Pradyumna Sridhara

I'm a second year Master's student specializing in Machine Learning Systems, with the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of California - San Diego (UCSD), advised by Prof. Arun Kumar. Prior to this, I obtained my B.Tech. from PES University (Bengaluru, India), majoring in Computer Science with a minor in Business Administration.

When I'm not in the lab, you can find me out on a trek somewhere, filming nature. Or perhaps, riding my motorcyle with the wind in my hair! Sometimes I just stay at home and cook up a nice Indian meal to binge watch a romcom with.

Research

My research interests lie at the intersection of Machine Learning and Software Systems (i.e. ML Systems). I develop algorithms, build platforms and infrastructure that scales end-to-end Machine Learning pipelines. In doing so, I hope to improve the productivity of Data Scientists and ML Engineers, and at the same time, make machine learning more accescibile to the everyday user by reducing costs and human effort. My expertise lie in software systems, cloud computing, distributed computing, and deep learning.

I'm currently working on Cerebro - a distributed deep learning framework that offers effecient model selection pipelines for scalable Deep Learning on multi-node multi-GPU clusters. A copy of my Master's research thesis can be found here.

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