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 [dot] grot [at] ed [dot] ac [dot] uk>
Homepage: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/bgrot/

Current Postdocs

Xuan Sun

Postdoc. from 2024
Email: <xuan [dot] sun [at] ed [dot] ac [dot] 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

Shyam Jesalpura

Ph.D. from 2022
Email: <shyam [dot] jesalpura [at] ed [dot] ac [dot] 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 [dot] zhu [at] ed [dot] ac [dot] 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 [dot] dehigama [at] ed [dot] ac [dot] uk>
Homepage: https://dilina.life
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.

Alan Nair

Ph.D. from 2023
Email: <alan [dot] nair [at] ed [dot] ac [dot] 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 [dot] ac [dot] 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.

L Lakshmanan

Ph.D. from 2025
Email: <l [dot] lakshmanan [at] ed [dot] ac [dot] uk>
Homepage: https://karthikl1729.github.io
Research: Lakshmanan’s main research interest lies in microarchitecture. He currently works on analysing and improving hardware performance for realistic ML inference deployments on mobile devices.

Timothy Jackson

Ph.D. from 2026
Email: <timothy [dot] jackson [at] ed [dot] ac [dot] uk>
Homepage:
Research: Tim’s research interests lie in computer architecture and its intersection with emerging process technologies. Currently, he is working on exploring how advanced packaging technologies can enable new computer architectures for LLM inference.

Zeyu Xu

Ph.D. from 2026
Email: <zeyu [dot] xu [at] ed [dot] ac [dot] uk>
Homepage:
Research: Zeyu’s research interests lies in 3D-stacked Computer Architecture. Currently, he is designing memory-stacked GPU architectures targeting LLM inference workloads.


Former Members

Esra Nur Ayaz. MPhil 2026.

M.R. Siavash Katebzadeh. PhD 2022 (thesis). Postdoc: 2022 – 2026. First employment: Huawei Research

David Schall. PhD 2024 (thesis). First employment: Technical University of Munich (TUM)

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).