Midhul Vuppalapati

(me . DOOL as in bool, more on how to pronounce)

Incoming Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science, Purdue University

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I am broadly interested in computer systems research. My current work rethinks the principles underlying operating systems and distributed systems in light of the rapid evolution of datacenter hardware, with the goal of enabling efficient cloud computing for the next generation of AI-driven applications.

I received my PhD from Cornell, where I was fortunate to be advised by Rachit Agarwal.

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Selected Publications

• Disaggregated Memory Management [PDF]
  Midhul Vuppalapati
  PhD Dissertation 2026
  
• Tiered Memory Management: Access Latency is the Key! [PDF] [Slides] [Code]
  Midhul Vuppalapati, Rachit Agarwal
  ACM SOSP 2024
  
• Understanding the Host Network [PDF] [Slides] [Code]
  Midhul Vuppalapati, Saksham Agarwal, Henry N. Schuh, Baris Kasikci, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Rachit Agarwal
  ACM SIGCOMM 2024
  Best Student Paper Award, SIGMETRICS Best-of-the-rest
  
• Karma: Resource Allocation for Dynamic Demands [PDF] [Slides] [Talk] [Code]
  Midhul Vuppalapati, Giannis Fikioris, Rachit Agarwal, Asaf Cidon, Anurag Khandelwal, Éva Tardos
  USENIX OSDI 2023
• Shortstack: Distributed, Fault-tolerant, Oblivious Data Access [PDF] [Slides] [Code]
  Midhul Vuppalapati*, Kushal Babel*, Anurag Khandelwal, Rachit Agarwal
  USENIX OSDI 2022
• Rearchitecting Linux Storage Stack for μs latency and High Throughput [PDF] [Code]
  Jaehyun Hwang, Midhul Vuppalapati, Simon Peter, Rachit Agarwal
  USENIX OSDI 2021
• Building an Elastic Query Engine on Disaggregated Storage [PDF] [Slides] [Talk] [Code]
  Midhul Vuppalapati, Justin Miron, Rachit Agarwal, Dan Truong, Ashish Motivala, Thierry Cruanes
  USENIX NSDI 2020
  Covered in the Morning Paper
• INSTalytics: Cluster Filesystem Co-design for Big-data Analytics [PDF] [Slides] [Talk]
  Muthian Sivathanu, Midhul Vuppalapati, Bhargav Gulavani, Kaushik Rajan, Jyoti Leeka, Jayashree Mohan, Piyus Kedia
  USENIX FAST 2019
  Fast tracked to ACM Transactions on Storage 2020

(* equal contribution)

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Teaching

• CS 59200: Datacenter Memory Systems Fall 2026

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Contact

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Misc

I like to juggle. As of 2026, I can juggle 5 balls, flash 7 balls, and juggle 3 clubs (which may be on fire). During grad school, I enjoyed passing clubs and occasionally performing with the awesome folks at the Cornell Juggling Club. I am now looking for a juggling community around the West Lafayette area---please reach out if you have pointers!

I also loved speeding around Ithaca on my e-bike, which I am yet to test out on the flat lands of the Midwest.