Gohar Irfan Chaudhry

PhD student at MIT CSAIL. Working in the PDOS lab with Prof. Adam Belay.

[GitHub] [Google Scholar] [CV (Last Updated: May 2026)]

Pre-Prints

  1. StreamWise: Serving Multi-Modal Generation in Real-Time at Scale

Publications

  1. Murakkab: Resource-Efficient Agentic Workflow Orchestration in Cloud Platforms [OSDI 2026 (To Appear...)]
  2. Unleashing The Potential of Datacenter SSDs by Taming Performance Variability [NSDI 2026]
  3. Towards Resource-Efficient Compound AI Systems [HotOS 2025]
  4. Architecture-Level Modeling of Photonic Deep Neural Network Accelerators [IEEE ISPASS 2024 (Poster Session)]
  5. Making Kernel Bypass Practical for the Cloud with Junction [USENIX NSDI 2024]
  6. Palette Load Balancing: Locality Hints for Serverless Functions [ACM EuroSys 2023]
  7. Memory-Harvesting VMs in Cloud Platforms [ACM ASPLOS 2022]
  8. Faa$T: A Transparent Auto-Scaling Cache for Serverless Applications [ACM SoCC 2021]
  9. Faster and Cheaper Serverless Computing on Harvested Resources [ACM SOSP 2021]
  10. Serverless in the Wild: Characterizing and Optimizing the Serverless Workload at a Large Cloud Provider [USENIX ATC 2020] (Community Award Winner)
  11. High-Coverage Testing of Softwarized Networks [ACM SecSoN 2018]
  12. Mega-VM: A Memory Enhancing Framework for Datacenters [USENIX NSDI 2016] (Poster Session)

Other

  1. Junctiond: Extending FaaS Runtimes with Kernel-Bypass [Technical Report]

Awards and Honors

  1. Awarded a Google Academic Research Award worth USD 10,000 (January 2026)
  2. Guest lecture at Georgia Tech CS 8803 LRV – Large Scale & Real-Time Visual Analysis (November 2025)
  3. Invited as a visiting researcher to Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (LIG, Grenoble Computer Science Laboratory) at Université Grenoble Alpes (December 2024)
  4. Fellow in MIT EECS Communication Lab (2023-2024)
  5. Awarded the MIT Presedential Fellowship (2022-2023)

Contact

  1. Email: girfan (at) mit (dot) edu
  2. LinkedIn