Yash Kothari

near the cut @ cmu

I am a master’s student at Carnegie Mellon University, specializing in computer systems, with a focus on analytical database systems and operating systems.

I graduated with a bachelor’s in mathematics and computer science from Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati in 2020, where I conducted research on making neural networks more interpretable.

Previously, I worked at Quadeye, a high-frequency trading firm, as a systems engineer developing low-latency systems for quant strategies. I also interned at Samsung Research, working on their AI accelerator platform for mobile devices.

Currently, I’m interning at Firebolt, a cloud data warehouse, where I am improving the performance of reading data from NVMe using asynchronous methods such as io_uring.

In addition to my academic and professional pursuits, I am passionate about movies, board games and technology. I am also a rookie trekker, looking forward to more adventures in the future.

publications

How I Learned to Stop Worrying About CCA Contention

Lloyd Brown, Yash Kothari, Akshay Narayan, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Aurojit Panda, Justine Sherry, and Scott Shenker

In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks , , Cambridge, MA, USA, , Nov 2023

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This paper asks whether inter-flow contention between congestion control algorithms (CCAs) is a dominant factor in determining a flow’s bandwidth allocation in today’s Internet. We hypothesize that CCA contention typically does not determine a flow’s bandwidth allocation, present an initial analysis in support of this hypothesis, propose a measurement technique and study to settle this question, and discuss the implications should the hypothesis prove true.
CCAnalyzer: An Efficient and Nearly-Passive Congestion Control Classifier

Ranysha Ware, Adithya Abraham Philip, Nicholas Hungria, Yash Kothari, Justine Sherry, and Srinivasan Seshan

In Proceedings of the 38th ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM) , , Sydney, NSW, Australia, , Aug 2024

Firebolt

S2024

Carnegie Mellon University

2023 - Present

Quadeye

2020 - 2023

IIT Guwahati

2016 - 2020

Samsung Research

S2019

Sri Sathya Sai Vidya Vihar

2002 - 2016