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                  Arjun Devraj
                 
                
                  Email: adevraj [at] cs [dot] cornell [dot] edu
                 
                
                  I'm a third-year PhD student in Computer Science at Cornell University, where I'm advised by Rachee Singh. 
                  My research interests are broadly in systems and networking, with a focus on machine learning systems.
                  Recently, I have been working on improving communication bottlenecks to speed up distributed machine learning workloads.
                  I am also interested in traffic engineering for wide-area networks. In my research, I enjoy combining algorithmic techniques with insights from hardware, such as optical interconnects.
                  My work is supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
                 
                
                  Before graduate school, I spent two years as a software engineer at Meta, where I worked on privacy infrastructure for the ads recommender system.
                  Previously, I received my bachelor's degree in Computer Science, summa cum laude,
                  from Princeton University, where I worked with Jennifer Rexford on network privacy
                  and with Tom Griffiths 
                  and Qiong Zhang on computational cognitive science.
                 
                
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                  Publications
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                  Efficient AllReduce with Stragglers
                   
                  Arjun Devraj, Eric Ding, Abhishek Vijaya Kumar, Robert Kleinberg, Rachee Singh
                   
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                  Stable and Fault-Tolerant Decentralized Traffic Engineering
                   
                  Arjun Devraj, Umesh Krishnaswamy, Ying Zhang, Karuna Grewal, Justin Hsu, Éva Tardos, Rachee Singh
                   
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                  HEDGE: Traffic Engineering with Probabilistic Link Capacities
                   
                  Arjun Devraj, Bill Owens, Umesh Krishnaswamy, Ying Zhang, Rachee Singh
                   
                  USENIX NSDI, 2026
                   
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                  The Reality of Chasing Shannon's Limit in Optical Wide-Area Networks
                   
                  Arjun Devraj, Bill Owens, Rachee Singh
                   
                  ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2025
                   
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                  Chip-to-chip photonic connectivity in multi-accelerator servers for ML
                   
                  Abhishek Vijaya Kumar, Arjun Devraj, Darius Bunandar, Rachee Singh
                   
                  Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC), 2025
                   
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                  A case for server-scale photonic connectivity
                   
                  Abhishek Vijaya Kumar, Arjun Devraj, Darius Bunandar, Rachee Singh
                   
                  ACM HotNets, 2024
                   
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                  Reconciling categorization and memory via environmental statistics
                   
                   Arjun Devraj, Thomas L. Griffiths, Qiong Zhang
                   
                  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2024
                   
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                  REDACT: Refraction Networking from the Data Center
                   
                   Arjun Devraj, Liang Wang, Jennifer Rexford
                   
                  ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), 2021
                   
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                  The Dynamics of Exemplar and Prototype Representations Depend on Environmental Statistics
                   
                   Arjun Devraj, Qiong Zhang, Thomas L. Griffiths
                   
                  Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021
                   
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                  Talks and Presentations
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                  Efficient AllReduce with Stragglers
                  
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                      Google Networking Research Summit (October 2025)
                    
 
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                      ACE Center for Evolvable Computing (August 2025)
                    
 
                   
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                  Stable and Fault-Tolerant Decentralized WAN Traffic Engineering
                  
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                      Meta Workshop on WAN Control (October 2025)
                    
 
                   
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                  HEDGE: Traffic Engineering with Probabilistic Link Capacities
                  
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                      Workshop on Reconfigurable Networks (June 2025)
                    
 
                   
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                  The Reality of Chasing Shannon's Limit in Optical WANs
                  
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                      Cornell Systems Research Seminar (March 2024)
                    
 
                   
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