Sohaib Ahmad

Sohaib Ahmad

Ph.D. Student
College of Information & Computer Sciences
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Sohaib Ahmad

I am a Computer Science Ph.D. student at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst working under the supervision of Prof. Ramesh Sitaraman and Prof. Hui Guan. My research lies at the intersection of systems and machine learning: I use machine learning to improve the performance of computer systems, and use my systems knowledge to improve the performance of machine learning algorithms. I build theoretical models to represent distributed data processing systems, and use the models to improve the performance and efficiency of those systems.

I recently wrapped up an internship at Meta (formerly Facebook) with their Serverless Computing team. Previously, I have been a Research Intern at Bell Labs research twice to work on scheduling and resource allocation for ML inference serving (also referred to as model serving) and training on the cloud and edge.

Before starting my Ph.D., I completed my undergrad from LUMS in 2017 under the supervision of Prof. Ihsan Ayyub Qazi where my research focused on computer networks and measurement.

News

  • [Mar 2024] Our paper, “Loki: A System for Serving ML Inference Pipelines with Hardware and Accuracy Scaling” has been accepted to HPDC 2024!
  • [Aug 2023] Our paper, “Proteus: A High-Throughput Inference-Serving System with Accuracy Scaling” has been accepted to ASPLOS 2024!
  • [May 2023] 🏆 Our paper, AggFirstJoin, won the Best Paper Award at ACM/IEEE CCGrid 2023!
  • [Aug 2022] I wrapped up my internship at Meta (formerly Facebook) with their Serverless Computing team. Over there, I worked on using elastic compute to process asynchronous computing workloads with varying levels of SLA delay requirements.
  • [Dec 2021] I attended the ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing in San Jose, CA and presented an overview of my dissertation work. You can find it here!

Awards & Service

  • [2023] 🏆 Best paper award at ACM/IEEE CCGrid
  • [2023] Received the Manning College Dissertation Writing Fellowship
  • [2022] Shadow Program Committee Member for EuroSys
  • [2022] Panelist at CS Research Night at UMass
  • [2018] 🏆 Best paper of the year award at ACM SIGCOMM CCR
  • [2017] Awarded the Krithi Ramamritham scholarship at UMass Amherst for outstanding incoming student in sytems research