About

Researching the systems behind AI.

TheCloudLab is an AI infrastructure research lab at Santa Clara University focused on the computing systems that make modern AI practical, efficient, and scalable.

Our work spans the path from incoming requests to accelerators and distributed execution. We study how networking, systems software, and specialized hardware can reduce latency, improve throughput, and use computing resources more efficiently.

Areas of interest

Research directions include LLM inference and serving, semantic routing, cache and data movement, DPU and SmartNIC acceleration, high-performance networking, and distributed systems. These areas evolve as hardware and research questions change.

How we work

The lab combines measurement, prototyping, and systems experimentation across heterogeneous compute and network hardware. We build and evaluate end-to-end systems, from kernel and data-plane components to orchestration and model-serving software.