(Former) Research Group

Ph.D. Students

Alumni/Past Mentees

Postdocs and Staff

• Hasniuj (Pollobi) Zahan, Software engineering/research staff, August 2023 - December 2023. Currently: Systems administrator at the University of Nebraska.

• Ihsan Ali, Postdoc, August 2022 - July 2023.  Currently: Lecturer at Kansas State University.

Ph.D. students

• Md Washik Al Azad, January 2020 - May 2025, Currently: Software Engineer at Google

• Adrian-Cristian (Chris) Nicolaescu, Ph.D. student co-supervised with Miguel Rio and Ioannis Psaras at University College London (UCL), March 2020 - May 2023. Currently: Postdoc at the University of Bristol, Senior Research Associate at Rowden Technologies.

M. S. students

• Ryan Hartung, M.S. student, University of Notre Dame, August 2024 - December 2024. Currently: PhD student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame.

• Shahbaz Ali Khan, M.S. student, University of Notre Dame, August 2023 - May 2024. Currently: Senior AI Data Engineer at Eli Lilly and Company.

• Zanxiang Yin, M.S. student, University of Notre Dame, August 2023 - May 2024. Currently: Software Engineer at Teamworthy Ventures. Currently: Software Engineer at Teamworthy Ventures.

• Hasniuj (Pollobi) Zahan, M.S. student, University of Nebraska, August 2021 - May 2023. Currently: Systems administrator at the University of Nebraska.

• Shifat Sarwar, M.S. student, University of Nebraska, October 2021 - May 2023. Currently: Research data analyst at the University of Nebraska.

• Pubudu Wijesooriya, M.S. student, University of Nebraska, August 2021 - May 2023 . Currently: Software engineer at Election Systems & Software.

• Bhavana Gopisetty, M.S. student, University of Nebraska, January 2020 - May 2021. Currently: Software engineer at Salesforce.

• Kimberly Chou, M.S. student, UCLA, September 2017 - September 2018. Currently: Senior business intelligence developer at Optum. 

• Akshay Raman, M.S. student, UCLA, September 2017 - June 2018. Currently: Senior software engineer at Meta. 

• Jungbeom Lee, M.S. student, UCLA, March 2018 - June 2018. Currently: Software engineer at iSharingSoft. 

• Lakshmi Rajesh, M.S. student, UCLA, March 2018 - June 2018. Currently: Software engineer at Microsoft. 

• Xin Xu, M.S. student, UCLA, September 2017 - June 2018. Currently: Senior software engineer at Google. 

• Michael Sweatt, M.S. student, UCLA, January 2015 - June 2016. Currently: Lead software  engineer at Citadel. 

High-school students

• William Namgyal, high-school student, University of Notre Dame, June 2023 - August 2023.

• Jonathan Lee, high school student, affiliated with the New Mexico State University, February 2019 - January 2020, co-supervised with and Abderrahmen Mtibaa and Satyajayant Misra. Currently: Undergraduate student in Computer Science at Duke University, lead systems engineer at lava.xyz, core engineer at DEX labs.

Visitors and interns

• Diego Arceo Felix, summer intern from Universidad Panamericana, June 2023 - July 2023.

• Fernan Enrique Cetina Escalante, summer intern from Universidad Autonoma De Yucatan, June 2023 - July 2023.

• Aarón Velazquez Gurrola, summer intern from the University of Guadalajara, June 2023 - July 2023.

• Kevin Raymundo Sanchez Gutierrez, summer intern from Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla, June 2023 - July 2023.

• Rafael Patiño Goji, summer intern from Universidad Panamericana, June 2023 - July 2023.

• Ana María Acosta Pacheco, summer intern from Escuela Superior de Cómputo, July 2023 - August 2023. 

• Peter Rong, visiting student, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, July 2018-September 2018. 

• Satyanarayana Vusirikala, visiting student, IIT Guwahati, June 2016 - September 2016. Currently: Ph.D. student at the University of Texas, Austin, senior research engineer at Aptos Lab