Biography

Mosharaf Chowdhury is an Associate Professor of CSE 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 energy consumption and data privacy. His major projects 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 GPU energy optimizer for AI. 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.