PhD candidate at Illinois Tech building tools that detect and diagnose performance bottlenecks in large-scale AI workloads, from deep learning training to LLM agents.
Open-source tools
- GDSight per-operation eBPF attribution for GPUDirect Storage (PDSW'26)
- AgentStage stages data during LLM thinking time for 1.74x faster agent sessions (IEEE eScience'26)
- DFAnalyzer scalable analysis of multi-layer I/O traces
- WisIO automated I/O bottleneck detection for HPC workloads (ICS'25)
Co-author of DFTracer and Recorder.
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