Faculty

Abhishek Chandra

Abhishek Chandra

Abhishek Chandra is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering. His research interests are in the areas of Operating Systems and Distributed Systems. He received his B.Tech. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Jon Weissman

Jon Weissman

Jon Weissman is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering. His current research interests are in distributed systems, high-performance computing, and resource management. He has a PhD in computer science from the University of Virginia.


PhD Students

Rankyung Hong

Rankyung Hong

Rankyung Hong is a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering. Her research interests include distributed deep learning systems.

Nikhil Sreekumar

Nikhil Sreekumar

Nikhil Sreekumar is a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering. His research interests include distributed systems, storage in edge computing and distributed data structures.

Yixuan Wang

Yixuan Wang

Yixuan Wang is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering. Her research interests include distributed systems, especially in Machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and related securty.

Mitch Terrell

Mitch Terrell

Mitch Terrell is a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering. He is also a full time Firmware Design Engineer at Boston Scientific. His research interests include distributed systems and machine learning.


Undergraduate Students

Kanishk Kacholia

Kanishk Kacholia

Kanishk Kacholia is a current undergraduate in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering. His research interests currently focus on cloud computing, machine learning, databases, and low-level computing.


Former Students

Joel Wolfrath

Class of 2024

Ph.D. in Computer Science

Software Engineer @ AWS

Dorota Kopczyk

Class of 2024

M.S. in Computer Science

Software Engineer @ Sandia Labs

Anirudh Achanta

Class of 2023

M.S. in Computer Science

Data Scientist @ ZScaler

Sumanth Kaushik Vishwanath

Class of 2023

M.S. in Computer Science

Software Engineer @ Whova

Mohamed Aboushanab

Class of 2023

B.S. in Computer Science

Firmware Engineer @ Boston Scientific

Minrui Tian

Class of 2023

B.S. in Computer Science

Ph.D. Student @ Rutgers University

Sponsors: NSF

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