Rahul Bothra
Ph.D. student
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Bio

I am working with Prof. Brighten Godfrey on localizing faults more effeciently in the datacenter, and using formal reasoning to design and optimize networks. Previously, I worked at Microsoft Research on improving resource utilization for Microsoft Teams, which reduced their operational costs by ~$10M per year.
Here is my academic ancestry.


Random

I like to work out, play chess, and go for runs. As part of my new-year resolution, I dedicate some time to learn random things.

I am trying to support Jaipur Foot, an NGO aiming to help people with limb-related disabilities - please consider contributing.


Projects

Write up in progress.


News

Mar 2024: I will be spending the summer at Stanford, working with Prof. Balaji Prabhakar on Clockwork.io.
Feb 2024: Presented FaultFerence to Google, Microsoft, Meta, and IBM.
Nov 2023: I will be giving a talk at MIT about Rethinking network measurements from a user perspective during ACM HotNets.
Sep 2023: I will be giving a talk at Columbia University about Switchboard during ACM SIGCOMM.
Mar 2023: I will be joining the UIUC Computer Science PhD program.


Credits

My parents made many sacrifices to support my decisions, both personal and academic. My advisors gave me opportunities to grow as a researcher, as well as patiently helped steer me in the right directions. For who I am and what I have to offer, I owe it all to them.