LSSG Alumni

PhD Students, Postdocs, and Visitors (UChicago, UCSD, Illinois)

Brian Wheatman, Postdoc 2025, Jump Trading
Marziyeh Nourian, Postdoc, 2024
Hai Nguyen , MS, PhD #18, 2024, Argonne
Jose Monsalve-Diaz, Postdoc, 2024, AMD Research

Chaojie (Sam) Zhang , MS, PhD #17, Microsoft Research, Seattle, 2022

Chen Zou , MS, PhD #16, Google, Seattle, 2022

Arnab Sur, Postdoc, March 2021

Majed Beigi , Postdoc, March 2020.

Yuanwei (Kevin) Fang , MS, PhD #15, Alibaba "Damo" Labs, Bay Area, 2019

Aiman Fang , MS, PhD #14, Bloomberg, New York City, 2018.

Fan Yang , MS, (PhD Candidate - March 2018, passed away May 2018). (link to memorial coming!)

Nan Dun , (Postdoc), Quantcast then Apple, San Francisco, 2016.

Tung Hoang , (Postdoc), ReCore Systems, Netherlands then HGST, Bay Area, 2015.

Hajime Fujita , (Postdoc), Intel Corporation, 2015.

Dilip Vasudevan , (Postdoc), Research Scientist, Univ. Virginia, Lawrence Berkeley Lab,2015.

Ziming Zheng , (Postdoc, Vertica -- HP/Boston), 2014.

Apala Guha , (Postdoc), Professor at IIIT - Delhi , 2013

Yao Zhang (Postdoc), Argonne National Lab , Google, Ant Financial, 2013.

UCSD and Illinois

Nut Taesombut (MS, PhD #13), 2007.

Richard Huang (MS, PhD #12, Oracle) , 2007.

Xinran (Ryan) Wu (MS, PhD #11, Microsoft,Intel,Tuan500 Founder), 2007.

Eric Weigle (MS, PhD #10, Google), 2006.

Huaxia Xia (MS, PhD #9,Google,Baidu, Meituan Chief Scientist), 2006.

Yang-suk (Yang-Seok) Kee (Postdoc, USC ISI, Oracle, Samsung Research , 2006.

Ju (Tony) Wang (MS, PhD #8, AskJeeves ,Microsoft, Google), 2005.

Xin (Paff) Liu (PhD #7, AskJeeves ), 2004.

Michela Taufer (Postdoc, TSRI and SDSC , Professor, Computer Science UTEP , Univ Delaware, Univ Tennessee), 2004.

Kay Connelly (MS, PhD #6, Professor at Indiana University) , 2003.

Scott Pakin (MS, PhD #5, Member Technical Staff, Group Lead, Los Alamos National Laboratory ), 2002.

Hyojong Song (Postdoc, Member Technical Staff, VP Mobile Platforms, Samsung ), 2000.

Julian Dolby (MS, PhD #4, Research Staff, IBM Research ), 2000.

Philip Papadopoulos , (Research Faculty, Director of Clusters and Grid at San Diego Supercomputing Center) , 1999.

Mario Lauria , (PhD, Assistant Professor at Ohio State University ), 1999.

Vijay Karamcheti (PhD #3, Associate Professor at New York University , CTO Virident), 1998.

Evgenia Smirni ( Postdoc , Associate Professor at William and Mary ), 1997.

Phyllis Crandall ( Postdoc, Professor at University of Connecticut , now at Los Alamos National Laboratories ), 1996.

Lynn Choi (PhD, Intel Corp , Assistant Professor at University of California at Irvine , Associate Professor, Korea University ), 1995.

Jae Hoon Kim (PhD #2, HAL Computing, now at Pluris ), 1997.

John Plevyak (PhD #1, Inktomi, Google ), 1996.

Visitors, Staff (UChicago, UCSD, Illinois)

Morgan Denlow , Deputy to CACM Editor-in-Chief, 2022.
Lihan Chen , Deputy to CACM Editor-in-Chief, Nov 2019.

Zhiyuan Shao (Visiting Professor from Huazhong University ), 2014.

Raihan ur Rasool (Fulbright Visiting Scholar), returned to NUST 2013.

Guoming Lu (Visiting Professor), returned to UEST , 2013.

UCSD

Kenjiro Taura ( Visitor , Professor at University of Tokyo ), 2001.

Adam Brust (UCSD CalIT2)

Patricia Bladh

Jenine Combs

Troy Chuang (University of Minnesota, PhD Program)

Rhonda McCoy

Alex Olugbile ( Verimatrix )

Caroline Papadopoulos , PhD ( CSEHelp Staff, UCSD, Technical Staff Scripps Institute of Oceanography)

Greg Bruno , MS (INCEP Technologies, San Diego Supercomputing Center, UCSD PhD program)

Mason Katz (SDSC)

Illinois

Greg Koenig (UIUC PhD Program)

Qian Liu (NCSA, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology )

Rob Pennington (NCSA Director of Computing and Networking)

MS Students (UChicago, UCSD, Illinois)

Tianshuo Su , (MS, Google, 2025)

Tian Yang

Tristan Sharma, (MS, NVIDIA, 2024)

Siqi Li, (MS, Netease, Google, 2023)

Madison Pickering

Zhifei Yang, EPFL

Brennan Schaffner

Arjun Rawal , (BS, MS, Amazon Web Services, 2020)

Arielle Rosenthal

Yan Liu

Lang Yu

Yun Li , MS

Amirali Shambayati (MS, AIR Corp, 2015)

Zachary Rubenstein (MS, Computation Institute, 2014)

Erik Bodzsar (MS, Google, 2013)

UCSD

Apurva Sharma (MS, Microsoft, Redmond)

Frank Uyeda (MS, UCSD PhD Program, Sysnet Group)

Luis Rivera (MS, Verimatrix)

Jing Zhu (UCSD PhD Program)

Anil Kapur (UCSD MS Program)

Jason Krasnow (MS, Motorola)

Rajiv Bharadwaja (MS, Microsoft)

Pietro Cicotti (UCSD PhD, SDSC Researcher)

Jie (Cliff) Wei (UCLA)

Keith Bell (MS, Nokia Mobile Phones)

Xianan Zhang (UCSD PhD Program)

Kiran Tati (UCSD PhD Program)

Ranjita Bhagwan (PhD, UCSD, IBM Research,MSR)

Denis Jakobsen (MS, Ericsson)

Illinois

Geetanjali Sampemane (MS, PhD, UIUC, Google Inc)

Marsha Eng (Intel Corporation)

Louis Giannini (MS, Agere Systems, Atlanta)

Jay Byun (UIUC)

Sudha Krishnamurthy (PhD UIUC)

Oolan Zimmer (MS, GCOM Corporation)

Matt Buchanan (Compaq Computers, Tandem Computer)

Chi-leung (David) Wong

Aaron Coday (MCS, Kuck and Associates, Intel)

Xingbin Zhang (MS, Greenwich Capital Management)

Andy Lavery (MCS, Tivoli Systems)

Bishwaroop Ganguly (MS, MIT Lincoln Laboratories)

Jane Prusakova

Brandon Long (MS, Intel Corporation)

Martin Schulz (MS,Munich University of Technology, PhD, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Professor TU Munich)

Olga Natkovich

Conrad Chang

Steve Hoover (MS, Digital Equipment)

David Blumenthal (MS, Digital Equipment)

Hao-Hua Chu (MS, Sun Javasoft)

Mark Gardner (PhD UIUC, Los Alamos)

Alain Ducasse

Chaba Kish

Brian Fin (MS, Hewlett-Packard)

Ziqiang Liu (Visitor)

Matthew (Chao) Cheong (Fujitsu)

Mahesh Subramaniam (MS, Oracle)

Rob Greanias

Chris Kuszmaul

Harpinder Madan

Deepak Sahrawat

Kazuhiro Aoyama (MS, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)

Wu Chun Feng (MS, PhD w/ Jane Liu, Los Alamos National Labs, Prof Virginia Tech)

Madhavan Parthasarathy (MS, Intel Corporation)

Undergraduates (UChicago, UCSD, Illinois)

Cameron Fiske, UCLA undergrad
Mandy La, BA with Honors, Bachelor's Thesis, IBM
Fred Goldstein-Rose (undergrad)
Olivia Weng (2019-20), UCSD PhD Program
Haiwen Liu (Summer 2017), CMU Undergrad in Computer Science
Soyoung Eom, (various 2016, 2017), Statistics at UChicago
Remy Prechelt (Spring-Summer 2016)->MS in Physical Sciences UChicago
Lucas Fronza (Summer 2016)-> Brazil
Jeremy Archer, (2015-16) -> Google
Willem Longendyke (Summer 2015)
Walker Melton, UC Lab School HS student (Summer 2014) -> Caltech
Calvin Deutschbein (2012-2015)
Bruno Cabral (Summer 2013)
Chaofan Chen (Summer 2013)
Eamon Ford (Summer 2013)
Justyn Harriman (Summer 2013)
Henry Riordan (Summer 2013)
Scott Shi (Summer 2013)
Jennifer Um (Summer 2013)
Mark Sinclair II (2012-13)
Dominick Lobraico (2012-13)
Sean Hogan (Winter/Spring 2012)
Simon Jacobs (Summer 2012)
Joe Klonowski (Harvey Mudd, Summer 2012)
Luke Peeler (Summer 2012)
Mark Sinclair (Summer 2012)
Greg Hermann
Clement Leong (BS, University of Illinois)
Doug Beeferman (BS, Carnegie-Mellon University)
Akbar Jaffer (Fujitsu Corporation, Sunnyvale)
Luke Nosek (PayPal)
Kurt Gimbel
Tony Ng (BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Javasoft)