His research seeks to address efficiency bottlenecks and capability shortcomings of processing platforms for big data. His work on scaling on-chip interconnection networks to thousands of cores was selected as an IEEE Micro Top Pick. He is a Google Faculty Research Award recipient for 2014. Grot received his PhD in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin in 2011 and spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow at the Parallel Systems Architecture Lab at EPFL.