Team

We are always looking for talented people to join our lab. If you enjoy working on exciting problems at the cross-roads of architecture, systems, and big data, please read this!

Director

Boris Grot

Professor
Email: boris.grot@ed.ac.uk
Homepage: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/bgrot/

Current Postdocs

M.R. Siavash Katebzadeh

Postdoc. from 2017
Email: <m.r.katebzadeh [at] ed.ac.uk>
Homepage: http://mr.katebzadeh.xyz
Research: Siavash’s main research interests include computer networks and computer systems. Currently, he is working on optimizing Datacenter Networks (DCNs) with a focus on gaining high latency predictability.

Xuan Sun

Postdoc. from 2024
Email: <xuan.sun [at] ed.ac.uk>
Homepage:
Research: Xuan’s main research interests include cloud-based databases, in-storage computing, and FPGA acceleration. Currently, she is working on efficient memory management for cloud-native databases.

Current Students

David Schall

Ph.D. from 2020
Email: <D.H.Schall [at] sms.ed.ac.uk>
Homepage: https://dhschall.github.io/
Research: David’s research interests span across Computer Architecture and Systems with a particular interest in CPU microarchitecture. His current focus in on microarchitecture specialization for cloud computing.

Shyam Jesalpura

Ph.D. from 2022
Email: <firstname [dot] lastname [at] ed.ac.uk>
Homepage: https://shyam.jesalpura.org
Research: Shyam’s main research interests lie in Cloud based Computing systems. Currently, he is working on hybrid systems that combine the best of both serverless and traditional cloud computing.

Shengda Zhu

Ph.D. from 2022
Email: <shengda.zhu [at] ed.ac.uk>
Homepage:
Research: Shengda’s main research interests lie in Computer Systems and Cloud Computing. Currently, he is working on data analytics in the context of Serverless Computing.

Dilina Dehigama

Ph.D. from 2022
Email: <dilina.dehigama [at] ed.ac.uk>
Homepage:
Research: Dilina’s research centers on cloud computing and computer systems, with a particular focus on hybrid systems that integrate serverless computing with traditional cloud computing systems.

Esra Nur Ayaz

MPhil. from 2022
Email: <esra.ayaz [at] sms.ed.ac.uk>
Homepage:
Research: My research focuses on memory access latency. I approach it from two perspectives: Data prefetching which we predict the data location and value prediction which we predict the data itself. I am currently working on such techniques for serverless functions. I also find other speculative techniques like branch prediction interesting.

Alan Nair

Ph.D. from 2023
Email: <firstname [dot] lastname [at] ed.ac.uk>
Homepage:
Research: Alan’s main research interests lie in disaggregated memory with a current focus on CXL-attached memory for datacenter services.

Mária Ďuračková

Ph.D. from 2024
Email: <maria [dot] durackova [at] ed.ac.uk>
Homepage:
Research: Mária’s main research interests lie in computer architecture and CPU microarchitecture. Currently, she is exploring branch prediction techniques to enhance processor performance.


Former Members

Amna Shahab. PhD 2024 (thesis). First employment: AMD Research

Dmitrii Ustiugov. PhD 2022 (thesis). First employment: Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore

Antonis Katsarakis. PhD 2021 (thesis). First employment: Huawei Research

Artemiy Margaritov. PhD 2021 (thesis). First employment: Huawei Research

Priyank Faldu. PhD: 2020 (thesis). First employment: ARM

Rakesh Kumar. Postdoc: Jan 2015 – Jun 2017 (co-supervised with Dr. Vijay Nagarajan).

Kuntai Du, Intern (Peking University)

Pramod Chunduri, Intern (IIT-Kanpur)

Siddharth Gupta, Intern (BITS-Pilani)