Akshay Srivatsan
/əˈkʃeɪ ʃɹiˈvʌθ.sən/
About Me
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:
- Viennese Ball 2026 - Cubberley Performance
- Big Dance 2025 - Opening Performances
- Viennese Ball 2025 - Opening Waltz (Smetana - Má Vlast, No. 2 Vltava)
- Viennese Ball 2025 - Opening Polka (von Suppé - Poet and Peasant Overture)
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