Sayan Sinha

I am a PhD student in the Georgia Tech College of Computing, advised by Prof B. Aditya Prakash and working closely with Prof Vyas Sekar (CMU). My research focuses on troubleshooting internet-scale networked systems by surfacing actionable insights.

education & experience

Summer 2025	Research intern at Conviva
Summer 2024	Data scientist intern at Apple
Summer 2022	Applied scientist intern at Amazon Science
2021 - Ongoing	PhD student at Georgia Tech
2020 - 2021	Research Engineer at OnePlus India
2016 - 2020	Bachelor of Technology (Hons.) in Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur

selected publications

AHA: Scalable Alternative History Analysis for Operational Timeseries Applications

Harshavardhan Kamarthi, Harshil Shah, Henry Milner, and 4 more authors

In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2026

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@inproceedings{aha2026,
  title = {AHA: Scalable Alternative History Analysis for Operational Timeseries Applications},
  author = {Kamarthi, Harshavardhan and Shah, Harshil and Milner, Henry and Sinha, Sayan and Li, Yan and Prakash, B. Aditya and Sekar, Vyas},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining},
  year = {2026},
}

MoCE: A Mixture-of-Context Aware Experts Framework for Troubleshooting Internet-scale Services

Vipul Harsh, Sayan Sinha, Harshavardhan Kamarthi, and 4 more authors

In Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, 2026

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@inproceedings{moce2026,
  title = {MoCE: A Mixture-of-Context Aware Experts Framework for Troubleshooting Internet-scale Services},
  author = {Harsh, Vipul and Sinha, Sayan and Kamarthi, Harshavardhan and Milner, Henry and Prakash, B. Aditya and Sekar, Vyas and Zhang, Hui},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation},
  year = {2026},
}

Automatically Surfacing Opportunities for Improvements In Internet-Scale Applications

Vipul Harsh, Sayan Sinha, Henry Milner, and 4 more authors

In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, 2025

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@inproceedings{hotnets25,
  title = {Automatically Surfacing Opportunities for Improvements In Internet-Scale Applications},
  author = {Harsh, Vipul and Sinha, Sayan and Milner, Henry and Wu, Haijie and Prakash, B. Aditya and Sekar, Vyas and Zhang, Hui},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks},
  year = {2025},
}

NARMADA: Need and Available Resource Managing Assistant for Disasters and Adversities

Kaustubh Hiware*, Ritam Dutt*, Sayan Sinha, and 3 more authors

In Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media, 2020

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@inproceedings{hiware2020narmada,
  title = {NARMADA: Need and Available Resource Managing Assistant for Disasters and Adversities},
  author = {Hiware*, Kaustubh and Dutt*, Ritam and Sinha, Sayan and Patro, Sohan and Ghosh, Kripa and Ghosh, Saptarshi},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media},
  pages = {15--24},
  year = {2020},
}

Hybrid path planner for efficient navigation in urban road networks through analysis of trajectory traces

Sayan Sinha, Mehul Kumar Nirala, Shreya Ghosh, and 1 more author

In 2018 24th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2018

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@inproceedings{sinha2018hybrid,
  title = {Hybrid path planner for efficient navigation in urban road networks through analysis of trajectory traces},
  author = {Sinha, Sayan and Nirala, Mehul Kumar and Ghosh, Shreya and Ghosh, Soumya K},
  booktitle = {2018 24th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)},
  pages = {3250--3255},
  year = {2018},
  organization = {IEEE},
}