**Rajath Shashidhara** Senior Systems Research Engineer | Systems Research @ Google (SRG) rshashidhara@google.com rajath.shashidhara@gmail.com [CV](cv_1page.pdf) • [GitHub](https://github.com/rajathshashidhara) • [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=47vhbO8AAAAJ&hl=en) • [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajath-s) I am a Senior Systems Research Engineer in the [Systems Research Group (SRG)](https://techsysinfra.google/research/) at Google. I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington, advised by [Dr. Simon Peter](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~simpeter/). My doctoral research focused on transport offload---specifically, architecting flexible, energy-efficient [datacenter network stacks](https://digital.lib.washington.edu/bitstreams/d9ff4784-9706-4766-a7ef-dc4aa7a85d82/download) for the terabit era, leveraging emerging programmable in-network accelerators. Earlier in my career, I was as a Senior Research Engineer at Samsung Research and have a background conducting research in theoretical physics. While my technical interests are broad, I am currently focused on the end-to-end design and deployment of tiered memory and networked systems for datacenters. Publications ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - [Presto: A Match-Action TCP Stack for the Terabit Era](https://doi.org/10.1145/3789240.3829111)
Rajath Shashidhara, Antoine Kaufmann, Simon Peter
*ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM'26)*
Awarded Best Paper!
[arXiv](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.19058) | [Code](https://github.com/tcp-acceleration-service/Presto) Star - [Closing the Benchmark Gap for Tiered Memory](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3764862.3768177)
Rajath Shashidhara, Simon Peter, Scott Hare, Kimberly Keeton
*Workshop on Disruptive Memory Systems (DIMES) @ Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'25)* - [PageFlex: Flexible and Efficient User-space Delegation of Linux Paging Policies with eBPF](https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc25/presentation/yelam)
Anil Yelam, Kan Wu, Zhiyuan Guo, Suli Yang, Rajath Shashidhara, Wei Xu, Stanko Novakovic, Alex Snoeren, Kimberly Keeton
*USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC'25)* - [FlexTOE: Flexible TCP Offload with Fine-Grained Parallelism](https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi22/presentation/shashidhara)
Rajath Shashidhara, Timothy Stamler, Antoine Kaufmann, Simon Peter
*USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'22)*
[Slides](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/nsdi22-paper-shashidhara.pdf) | [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sRLk2zNrdE) | [Code](https://github.com/tcp-acceleration-service/FlexTOE) Star
Talks: [Google Networking Research Summit 2022](https://events.withgoogle.com/networking-research-summit-2022/) • VMware, 2022 • [NSDI 2022](https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi22/presentation/shashidhara) • [SmartNICs Summit 2022](https://smartnicssummit.com/thursday/) • Microsoft, 2023 - [A Reinforcement Learning Framework for QoS-Driven Radio Resource Scheduler](https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOBECOM42002.2020.9322182)
Jitender Singh Shekhawat, Rishabh Agrawal, K Gautam Shenoy, Rajath Shashidhara
*IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM'20)* - [Phase transition in an Aubry-André system with a rapidly oscillating magnetic field](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.94.053612)
Tridev Mishra, Rajath Shashidhara, Tapomoy Guha Sarkar and Jayendra N. Bandyopadhyay
*APS Physical Review A (2016)*