Ludmila Cherkasova
Principal Research Scientist at ARM Research
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLudmila Cherkasova is a Principal Research Scientist with over two decades of experience designing and deploying performance-driven distributed systems, currently shaping future Arm technologies from Palo Alto. She blends deep academic rigor—PhD-level research, >100 publications, >100 patents (79 granted), ACM Distinguished Scientist—with hands-on product impact, having transferred multiple prototypes into HP and ARM products and open-sourced tools like the Quartz NVM emulator. A proven leader of geographically distributed R&D teams, she focuses on automation, capacity planning, resource allocation, and performance management for large-scale data-intensive and edge/IoT environments. Her work uniquely spans systems measurement, predictive modeling, and practical scalability improvements (e.g., Spark/Hadoop optimizations and workload consolidation) that have yielded 30–50% resource savings in deployments. An experienced mentor and speaker with seven best-paper awards and a Test of Time Award, she also has an Erdös number of 3, reflecting deep academic connectivity.
9 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at NSU
English, Russian
Github Skills (4)
x868
xmake8
nvm7
quartz6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
HewlettPackard/quartz
Jun 2016 - Oct 2016
Quartz: A DRAM-based performance emulator for NVM
Contributions:18 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
emulatordramperformancex86quartz
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