Reliable & Low-Latency Systems | Reinforcement Learning & Applied ML | Distributed Systems | Hardware Acceleration
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.
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
GPA: 17.75/20 (3.90/4.0 WES)
GPA: 17.27/20 (3.72/4.0 WES)
Ranked 2nd among 50 students
Under review, NeurIPS 2026
2026 35th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), IEEE, pp. 1-9, July 2026
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 Communications Letters, 25(11):3542-3545, Aug 2021
arXiv:2507.10014, July 2025
ACM SIGMETRICS 2025 (Extended Abstract), Stony Brook, NY, June 2025
Invited Talk, KNIT 12: A FABRIC Community Workshop, Hawaii, April 2026
Short Talk, New England Systems Day (NESD '26), Cambridge, MA, February 2026
IEEE FCCM 2025 (Invited Talk - OCT Workshop), Fayetteville, AR, May 2025
2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 2024 (with A. Sarabi, G. Runger)
Demo, KNIT 7: A FABRIC Community Workshop, 2023. Best Demo & Poster Award
Demo and Poster, KNIT 5: A FABRIC Community Workshop, 2022
2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 17, 2022
Large Scale Networking (LSN) Workshop on Huge Data, April 14, 2020
U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 64/182,818. Filed October 23, 2026. Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University. (Pending)
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)
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.
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.
ASU Graduate Student Government, Fall 2026. Recognizes dedication to mentoring fellow students and its impact on mentees
ASU Graduate College Graduate Research Support Program (GRSP), Sep 2024
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, Arizona State University, Spring 2022
KNIT 7: A FABRIC Community Workshop, Columbus, OH, Sep 2023
KNIT 11: A FABRIC Community Workshop, Salt Lake City, UT, Oct 2025 (MLED with in-network FPGA demo, with Ethan Frink)
Open Cloud Testbed Tutorial at IEEE FCCM 2025, Fayetteville, AR, May 2025 (NSF-funded speaker travel)
ACM SIGMETRICS 2025 Travel Grant Committee, Jun 2025
ASU J. Orin Edson Entrepreneurship + Innovation Institute, selected from Pitch Playoffs, Spring & Fall 2026
Open Data Science Conference, Boston, 2022, for outstanding academic achievement
Arizona State University, 2021-Present
IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu, Epsilon Beta Chapter, invited 2022–2026
Invited by the ASU Arizona Beta Chapter for outstanding academic achievement in the Fulton Schools of Engineering, Spring & Fall 2026
Nominated for Full Membership, 2025–2026
Selected through competitive review to present research at conferences and workshops across the U.S. and to fund dissertation work:
Reviewing for premier networking and communications journals and conferences, evaluating the work of other researchers in the field:
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
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