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Team

Machnet is built by a team of systems researchers focused on making high-performance networking accessible on public cloud infrastructure.

Core Team​

Alireza Sanaee — Systems Researcher Expert in Linux kernel internals, virtualization, and energy-aware systems. Alireza brings deep experience from working with QEMU and has contributed to high-performance I/O and VM-level optimizations. He leads the architecture of Machnet.

Farbod Shahinfar — Systems Researcher Focused on network stack optimization, kernel-bypass systems, and cloud-native performance. Farbod contributes to Machnet's design and evaluation across real-world workloads.

Vahab Jabrayilov — Systems Researcher Specializes in low-latency network systems and performance benchmarking. Vahab works on integrating Machnet with containerized and cloud environments.

Technical Advisors​

Gianni Antichi — Senior Lecturer at Polimi and QMUL. Expert in programmable networks and NIC offloading. Provides architectural guidance and research direction.

Kostis Kaffes — Assistant Professor at Columbia University. Research interests in computer systems and resource management.

Alumni​

We are grateful to these contributors who helped shape earlier versions of Machnet:

  • Ilias Marinos — Kernel networking and virtualization research.
  • Anuj Kalia — Creator of eRPC, kernel-bypass systems at CMU and Microsoft Research.
  • Prateesh Goyal — Cloud computing, latency reduction, and distributed systems.

Interested in contributing? Check out our Contributing Guide or join us on Discord.