Divya Mahajan

Divya is an Assistant Professor in School of ECE and Computer Science. Divya received her Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology and Master’s from UT Austin. She obtained her Bachelor’s from IIT Ropar where she was conferred the Presidents of India Gold Medal, the highest academic honor in IITs.

Prior to joining Georgia Tech, Divya was a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Azure since September 2019. Her research has been published in top-tier venues such as ISCA, HPCA, MICRO, ASPLOS, NeurIPS, and VLDB. Her dissertation has been recognized with the NCWIT Collegiate Award 2017 and distinguished paper award at High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2016.

Currently, she leads the Systems Infrastructure and Architecture Research Lab at Georgia Tech. Her research team is devising next-generation sustainable compute platforms targeting end-to-end data pipeline for large scale AI and machine learning. The work draws insights from a broad set of disciplines such as, computer architecture, systems, and databases.

Research

Computer Architecture
Systems for Machine Learning
Large Scale Infrastructure for AI and Data Storage

Distinctions & Awards

College of Computing Dissertation Award, Georgia Institute of Technology 2020
National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Collegiate Award, 2017
Distinguished Paper Award, 22nd IEEE Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture, 2016
President of India Gold Medalist, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, 2012