Hello, I'm Arash Sarabi

Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science

Reliable & Low-Latency Systems | Reinforcement Learning & Applied ML | Distributed Systems | Hardware Acceleration

About Me

Arash Sarabi

Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Arizona State University, ranked 1st in my cohort with a perfect 4.0 GPA. Recipient of the Outstanding Thesis Award and IEEE-HKN Honor Society member. Expected graduation: May 2026.

My work is grounded in a strong systems and networking foundation and is broadening into reinforcement learning and applied machine learning. It spans reliable, low-latency networked systems, distributed systems, and hardware acceleration. I designed, implemented, and deployed the MLED distributed system framework on the FABRIC national testbed across 30+ geographically distributed sites, achieving a 14,000× reduction in undetected errors for petabyte-scale data transfers.

On the ML side, I develop reinforcement learning for prognostics (joint remaining-useful-life estimation and failure-mode classification) and Graph Neural Networks for spatiotemporal forecasting. My systems work includes cloud-scale performance optimization, FPGA-based hardware acceleration (50× speedup in checksum computation), and ML infrastructure for TB-scale datasets. I have published in POMACS (ACM SIGMETRICS) and IEEE Communications Letters, with work in NeurIPS 2026 (under review) and presentations at ACM SIGMETRICS 2025 and IEEE FCCM 2025. I also co-founded Expeditise LLC, an AI startup building intelligent tools for everyday workflows. I'm eager to apply a systems and real-time perspective to interactive and robotic applications.

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Arizona State University
Research Assistant & Co-Founder at Expeditise
FABRIC Golden Stitch Best Paper Award | Outstanding Thesis Award | IEEE-HKN Honor Society
Tempe, AZ

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science

Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe, AZ

Aug 2021 – May 2026 (Expected)

Dissertation: "Multi-Level Error Detection (MLED) for Petabyte-Scale Reliable Data Transfers"

Advisor: Dr. Violet R. Syrotiuk

GPA: 4.0/4.0 | Outstanding Thesis Award | Ranked 1st in Ph.D. Cohort | IEEE-HKN Honor Society

M.Sc. in Computer & Information Technology Engineering

Sharif University of Technology (SUT)

GPA: 17.75/20 (3.90/4.0 WES)

B.Sc. in Computer & Information Technology Engineering

Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT)

GPA: 17.27/20 (3.72/4.0 WES)

Ranked 2nd among 50 students

Experience

Research Assistant

Aug 2021 – Present

Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona

  • Experimental Distributed Systems Research: Designed, implemented, and deployed the MLED distributed system framework on the FABRIC national testbed spanning 30+ geographically distributed sites. Built end-to-end prototype demonstrating 14,000× reduction in undetected errors for petabyte-scale data transfers across wide-area networks.
  • Cloud-Scale Systems Performance: Evaluated system performance across distributed cloud infrastructure using the FABRIC testbed; optimized network protocols for multi-datacenter data transfers; conducted micro-architectural bottleneck analysis of packet processing pipelines in cloud environments.
  • Hardware-Software Co-Design and Acceleration: Integrated FPGA-based acceleration for network protocol processing; designed algorithms leveraging hardware accelerator capabilities; achieved 50× speedup in checksum computation. Presented research on "Using FPGAs to Accelerate Error Detection in MLED" at IEEE FCCM 2025.
  • Systems for Machine Learning: Built infrastructure for deploying containerized ML workloads on Kubernetes clusters; optimized distributed ML training pipelines for TB-scale datasets; automated Google Cloud Platform infrastructure with Terraform. Developed Graph Neural Network architecture for spatiotemporal prediction.
  • Network Systems Design: Designed optimal configuration algorithms for distributed data transfer systems; developed network partitioning strategies using mathematical optimization. Created formal models characterizing undetected error probability as a function of file size, network conditions, and system policy configurations.

Co-Founder

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

Expeditise LLC · Full-time | Tempe, Arizona, United States · On-site

  • Architected scalable distributed backend infrastructure with microservices architecture, load balancing, and fault tolerance mechanisms. Built containerized deployments with automated CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code solutions using Terraform and Ansible.
  • Leading cross-functional team of 18 developers, establishing development workflows and coordinating system architecture decisions balancing performance, scalability, and maintainability.

My Skills

Programming Languages

Python C/C++ Java Rust JavaScript/TypeScript Golang

Systems & Infrastructure

Linux/Unix Docker & Kubernetes Terraform & Ansible Jenkins & CircleCI GitHub Actions Google Cloud Platform AWS Distributed Systems Design

Machine Learning & Performance

PyTorch & TensorFlow Graph Neural Networks Linux perf & Benchmarking HPC Tuning FPGA Acceleration Hardware-Software Co-Design

Publications & Awards

Refereed Journal Papers

NeurIPS 2026

Temporal Difference Learning for Multi-Task Prognostics: Joint Remaining Useful Life Estimation and Failure Mode Classification

Ali Sarabi, B. Xu, Arash Sarabi, P. Jevtić, H. Yan

Under review, NeurIPS 2026

POMACS 2025

Design and Modeling of a New File Transfer Architecture to Reduce Undetected Errors Evaluated in the FABRIC Testbed

P. Jain, A. Sarabi, A. Matta, V.R. Syrotiuk

Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems (POMACS - Journal of ACM SIGMETRICS), 9(2):1-42, May 2025. FABRIC Golden Stitch Best Paper Award, KNIT 12 (2026)

IEEE 2021

MLED: A Layered Architecture for Reducing Undetected Error Probability in File Transfer

A. Sarabi, I. Matta, V.R. Syrotiuk

IEEE Communications Letters, 25(11):3542-3545, Aug 2021

arXiv 2025

Forecasting Coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever) in Arizona: A Graph Neural Network Approach

A. Sarabi, A. Sarabi, H. Yan, B. Sterner, P. Jevtić

arXiv:2507.10014, July 2025

Conference Presentations & Extended Abstracts

ICCCN 2026

Optimal Architecture for Reliable Large-Scale File Transfers: Analysis and Numerical Evaluation

A. Sarabi, E. Frink, V.R. Syrotiuk, P. Jain, A. Matta

IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2026

SIGMETRICS 2025

Design and Modeling of a New File Transfer Architecture to Reduce Undetected Errors

ACM SIGMETRICS 2025 (Extended Abstract), Stony Brook, NY, June 2025

KNIT 12 · 2026

Using FPGAs to Accelerate Multi-Level Error Detection for Reliable Scientific Data Transfer

Invited Talk, KNIT 12: A FABRIC Community Workshop, Hawaii, April 2026

NESD 2026

Design and Modeling of a New File Transfer Architecture to Reduce Undetected Errors Evaluated in the FABRIC Testbed

Short Talk, New England Systems Day (NESD '26), Cambridge, MA, February 2026

FCCM 2025

Using FPGAs to Accelerate Error Detection in MLED

IEEE FCCM 2025 (Invited Talk - OCT Workshop), Fayetteville, AR, May 2025

KNIT 7 · 2023

Large-Scale File Transfer Optimization Strategies

Demo, KNIT 7: A FABRIC Community Workshop, 2023. Best Demo & Poster Award

KNIT 5 · 2022

A New Architecture for Petabyte-scale File Transfer Evaluated in FABRIC

Demo and Poster, KNIT 5: A FABRIC Community Workshop, 2022

INFORMS 2022

Multi-layer Error Detection in Large Scale File Transfers

2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 17, 2022

LSN 2020

Challenges with Petabyte-scale Flows and Beyond

Large Scale Networking (LSN) Workshop on Huge Data, April 14, 2020

Patent

Patent 2025

Systems and Methods for a New Recursive File Transfer Architecture to Reduce Undetected Errors

A. Sarabi, V.R. Syrotiuk, A.I. Matta, P. Jain

U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 63/864,142. Filed August 14, 2025. Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University. (Pending)

Awards & Honors

Arash Sarabi receiving the FABRIC Golden Stitch Best Paper Award plaque from Paul Ruth at KNIT12 in Honolulu, Hawaii
Award presented at KNIT12, Honolulu, HI, on April 17, 2026
Best Paper Award

FABRIC Golden Stitch Best Paper Award

FABRIC “Stitching Together Innovation” Awards · KNIT 12: A FABRIC Community Workshop, Honolulu, HI

For “Design and Modeling of a New File Transfer Architecture to Reduce Undetected Errors Evaluated in the FABRIC Testbed”, awarded to Arash Sarabi and Prateek Jain.

Recognized for the Multi-Level Error Detection (MLED) framework, a configurable recursive architecture that uses in-network resources to reduce undetected error probability in petabyte-scale scientific data transfers. On the FABRIC testbed, MLED detected and corrected adversarial transmission errors inside the network, avoiding whole-file retransmission and delivering a 100% gain in goodput under non-zero error rates while sustaining over 800 Mbps on a single connection with no appreciable delay increase.

Citation: Prateek Jain, Arash Sarabi, Abraham Matta, and Violet R. Syrotiuk. “Design and Modeling of a New File Transfer Architecture to Reduce Undetected Errors Evaluated in the FABRIC Testbed.” Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems, Vol. 9, Issue 2, SIGMETRICS, June 2025.

FABRIC Project ID: ASU-BU-MLED-Project

Arash Sarabi receiving the GPSA Outstanding Research Award certificate on stage at Arizona State University
Honored at the GPSA Awards Ceremony, Arizona State University, April 24, 2024
Research Award

GPSA Outstanding Research Award

Graduate & Professional Student Association · Arizona State University · Awarded Fall 2023

A competitive award recognizing graduate and professional students who exemplify excellence in research across all ASU campuses. Selection favors innovative projects of interdisciplinary character that demonstrate a positive impact on the academic and local community alongside a notable contribution to the recipient's field. Each student may receive the award only once during their degree.

GPSA-endorsed Certificate for Research Excellence · Recognition on the GPSA website and newsletter · Honored at the GPSA Awards Ceremony

Outstanding Thesis Award

ASU Graduate College Graduate Research Support Program (GRSP), Sep 2024

Best Demo & Poster Award

KNIT 7: A FABRIC Community Workshop, Sep 2023

IEEE-HKN Honor Society

IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu, 2022-2025

Ranked 1st in Ph.D. Cohort

Arizona State University, 2021-Present

Tau Beta Pi (TBP) Honor Society

Invited, ASU Arizona Beta Chapter, Spring 2026

Sigma Xi Research Honor Society

Nominated for Full Membership, 2026

GSG Travel & Research Grants

ASU Graduate Student Government, $2,850 total (2024–2025)

Service & Leadership

Peer Reviewer, 2019 – Present
21 Reviews completed
20 Manuscripts reviewed
5 Venues served

Reviewing for premier networking and communications venues, evaluating the work of other researchers in the field:

IEEE INFOCOM Computer Networks (Elsevier) IEEE WCNC Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications 6G Summit

Web of Science Verified Reviewer · ResearcherID: ABG-2912-2021 · ORCiD: 0000-0003-3611-4459 · Google Scholar

Session Host: CNERT 2024, 2023, 2021 (in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM)

Teaching Assistant, Arizona State University (2021-2026): Computer Networks, Data Structures & Algorithms, Foundations of Algorithms, Data Visualization, Software Project/Process/Quality Management, Principles of Programming Languages

Certifications

MikroTik Certified Network Associate (MTCNA)

VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV)

Software Defined Networking, Georgia Institute of Technology (Coursera)

Python & Machine Learning (DataCamp): Intermediate Python, Machine Learning for Business, Python Data Science Toolbox P1 & P2

My Projects

MLED Architecture Diagram

MLED: Multi-Level Error Detection Architecture

Designed and deployed distributed system on FABRIC testbed spanning 30+ sites. Achieved 14,000× reduction in undetected errors for petabyte-scale data transfers. Published in POMACS (ACM SIGMETRICS) and IEEE Communications Letters, and awarded the FABRIC Golden Stitch Best Paper Award at KNIT 12. U.S. Patent Pending.

Best Paper Award Distributed Systems FABRIC Testbed Network Protocols POMACS
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FPGA-Accelerated Error Detection

Integrated FPGA-based acceleration for network protocol processing, achieving 50× speedup in checksum computation. Presented at IEEE FCCM 2025 (premier hardware/FPGA venue).

FPGA Hardware Acceleration IEEE FCCM

Forecasting Valley Fever in Arizona: A Graph Neural Network Approach

Developed the first GNN model for forecasting Coccidioidomycosis incidence in Arizona. Integrates surveillance data with environmental predictors including soil conditions, atmospheric variables, and air quality metrics. Published on arXiv (July 2025).

Graph Neural Networks Machine Learning arXiv 2025
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Kubernetes-based ML Infrastructure

Built infrastructure for deploying containerized ML workloads on Kubernetes clusters. Optimized distributed ML training pipelines for TB-scale datasets with Google Cloud Platform automation using Terraform.

Kubernetes ML Infrastructure GCP Terraform

Expeditise: AI Solutions for Everyday Problems

Co-founded AI startup building intelligent tools that seamlessly integrate into daily workflows. Developing ExpressReply, an AI-powered smart keyboard with context-aware suggestions, OCR reading, and privacy-first design. Processing 100K+ daily requests with <100ms latency.

AI/ML Startup GPT API React Native Cloud Services
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Phone

+1-480-593-2454

Location

Tempe, AZ

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