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<h1>Gohar Irfan Chaudhry</h1>
<h3>PhD student at <a href="https://web.mit.edu/">MIT</a> <a href="https://www.csail.mit.edu/">CSAIL</a>. Working in the <a href="https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/">PDOS</a> lab with <a href="http://www.abelay.me/">Prof. Adam Belay</a>.</h3>

[<a href="https://github.com/gohar94">GitHub</a>] [<a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Joe5sFAAAAAJ&hl=en">Google Scholar</a>] [<a href="files/cv.pdf">CV</a> (Last Updated: Dec 2025)]
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<h4>Pre-Prints</h4>
<ol>
    <li><a href="publications/streamwise_arxiv_paper.pdf">StreamWise: Serving Multi-Modal Generation in Real-Time at Scale</a></li>
    <li><a href="publications/murakkab_arxiv_paper.pdf">Murakkab: Resource-Efficient Agentic Workflow Orchestration in Cloud Platforms</a></li>
</ol>

<h4>Publications</h4>
<ol>
    <li><a href="publications/sandook_nsdi_2026.pdf">Unleashing The Potential of Datacenter SSDs by Taming Performance Variability</a> <i>[NSDI 2026 (To Appear...)]</i></li>
        <ul>
            <li><a href="https://github.com/mit-sandook/sandook">Code</a></li>
            <li><a href="https://news.mit.edu/2026/helping-data-centers-deliver-higher-performance-less-hardware-0407">MIT News</a></li>
            <li><a href="https://www.techradar.com/pro/push-them-to-the-limit-mit-researchers-almost-double-ssd-performance-for-free-but-only-for-data-centers">techradar</a></li>
        </ul>
    <li><a href="publications/murakkab_hotos2025_paper.pdf">Towards Resource-Efficient Compound AI Systems</a> <i>[HotOS 2025]</i></li>
        <ul>
            <li><a href="publications/murakkab_hotos2025_slides.pdf">Slides</a></li>
        </ul>
    <li><a href="publications/photonic_ispass_2024.pdf">Architecture-Level Modeling of Photonic Deep Neural Network Accelerators</a> <i>[IEEE ISPASS 2024 (Poster Session)]</i></li>
    <li><a href="publications/junction_nsdi_2024.pdf">Making Kernel Bypass Practical for the Cloud with Junction</a> <i>[USENIX NSDI 2024]</i></li>
    <li><a href="publications/palette_eurosys_2023.pdf">Palette Load Balancing: Locality Hints for Serverless Functions</a> <i>[ACM EuroSys 2023]</i></li>
    <li><a href="publications/mhvm_asplos_2022.pdf">Memory-Harvesting VMs in Cloud Platforms</a> <i>[ACM ASPLOS 2022]</i></li>
    <li><a href="publications/faast_socc_2021.pdf">Faa$T: A Transparent Auto-Scaling Cache for Serverless Applications</a> <i>[ACM SoCC 2021]</i></li>
        <ul>
            <li><a href="https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-host/issues/6791">Code - 1</a></li>
            <li><a href="https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-host/issues/7310">Code - 2</a></li>
        </ul>
    <li><a href="publications/faas_harvest_sosp_2021.pdf">Faster and Cheaper Serverless Computing on Harvested Resources</a> <i>[ACM SOSP 2021]</i></li>
    <li><a href="publications/sitw_atc_2020.pdf">Serverless in the Wild: Characterizing and Optimizing the Serverless Workload at a Large Cloud Provider</a> <i>[USENIX ATC 2020] (Community Award Winner)</i></li>
        <ul>
            <li><a href="publications/login_winter20_07_shahrad.pdf">USENIX Login 2020 - Winter Edition</a></li>
        </ul>
    <li><a href="publications/plankton_neo_secson_2018.pdf">High-Coverage Testing of Softwarized Networks</a> <i>[ACM SecSoN 2018]</i></li>
    <li><a href="publications/mega_vm_poster_nsdi_2016.pdf">Mega-VM: A Memory Enhancing Framework for Datacenters</a> <i>[USENIX NSDI 2016] (Poster Session)</i></li>
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<h4>Other</h4>
<ol>
    <li><a href="publications/junctiond_report.pdf">Junctiond: Extending FaaS Runtimes with Kernel-Bypass</a> <i>[Technical Report]</i></li>
</ol>

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<h4>Awards and Honors</h4>
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    <li>Guest Lecture at Georgia Tech <a href="https://sites.gatech.edu/cs8803visualanalysis/schedule/">CS 8803 LRV – Large Scale & Real-Time Visual Analysis</a> <i>(November 2025)</i></li>
    <li>Invited as a visiting researcher to <a href="https://www.liglab.fr/fr">Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (LIG, Grenoble Computer Science Laboratory)</a> at <a href="https://www.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/english/home-628540.kjsp">Universit&eacute; Grenoble Alpes</a> <i>(December 2024)</i></li>
    <li>Awarded the <a href="https://oge.mit.edu/fellowships/presidential-graduate-fellowship-program/">MIT Presedential Fellowship</a> <i>(2022-2023)</i></li>
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<h4>Contact</h4>
<ol>
    <li>Email: girfan (at) mit (dot) edu</li>
    <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/gohar-irfan/">LinkedIn</a></li>
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