Gauri Joshi
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Gauri Joshi is interested in stochastic modeling and analysis that provides sharp insights into the design of cloud and machine learning infrastructure.
Joshi’s research group is affiliated with the Parallel Data Lab (PDL) at Carnegie Mellon. Before joining CMU in Fall 2017, she was a research staff member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. She completed her Ph.D. from MIT EECS in 2016, and she received her B.Tech. and M. Tech. in electrical engineering from IIT Bombay in 2010.
Making Machine Learning Algorithms More Robust
Education
2016 Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2012 MS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2010 M. Tech, Communications and Signal Processing, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
2009 B. Tech, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Research Interests
- artificial intelligence
- big data
- cloud computing
- computer/storage systems
- data security and privacy
- differential privacy
- Formal methods
- grid and energy infrastructure
- grid-interactive, high-performance, and electrified buildings
- information theory
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- IoT security and privacy
- machine learning
- privacy
- privacy algorithms
- robotics
Media mentions
IEEE Information Theory Society
Joshi named 2025 Goldsmith Lecturer
ECE’s Gauri Joshi has been named the 2025 Goldsmith Lecturer by the IEEE Information Theory Society. As the recipient, Joshi will deliver the Goldsmith Lecture at one of the Society’s Schools of Information Theory, held for the benefit of students and postdoctoral researchers.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
Third round of Future Enterprise Security Initiative funded projects announced
CyLab’s Future Enterprise Security Initiative has announced its third round of funded proposals.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CyLab awards 2024 seed funding
This year, CyLab has awarded $400K in seed funding to 17 CMU students, faculty, and staff members representing five departments at the university.
Office of Naval Research
Joshi receives 2023 Young Investigator Award
ECE’s Gauri Joshi has received the 2023 Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research for her work in data-aware and system-aware algorithms for distributed machine learning. The award was given in the division of Information, Cyber and Spectrum Superiority Code 31.
CMU Engineering
Dean’s Early Career Fellows announced
Five College of Engineering faculty members have been awarded the Dean’s Early Career Fellowship in recognition of their exemplary contributions to their respective fields.
MIT Technology Review
Joshi, Zhang named to MIT Technology Review’s “Innovators Under 35” list
ECE’s Gauri Joshi and Xu Zhang have been named to the MIT Technology Review’s 2022 class of “Innovators Under 35” list, which recognizes the brightest young minds working to tackle today’s biggest technology hurdles.
CMU Engineering
CMU launches initiative to transform nanosatellite capabilities
Researchers at CMU’s College of Engineering are working to develop computationally capable constellations of nanosatellites, equipped with machine learning techniques that extract valuable insights from the data while still in orbit.
CMU Engineering
Joshi to lead CMU’s AI-EDGE team
The mission of the AI-EDGE Institute is to design next-generation intelligent edge networks that are efficient, reliable, robust, and secure.
CMU Engineering
NSF CAREER grants awarded to engineering faculty
Four engineering faculty received NSF CAREER awards to support their education and research goals.
Carnegie Bosch Institute
Engineering faculty receives CBI funding
CEE’s Burcu Akinci and Gerald Wang; CyLab’s Eunsuk Kang; ECE’s Gauri Joshi; EPP’s Alex Davis; and MechE’s Satbir Singh, and Conrad Tucker, and Ding Zhao were awarded funding from the Carnegie Bosch Institute.
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Joshi wins best paper award
ECE’s Gauri Joshi won a best paper award at the Association for Computing Machinery’s annual SIGMETRICS conference.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
First round of Secure and Private IoT Initiative funded projects announced
CyLab’s Secure and Private IoT Initiative (IoT@CyLab) has broken ground as the first round of funded proposals have been announced. Twelve selected projects will be funded for one year, and results will be presented at the IoT@CyLab annual summit next year.