I am blind without curious, loving eyes.

Luriana Lurilee, Charles Isaac Elton, 1899.

First, please enjoy this hand-coloured engraving of a China Rose and a little poem I found in Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse. This stanza is my favorite piece to read before I sleep.

Currently, I am a PhD student at Georgia Tech, advised by Prof. Moin Qureshi in the Future Architecture and Systems Lab. Previously, I was a Research Fellow at Microsoft for a little short of 2 years.

I engage in systems for ML and computer architecture research.

China rose (Rosa semperflorens), hand-coloured engraving from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, plate 284, 1794

I wonder if it seems to you
Luriana Lurilee
That all the lives we ever lived
And all the lives to be,
Are full of trees and waving leaves,
Luriana Lurilee.

Rosa Chinensis by William Curtis, 1794

What I Do

Research Interests

    My research focuses on enabling hardware-efficient AI inference through the mediums of algorithms, systems and computer architecture.

Work Experience

  • Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK May 2026 – Aug 2026
    • Fault tolerance for disaggregated decode: the impact of network link and device failures on decode throughput and tail latencies.
    • Developed cost-effective scale-out network topologies for disaggregated inference, resilient to network failures at datacenter scale.
  • Research Fellow, Microsoft Research, Bangalore, India Jan 2024 – Jul 2025
    • Developed LeanAttention, a hardware-aware scalable attention execution mechanism that accelerates attention by 2.6x over FlashAttention-2
    • Published research paper and filed patents on novel techniques to improve the efficiency of LLM inference.

Publications

Papers & Posters

Patents

  • Hardware-aware attention mechanism with dynamic workload distribution for transformer models
    Rya Sanovar, Srikant Bharadwaj, Victor Rühle

Recent News

Rya Sanovar

Rya Sanovar's CV

Email: rsanovar3@gatech.edu
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rya-sanovar
Website: ryasanovar.com

The best way to reach me is email.