Speaker
Mosharaf Chowdhury
Dr Mosharaf Chowdhury is a Morris Wellman assistant professor of CSE at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he leads the SymbioticLab on application-infrastructure co-design in software and hardware stacks. Mosharaf invented coflows and was a co-creator of Apache Spark. Artifacts from his research are widely used in modern cloud datacenters. He has received many individual awards and fellowships as well as best-of-conference awards thanks to his amazing students and collaborators. He received his Ph.D. from the AMPLab at UC Berkeley in 2015.