Afsara Benazir
Scholar

Afsara Benazir

Google Scholar ID: Nu1XcAMAAAAJ
Computer Science PhD student @UVa
SystemsMachine LearningOn-device learningResource EfficiencySpeech
Citations & Impact
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Citations
15
 
H-index
2
 
i10-index
0
 
Publications
7
 
Co-authors
3
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Published papers in SIGMETRICS’26, SEC’25, MobiSys’24, SOSP’25; Presented posters and won awards such as faculty+audience choice award at UVa CS research symposium 2025; Served as an artifact reviewer for PPoPP 2025.
Research Experience
  • Seeking Spring/Summer AI/System Internship opportunities for 2026. Mentored 2 Charlottesville high school students in Spring’25 developing an engineering capstone project.
Education
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia, advised by Prof. Felix Xiaozhu Lin; B.Sc. in Computer Science from BUET (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology) in 2021.
Background
  • Currently a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia, with research interests in Systems X Machine Learning, particularly Efficient ML, On-Device AI and Foundation LLMs, Speech (Execution of deep models on-device & user privacy), Performance modeling across heterogeneous hardware.
Miscellany
  • No personal interests mentioned