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Akshitha Sriraman

Akshitha Sriraman

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Address 5000 Forbes Avenue
CIC 4122
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Bio

Akshitha Sriraman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests are in the area of bridging computer architecture and systems software, with a focus on making hyperscale data centers more efficient (via solutions that span the systems stack). The central theme of her work is to design software that is aware of new hardware constraints/possibilities and architect hardware that efficiently supports new hyperscale software requirements. 

Sriraman's systems solutions to improve hardware efficiency have been deployed in real hyperscale data centers and currently serve billions of users, saving millions of dollars and meaningfully reducing the global carbon footprint. Additionally, her hardware design proposals influenced the design of Intel’s Alder Lake (Golden Cove and beyond) CPU architectures and Intel’s Infrastructure Processing Unit.

Sriraman's research has been recognized with an IEEE Micro Top Picks distinction and the 2021 David J. Kuck Dissertation Prize. She was awarded a Facebook Fellowship, a Rackham Merit Ph.D. Fellowship, and a CIS Full-Tuition Scholarship. She was also named a 2019 Rising Star in EECS. Sriraman completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan and her M.S. in Embedded Systems at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Education

Ph.D., 2021
Computer Science
University of Michigan

M.S., 2015
Embedded Systems
University of Pennsylvania

Research

  • Computer systems
  • Computer architecture
  • Hardware-software co-design
  • Data center computing
  • Parallel computing
  • Microservices and Serverless

Related News

Monday, August 04, 2025

Enabling Sustainable Cloud Computing with Low-Carbon Server Design

Sriraman has received the IEEE Micro Top Pick Award for research that designs cloud servers that lower global carbon emissions to combat climate change.
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Chen and Sriraman Receive Inaugural Google Award

The Google Machine Learning and Systems Junior Faculty Award recognizes professors who are leading the analysis, design, and implementation of efficient, scalable, secure, and trustworthy computing systems.
Monday, May 13, 2024

Designing Cloud Servers for Lower Carbon Emissions

A team of researchers from CMU identified a new design approach for compute server Stock Keeping Units, which enable a cloud to significantly reduce carbon emissions while meeting its performance goals.
Wednesday, January 17, 2024

2024 NSF CAREER Awards

The National Science Foundation has awarded ECE Assistant Professors Giulia Fanti, Guannan Qu, and Akshitha Sriraman the NSF CAREER Award.
Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Sriraman Receives Intel’s 2023 Rising Star Award

The Intel Rising Star Faculty Award program selects early-career academic researchers who are leading the advancements in technology research that demonstrate the potential to disrupt the industry.
Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Reimagining Datacenters

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon are rethinking datacenter architecture, improving their cost- and energy-efficiency, sustainability, and equity.
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Sriraman Featured as Meta's Academic of the Month

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.