Sagar Karandikar

Sagar Karandikar is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on hardware/software co-design for hyperscale cloud data centers, with an emphasis on hardware accelerator and server system-on-chip design, full-stack system optimization, and agile, open-source AI/ML-infused hardware development methodologies. His work is part of the SpeciaLIzed Computing Ecosystems (SLICE) Lab at Berkeley. Karandikar has received several recognitions, including the 2025 ACM SIGARCH/IEEE CS TCCA Outstanding Dissertation Award for advancing agile hardware/software co-design tools and deploying them at a hyperscaler. He also holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

Sagar Karandikar is an Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley, specializing in Computer Architecture, Computer Systems, and VLSI. His research focuses on developing tools and frameworks for custom SoC design, system simulation, and hardware acceleration. Key projects include the Rocket Chip Generator, Chipyard, FireSim, and BOSS, which aim to enhance the efficiency and scalability of hardware and software systems. His work addresses challenges in resource disaggregation, protocol acceleration, and full-system simulation, with applications in hyperscale data centers and embedded systems. Karandikar's research emphasizes the integration of hardware and software for performance optimization and energy efficiency.