Ankush Jain

Systems PhD Student at CMU PDL, advised by George Amvrosiadis. Migrated from Medium because it wouldn’t support Markdown.

2026/06/24: I have graduated. My day job is now scaling out Unity Catalog at Databricks. Biographical portions of this website are stale.

My interests are all things systems. Over the course of my (long) grad school tenure, I have worked on various aspects of large scientific applications — streaming data indexing, placement and scheduling, performance analysis and optimization, although my biggest nemesis has been debugging and tuning infiniband. Over time, I have become interested in building systems to collect, analyze, and reason about systems performance.

As a side gig, I fuss over my 2014 Mazda 3 and my homemade ebike, geek out in the intersection of economics and data analysis, and try to optimize my nutrition profile.