Rachit Agarwal

Rachit Agarwal is an associate professor of computer science at Cornell University. His primary research interests are in systems and networking. He is also interested in theoretical problems arising out of building practical systems. Agarwal’s research has been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship, an NSF CAREER award, a Kavli Fellowship with the National Academy of Sciences, an IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize, and multiple best paper awards at SIGCOMM and Usenix Security. He received the 2025 Tau Beta Pi Professor of the Year Award and the James and Mary Tien Excellence in Teaching, the highest teaching award from Cornell Engineering for sustained excellence and innovation in engineering education.

Rachit Agarwal is a researcher at Cornell University specializing in Systems, Networking, and Distributed systems. His work focuses on improving datacenter networking, storage systems, and network debugging tools. Agarwal has published extensively on topics such as network design, data plane debugging, and distributed storage. His research includes developing systems for efficient data transfer, congestion control, and storage performance optimization. He has also explored the design of network architectures for disaggregated racks and the implementation of elastic query engines. His contributions span both theoretical and practical advancements in networking and distributed systems.