Vinay
Banakar
I work at Google’s Machine Learning Performance Team building systems for TPU/GPUs to accelerate AI at scale. I received my Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison (ADSL), advised by Andrea and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau. My expertise is cross-stack systems optimization: from hardware/software co-design to operating systems and distributed systems.
Previously, I was a Researcher at Google - Systems Research Group, working with Kim Keeton. I have also held positions as a Research Affiliate at the Microsoft Gray Systems Lab, a Senior Systems Engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise RnD Labs, and a Research Fellow at Systems and Storage Lab, University of Texas at Austin.
News?
| Mar 1, 2026 | Received the WISL award for my PhD research |
| Feb 20, 2026 |
Defended my PhD! Read the thesis here or watch the defense here |
| Sep 22, 2025 | Co-founded Research 2 Impact (R2I) |
| Sep 15, 2025 |
Address-Space-Engineering accepted at DIMES 2025 |
| Jan 22, 2025 |
Article about my recent kernel patch! |
Patents and Publications
2026
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OBASE: Object-Based Address-Space Engineering to Improve Memory Tiering To appear at OSDI 2026 [arXiv]
2025
2023
2020
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CIED - rapid composability of rack scale resources using Capability Inference Engine across Datacenters 2020 IEEE Infrastructure Conference 2020
2019
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Intent driven hardware placement recommendation using rack capability inference engine across datacenters U.S. Patent US20210014998A1, 2019
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Intelligent orchestration of disaggregated applications based on class of service U.S. Patent US20200249999A1, 2019
2018
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Preemptive compatibility failure detection using graph structure learning in datacenters U.S. Patent US10938623B2 and HPE TechCon’19, 2018
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Topology based root cause triangulation of hardware issues in datacentres U.S. Patent US10831587B2, 2018
Service
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Program Committee:
- IEEE HiPC 2024, 2025
- EuroSys 2025 (shadow)
- IPDPS ESSA 2025
- HPE TechCon 2020
- Artifact Evaluation Committee:
- Travel Grants: SOSP 2025, SOSP 2024, VLDB 2023
- Open source contributions: Apache Ratis, Postgresql and YCSB
- Technical reviewer of the book "Effective Cybersecurity: A Guide to Using Best Practices and Standards" by Dr. William Stallings released on June 2018 (Acknowledged in Preface).