Sagar Karandikar

Advisor(s): Krste Asanovic
Website: https://sagark.org

Sagar is a Ph.D. student in the ADEPT and RISE Labs at UC Berkeley, advised by Krste Asanovic.

His research focuses on exploring hardware-software co-design in warehouse-scale machines, covering the whole computing stack from applications to microarchitecture. He leads the FireSim project, which enables cycle-accurate simulation of thousand-node clusters interconnected by high-performance networks using FPGAs in the cloud (see the ISCA '18 paper for more). FireSim was selected as one of IEEE Micro's "Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences" for 2018. He also contributes to the MIDAS project. Other projects he works on are listed on his website, sagark.org.

Sagar received a M.S. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2018 and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley in 2015. In summer 2015, he was the lecturer for CS61C at Berkeley.