Sagar Patel

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I am a 4th year PhD Candidate in Computer Science at University of California, Irvine, advised by Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi. Prior, I completed my B.S in Computer Science at Texas A&M University, where I had the pleasure to work with James Caverlee. I am broadly interested in developing machine learning solutions for computer networks and systems, working to address performance, explainability and safety. I also love coffee and hiking tall mountains.

Email: sagarRAND.patelRANDO@uciRANDOM.edu

Curriculum vitae

Research

Towards Future-Based Explanations for Deep RL Network Controllers

Sagar Patel, Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, Nina Narodytska

ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, 2023

Paper

CrystalBox: Future-Based Explanations for Input-Driven Deep RL Systems

Sagar Patel, Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, Nina Narodytska

The 38th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-24)

Paper

Code

Slides

Plume: A Framework for High Performance Deep RL Network Controllers via Prioritized Trace Sampling

Sagar Patel, Junyang Zhang, Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, Nina Narodytska

arxiv (preprint), 2023

Paper

Talks

Towards Future-Based Explanations for DRL Controllers

SIGMETRICS Workshop on Measurements for Self-Driving Networks

Jun 2023

VMware Research

Aug 2022

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science

University of California, Irvine

Sep 2020 — Present

M.S in Computer Science

University of California, Irvine

Sep 2020 — Jun 2022

B.S in Computer Science

Texas A&M University

Aug 2017 — May 2020

Experience

Professional Experience

VMware Research, Palo Alto

Research Intern

Jun 2023 — Sep 2023

Research Intern

Jun 2022 — Sep 2022

Teaching Experience

University of California, Irvine

Teaching Assistant

Sep 2020 — Present

CS 201P: Computer Security

Spring 2024

CS 256: Systems and ML

Fall 2022

ICS 45C: Programming in C/C++

Spring 2021, Winter 2021

ICS 32: Python Libraries

Fall 2020, Summer 2021, Spring 2023

Texas A&M University

Peer Teacher

Aug 2019 — Dec 2019

CSCE 121: C++ Libraries

Fall 2019

CSCE 206: Programming in C

Fall 2019

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