Vikram Mailthody

Overview

Vikram Mailthody is a researcher who came from the University of Illinois as a student of Wen-mei Hwu and has driven the research side of the GPU-initiated storage project, described by co-presenter CJ Newburn as "a brilliant researcher." At the 2025 OCP Global Summit he presented the emerging data-intensive workloads — recommendation systems and vector databases — that already operate at terabyte-to-petabyte memory footprints and keep growing, motivating the case for GPU-initiated storage and IOPS-optimized SSDs.