Faculty
RCA Professor
Senior Associate Dean, Education and Global Initiatives – School of Engineering and Applied Science
Director, Distributed Systems Laboratory
Department of Computer and Information Science (Primary appointment)
Electrical and Systems Engineering (Secondary appointment)
University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D students
Masters/undergraduate students
- Nupur Baghel (MSc. 2021 alum)
- Isaac Yang (Visiting student from Duke Kunshan University)
PhD/Postdoc alumni
- Dr. Alyssa Hwang (Ph.D. 2025)
- Dr. Bhavana Mehta (Ph.D. 2025, Zyphra AI)
- Dr Heena Nagda (Ph.D. 2025, Research Scientist at Meta)
- Dr. Chenyuan Wu (Ph.D. 2024, Assistant Professor at City University of Hong Kong )
- Dr. Mohammad Javad Amiri (Postdoc 2023, Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University)
- Dr. Haoxian Chen (Ph.D. 2023, Assistant Professor at ShanghaiTech University)
- Dr. Qizhen Zhang (Ph.D. 2022, Microsoft Research -> Assistant Professor at University of Toronto)
- Dr. Lei Shi (Ph.D. 2022, Huawei)
- Dr. Nik Sultana (Postdoc 2021, Assistant Professor at Illinois Institute of Technology)
- Dr. Max Demoulin (Ph.D. 2021, Astronomer -> DBOS Inc.)
- Dr. Behnaz Arzani (PhD. 2017, Microsoft Research)
- Dr. Chen Chen (PhD. 2017, Megagon Labs)
- Dr. Yang Li (PhD. 2017, Meta)
- Dr. Yifei Yuan (PhD. 2016, IntentionNet -> Alibaba)
- Dr. Mengmeng Liu (Ph.D. 2016, Walmart Labs)
- Dr. Dong Lin (Ph.D. 2015, LinkedIn -> Google -> Alibaba -> ByteDance)
- Dr. Zhuoyao Zhang (Ph.D. 2014, Google)
- Dr. Alexander Gurney (Postdoc 2014, Comcast -> Webflow)
- Dr. Anduo Wang (PhD, 2013, Assistant Professor at Temple University -> Associate Professor at Temple University)
- Dr. Changbin Liu (Ph.D. 2012, AT&T -> Termaxia (acquired by Frontiir Inc.) -> VP of Engineering at Frontiir Inc.)
- Dr. Wenchao Zhou (Ph.D. 2012, Associate Professor at Georgetown University -> Alibaba)
- Dr. Micah Sherr (Ph.D. 2009, Professor at Georgetown University)
- Dr. Yun Mao (Ph.D 2008, AT&T -> Meta)
Other alumni (first employment)
- Haoyun Qin (BSc. 2025, Spellbrush, honorable mention for CRA outstanding undergraduate awards)
- Neelesh C A (MSc. 2024, Canopy)
- Prashanth S Iyer (MSc. 2024, ASML)
- Jingyi Li (MSc. 2023, Esri)
- Andrew Zhao (BSc. 2023, MSc. 2023, Ph.D. student at Princeton University)
- Jared Asch (BSc. 2023, Five Rings Capital LLC)
- Brendan Massey (MSc. 2022, Ph.D. in University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- Shubhendra Pal Singhal (MSc. 2022, Ph.D. student at Georgia Institute of Technology)
- Siddharth Sankhe (BSc. 2021)
- Aishwarya Wesanekar (MSc. 2021, Meta)
- Junyong Zhao (MSc. 2021, Ph.D. student at University of Arizona)
- Zachary Zhao (BSc. 2021, Moloco)
- Ruijie Mao (MSc. 2021, Meta)
- Zhilei Zhang (BSc. 2021, Ph.D. student at University of Pennsylvania)
- Liana Patel (BSc. 2021, Ph.D. student at Stanford University)
- Saket Saket (MSc. 2021, 6Sense)
- Stephen Carrasquillo (MSc. 2021, Extron Electronics)
- Heena Nagda (MSc. 2021, Ph.D. student at University of Pennsylvania)
- Rakesh Nagda (MSc. 2020, Frontiir)
- Isaac Pedisich (Staff programmer at DARPA XD3, GrammaTech)
- Henry Zhu (MSc. 2020, Ph.D. student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
- Nishanth Shyamkumar (MSc. 2020, Frontiir)
- Shivani Burad (MSc. 2020, Cisco)
- Garvit Khandelwal (MSc. 2020, Microsoft)
- Manqiu Zhang (MSc. 2020, Amazon)
- Ritika Gupta (MSc. 2020, Facebook)
- Ritvik Sadana (MSc. 2020, Qualcomm)
- Hui Lyu (MSc. 2020, PwC)
- Simran Arora (BSc. 2019, Ph.D. student at Stanford University)
- Shilpi Bose (MSc. 2019, VMware)
- Nishant Prabhu (MSc. 2019, Nutanix)
- Deepika Vasudevan (MSc. 2019, Amazon)
- Saeed Abedi (MSc. 2019, Oracle)
- Yucheng Lu (Ph.D. student at Cornell University)
- Akash Acharya (MSc. 2018, Rivian)
- Anirudh Chelluri (MSc. 2018, Meta)
- Mark Lippincott (MSc. 2018, Netflix)
- Achala Rao (MSc. 2018, Bloomberg)
- Bowen Wang (MSc. 2018, Cohesity)
- Anupam Alur (MSc. 2017, Bloomberg)
- Miao Cheng (MSc. 2017, VMWare)
- Siri Anil (MSc. 2017, Bloomberg)
- Robert Dimaiolo (MSc. 2017, Cognescent)
- Harshal Lehri (MSc. 2017, Google)
- Sajal Marwaha (MSc. 2017, Dataminr)
- Chirag Shah (MSc. 2017, Real Time Innovations)
- Hitali Sheth (MSc. 2017, Oracle)
- Akshay Sriraman (MSc. 2017, Bloomberg)
- Prahalad Venkataramanan (MSc. 2017, Magic Leap)
- Harsh Verma (MSc. 2017, IntentionNet)
- Tengyuan Ye (MSc. 2017, VMware)
- Meryem Essaidi (BSc/MSc. 2016, Ph.D. in Computer Science at Princeton University)
- Jitesh Gupta (MSc. 2016, Microsoft)
- Prithvi Karapa (MSc. 2016, Appian)
- Nicholas Iodice (MSc. 2016, Audible)
- Ankit Mishra (MSc. 2016, Microsoft)
- Sudarshan Muralidhar (BS/MSc. 2016, Igneous Systems)
- Anand Sriramalu (MSc. 2016, Oracle)
- Stuart Wagner (MSc. 2016, Microsoft)
- Priya Venkatraman (MSc. 2016, Microsoft)
- Shanni Xi (MSc. 2016)
- Sibi Vijayakumar (MSc. 2016, GitStar)
- Nikhilesh Behera (MSc. 2016, Taser)
- Jatin Sharma (MSc. 2016, Taser)
- Rahul Nafde (MSc. 2015, ColdLight)
- Sonal Ektaa (MSc. 2015, Goldman Sachs)
- Bo Li (MSc. 2014, Google)
- Sitian Cheng (MSc. 2014, Box)
- Anh Nguyen (BSc. 2014, Co-founder at Netsil)
- Tanveer Gill (MSc. 2014, Co-founder at Netsil)
- Eric Gang Xiang (MSc. 2014, Yahoo)
- Harjot Gill (MSc. 2013, Co-founder at Netsil)
- Yuankai Zhang (MSc. 2013, Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Georgetown University)
- Sandy Sun (BSc. 2013, Box)
- Kenton Lee (BSc. 2013, Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Washington-Seattle)
- Xianglong Han (MSc. 2013, Google)
- Hao Xu (MSc. 2013, Google)
- Ying Zheng (MSC. 2013, Google)
- Sanchit Aggrawal (MSc. 2013, Microsoft)
- Cheng Luo (BSE, MSc. 2012, Harvard University Ph.D. program in Finance)
- Cam Nguyen (BSc. 2012, Co-founder at Netsil)
- Yiqing Ren (MSc. 2012, Georgetown University)
- Suyog Mapara (MSc. 2012, Microsoft)
- Saravana Soundararajan (MSc. 2012, Oracle)
- Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi (MSc. 2012, Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Ren Lu (MSc. 2012, Bank of America)
- Qiong Fei (MSc. 2011, Amazon)
- Taher Saeed (MSc. 2011, DramaFever)
- Qi Zheng (MSc. 2011, Microsoft)
- Saumya Jain (MSc. 2010, Microsoft)
- Xiaozhou Li (MSc. 2010, Ph.D. in Computer Science at Princeton University)
- Shivkumar Muthukumar (MSc. 2010, Amazon)
- Tao Tao (MSc. 2010, Microsoft)
- Andrew Mao (B.Sc 2009, Ph.D. in Computer Science at Harvard University)
- Bill Marczak (B.Sc 2009, Ph.D. in Computer Science at UC Berkeley, honorable mention for CRA outstanding undergraduate awards)
- Mihai Oprea (MSc. 2009)
- Richardo Correa (MSc. 2008, Betchel Engineering)