Biography

Mosharaf Chowdhury is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he leads the SymbioticLab. His research improves application performance and system efficiency of AI/ML and Big Data workloads with a recent focus on optimizing their energy consumption through the ML Energy Initiative. Major open-source projects from his team include Infiniswap, the first scalable memory disaggregation solution; Salus, the first software-only GPU sharing system for deep learning; FedScale, a scalable federated learning and analytics platform; and Zeus, the first energy-optimal AI stack. In the past, Mosharaf invented coflows and was one of the original creators of Apache Spark. He has received many individual awards, fellowships, and paper awards from top venues like NSDI, OSDI, ATC, and MICRO.