Pavani Kuppili is a second-year PhD student at the University of Utah, advised by Prof. Robert Ricci. Her primary research interests lie in the areas of Cloud Computing and Computer Networks, with a strong passion for building and analyzing diverse network topologies. She has been working with Tofino switches and P4 programming as part of the TopoCloud project. She also worked with Prof. Michael Zink at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Prof. Miriam Leeser at the Northeastern University, exploring P4 implementation on FPGAs.