Sriraman Earned IEEE CS TCCA Young Computer Architect Award

Akshitha Sriraman, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has received the 2026 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) CS Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA) Young Computer Architect Award in recognition of her contributions to the design and management of efficient and sustainable cloud datacenters.

Sriraman accepted the award at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), the flagship computer architecture conference, held June 27 - July 1, 2026, in Raleigh, North Carolina.

“Any recognition I receive stands on the shoulders of my brilliant PhD students who made this work possible: Mihailo Rancic, Jaylen Wang, Sara Mahdizadeh Shahri, Veronica Muriga, Deepanjali Mishra, and Abnash Bassi,” says Sriraman.

Sriraman's research bridges computer architecture and systems software, with a focus on enabling sustainable and impartial hyperscale datacenters. Her work centers on designing software that leverages emerging hardware capabilities while developing hardware architectures that better support the evolving demands of hyperscale computing.

Her systems solutions have been deployed in production hyperscale datacenters, where they serve billions of users, save millions of dollars in operating costs, and reduce carbon emissions equivalent to those emitted by several countries. Her hardware design proposals have influenced the design of Intel’s Alder Lake+ CPU architectures, Intel’s Infrastructure Processing Unit, Mangoboost’s Data Processing Unit, Intel’s Data Streaming Accelerator, NVIDIA’s H100+ GPUs, and the ICC compiler.

Earlier this year, Sriraman was named the recipient of the 2026 Computing Research Association (CRA) Anita Borg Early Career Award, recognizing her continued leadership and impact in computer architecture research.