Esha Choukse

About Esha Choukse

Esha Choukse is a Principal Researcher in the Azure Research — Systems (AzRS) group at Microsoft. Her research focuses on efficient and sustainable AI across the computing stack, spanning agents and LLMs, AI platforms, hardware, and datacenter-scale infrastructure. She is a recipient of the ACM SIGMICRO Early Career Award for foundational contributions to hardware memory compression and to sustainable and efficient datacenter systems. Her papers have received three Micro Top Picks, and an HPCA Best Paper Award. Several of her projects, including Splitwise and power stabilization in AI training datacenters, have had far-reaching impact on the research community and are deployed broadly across industry. Esha received her Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin in 2019 and has published extensively in leading venues including ISCA, ASPLOS, MICRO, HPCA, NSDI, and SC. She is currently serving as the Associate Editor for Computer Architecture Letters (CAL).

Experience

1. Principal Researcher

   Microsoft

   Jan 2024 — Present

   Efficient AI

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

  B.Tech., Electronics and Electrical Communication, Minor in Computer Science

• The University of Texas at Austin

  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Architecture

Skills

• Computer Architecture
• Mysql
• Machine Learning
• Php
• Verilog
• Javascript
• Operating Systems
• Ajax
• Html
• Css
• Linux
• Web Development
• C++
• Embedded Systems
• Image Processing
• Algorithms
• C
• Programming
• Matlab