Tapan Chugh
Tapan Chugh

About me

I am a PhD student at the University of Washington, where I am advised by Arvind Krishnamurthy and Ratul Mahajan. I am broadly interested in distributed systems and machine learning systems. My thesis research revolves around designing performance models and algorithms to optimize resource efficiency in large-scale machine learning deployments. My ongoing projects seek to improve the quality and efficiency of long context generations in large language models.

My academic journey has been complemented by valuable practical experiences: I am actively contributing to the Model Context Protocol specification and open-source projects in that ecosystem. Until June 2025, I was a student researcher at Systems Research @ Google. Previously, I collaborated with Srikanth Kandula and Ishai Menache as a research intern and visitor at Microsoft Research. Before starting my PhD, I spent two years as a Research Fellow at Microsoft Research India working with Muthian Sivathanu.

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Papers

Also on Google Scholar. Full CV (PDF).

Elsewhere

GitHub · X · Google Scholar · CV (PDF)

Email: tapanc@cs.washington.edu