Milind Srivastava
RMCIC 2224B
4720 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
I’m a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University, and am extremely fortunate to be advised by Vyas Sekar. I work on building systems that leverage sketch-based approximation to reduce the cost and improve the interactivity of data analytics workloads. Prior to this, I worked on building systems that can automatically find and exploit vulnerabilities in network firewalls. I did my undergrad in Computer Science at IIT Madras. I am a big proponent of making research into usable open-source artifacts.
I am one of the leads and core architects of ProjectASAP, a grand vision project to democratize the benefits of approximate summaries for big data analytics workloads. We released FlinkSketch, a library of sketching algorithms for the Flink streaming engine. Stay tuned for more open source releases from ProjectASAP :)
Outside work, I love cooking, biking, and hiking. I’m also an aviation nerd and would like to get a pilot’s license someday.
Recent Talks
- [Oct 2025] FlinkSketch: Democratizing the Benefits of Sketches for the Flink Community - Current 2025 [Video and Slides]
- [Oct 2024] Reducing Your AWS Analytics Cost by 10x Using Principled Approximation - Current 2024 [Video and Slides]
- [Aug 2024] Re-imagining Network Telemetry from an Approximation-First Perspective - SIGCOMM SRC 2024 (Awarded first prize) [Abstract]