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Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi

Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi

•Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
•Amazon Scholar
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Biography

Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine, and an Amazon Scholar. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2019. Her research focuses on networked systems and distributed machine learning, with particular emphasis on Internet resilience, data center networks, and explainability in learning-enabled systems.

Abdu Jyothi is a recipient of the 2026 ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star Research Award, the NSF CAREER Award in 2025, and was named an N2Women Rising Star in Networking and Communications in 2022. She received the IETF/IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize in 2022 and the ACM CoNEXT Best Paper Award in 2024. During her doctoral studies, she was awarded the Facebook Graduate Fellowship and the Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship from the UIUC College of Engineering. She was selected as a Rising Star in EECS at MIT in 2018.

Abdu Jyothi has held research positions at VMware Research and collaborated with Microsoft Research and Microsoft's Cloud & Information Services Lab. She has served the research community in various roles, including as ACM HotNets General Co-Chair, ACM SIGCOMM Workshops Co-Chair, and Journal of Systems Research Networking Area Co-Chair. She has been a program committee member for conferences including NSDI, SIGCOMM, SIGMETRICS, and MLSys.

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Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2019
  • M.S. in Telecommunications and Networking, University of Pennsylvania, 2012
  • B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India, 2010
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Distinctions

  • ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star Research Award, 2026
  • NSF CAREER Award, 2025
  • Rising Stars in EECS, MIT, 2018
  • IETF/IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize, 2022
  • ACM CoNEXT Best Paper Award, 2024
  • N2Women Rising Star in Networking and Communications, 2022
  • Facebook Graduate Fellowship, 2017-2019
  • Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship, UIUC College of Engineering, 2017-2018
  • Gold Medal for first rank in Bachelors, National Institute of Technology, Calicut, 2010
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Areas of Expertise

  • Machine Learning Systems
  • Computer Networks and Systems
  • Trustworthy Learning-Based Systems
  • Distributed Model Training Acceleration
  • Submarine Cable Infrastructure Mapping
  • Cross-Layer Internet Resilience Analysis
  • LEO Satellite Constellation Topology
  • Cyberinfrastructure Resilience
  • Datacenter Network Topology Design

Recent Publications

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Most Cited Publications

  • Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, Carlo Curino, Ishai Menache, Shravan Matthur Narayanamurthy, Alexey Tumanov, Jonathan Yaniv, Ruslan Mavlyutov, Inigo Goiri, Subru Krishnan, Janardhan Kulkarni, Sriram Rao, “Morpheus: Towards Automated SLOs for Enterprise Clusters”, Proceedings of the 12th Usenix Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation Osdi 2016, pp. 117-134, 2016. Presented at 12th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation.
  • Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, Ankit Singla, P. Brighten Godfrey, Alexandra Kolla, “Measuring and Understanding Throughput of Network Topologies” (opens in new tab), International Conference for High Performance Computing Networking Storage and Analysis Sc, vol. 0, pp. 761-772, 2016. Presented at ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis.
  • Vojislav Dukic, Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, Bojan Karlas, Muhsen Owaida, Ce Zhang, Ankit Singla, “Is Advance Knowledge of Flow Sizes a Plausible Assumption?”, Proceedings of the 16th Usenix Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation Nsdi 2019, pp. 565-580, 2019. Presented at The 16th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation.
  • Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, “Solar Superstorms: Planning for an Internet Apocalypse” (opens in new tab), SIGCOMM 2021 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Conference, pp. 692-704, 2021. Presented at Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGCOMM conference.
  • Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, Mo Dong, P. Brighten Godfrey, “Towards a Flexible Data Center Fabric with Source Routing” (opens in new tab), Symposium on Software Defined Networking Sdn Research Sosr 2015, 2015. Presented at ACM Symposium on SDN Research.
  • Vipul Harsh, Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, Brighten Godfrey, “Spineless Data Centers” (opens in new tab), Hotnets 2020 Proceedings of the 19th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, pp. 67-73, 2020. Presented at 19th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks.
  • Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, Sayed Hadi Hashemi, Roy H. Campbell, Brighten Godfrey, “Towards An Application Objective-Aware Network Interface”, Hotcloud 2020 12th Usenix Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing Co Located with Usenix Atc 2020, 2020. Presented at 12th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing.
  • Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, Ankit Singla, P. Brighten Godfrey, Alexandra Kolla, “Measuring Throughput of Data Center Network Topologies” (opens in new tab), Performance Evaluation Review, vol. 42, pp. 597-598, 2014. Presented at 2014 ACM international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems.
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Contact Information

Website: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~sabdujyo

Email: sangeetha.aj@uci.edu

Phone: (949) 824-6759

Address: 3204 Bren Hall

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Last updated on 9/14/2026.