Akshay Srivatsan

/əˈkʃeɪ ʃɹiˈvʌθ.sən/

About Me

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I'm a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Stanford University, advised by Professors Keith Winstein and Dawson Engler and working in the Systems and Networking Research Group at Stanford. My main research topic is applying functional programming principles and ideas to (distributed) operating systems.

In addition to my Ph.D. advisors, I've also had the privilege of being advised by Professors Frans Kaashoek and Sara Achour on different projects.

Research

My recent research projects include:

Continuation-Centric Computing with Arca (PDF)
Akshay Srivatsan, Yuhan Deng, Katherine Mohr, Emma Sudo, Sebastian Ingino, Francis Chua, Keith Winstein
20th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 26), Seattle, WA, 2026
Fix: externalizing network I/O in serverless computing (PDF)
Yuhan Deng, Akshay Srivatsan, Sebastian Ingino, Francis Chua, Yasmine Mitchell, Matthew Vilaysack, Keith Winstein
European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), Edinburgh, U.K., 2026.

Social Dance

I organize Dancebreak, a large social dance club at Stanford. I perform with and tutor the Viennese Ball Opening Committee. I teach waltz (and a few other styles) at Dancebreak and Friday Night Waltz, and have also taught a guest lesson in DANCE 106I.

Videos of some of my performances are here:

Teaching

CS 244C: Advanced Networking and Distributed Systems
Winter 2026 - Course Assistant
CS 240: Advanced Topics in Operating Systems
Autumn 2024 - Course Assistant
CS 45: Software Tools Every Programmer Should Know
Spring 2023 - Co-Instructor
Winter 2023 - Co-Instructor
This course became CS 104: Introduction to Essential Software Systems and Tools
CS 240LX: Advanced Systems Laboratory, Accelerated
Spring 2022 - Course Assistant
CS 140E: Operating Systems Design and Implementation
Winter 2023 - Co-Instructor
Winter 2022 - Course Assistant
Spring 2021 - Course Assistant

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