Ertza Warraich

I build systems and architectures for large-scale AI, currently building a startup!

Previously, I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Purdue University, where I worked in the PurNET and NextGArch labs under the supervision of Prof. Muhammad Shahbaz and Prof. Sonia Fahmy. I was also a visiting scholar in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. My research focuses on distributed systems, networking, and the infrastructure that powers modern machine learning.

Ertza Warraich

01. Latest News

July 2026
Feather Accepted at SIGCOMM 2026 (NAIC Workshop)
April 2026
mrLLM Accepted at NSDI 2026 (Poster Session)
February 2026
Presented OptiNIC at OCP TAP (Invited Talk)
January 2026
Serving on Program Committees (APNet, ICNP, MICRO, NetFabAI) and NSF CORE Review Panel
December 2025
Presented OptiNIC at DARPA/SRC ACE Industry Liaison Meeting (Invited)
December 2025
Defended Ph.D. in Computer Science at Purdue University

02. Selected Publications

OptiNIC: A Resilient and Tail-Optimal RDMA NIC for Distributed ML Workloads

Ertza Warraich, Ali Imran, Annus Zulfiqar, Shay Vargaftik, Sonia Fahmy, Muhammad Shahbaz

Under submission

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Get in Touch

I'm always open to discussing research collaborations, interesting problems in systems and AI infrastructure, or just saying hello.

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