Hi, I’m Darshil 👋
I’m a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University in the Information Networking Department advised by Professor Srinivasan Seshan. My academic/research interests lie at the intersection of congestion control and low-latency streaming. Beyond that, I like to work on projects in the field of networking, distributed systems, software engineering, and compiler design.
Outside of work, I enjoy going on long drives. I also like to cook Indian food (which almost always ends up not looking like the photo on the recipe website). Oh, and video games.
Research
Ongoing Research on Congestion Control
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
January 2024 - Present
Goal: Identifying congestion control algorithms used by video streaming platforms
Work Experience
Teaching Assistant - Networking and the Internet
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
August 2024 - December 2024
- Teaching (and learning) networking concepts!!
- Concepts include internet architecture at scale, congestion control, BGP, datacenter networks, and much more… 🔗
Software Engineer
Exclaimer, Bloomington, IN
March 2022 - November 2022
- Created a scalable sandbox deployment system for dev, staging, and prod environments
- Mentoring interns on the scheduling team
- Working on the scheduling algorithm
Software Engineer
Periodic, Bloomington, IN
June 2021 - March 2022
- Working on the core scheduling team and payment processing team.
- Led the development of an MVP during the acquisition of Periodic by Exclaimer.
Education
MS in Information Networking
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
August 2023 - May 2025
BS in Computer Science
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
January 2018 - May 2021
Minor in ECE
Projects
Kernel Introspection with Wasm 🔗
- Integrated a wasm runtime into the Linux kernel to allow eBPF-like packet processing functionality
- Preliminary testing shows promising performance, closely approaching the efficiency of eBPF
- Future work includes optimizations such as support for JIT compilation and zero-copy networking
P4CKET: P4 Program Optimization through Online Profiling 🔗
- Introduced an algorithm to adaptively instrument P4 program based on the real-time traffic profile
- The compiler is modified to include passes which augment the program adding instrumentation and modifying the match-action logic
- Evaluation indicates reduction in stage memory allocation by up to 40%
TCP Reno Implementation in C
- Implemented the TCP Reno congestion control algorithm in C from scratch
- Features include fast retransmission, congestion avoidance, and fast recovery mechanisms
Other Projects
TAC0: A Compiler for C0 in Rust 🔗
- Designed a compiler for C0, a stripped down version of C
- Supports optimizations like tail call elimination, function inlining, branch prediction, and SSA-based optimizations
- Cross-compilation to RISC-V also available
CCAnalyzer in Mininet 🔗
- Implemented the CCAnalyzer paper in Mininet to support running experiments in parallel
Raft Consensus in Go
- Implemented the Raft consensus algorithm in Go, ensuring fault tolerance and consensus in networked systems
Mixnet Routing in C
- Designed a privacy-preserving mix network overlay in C to anonymize web traffic and enable secure communication over the Internet, incorporating encryption, redirection, and mixing techniques to safeguard user privacy
Get In Touch!
LinkedIn
GitHub✉️ Email - Username = dkaneria, Domain = cmu.edu