Publications

2026

Bringing Distributed Ordering to Heterogeneous Memory Consistency

Yanpeng Yu, Nicolai Oswald and Anurag Khandelwal

IEEE Micro, 2026

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@article{cord-toppicks,
  author = {Yu, Yanpeng and Oswald, Nicolai and Khandelwal, Anurag},
  title = {{Bringing Distributed Ordering to Heterogeneous Memory Consistency}},
  journal = {IEEE Micro},
  month = oct,
  year = {2026}
}

Efficient and Scalable Synchronization via Generalized Cache Coherence

Yanpeng Yu, Seung-seob Lee, Lin Zhong and Anurag Khandelwal

USENIX OSDI, 2026

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@inproceedings{soul,
  title = {{Efficient and Scalable Synchronization via Generalized Cache Coherence}},
  author = {Yu, Yanpeng and Lee, Seung-seob and Zhong, Lin and Khandelwal, Anurag},
  month = jul,
  booktitle = {USENIX OSDI},
  year = {2026}
}

BulletTime: Time Dilation for High-Fidelity Tracing

Michael Wu, Sibren Isaacman, Abhishek Bhattacharjee and Anurag Khandelwal

ACM ISCA, 2026

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@inproceedings{bullettime,
  author = {Wu, Michael and Isaacman, Sibren and Bhattacharjee, Abhishek and Khandelwal, Anurag},
  title = {{BulletTime: Time Dilation for High-Fidelity Tracing}},
  year = {2026},
  month = jun,
  booktitle = {ACM ISCA}
}

TimelyLLM: Time-sensitive LLM Serving System for Physical-I/O Limited Agents

Neiwen Ling, Guojun Chen, Anurag Khandelwal and Lin Zhong

ACM MobiSys, 2026

Best Paper Award Runner-Up, Best Artifact Award Runner-Up

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@inproceedings{timelyllm,
  author = {Ling, Neiwen and Chen, Guojun and Khandelwal, Anurag and Zhong, Lin},
  title = {{TimelyLLM: Time-sensitive LLM Serving System for Physical-I/O Limited Agents}},
  year = {2026},
  month = jun,
  booktitle = {ACM MobiSys},
  award = {Best Paper Award Runner-Up, Best Artifact Award Runner-Up}
}

CounterPoint: Using Hardware Event Counters to Refute & Refine Microarchitectural Assumptions

Nick Lindsay, Caroline Trippel, Anurag Khandelwal and Abhishek Bhattacharjee

ACM ASPLOS, 2026

Best Paper Award

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@inproceedings{counterpoint,
  author = {Lindsay, Nick and Trippel, Caroline and Khandelwal, Anurag and Bhattacharjee, Abhishek},
  title = {{CounterPoint: Using Hardware Event Counters to Refute \& Refine Microarchitectural Assumptions}},
  year = {2026},
  month = mar,
  booktitle = {ACM ASPLOS},
  award = {Best Paper Award}
}

2025

Spirit: Fair Allocation of Interdependent Resources in Remote Memory Systems

Seung-seob Lee, Jachym Putta, Ziming Mao and Anurag Khandelwal

ACM SOSP, 2025

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@inproceedings{spirit,
  author = {Lee, Seung-seob and Putta, Jachym and Mao, Ziming and Khandelwal, Anurag},
  title = {{Spirit: Fair Allocation of Interdependent Resources in Remote Memory Systems}},
  year = {2025},
  month = oct,
  booktitle = {ACM SOSP}
}

Scalable Far Memory: Balancing Faults and Evictions

Yueyang Pan*, Yash Lala*, Musa Unal, Yujie Ren, Seung-seob Lee, Abhishek Bhattacharjee, Anurag Khandelwal and Sanidhya Kashyap

ACM SOSP, 2025

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@inproceedings{mage,
  author = {Pan*, Yueyang and Lala*, Yash and Unal, Musa and Ren, Yujie and Lee, Seung-seob and Bhattacharjee, Abhishek and Khandelwal, Anurag and Kashyap, Sanidhya},
  title = {{Scalable Far Memory: Balancing Faults and Evictions}},
  year = {2025},
  month = oct,
  booktitle = {ACM SOSP},
  note = {(*Equal contribution authors)}
}

Found in Translation: A Generative Language Modeling Approach to Memory Access Pattern Attacks

Grace Jia, Alex Wong and Anurag Khandelwal

USENIX Security, 2025

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@inproceedings{fit,
  author = {Jia, Grace and Wong, Alex and Khandelwal, Anurag},
  title = {{Found in Translation: A Generative Language Modeling Approach to Memory Access Pattern Attacks}},
  booktitle = {USENIX Security},
  month = aug,
  year = {2025}
}

Weave: Efficient and Expressive Oblivious Analytics at Scale

Mahdi Soleimani, Grace Jia and Anurag Khandelwal

USENIX OSDI, 2025

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@inproceedings{weave,
  author = {Soleimani, Mahdi and Jia, Grace and Khandelwal, Anurag},
  title = {{Weave: Efficient and Expressive Oblivious Analytics at Scale}},
  booktitle = {USENIX OSDI},
  month = jul,
  year = {2025}
}

CORD: Low-Latency, Bandwidth-Efficient and Scalable Release Consistency via Directory Ordering

Yanpeng Yu, Nicolai Oswald and Anurag Khandelwal

ACM ISCA, 2025

Distinguished Artifact Award, IEEE Micro’s Top Picks in Computer Architecture 2025

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@inproceedings{cord,
  author = {Yu, Yanpeng and Oswald, Nicolai and Khandelwal, Anurag},
  title = {{CORD: Low-Latency, Bandwidth-Efficient and Scalable Release Consistency via Directory Ordering}},
  year = {2025},
  month = jun,
  booktitle = {ACM ISCA},
  award = {Distinguished Artifact Award, IEEE Micro's Top Picks in Computer Architecture 2025}
}

PULSE: Accelerating Distributed Pointer-Traversals on Disaggregated Memory

Yupeng Tang, Seung-seob Lee, Abhishek Bhattacharjee and Anurag Khandelwal

ACM ASPLOS, 2025

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@inproceedings{pulse,
  author = {Tang, Yupeng and Lee, Seung-seob and Bhattacharjee, Abhishek and Khandelwal, Anurag},
  title = {{PULSE: Accelerating Distributed Pointer-Traversals on Disaggregated Memory}},
  year = {2025},
  month = mar,
  booktitle = {ACM ASPLOS}
}

Exploring Intelligent Dynamic Resource Provisioning for Elastic Massive MIMO vRAN

Parthiban Annamalai, Minsung Kim, Anurag Khandelwal and Lin Zhong

ACM HotMobile, 2025

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@inproceedings{elasticmimo,
  author = {Annamalai, Parthiban and Kim, Minsung and Khandelwal, Anurag and Zhong, Lin},
  title = {{Exploring Intelligent Dynamic Resource Provisioning for Elastic Massive MIMO vRAN}},
  booktitle = {ACM HotMobile},
  month = feb,
  year = {2025}
}

2024

Length Leakage in Oblivious Data Access Mechanisms

Grace Jia, Rachit Agarwal and Anurag Khandelwal

USENIX Security, 2024

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@inproceedings{length-leakage,
  author = {Jia, Grace and Agarwal, Rachit and Khandelwal, Anurag},
  title = {{Length Leakage in Oblivious Data Access Mechanisms}},
  booktitle = {USENIX Security},
  month = aug,
  year = {2024}
}

Prompt Cache: Modular attention reuse for low-latency inference

In Gim, Guojun Chen, Seung-seob Lee, Nikhil Sarda, Anurag Khandelwal and Lin Zhong

MLSys, 2024

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@article{promptcache,
  title = {{Prompt Cache: Modular attention reuse for low-latency inference}},
  author = {Gim, In and Chen, Guojun and Lee, Seung-seob and Sarda, Nikhil and Khandelwal, Anurag and Zhong, Lin},
  journal = {MLSys},
  month = may,
  year = {2024}
}

Distributed Brain-Computer Interfacing With a Networked Multi-accelerator Architecture

Raghavendra Pothukuchi, Karthik Sriram, Michał Gerasimiuk, Muhammed Ugur, Rajit Manohar, Anurag Khandelwal and Abhishek Bhattacharjee

IEEE Micro, 2024

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@article{scalo-toppicks,
  author = {Pothukuchi, Raghavendra and Sriram, Karthik and Gerasimiuk, Michał and Ugur, Muhammed and Manohar, Rajit and Khandelwal, Anurag and Bhattacharjee, Abhishek},
  title = {{Distributed Brain-Computer Interfacing With a Networked Multi-accelerator Architecture}},
  journal = {IEEE Micro},
  month = mar,
  year = {2024}
}

Trinity: A Fast Compressed Multi-attribute Data Store

Ziming Mao, Kiran Srinivasan and Anurag Khandelwal

ACM EuroSys, 2024

Best Student Paper Award

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@inproceedings{trinity,
  author = {Mao, Ziming and Srinivasan, Kiran and Khandelwal, Anurag},
  title = {{Trinity: A Fast Compressed Multi-attribute Data Store}},
  year = {2024},
  mon = {April},
  booktitle = {ACM EuroSys},
  award = {Best Student Paper Award}
}

2023

Karma: Resource Allocation for Dynamic Demands

Midhul Vuppalapati, Giannis Fikioris, Rachit Agarwal, Asaf Cidon, Anurag Khandelwal and Tardos

USENIX OSDI, 2023

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@inproceedings{karma,
  author = {Vuppalapati, Midhul and Fikioris, Giannis and Agarwal, Rachit and Cidon, Asaf and Khandelwal, Anurag and {\'E}va Tardos},
  title = {{Karma: Resource Allocation for Dynamic Demands}},
  booktitle = {USENIX OSDI},
  year = {2023},
  month = jul
}

SCALO: An Accelerator-Rich Distributed System for Scalable Brain-Computer Interfacing

Karthik Sriram, Raghavendra Pothukuchi, Michał Gerasimiuk, Muhammed Ugur, Oliver Ye, Rajit Manohar, Anurag Khandelwal and Abhishek Bhattacharjee

ACM ISCA, 2023

Best Paper Award, IEEE Micro’s Top Picks in Computer Architecture 2023

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@inproceedings{scalo,
  author = {Sriram, Karthik and Pothukuchi, Raghavendra and Gerasimiuk, Micha\l{} and Ugur, Muhammed and Ye, Oliver and Manohar, Rajit and Khandelwal, Anurag and Bhattacharjee, Abhishek},
  title = {{SCALO: An Accelerator-Rich Distributed System for Scalable Brain-Computer Interfacing}},
  month = jun,
  year = {2023},
  booktitle = {ACM ISCA},
  award = {Best Paper Award, IEEE Micro's Top Picks in Computer Architecture 2023}
}

Shepherd: Serving DNNs in the Wild

Hong Zhang, Yupeng Tang, Anurag Khandelwal and Ion Stoica

USENIX NSDI, 2023

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@inproceedings{shepherd,
  author = {Zhang, Hong and Tang, Yupeng and Khandelwal, Anurag and Stoica, Ion},
  title = {{Shepherd: Serving DNNs in the Wild}},
  booktitle = {USENIX NSDI},
  month = apr,
  year = {2023}
}

Prefetching Using Principles of Hippocampal-Neocortical Interaction

Michael Wu, Ketaki Joshi, Andrew Sheinberg, Guilherme Cox, Anurag Khandelwal, Raghavendra Pradyumna Pothukuchi and Abhishek Bhattacharjee

ACM HotOS, 2023

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@inproceedings{cls,
  author = {Wu, Michael and Joshi, Ketaki and Sheinberg, Andrew and Cox, Guilherme and Khandelwal, Anurag and Pothukuchi, Raghavendra Pradyumna and Bhattacharjee, Abhishek},
  title = {{Prefetching Using Principles of Hippocampal-Neocortical Interaction}},
  year = {2023},
  mon = {June},
  booktitle = {ACM HotOS}
}

2022

Shortstack: Distributed, Fault-tolerant, Oblivious Data Access

Midhul Vuppalapati*, Kushal Babel*, Anurag Khandelwal and Rachit Agarwal

USENIX OSDI, 2022

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@inproceedings{shortstack,
  author = {Vuppalapati*, Midhul and Babel*, Kushal and Khandelwal, Anurag and Agarwal, Rachit},
  title = {{Shortstack: Distributed, Fault-tolerant, Oblivious Data Access}},
  booktitle = {USENIX OSDI},
  month = jul,
  year = {2022},
  note = {(*Equal contribution authors)}
}

Jiffy: Elastic Far-memory for Stateful Serverless Analytics

Anurag Khandelwal, Yupeng Tang, Rachit Agarwal, Aditya Akella and Ion Stoica

ACM EuroSys, 2022

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@inproceedings{jiffy,
  author = {Khandelwal, Anurag and Tang, Yupeng and Agarwal, Rachit and Akella, Aditya and Stoica, Ion},
  title = {{Jiffy: Elastic Far-memory for Stateful Serverless Analytics}},
  year = {2022},
  mon = {April},
  booktitle = {ACM EuroSys}
}

2021

Caerus: Nimble Task Scheduling for Serverless Analytics

Hong Zhang, Yupeng Tang, Anurag Khandelwal, Jingrong Chen and Ion Stoica

USENIX NSDI, 2021

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@inproceedings{caerus,
  author = {Zhang, Hong and Tang, Yupeng and Khandelwal, Anurag and Chen, Jingrong and Stoica, Ion},
  title = {{Caerus: Nimble Task Scheduling for Serverless Analytics}},
  booktitle = {USENIX NSDI},
  month = apr,
  year = {2021}
}

What Serverless Computing Is and Should Become: The Next Phase of Cloud Computing

Johann Schleier-Smith, Vikram Sreekanti, Anurag Khandelwal, Joao Carreira, Neeraja J. Yadwadkar, Raluca Ada Popa, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Ion Stoica and David A. Patterson

Communications of the ACM, 2021

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@article{serverless-next,
  author = {Schleier-Smith, Johann and Sreekanti, Vikram and Khandelwal, Anurag and Carreira, Joao and Yadwadkar, Neeraja J. and Popa, Raluca Ada and Gonzalez, Joseph E. and Stoica, Ion and Patterson, David A.},
  title = {{What Serverless Computing Is and Should Become: The Next Phase of Cloud Computing}},
  year = {2021},
  mon = {May},
  journal = {Communications of the ACM}
}

MIND: In-Network Memory Management for Disaggregated Data Centers

Seung-seob Lee, Yanpeng Yu, Yupeng Tang, Anurag Khandelwal, Lin Zhong and Abhishek Bhattacharjee

ACM SOSP, 2021

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@inproceedings{mind,
  author = {Lee, Seung-seob and Yu, Yanpeng and Tang, Yupeng and Khandelwal, Anurag and Zhong, Lin and Bhattacharjee, Abhishek},
  title = {{MIND: In-Network Memory Management for Disaggregated Data Centers}},
  year = {2021},
  mon = {October},
  booktitle = {ACM SOSP}
}

2020

Pancake: Frequency Smoothing for Encrypted Data Stores

Paul Grubbs*, Anurag Khandelwal*, Marie-Sarah Lacharité*, Lloyd Brown, Lucy Li, Rachit Agarwal and Thomas Ristenpart

USENIX Security, 2020

Distinguished Paper Award

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@inproceedings{pancake,
  author = {Grubbs*, Paul and Khandelwal*, Anurag and Lacharit{\'e}*, Marie-Sarah and Brown, Lloyd and Li, Lucy and Agarwal, Rachit and Ristenpart, Thomas},
  title = {{Pancake: Frequency Smoothing for Encrypted Data Stores}},
  booktitle = {USENIX Security},
  month = aug,
  year = {2020},
  award = {Distinguished Paper Award},
  note = {(*Equal contribution authors)}
}

Le Taureau: Deconstructing the Serverless Landscape & A Look Forward

Anurag Khandelwal, Arun Kejariwal and Karthikeyan Ramasamy

ACM SIGMOD, 2020

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@inproceedings{sigmodserverless,
  author = {Khandelwal, Anurag and Kejariwal, Arun and Ramasamy, Karthikeyan},
  title = {{Le Taureau: Deconstructing the Serverless Landscape \& A Look Forward}},
  year = {2020},
  mon = {June},
  booktitle = {ACM SIGMOD}
}

2019

Queries on Compressed Data

Anurag Khandelwal

University of California, Berkeley, 2019

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@book{phdthesis,
  title = {{Queries on Compressed Data}},
  author = {Khandelwal, Anurag},
  month = dec,
  year = {2019},
  publisher = {University of California, Berkeley}
}

Cloud Programming Simplified: A Berkeley View on Serverless Computing

Eric Jonas, Johann Schleier-Smith, Vikram Sreekanti, Chia-Che Tsai, Anurag Khandelwal, Qifan Pu, Vaishaal Shankar, João Carreira, Karl Krauth, Neeraja J. Yadwadkar, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Raluca Ada Popa, Ion Stoica and David A. Patterson

UC Berkeley Technical Report, 2019

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@article{berkeley-view-serverless,
  author = {Jonas, Eric and Schleier{-}Smith, Johann and Sreekanti, Vikram and Tsai, Chia{-}Che and Khandelwal, Anurag and Pu, Qifan and Shankar, Vaishaal and Carreira, Jo{\~{a}}o and Krauth, Karl and Yadwadkar, Neeraja J. and Gonzalez, Joseph E. and Popa, Raluca Ada and Stoica, Ion and Patterson, David A.},
  title = {{Cloud Programming Simplified: {A} Berkeley View on Serverless Computing}},
  journal = {UC Berkeley Technical Report},
  month = dec,
  year = {2019}
}

Confluo: Distributed Monitoring and Diagnosis Stack for High-speed Networks

Anurag Khandelwal, Rachit Agarwal and Ion Stoica

USENIX NSDI, 2019

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@inproceedings{confluo,
  author = {Khandelwal, Anurag and Agarwal, Rachit and Stoica, Ion},
  title = {{Confluo: Distributed Monitoring and Diagnosis Stack for High-speed Networks}},
  booktitle = {USENIX NSDI},
  month = feb,
  year = {2019}
}

2017

ZipG: A Memory-efficient Graph Store for Interactive Queries

Anurag Khandelwal, Zongheng Yang, Evan Ye, Rachit Agarwal and Ion Stoica

ACM SIGMOD, 2017

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@inproceedings{zipg,
  author = {Khandelwal, Anurag and Yang, Zongheng and Ye, Evan and Agarwal, Rachit and Stoica, Ion},
  title = {{ZipG: A Memory-efficient Graph Store for Interactive Queries}},
  booktitle = {ACM SIGMOD},
  month = may,
  year = {2017}
}

2016

BlowFish: Dynamic Storage-Performance Tradeoff in Data Stores

Anurag Khandelwal, Rachit Agarwal and Ion Stoica

USENIX NSDI, 2016

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@inproceedings{blowfish,
  title = {{BlowFish: Dynamic Storage-Performance Tradeoff in Data Stores}},
  author = {Khandelwal, Anurag and Agarwal, Rachit and Stoica, Ion},
  booktitle = {USENIX NSDI},
  month = mar,
  year = {2016}
}

2015

Attacking Data Center Networks from the Inside

Anurag Khandelwal, Navendu Jain and Seny Kamara

Microsoft Research Technical Report, 2015

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@article{attacking-dcn,
  title = {{Attacking Data Center Networks from the Inside}},
  author = {Khandelwal, Anurag and Jain, Navendu and Kamara, Seny},
  journal = {Microsoft Research Technical Report},
  month = dec,
  year = {2015}
}

Succinct: Enabling Queries on Compressed Data

Rachit Agarwal, Anurag Khandelwal and Ion Stoica

USENIX NSDI, 2015

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@inproceedings{succinct,
  author = {Agarwal, Rachit and Khandelwal, Anurag and Stoica, Ion},
  title = {{Succinct: Enabling Queries on Compressed Data}},
  booktitle = {USENIX NSDI},
  month = may,
  year = {2015}
}