Students & Post-docs

• Arjun Balasingam — Co-founder, BigUp

  PhD “Application-Aware Scheduling Architectures for Mobile Systems”

  Master’s “Throughput-fairness tradeoffs in mobile task fulfillment platforms”
• Venkat Arun — UT Austin

  PhD “Verifying the Performance of Network Control Algorithms”

  Master’s “Copa: practical delay-based congestion control for the internet”
• Francis Cangialosi — Stealth Startup · LinkedIn

  PhD “Privacy-Preserving Video Analytics”

  Master’s “Design and implementation of a system for aggregate internet traffic control”
• Prateesh Goyal — Microsoft Research

  PhD “Congestion Control in Highly Variable Networks”

  Master’s “Elasticity detection: a building block for internet congestion control”
• Songtao He — Citadel

  PhD “Enriching Digital Maps with Aerial Imagery and GPS Data”

  Master’s “Improving the precision of road network inference from GPS trajectories”
• Akshay Narayan — Brown University

  PhD “Enabling Configurable, Extensible, and Modular Network Stacks”

  Master’s “The design and implementation of a congestion control plane”
• Peter Iannucci — Apple

  PhD “Wireless communication and localization systems under spatial and temporal channel variations”

  Master’s “Integrating Spinal Codes into Wireless Systems”
• Amy Ousterhout — UC San Diego

  PhD “Achieving high CPU efficiency and low tail latency in datacenters”

  Master’s “A Programmable Data Plane for Resource Management in Datacenters”
• Ravi Netravali — Princeton

  PhD “Improving web applications with fine-grained data flows”

  Master’s “Understanding and improving Web page load times on modern networks”
• Yu-han (Tiffany) Chen — NVIDIA

  PhD “Interactive object recognition and search over mobile video”

  Master’s “Ada: context-sensitive context-sensing on mobile devices”
• Jonathan Perry — Founder, Flowmill (acq. Splunk)

  PhD “Centralized performance control for datacenter networks”

  Master’s “Spinal codes”
• Anirudh Sivaraman — NYU

  PhD “Designing fast and programmable routers”

  Master’s “MobiTest: an evaluation infrastructure for mobile distributed applications”
• Shuo Deng — Co-founder, care.coach

  PhD “Intelligent network selection and energy reduction for mobile devices”

  Master’s “Reducing 3G energy consumption on mobile devices”
• Katrina LaCurts — MIT

  PhD “Application workload prediction and placement in cloud computing systems”

  Master’s “Measurement and analysis of real-world 802.11 mesh networks”
• Lenin Ravindranath — Microsoft

  PhD “Improving the performance and reliability of mobile applications”

  Master’s “Improving wireless network performance using sensor hints”
• Keith Winstein — Stanford

  PhD “Transport architectures for an evolving Internet”
• Arvind Thiagarajan — Google

  PhD “Probabilistic models for mobile phone trajectory estimation”

  Master’s “Representing and querying regression models in a relational database management system”
• Bret Hull — Cisco Meraki

  PhD “Opportunistic sensing and mobile data delivery in the CarTel system”

  Master’s “Techniques for mitigating congestion in wireless sensor networks”
• Mythili Vutukuru — IIT Bombay

  PhD “Physical layer-aware wireless link layer protocols”

  Master’s “On constructing correct and scalable iBGP configurations”
• Kyle Jamieson — Princeton

  PhD “The SoftPHY abstraction: from packets to symbols in wireless network design”

  Master’s “Implementation of a power-saving protocol for ad hoc wireless networks”
• Michael Walfish — NYU

  PhD “Defending networked resources against floods of unwelcome requests”

  Master’s “Semantic-free referencing in linked systems”
• Jaeyeon Jung — Samsung

  PhD “Real-time detection of malicious network activity using stochastic models”
• Allen Miu — Frontiir

  PhD “Improving packet delivery efficiency using multi-radio diversity in wireless LANs”

  Master’s “Design and implementation of an indoor mobile navigation system”
• Magdalena Balazinska — University of Washington

  PhD “Fault-tolerance and load management in a distributed stream processing system”
• Nicholas Feamster — University of Chicago

  PhD “Proactive techniques for correct and predictable Internet routing”

  Master’s “Adaptive delivery of real-time streaming video”
• Nissanka Bodhi Priyantha — Microsoft

  PhD “The Cricket indoor location system”

  Master’s “Providing precise indoor location information to mobile devices”
• David G. Andersen — Carnegie Mellon University

  PhD “Improving end-to-end availability using overlay networks”

  Master’s “Resilient overlay networks”
• Alex C. Snoeren — UC San Diego

  PhD “A session-based architecture for Internet mobility”
• Wendi Heinzelman — University of Rochester (co-advised)

  PhD “Application-specific protocol architectures for wireless networks”

  Master’s “Network driven motion estimation for wireless video terminals”

I have also worked closely with and mentored MIT PhD students Raluca Popa (UC Berkeley), Ryan Newton (Indiana), Asfandyar Qureshi (Google), Jayashree Subramanian (Bell Labs → Zoho → Amazon), and Godfrey Tan (Intel → Co-founder, Frontiir).

• Radhika Mittal — University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Srinivas Narayana — Rutgers University
• Rohan Murty — Soroco (Founder)
• Geoffrey Werner-Challen — University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Calvin Newport — Georgetown University
• Evdokia Nikolova — UT Austin
• Ramakrishna Gummadi — Google
• Jakob Eriksson — University of Illinois Chicago
• Lewis Girod — Cambridge Mobile Telematics
• Can Emre Koksal — Ohio State University

Master of Engineering theses I supervised or co-supervised at MIT (via MIT DSpace). Three are joint S.B./M.Eng. degree theses.

• Joseph A. Chandler
  “Savaal: A system for automatically generating high-quality questions from unseen documents”
• Ming Wang
  “Estimating Vehicle Speed with Consumer Grade Mobile LiDAR”
• Aditi Srinivasan — Farcaster
  “Measuring and optimizing for network conditions on drones”
• Korrawat Pruegsanusak — Genesis Therapeutics
  “Understanding drivers’ risk behaviors from dashcam videos” · with Paresh Malalur
• Ziwen Jiang — NVIDIA
  “An autonomous landing and charging system for drones”
• Jordan Lucier — Perch (co-founder)
  “Automatic UAV image registration using feature detection and matching with satellite imagery” · with Samuel Madden
• Linh Nguyen — The Voleon Group
  “A vehicle classification algorithm based on telematics data” · with Tomás Palacios and Bill Bradley
• Deepti Raghavan — Brown University
  “Designing a congestion control plane datapath with QUIC”
• Eeway Hsu — Airbnb
  “Evaluating HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 performance with dependency graph properties”
• Brendan Chang — Sixth Street
  “Tenant-level network performance isolation in Flowtune” · with Jonathan Perry
• Ameesh Goyal
  “DepTracker: tracking JavaScript dependencies on the web”
• Somak Das — Benchling
  “Evaluation of QUIC on web page performance”
• Hoki Tam — Datadog
  “A new automated approach to cloud population” · with Brad Meiseles
• Paresh Malalur — Cambridge Mobile Telematics
  “Traffic delay prediction from historical observations” · with Samuel Madden
• Subha Gollakota
  “Evaluating aggregation protocols for vehicular networks in simulation” · with Calvin Newport
• Chenxia Liu — Meta
  “Data collection framework for vehicular On-Board-Diagnostic systems” · with Lewis Girod
• Raluca Ada Popa — UC Berkeley
  “Provable and practical location privacy for vehicular and mobile systems”
• Tural Badirkhanli — Solidshape (CEO)
  “Armadillo”
• Kevin Chen
  “CafNet: a carry-and-forward delay-tolerant network”
• John Zamfirescu-Pereira — UCLA
  “Measuring the performance of a Distributed Quota Enforcement system for spam control”
• Will Stockwell
  “Towards a deployable framework for delegation of authority in network applications” · with Stuart Schechter
• Rohit Rao
  “Gateway selection in multi-hop wireless networks”
• Todd Nightingale — Arista (President & COO)
  “A simulation study of reordering-resilient TCP enhancements”
• Winston Wang
  “Implementation and security analysis of the Infranet anti-censorship system”
• Hiroyoshi Iwashima
  “Differential bandwidth allocation with multiplexed TCP connections”
• Jonathan Salz
  “TESLA: a transparent, extensible session-layer framework for end-to-end network services”
• Jason Baron — Akamai
  “Discovering network topology by correlating end-to-end delay measurements” · with Mark W. Garrett
• Ivan Nestlerode — Sonos
  “Implementing EFECT” · with Dan Heer
• Peter Yang
  “Improving the performance of TCP in the presence of packet reordering” · with Robert Morris
• Anit Chakraborty — Altius Labs (co-founder & CTO)
  “A distributed architecture for mobile, location-dependent applications”
• Jeremy Lilley — Stealth startup
  “Scalability in an Intentional Naming System”
• Emil Sit — Toast
  “A study of caching in the Internet Domain Name System” · with Robert Morris
• Eric Sit — UBS
  “Reverse HTTP tunneling for firewall traversal” · joint S.B./M.Eng.
• Elliot Schwartz
  “Design and implementation of intentional names” · joint S.B./M.Eng.
• Min Shao
  “A study of RMF monitoring using DEVS simulation” · joint S.B./M.Eng.

Undergraduates who worked with me through MIT’s UROP program.

• Diego de Lope — MIT
  Engram on Algorithmic Frontier CS
• Liam W. Gibbons — MIT
  Savaal
• Victoria X. Hu — MIT
  Automating quiz generation with LLMs
• Maya C. Jyothinagaram — MIT
  Savaal
• Aaron T. Martin — MIT
  CityMesh: A Decentralized Fallback Network
• Michael Y. Serrano — MIT
  Large Language Model for Content Comprehension; Large Language Model for Content Comprehension testing Quizzes
• Hanna Chen — MIT
  Developing LLMs for Automatic Question Generator
• Joseph A. Chandler
  MicroTel; MicroTel/Contractive; Savaal
• Susanna Chen
  Measuring and Optimizing for Network Conditions on Drones
• Nivedha Srinivasan — MongoDB
  Improving Bicycle Safety with Video and LIDAR Technology
• Khaled K. Shehada — Meta
  Formal Verification of Congestion Control Performance Tool
• Satvat Jagwani — Cadence Design Systems
  Map Update using GPS Data; Reinforcement Learning Aided Map Inference; Road Map Inference Through Reinforcement Learning
• Neena Dugar
  Scalability of CCP
• Aditi H. Srinivasan — Farcaster
  eBPF Runtime for CCP
• Jenna M. Himawan — Google
  Congestion Control UROP
• Bhavik V. Nagda — Bessemer Venture Partners
  CCP and Centralized Congestion Control
• Benjamin L. Bennington-Brandon
  Urban GPS Accuracy
• Rachel Y. Wei
  Urban GPS Accuracy Project
• Eeway E. Hsu — Airbnb
  Glimpse, Real-time Object Recognition Solutions; SuperUROP Real-time Visual Applications of Glimpse; SuperUROP Real-time Visual Applications of Glimpse
• Deepti Raghavan — Brown University
  SuperUROP Designing a System to Monitor the Performance of Fastpass; SuperUROP Designing a System to Monitor the Performance of Fastpass; Using Remy to Investigate Congestion Control Signals
• Anastasia N. Neuman
  MISTI-IROP Africa
• Ambika M. Krishnamachar — StubHub
  SuperUROP: Detecting Discrimination in Online Advertising
• Elizabeth A. Dethy — Talos
  Caching Website Dependency Trees
• Pratiksha R. Thaker — Databricks
  Computer-Generated Congestion Control
• Pauline P. Varley
  Alfalfa; Exploring Flow Completion Time as a Metric for Congestion Control
• Victor Vasiliev — Google
  Explicit state video codec; 802.11 traffic identification system
• Ameesh K. Goyal
  Characterizing TCP Performance in the Amazon EC2 Network; Exploring Improvements to LTE; Measuring SpeedIndex with MahiMahi
• Somak R. Das — Benchling
  Code in the Air: Programming Smartphones from the Cloud; Code In The Air: Programming Smartphones from the Cloud; SUPERUROP - Code In The Air: Programming Smartphones from the Cloud
• Leonid Grinberg — Arbol
  Cellular antenna performance modeling and monitoring
• Benjamin W. Horkley — CVS Health
  CryptDB
• Amy E. Riley
  Cellular antenna performance modeling and monitoring
• Kerry K. Xing — Persona
  Bandwidth Multihoming
• Raluca I. Ifrim
  Application Development with the CodeInTheAir Platform
• Joseph E. Lynch
  Improving the Usability of the Airblue Platform; Further Improvements to the Airblue System
• Eric M. Van Albert — Vicarious Surgical
  CarTel Lite Prototype Design; CarTel Lite Prototype Debugging and Second Prototype Design
• Joy C. Chen
  Code In The Air
• Frank H. Li — Georgia Tech
  Location Privacy of Mobile Applications
• Brian C. Gardiner — Snyk
  Becoming Familiar with Cross-Layer Wireless Protocol Development
• Subha U. Gollakota
  Mobile Mesh
• Timothy Kaler — MIT CSAIL
  Code in the Air
• Timothy Peng
  Code In The Air
• Paresh G. Malalur — Cambridge Mobile Telematics
  Real Time User Based Route Prediction; Traffic Estimation from Historical Data; Cartel Data and DB management
• Quentin Smith — Google
  Reworking WiFi Protocols for Better Performance
• Raluca Ada Popa — UC Berkeley
  A Local Area Peer-to-Peer Caching System; Continuing Research in Mobile Systems Privacy and Distributed Hash Tables
• Jason G. Gavris — Reddit
  CarTel iPhone client
• Waseem S. Daher — Pilot.com (co-founder & CEO)
  Cartel: A distributed wireless platform for automotive Apps
• Hongyi Hu — Figma
  Cartel
• Anna T. Roussanova — Zendesk
  ASTRA
• Will C. Stockwell — Humble Audio (founder)
  Warm Detection And Prevention; Open SSH Worm Study; Inoculating SSH Against Addres
• John Zamfirescu-Pereira — UCLA
  Cricket; Email Spam Control
• Rohit N. Rao
  Reliable Web Browsing; Iris; Resiliant Acess Networks
• Tawanda C. Sibanda — McKinsey & Company
  Infranet
• Adam M. Smith
  Slam; Astra Development
• Arnab Bhattacharyya — University of Warwick
  Resilient Overlay Networks
• Kwok L. Tang
  Scalable Location Aware Monito
• Hiroyoshi Iwashima
  SLAM (Scalable Location-Aware
• Pallavi Naresh — Microsoft
  Global Positioning System
• Winston Wang
  Range Mapping For Infranet
• Omar Aftab — Microsoft
  Cricket
• Jason A. Gift
  Integrating Cricket into iPaq Handhelds
• Paul H. Kim
  Extensible Routers
• Nick Feamster — University of Chicago
  Internet Video Delivery Protocols
• David M. Zych
  WIND; Security For WIND
• Andrew S. Mendelson
  Intentional Naming System