People

Faculty

Prashant Shenoy
Distinguished Professor

Research Staff

Emmanuel Cecchet
Research Scientist
Li (Lilly) Wu
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Graduate Students

Undergraduate Students

Tanush Vijayakumar Savadi
Undergraduate Student
Riley Connell
Undergraduate Student

Past PhD Students and Post-Docs

Abel Souza (Postdoctoral Fellow, Summer 2024)
Assistant Professor, University of California Santa Cruz
Qianlin Liang (PhD, Spring 2024)
Amazon Web Services
Thesis: Rethinking the Systems and Paradigms for Cloud and Edge AI Workloads
Akanksha Atrey (PhD, Fall 2023)
Research Staff, Nokia Bell Labs
Thesis: Enabling Privacy and Trust in Edge AI Systems
Camellia Zakaria (Postdoctoral Fellow, Fall 2023)
Assistant Professor, University of Tornonto, Canada
John Wamburu (PhD, Fall 2022)
Research Staff, IBM Research, Kenya
Thesis: Data-Driven Modeling and Analytics for Greening the Energy Ecosystem
Amee Trivedi (PhD, Summer 2021)
Research Staff, AT&T Labs Research
Thesis: Human Mobility Monitoring using WiFi: Analysis, Modeling, and Applications
Ahmed Ali-Eldin (Postdoctoral Fellow, Fall 2020)
Assistant Professor, Chalmers University, Sweden
Stephen Lee (PhD, Summer 2019)
Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Thesis: Software-defined Infrastructure For IOT-Based Energy Systems
Jeremy Gummeson (Research Fellow, Summer 2019; joint with Deepak Ganesan)
Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, ECE
Vani Gupta (PhD, Summer 2019; co-advised with Ramesh Sitaraman)
Assistant Professor, Providence College
Thesis: Energy-aware Algorithms For Greening Internet-Scale Distributed Systems Using Renewables
Srinivasan Iyengar (PhD, Fall 2018)
Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Research India
Thesis: Scalable data-driven modeling and analytics for smart buildings
Prateek Sharma (PhD, Summer 2018)
Assistant Professor, Indiana University Bloomington
Thesis: Transiency-Driven Resource Management For Cloud Computing Platforms
Tian Guo (PhD, Summer 2016)
Associate Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Thesis: Elastic Resource Management in Distributed Clouds
Xin He (PhD, Summer 2016)
Google
Thesis: Application-aware Resource Management for Cloud Platforms
Aditya Mishra (PhD, Summer 2015)
Associate Teaching Professor, Northeastern University
Thesis: Energy Optimizations for Smart Buildings and Smart Grids
Sean Barker (PhD, Spring 2014)
Associate Professor, Bowdoin College
Thesis: Model-Driven Analytics of Energy Meter Data in Smart Homes
Rahul Singh (PhD, Spring 2013)
Motive
Thesis: Resource Management for Enterprise Data center Applications
Navin Sharma (PhD, Spring 2013)
Cofounder & CEO, Heystack Inc.
Thesis: Designing Distributed Systems for Intermittent Power
Upendra Sharma (Spring 2013)
Research Staff Member, IBM Watson
Thesis: Elastic Resource Management in Cloud Computing Platforms
David Irwin (Postdoctoral Fellow, Summer 2012)
Professor, University of Massachusetts, ECE
Tim Wood (PhD, Spring 2011)
Associate Professor, George Washington University
Thesis: Improving Data Center Resource Management, Deployment, and Availability with Virtualization
Peter Desnoyers (PhD, Fall 2007)
Associate Professor, Northeastern University
Thesis: Distributed Sensing Networks: Archiving, Indexing, and Analysis
Puru Kulkarni (PhD, Fall 2006)
Professor, IIT Bombay
Thesis: Design Issues in Multi-tier Heterogeneous Sensor Networks
Xiaotao Liu (PhD, Summer 2006)
CEO, SuperNode
Thesis: System Support for Pervasive Multimedia Systems
Huan Li (PhD, Summer 2006)
Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology
Thesis: Resource Management for Distributed Real-Time Sensor Systems
Vijay Sundaram (PhD, Fall 2005)
Microsoft Corp.
Thesis: Self-managing Techniques for Storage Resource Management
Bhuvan Urgaonkar (PhD, Summer 2005)
Professor, Pennsylvania State University
Thesis: Dynamic Resource Management in Internet Hosting Platforms
Abhishek Chandra (PhD, Fall 2004)
Professor, University of Minnesota
Thesis: Resource Allocation for Self-Managing Servers

Past Masters and Visiting Students

Swetha Eppalapally (MS, Fall 2024)
Sushrita Yerra (MS, Spring 2024) Employer: Initial: Nutanix
Shruti Jasoria (MS, Summer 2023) Employer: Initial: Goldman Sachs
Julia Köhlke (Visiting PhD, Spring 2023) Employer: Initial: OFFIS e.V.
Filip Skogh (Visiting MS, Fall 2022) Employer: Initial: IBM Research
Christopher Raff (MS, Summer 2020) Employer: Initial: General Dynamics Electric Boat; Now: MathWorks
Alexendar Lamson (MS, Summer 2020) Employer: Initial: L3Harris
Akhil Soman (MS, Summer 2020, co-advised with Beka Kosanovic) Employer: Initial: Weill Cornell Medicine
Chirag Goel (MS, Fall 2020) Employer: Initial: Amazon; Now: Google
Assan Toleuov (MS, 2019) Employer: Initial: Meta
Lucas Chaufournier (MS, 2019) Employer: Initial: Capital One; Now: Square
Jonathan Westin (MS,) Employer: Initial: Nasdaq; Now: Swedbank
Rishikesh Jha (MS, Spring 2019) Employer: Initial: Code for Science and Society; Now: Etsy
Ritesh Kumar (MS, Spring 2019) Employer: Initial: GE Healthcare; Now: IBM
Ishita Dasgupta (MS, Spring 2017) Employer: Initial: Adobe Research Scientist
Roopa Shenoy (MS, 2017) Employer: Initial: Akamai; Now: Splunk
Puja Mishra (MS, 2016) Employer: Initial: Lutron Electronics; Now: Data Sciences International
Seema Guggari (MS, 2016) Employer: Initial: Microsoft; Now: Meta
Nikita Mehra (MS, 2016) Employer: Initial: Twitter; Now: LinkedIn
Anushree Ghosh (MS, 2016) Employer: Initial: Microsoft
Sneha Narayan (MS,) Employer: Initial: Amazon; Now: Twilio
Sandeep Karla (MS, 2015) Employer: Initial: Amazon
Benoy Varghese (Visiting PhD, 2015) Employer: Initial: Data61-CSIRO; Now: Kent Institute, Australia
Veena Udayabhanu (MS, Spring 2012) Employer: Initial: Microsoft; Now: Meta
Sippakorn Tansutthiwess (MS, Spring 2012) Employer: Initial: Amazon; Now: Meta
Gal Niv (MS, Spring 2009) Employer: Initial: Pangea; Now: TrustCloud
Aditya Nemmaluri (MS, Spring 2008) Employer: Initial: Cisco; Now: Ethos
Rick Cocci (MS, Spring 2008) Employer: Initial: State Street; Now: Morse
Gaurav Mathur (MS, Summer 2007) Employer: Initial: Google; Now: Meta
Srinath Gaddam (MS, Summer 2004) Employer: Initial: EMC; Now: Founder, Bansuri Media
Peter Radkov (MS, Summer 2003) Employer: Initial: Sirma Corporation, Bulgaria; Now: Degiro
Jiang Lan (MS, Summer 2002) Employer: Initial: Verizon Corp
Anoop Ninan (MS, Summer 2001) Employer: Initial: EMC Corporation; Now: Meta
M S. Raunak (MS, Summer 2000) Employer: Initial: Asst Prof, Loyala University; Now: NIST
Venkata Duvvuri (MS, Summer 2000) Employer: Initial: Goldman Sachs; Now: IBM

Past Undergraduate Students

Anupama Sitaraman (Honors Thesis, 2023) PhD student, Carnegie Mellon University
Eric Gendreau (Honors Thesis, 2017) MS student, Cornell University
Murali Niketh (Honors Thesis, 2017) MS student, University of Massachusetts
Ariel Reches (Honors Thesis, 2016) MS student, University of Massachusetts