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Avani Wildani Avani Wildani
Research Manager

Avani manages North American research projects at Cloudflare Research, and also maintains an affiliation as visiting assistant professor of computer science and neuroscience at Emory University. Her past positions include being a faculty member in computer science, a postdoc in neural computing, and a professional video game player. She holds a B.S. from Harvey Mudd College, M.S. from the University of New Mexico, and Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Avani's research interests lie in understanding the relationships between information and knowledge, encompassing measurement and data collection, data mining, and high performance information storage over time along with associated projects in environmental prediction and neural computability. At Cloudflare, she leads efforts to better understand and improve data movement at scale, future proof the internet, and collaborate with the greater academic community.

She also is the creator of Project Hypatia, a forum to collect and disseminate research driven by female or non-binary presenting scientists, as well as a fellow of and frequent speaker at Odd Salon San Francisco, a speaker series with the tag line "expert talks on odd topics; odd talks on everything else".

Research Areas

Storage Systems, Caching, Workload Modeling, Data Mining, Neural Computability

Projects

Publications

2025Kneeliverse: A universal knee-detection library for performance curves

SoftwareX, 30, 102161
Mario Antunes, Tyler Estro, Pranav Bhandari, Anshul Gandhi, Geoff Kuenning, Yifei Liu, Carl Waldspurger, Avani Wildani, Erez Zadok

2025Beyond Guess and Check: Quantifying the Fidelity of Proxy Applications

Proceedings of the SC'25 Workshops of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (best paper)
Si Chen, Simon Garcia de Gonzalo, Omar Aziz, Jeanine Cook, Avani Wildani

2025Valet: Efficient Data Placement on Modern SSDs

ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2025 (best paper)
Devashish R. Purandare, Peter Alvaro, Avani Wildani, Darrell D. E. Long, Ethan L. Miller

2025Efficient intrusion detection via heterogeneous graph attention networks and parallel provenance analysis

Computer Networks, Volume 270, 111552, ISSN 1389-1286
Lin Wu, Yu-Lai Xie, Shi-Xun Zhao, Pan Zhou, Dan Feng, Avani Wildani, Ya-Yeng Wu

2025Rethinking Web Cache Design for the AI Era

ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2025
Yazhou Zhang, Jinqing Cai, Avani Wildani, Ana Klimovic

2024Accelerating multi-tier storage cache simulations using knee detection

Journal of Performance Evaluation, 164, 102410
Mario Antunes, Tyler Estro, Pranav Bhandari, Anshul Gandhi, Geoff Kuenning, Yifei Liu, Carl Waldspurger, Avani Wildani, Erez Zadok

2024PreSight: A Vision for an Instantaneous Web

Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Practical Adoption Challenges of ML for Systems, November 4–6, 2024, Austin, TX, USA
Isaac Khor, Suleman Ahmad, Avani Wildani

2024Rethinking the Networking Stack for Serverless Environments: A Sidecar Approach

Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing
Vishwanath Seshagiri, Abhinav Gupta, Vahab Jabrayilov, Avani Wildani, Kostis Kaffes

2023Guiding simulations of multi-tier storage caches using knee detection

2023 31st International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), pages 1-8
Mario Antunes, Tyler Estro, Pranav Bhandari, Anshul Gandhi, Geoff Kuenning, Yifei Liu, Carl Waldspurger, Avani Wildani, Erez Zadok

2023Portunus: Re-imagining access control in distributed systems

2023 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC 23), pp. 35-52, Boston, MA, 2023.
Watson Ladd, Marloes Venema, Tanya Verma, Armando Faz-Hernandez, Brendan McMillion, Avani Wildani, Nick Sullivan