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May 29, 2025
Prof. Shahbaz gave an invited talk during the IA382: Seminar in Computer Engineering at FEEC/UNICAMP!

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Fast, Flexible, and Intelligent Next-Generation Networks and Systems

Abstract # Maintaining strict security and performance objectives in next-generation cloud and edge networks demands that compute-intensive management and control decisions are made on the current state of the entire network (e.

May 9, 2025
SpliDT accepted to SRC TECHCON '25. Many congratulations to Marilyn Rego (Undergraduate Lead), Murayyiam Parvez, Annus Zulfiqar, and the team!

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TECHCON 2025 (Event E007206) - SRC

Join us for TECHCON 2025, the premier conference for innovation and excellence in the semiconductor industry! Taking place September 7-10, 2025, at the Renaissance Hotel in Austin, Texas, this exclusive, members-only event brings together industry leaders, researchers, students, and recruiters to explore cutting-edge advancements, exchange ideas, and build the future of microelectronics.

May 8, 2025
Gigaflow and SpliDT accepted into this year’s Google Summer of Code (GSoC) cohort. Congratulations to Advay Singh and Sankalp Jha for their successful proposals and for leading the projects this summer!

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📢🎉 Thrilled to share that NextGArch Lab’s projects, Gigaflow and SpliDT,… | Muhammad Shahbaz

📢🎉 Thrilled to share that NextGArch Lab’s projects, Gigaflow and SpliDT, have been accepted into this year’s Google Summer of Code (GSoC) cohort! The projects will be led by Advay Singh, a rising undergraduate in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, and Sankalp Jha from AJAY KUMAR GARG ENGINEERING COLLEGE, GHAZIABAD—supported by an incredible team of mentors from Google and NextGArch Lab! NextGArch Lab: https://lnkd.in/geqB2Xyq Gigaflow: https://lnkd.in/gEvn5WE9 Go

Apr 23, 2025
Many congratulations to Annus Zulfiqar on being inducted into Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society!

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Top awards were given by judges and public vote for the 2025 virtual student competition.

Apr 22, 2025
Ertza Warraich inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi Society at Purdue University. Huge congratulations, Ertza!

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Phi Kappa Phi - John Martinson Honors College - Purdue University

“A global network of the best and brightest, a community of scholars and professionals building an enduring legacy for all generations”

Apr 19, 2025
Woot! Bilal Saleem is off to Arrcus this Summer!

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Hyperscale, Multi-Cloud Networking Software

Bringing transformative 5G & multi-cloud networking to CSPs to lower 5G infrastructure cost, expedite service delivery and monetize cloud infrastructure faster. Test drive the ACE platform for free.

Apr 4, 2025
O'MINE accepted to Euro S&P '25. Congratulations, Enkeleda Bardhi, Ali Imran, and the team!

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IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy 2025 (EuroS&P)

Since 1980, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for presenting developments in computer security and electronic privacy, and for bringing together researchers and practitioners in the field. Following this story of success, IEEE initiated the European Symposium on Security and Privacy

Mar 20, 2025
HardHarvest accepted to ISCA '25. Congratulations, Jovan Stojkovic, Chunao Liu, and the team!

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CPU cycles in shared datacenters are *incredibly* precious—we can't afford… | Muhammad Shahbaz

CPU cycles in shared datacenters are *incredibly* precious—we can't afford to let them sit idle. With HardHarvest, we offer a lightning-fast way to share these…

Mar 15, 2025
Woot! Ertza Warraich is off to Microsoft Research Redmond (MSR) this Summer!

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Microsoft Research Lab - Redmond - Microsoft Research

Computer science research supporting the future of the connected world with secure computing that enriches lives and empowers everyone.

Feb 28, 2025
Ali Imran, Annus Zulfiqar, and Prof. Shahbaz are co-mentoring P4 GSoC this year!

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Muhammad Shahbaz on LinkedIn: Woot! 🎉 We’ve got an incredible team of mentors, including industry…

Woot! 🎉 We’ve got an incredible team of mentors, including industry veterans and rising stars (even graduate students), along with an awesome list of…

Jan 27, 2025
Gigaflow accepted to ASPLOS '25. Congratulations, Annus Zulfiqar and the team!

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Muhammad Shahbaz on LinkedIn: #openvswitch #smartnics

From Longest Prefix Matching (LPM) to Longest Traversal Matching (LTM): Supercharging virtual switches with a Gigaflow cache! Congratulations to my students…

Jan 1, 2025
Prof. Shahbaz started at the University of Michigan as Assistant Professor!

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Muhammad Shahbaz on LinkedIn: I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Assistant Professor… | 56 comments

I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Assistant Professor at University of Michigan! | 56 comments on LinkedIn

Dec 17, 2024
Bilal Saleem, Omar Basit, and team won IEEE CS North America Student Challenge!

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Muhammad Shahbaz on LinkedIn: So proud of my students, Bilal Saleem, Omar Basit, and their team for…

So proud of my students, Bilal Saleem, Omar Basit, and their team for winning first prize at the IEEE CS North America Student Challenge! 🎉 Purdue Computer…

Dec 10, 2024
OptiReduce accepted to NSDI '25. Congratulations, Ertza Warraich and the team!
Sep 12, 2024
Caravan selected as one of the best papers at SRC JUMP 2.0 this year!

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JUMP 2 Best Papers - SRC

Each quarter, the JUMP 2.0 Centers identify the single best publication (i.e. top paper) from their research efforts. The papers are listed below, categorized by Center with the most recent contribution at the top.

May 22, 2024
Our work on "A Smart Cache for a SmartNIC!" will appear at HotChips '24. Congrats, Annus Zulfiqar and the team!
Apr 15, 2024
Prof. Shahbaz receives the Google Research Scholar Award '24 for Robust and Tail-Optimal Collective Communication for Distributed Training in the Cloud!
Apr 5, 2024
Prof. Shahbaz receives an NSF CC* award for Programmable Network Testbed for 400 Gbps Science DMZ, with the Purdue ECE and RCAC colleagues!

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NSF Award Search: Award # 2346605 - CC*Integration-Large: Programmable Network Testbed for 400 Gbps Science DMZ

Please report errors in award information by writing to: [email protected].

Mar 22, 2024
Caravan accepted to OSDI '24. Congratulations, Qizheng Zhang, Ali Imran, and the team!
Mar 20, 2024
Our lab wins the NSF CAREER Award 2024 to democratize and disseminate per-packet AI!
Feb 23, 2024
Prof. Shahbaz receives the Undergraduate Advising Award from the College of Science at Purdue!
Jan 31, 2024
μManycore receives the IEEE MICRO Top Picks '24 (Honorable Mention). Many congratulations Chunao Liu and the team!
Nov 15, 2023
A pleasure to have Dr. Bruce Davie remotely visit our CS 422 class at Purdue CS to talk about the tussle between centralization and decentralization in networking.

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Muhammad Shahbaz on LinkedIn: It was an immense pleasure to have Dr. Bruce Davie remotely visit my CS…

It was an immense pleasure to have Dr. Bruce Davie remotely visit my CS 422 class at Purdue Computer Science to talk about the tussle between centralization…

Nov 1, 2023
Prof. Shahbaz receives Purdue University’s Seed for Success Acorn Award. Many Congratulations!

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Purdue honors 7 CS faculty with Seed for Success Acorn Awards - Department of Computer Science - Purdue University

Professors Vassilis Zikas, Muhammad Shahbaz, Daniel Aliaga, Chunyi Peng, Antonio Bianchi, Dave Jing Tian, David Gleich

Oct 24, 2023
Our work on Cellular Traffic Modelling and Generation receives the IMC '23 Best Paper Award (Runner Up). Congratulations team!
Sep 11, 2023
Prof. Shahbaz invited to the Research Town Hall with President Mung.

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Office of the President - Purdue University

President Mung Chiang is leading Purdue University toward an exciting future, prioritizing key strategic initiatives to achieve excellence at scale.

Sep 5, 2023
Our paper on LTE/5G control-plane traffic modeling and generation accepted to IMC '23. Congratulations team!
Aug 22, 2023
Prof. Shahbaz will co-chair the P4 Education WG with Fernando Ramos!
Jun 28, 2023
Prof. Shahbaz's CS 422 course at Purdue highlighted in Systems Approach's blog post on Open Source: Another Value Proposition.
Jun 19, 2023
Prof. Shahbaz talked about the future of ML hardware for networking in the Measurements for Self-Driving Networks workshop at ACM SIGMETRICS 2023!
Mar 29, 2023
Homunculus receives the ASPLOS '23 Distinguished Artifact Award. Congratulations, Tushar Swamy, Annus Zulfiqar, and the team!
Mar 24, 2023
Our paper on slow-path accelerators is accepted to SIGCOMM CCR '23. Congratulations, Annus Zulfiqar and the team!
Mar 14, 2023
Prof. Shahbaz gave a talk on Next-Generation Networks and Systems at IISc Bangalore. Thank you, Parimal Parag, for hosting!

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Centre for Networked Intelligence on LinkedIn: Muhammad Shahbaz, Purdue University, will be speaking on “Fast, Flexible…

Muhammad Shahbaz, Purdue University, will be speaking on “Fast, Flexible, and Intelligent Next-Generation Networks and Systems”, on 14th March 2023, at 5 PM…

Mar 9, 2023
uManycore accepted to ISCA '23. Congratulations, Jovan Stojkovic, Chunao Liu, and the team!
Feb 8, 2023
Homunculus accepted to ASPLOS '23. Congratulations Tushar Swamy, Annus Zulfiqar, and the team!
Jan 23, 2023
Taurus receives the IEEE Micro Top Picks '23 (Honorable Mention). Congratulations team!
Jan 18, 2023
Prof. Shahbaz talked about the various R&D developments on 5G/6G/NextG happening at Purdue CS, ECE, and Research Foundation!
Jan 5, 2023
We are all set to make the next-generation distributed and evolvable computing stack a reality in our recent $30M+ JUMP 2.0 ACE center. Thank you, SRC and DARPA!

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Shahbaz is part of multi-university research center to develop next-generation evolvable distributed computing technology - Department of Computer Science - Purdue University

Muhammad Shahbaz, Kevin C. and Suzanne L. Kahn New Frontiers Assistant Professor of Computer Science