Romil Bhardwaj

Romil Bhardwaj

I'm a co-founder of SkyPilot, an open-source platform to accelerate frontier AI workloads. It began as research at UC Berkeley's RISE/Sky Lab and now runs workloads for some of the world's most ambitious AI teams.

I completed my PhD in computer science at UC Berkeley, advised by Ion Stoica, working on scheduling and resource management for large-scale ML systems. Earlier, I was a Research Fellow at Microsoft Research, spending time making GPU time-slicing, checkpointing and migration efficient for large-scale training.

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Research
Romil Bhardwaj, Kirthevasan Kandasamy, Asim Biswal, Wenshuo Guo, Benjamin Hindman, Joseph Gonzalez, Michael Jordan, Ion Stoica
OSDI ’23·paper·code
Zongheng Yang, Zhanghao Wu, Michael Luo, Wei-Lin Chiang, Romil Bhardwaj, Woosuk Kwon, Siyuan Zhuang, Frank Sifei Luan, Gautam Mittal, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica
NSDI ’23·paper·github·docs·press
Romil Bhardwaj, Alexey Tumanov, Stephanie Wang, Richard Liaw, Philipp Moritz, Robert Nishihara, Ion Stoica
SoCC ’22·paper·slides·poster·blog
Romil Bhardwaj, Zhengxu Xia, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Junchen Jiang, Yuanchao Shu, Nikolaos Karianakis, Kevin Hsieh, Victor Bahl, Ion Stoica
NSDI ’22·paper·code·slides·blog·patent
Ujval Misra, Richard Liaw, Lisa Dunlap, Romil Bhardwaj, Kirthevasan Kandasamy, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Ion Stoica, Alexey Tumanov
EuroSys ’21·paper·video
Richard Liaw, Romil Bhardwaj, Lisa Dunlap, Yitian Zou, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Ion Stoica, Alexey Tumanov
SoCC ’19·paper·slides·code
Wencong Xiao*, Romil Bhardwaj*, Ramachandran Ramjee, Muthian Sivathanu, Nipun Kwatra, Zhenhua Han, Pratyush Patel, Xuan Peng, Hanyu Zhao, Quanlu Zhang, Fan Yang, Lidong Zhou
OSDI ’18·paper·poster
Romil Bhardwaj, Gopi Krishna Tummala, Ganesan Ramalingam, Ramachandran Ramjee, Prasun Sinha
BuildSys ’17·best paper & best demo·paper·slides·demo·patent
Romil Bhardwaj, Krishna Chintalapudi, Ramachandran Ramjee
NSDI ’17·paper·slides·talk·patent
Romil Bhardwaj, Gaurav Goswami, Richa Singh, Mayank Vatsa
ICB ’15·paper·visualization
Gaurav Goswami, Romil Bhardwaj, Richa Singh, Mayank Vatsa
IJCB ’14·paper
* co-primary authors
Elsewhere

I wrote Kubernetes for Grad Students (slides), a hands-on tutorial I subjected RISELab members to every semester.

Taught CS 182: Deep Neural Networks as a GSI at UC Berkeley, and was Head TA for Intro to Probability & Statistics at IIIT-Delhi.