Sambhav Satija

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I am a fifth year PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison working with Prof. Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau and Prof. Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau. I am broadly interested in systems and security.

Sadly, I spend most summers, arguably the best time of the year, away from Madison. On the bright side, I get to dabble in real-world projects through internships. In 2022, I worked at Microsoft Research with Badrish Chandramouli on Garnet. In 2024, I built data retention pipelines at Kloudfuse. And in 2025, I was part of Meta's recommender systems team, helping migrate safely to declarative APIs.

Before this, I was a Research Fellow at Microsoft Research, India with Satya Lokam, Muthian Sivathanu, Nishanth Chandran and Divya Gupta where I worked on building a new lightweight blockchain protocol.

I had a short stint in the industry working at Tower Research Capital managing their build tools and interned at Google in their Enterprise team. Prior to that, I built and broke stuff in hackathons and CTFs.

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