Archit Bhatnagar

I am a second year PhD candidate in CSE at the University of Michigan, advised by Prof. Ang Chen. My research interests lie broadly at the intersection of cloud computing, networked systems, and security. Recently, I have been working on automating infrastructure management, building the cloud emulator Vera.

Prior to this, I was a researcher at NUS, where I worked with Prof. Ben Leong on internet fairness. I received my Bachelor's in Computer Science from BITS Pilani, India, and completed my Bachelor's thesis at the Systems & Networking lab at NUS under Prof. Chan Mun Choon.

Curriculum Vitae Google Scholar

News

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Publications

* denotes equal contribution.

2025
A Case for Remote Direct Code Execution
Yibo Huang, Yiming Qiu, Daqian Ding, Patrick Tser Jern Kon, Yiwen Zhang, Yuzhou Mao, Archit Bhatnagar, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Srinivas Devadas, Jiarong Xing, Ang Chen
HotNets '25 PDF
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Experience

Graduate Student Research Assistant
UseSys Lab, University of Michigan, advised by Ang Chen
Aug 2024 - PresentAnn Arbor, USA
  • Working on cloud computing, networked systems, and security.
  • Building systems at the intersection of AIOps and formal methods for efficient, reliable clouds; designed a cryptographic protocol to secure online-advertising auctions.
Research Assistant
Systems & Networking Lab, NUS, advised by Ben Leong
Aug 2023 - Jul 2024Singapore
  • Designed a novel in-network queuing mechanism for approximate performance isolation using programmable switches, validated with ns-3.
  • Built and verified components for a P4Campus-like infrastructure for Internet measurements at the NUS School of Computing.
Research Intern
Communication & Internet Research Lab, NUS, advised by Chan Mun Choon
Jan 2023 - Jun 2023Singapore
  • Secured in-band control channels via authenticated encryption (ASCON cipher suite) on programmable switches.
  • Offloaded core 5G Centralized-Unit functions onto Tofino switches, improving median CU latency by up to 80×. Published as a SIGCOMM poster.
Intern
Samsung Research Institute, Device Solutions Group
Jun 2022 - Jul 2022Delhi, India
  • Worked on USB Video Class (UVC) specifications for webcams, USB cameras, and streaming devices.
  • Integrated support for temporally-encoded video formats (H.264) into UVC 1.1.
Research Intern
LiveSmart (AI-healthcare startup)
Feb 2022 - May 2022Remote
  • Developed a vision-based model to detect joint-mobility problems in seniors using gait recognition.
  • Designed motion characteristics achieving 96% detection accuracy.
Research Intern
CSIR-CEERI
May 2021 - Jul 2021Chennai, India (Remote)
  • Implemented Local Binary Patterns (CLBP & MRELBP) in TensorFlow for texture classification.
  • Improved accuracy from 86% to 91% using Bilinear CNNs on an AlexNet backbone.
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Education

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering, advised by Ang Chen
Aug 2024 - PresentAnn Arbor, USA
Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani
B.E. (Hons.) in Computer Science, thesis at NUS on securing in-band communication with programmable switches
Aug 2019 - Jun 2023Pilani, India
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Talks

Secure Vickrey Auctions for Online Advertising
NSDI '26 May 2026, Renton, WA paper page
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Contact

Always happy to chat about systems, networking, and security.

@Archit_Bh (DM me)
github.com/archit-bhatnagar