Sai Achalla

Hello! I'm a second-year PhD student at UCLA, advised by Sam Kumar and Remy Wang.

I'm broadly interested in building efficient, large scale systems.

I studied computer science during my undergrad at UC Berkeley. I was involved with the SkyLab where I was fortunate to work with Conor Power and Prof. Joe Hellerstein. I'm extremely grateful for their advice in every aspect of my academic journey.

Fun Fact: I'm from Francistown, Botswana. If you know where that is, your geography knowledge is pretty impressive!

Now, being from Botswana, I go on a lot of wildlife safaris and by extension, have captured some memorable moments. I am by no means a professional photographer but most of the pictures I take have a story behind them. If you're interested please check out my photography page.

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Blog

Some cool things about the Learning with Errors problem

Research

We explore how a shell that uses an LLM to accept natural language input might be designed differently from the shells of today.

We reconcile the use of semi-lattices in CRDTs and the use of groups and rings in incremental view maintenance to construct systems with strong eventual consistency, incremental computation, and database query optimization.

Teaching

Work Experience

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