more efficient, sustainable and equitable.
Sriraman's system solutions to improve hardware efficiency have been deployed in real hyperscale data centers. Currently, they serve billions of users, saving billions of dollars and meaningfully reducing the global carbon footprint. Her hardware design proposals have influenced the design of Intel's Alder Lake CPU architectures and Intel's Infrastructure Processing Unit.
Sriraman's research has been recognized with several awards, including the 2022 ACM SIGARCH/IEEE TCCA Outstanding Dissertation Award Honorable Mention, the 2022 ACM SIGOPS Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention, the 2021 David J. Kuck Dissertation Prize, the 2021 ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award, a Meta Systems Research Award, and an IEEE Micro Top Picks distinction. She was also awarded a Facebook Fellowship and named a Rising Star in EECS.
Fixing Inequity in Existing Web Systems
Making Web Systems More Equitable for the World
Education
2021 University of Michigan, Computer Science
2015 University of Pennsylvania, Embedded Systems
Research Interests
- access control and authorization
- cloud security
- computer architecture
- computer systems
- data center computing
- emerging applications security
- hardware-software co-design
- microservices and serverless
- parallel computing
- privacy policy and regulation
- security and privacy economics
- security education, awareness, and training
- security policy and regulation
- social networks security and privacy
Media mentions
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
2024 NSF CAREER Awards
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded CyLab faculty members and Electrical and Computer Engineering Assistant Professors Giulia Fanti, Guannan Qu, and Akshitha Sriraman the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, a prestigious five-year grant given to junior faculty for research and education.
CMU Engineering
2024 NSF CAREER Awards
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Giulia Fanti, Guannan Qu, and Akshitha Sriraman, all assistant professors of electrical and computer engineering, the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
Sriraman and Sharif receive Intel’s 2023 Rising Star Faculty Award
ECE Assistant Professor Akshitha Sriraman and CMU Alumnus and Senior Lecturer at Tel Aviv University Mahmood Sharif have received Intel's 2023 Rising Star Faculty Award for their novel work in electrical and computer engineering.
the Accelerator
2023 Moonshot: Communication and Compute for All
The College of Engineering's 2023 Moonshot aims to provide internet connection to underprivileged communities around the world, allowing affordable communication and computer infrastructure to be accessible to all.
CMU Engineering
Reimagining datacenters
Akshitha Sriraman is rethinking datacenter computing across hardware and software systems to enable efficient, sustainable, and equitable large-scale web systems.
Meta Research
Sriraman featured as Meta’s Academic of the Month
ECE’s Akshitha Sriraman is featured on the Meta Research blog this October as the Academic of the Month. In the monthly interview series, Meta features members of the academic community and the important research they do as thought partners, collaborators, and independent contributors.