Sanjali Yadav

About Me

CV

I’m a third-year PhD student at the University of Maryland, College Park, where I also earned my Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. Advised by Dr. Bahar Asgari, my research operates at the intersection of computer architecture and machine learning, focusing on the development of self-adaptive systems. By leveraging machine learning as a foundational architectural mechanism rather than just a target workload, I aim to design systems that autonomously learn and adapt to changing demands throughout their lifecycle. My work moves beyond rigid, pre-defined design heuristics toward autonomous systems that proactively self-optimize for latency, throughput, and energy efficiency, ensuring architectural agility against the high-variance demands of modern computing.

This research philosophy is embodied in my work on Misam, an adaptive framework that earned me First Place at the ACM Student Research Competition at MICRO 2024. My contributions, including both Misam and the Boötes framework, have been featured at top-tier venues such as MICRO, and reflect my broader goal of treating intelligence as a first-class citizen within the hardware stack. By integrating adaptability directly into the architectural fabric, I continue to push the boundaries of how intelligent computing infrastructure can be effectively deployed in increasingly resource-constrained and dynamic environments.

Research Interests

Self-Adaptive Systems Hardware-ML Co-design Autonomous Architectures ML-in-the-Loop Architecture

Publications

ISPASS 2026

Situla: Studying the Interplay of Sparse Formats and CPU/GPU Libraries

Amirmahdi Namjoo, Sanjali Yadav, Helya Hosseini & Bahar Asgari

MICRO 2025 Paper →

Misam: Machine Learning–Assisted Dataflow Selection in Accelerators for Sparse Matrix Multiplication

Sanjali Yadav, Amirmahdi Namjoo & Bahar Asgari

MICRO 2025 Paper →

Boötes: Boosting the Efficiency of Sparse Accelerators Using Spectral Clustering

Sanjali Yadav & Bahar Asgari

IEEE CAL 2025 Paper →

DynaFlow: An ML Framework for Dynamic Dataflow Selection in SpGEMM Accelerators

Sanjali Yadav & Bahar Asgari

MLArchSys @ ISCA 2024 Paper → Poster →

Misam: Using ML in Dataflow Selection of Sparse-Sparse Matrix Multiplication

Sanjali Yadav & Bahar Asgari

Experience

Jan. 2024 – Present

Computer Architecture Systems Lab, UMD

Graduate Research Assistant

Summer 2024

Capital One

Software Engineering Intern

Summer 2023

Capital One

Software Engineering Intern

Summer 2022

Amazon

Software Development Intern

Summer 2021

Amazon

Software Development Intern

Dec. 2019 – Dec. 2022

Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab, UMD

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Education

2023 – Present

Ph.D. in Computer Science

University of Maryland, College Park

2022 – 2023

M.S. in Computer Science

University of Maryland, College Park

2019 – 2022

B.S. in Computer Science

University of Maryland, College Park

Awards

2026

Certificate of Outstanding Achievement to Computer Science Graduate Program

Presented by the Computer Science Department at UMD

2024

First Place — ACM Student Research Competition

Presented at International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO)

2022

Undergraduate Scholarship

Presented by the Capital One Bank Dean's Scholarship Fund in Computer Science

Service

2026

IEEE Transactions on Computers — Reviewer

2026

ISCA — Artifact Evaluation Committee

2025

MICRO — Artifact Evaluation Committee

2025

ISCA — Artifact Evaluation Committee

2025

IEEE Micro — Journal Reviewer

2025

SPICE Workshop @ MICRO 2025 — Student Volunteer

2025

IEEE Transactions on Big Data — Journal Reviewer

Get In Touch

I'm always open to discussing research, new ideas, or potential collaborations. Feel free to reach out.

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In my free time, I love going on walks and stumbling across little moments in nature worth remembering.