I am an assistant professor of Computer Science at the Mohamed Bin Zayed University of AI (MBZUAI) in Abu Dhabi. My research interests are in the areas of computer architecture, software system design, and machine learning, with the goal of co-designing future ML systems for high performance, scalable reliability, and intelligent resources allocation.

Before starting as a professor, I was a postdoc researcher in computer science at Harvard University, working with Dr. David Brooks and Dr. Gu-Yeon Wei in the Harvard Architecture, Circuits, and Compilers Group. I completed my PhD at UIUC under the guidance of Dr. Sarita Adve in the RSim Research Group. During my graduate studies, I was very fortunate to be the recipient of the Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship, to be invited to the 7th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, and to receive multiple awards for teaching and mentoring undergraduate students. Prior to joining UIUC, I completed my BSE from Princeton University, where I was the recipient of the John Ogden Bigelow Jr. Prize in Electrical Engineering.

In addition to doing research, I am also a steering committee member for the Computer Architecture Student Association (CASA) and the Computer Architecture Long-term Mentoring (CALM) initiatives. In my free time, I enjoy watching documentaries, playing soccer, and I am a contributing feature article writer at TechSpot.com.

I am actively recruiting students! If you are interested in joining my group as a Research Assistant (RA), PhD student, or Postdoc, please fill out this form and send a brief email once you do!

Research Interests:

• HW/SW/AI Robustness
• [ML for [Systems] for ML]
• HW/SW Codesign for BCI
• Sustainable Computing

News:

• New: [Dec 2025] Thank you to the RISC-V Foundation and Google for funding our project on AI Driven Software Porting to RISC-V ($50,000 Gemini Credit)!
• New: [Dec 2025] Delivered keynote at MusiML workshop, co-located with NeurIPS, titled: “Speaking in Tongues: Binary, Language Models, and Neural Signals”.
• [Oct 2025] Our paper titled, “Guaranteed Guess: A Language Modeling Approach for CISC-to-RISC Transpilation with Testing Guarantees” is accepted to EMNLP 2025!
• [Sept 2025] Thank you to the United Al-Saqar Group for funding our research on, “Real-time, Privacy Preserving Spike Sorting for BCIs”, w/ co-PIs Nils Lukas and Elizabeth Churchill! (500,000 AED)!
• [Aug 2025] Dongning Ma joins our group as a Postdoctoral Associate!
• [Aug 2025] Alex Pretko joins our group as a PhD candidate!
• [Jun 2025] Our paper “Wafer-Scale Systems: A Carbon Perspective” is accepted to HotCarbon 2025!
• [May 2025] That’s a wrap! The ML and Systems Rising Stars workshop was a success! Thanks Meta for hosting, and MLC for sponsoring!
• [Aug 2024] I have started a new position as a tenure-track assistant professor in the Computer Science department at MBZUAI!