About Me
I was born and brought up at Nagpur, a city in Maharashtra, India. I have a Bachelor in Computer Science from BITS, Pilani, India. After BE, I completed Masters in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon Univerty, Pittsburgh, USA and PhD in Computer Science at College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. I am now a research scientist in the Systems Architecture Lab of Intel Labs. My research interests encompass systems in general with particular inclination towards virtualization, embedded and real time systems as well as distributed systems. I am currently working on graph based storage and applications on non volatile memory systems. I love to work on systems which impose stringent requirements in terms of software design and coding and call for innovative solutions. It is this love and extreme fascination for challenges that has drawn me into this constantly evolving world of research!
Apart from chatting, making lots of friends and spending time with them, I like to try out a guitar occassionally and want to invest in a piano at some point. My current residence is in Portland with my husband and our little sweetheart. We enjoy exploring the many worthy dessert and coffee shops that the city has to offer, hiking, traveling and we hope to fly small aircrafts some day.
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- Curriculum Vitae
- Hybrid virtual machines and accelerator research
- Functional network simulator for IBM Cell processor and the new API
Employment History
- Research Scientist, Intel Labs, Hillsboro, USA, Sept 2011 - current
- Research Assistant, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA, Aug 2006 - Aug 2011
- Research Intern, Intel Labs, Hillsboro, USA, Summer 2009 and Summer 2010
- Research Intern, HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA, Summer 2008
- Research Intern, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, USA, Summer 2007
- Software Design Engineer/Test Intern, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, USA, Summer 2005
- Practice School II Intern, Reflexis Software Systems, Pune, India, Jan-June 2004
- Practice School I Intern, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, India, Summer 2002
Awards and Recognitions
- BITS 30 under 30, 2012
- Selected for Grace Hopper PhD Forum 2010
- Intel PhD Fellowship award for the academic year 2009-2010
- Verizon Fellowship for outstanding performance as an MSIN student at the Information Networking Institute, CMU
- CMU Merit Scholarship and BITS Merit Fellowship
- Awarded scholarships by Govt. of Maharashtra and Dhirubhai Ambani Foundation in tenth and twelth grades
Other Professional Activities
- General chair for VEE 2016
- Program Committee member for VEE 2015 and SYSTOR 2015
- Co-chair, Diversity workshop co-located with SOSP 2013
- Reviewed papers for conferences, journals and workshops - LCPC 2014, HiPC, PPAM, MGC, USENIX ATC 2012, IEEE TPDS 2012, Intel internal, JPDC 2012
- Student representative on the Faculty Recruitment Committee and the PhD Governance Committee 2010-2011
- Teaching assistant for 18-842 Distributed Systems, 18-342 Embedded Systems and 18-544 Network Design and Evaluation at Carnegie Mellon University
- Administrator for Georgia Tech's version of Emulab, Netlab for 2008-09, co-admin 2009-10
Patents
- "Automated Memory Book Creation", Steven Bennett, Scott Robinson, Vishakha Gupta. Patent #20130336543. Issue date 2014-12-30
- "Managing Virtualized Accelerators Using Admission Control, Load Balancing and Scheduling". Vishakha Gupta, Niraj Tolia, Vanish Talwar, Partha Ranganathan. Patent #20110010721. Issue data 2011-01-13
