Manya is the CEO and Founder of Systalyze and an associate professor in the EECS department at MIT. Manya’s research focuses on building efficient systems for machine learning and high-performance cloud infrastructure. For the past seven years, Manya has been at the forefront of AI efficiency research, pioneering techniques to make AI models faster, more efficient, and more sustainable. Now, she is bringing that expertise to the industry through Systalyze by delivering enterprise-ready AI optimization solutions. By helping organizations maximize their AI investments while reducing computational costs and energy consumption, Manya is bridging the gap between cutting-edge research and real-world impact (more about Manya's research).

Manya’s work has been recognized by the Sloan Fellowship in Computer Science, ACM SIGCOMM Rising Star award, ACM-W Rising Star Award, NSF CAREER award, Optica Simmons Memorial Speakership award, best paper award at the Machine Learning Systems (MLSys) conference, as well as the best dataset, and best paper awards at the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC). Manya received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and spent a few years at Microsoft Research and Google prior to joining MIT.