At the DCSL semester-end get-together on May 2, 2014. This was after dinner at the Ford Dining Court. From L to R: Zaiwei, Nawanol, Raghav, Saurabh, Nathan (peeking at the back), Somali (Saurabh’s wife), Fahad, Matt, Subrata, Tsungtai, Kanak, Shayok (Saurabh’s son, in front of Kanak), Paul, Gina (Chris’ wife), Chris, Amit, Sambit. [Photo by Amiya]
Faculty
- Saurabh Baghchi
- Â E-Mail: sbagchi ATÂ purdue DOT edu
- Â Webpage
Purdue Affiliated Faculty
- Vijay Raghunathan: Reliable embedded wireless networks
- Rudi Eigenmann: Reliable shared grid environments
- Milind Kulkarni: Reliable parallel applications
- Eugene Spafford: Intrusion tolerance for enterprise distributed systems
- Chih-Chun Wang: Coding for security in wireless
- Alan Qi: Machine learning for security
Outside Purdue External Collaborators
- Bronis Supinski, Martin Schulz, Greg Bronevetsky, Todd Gamblin, Kathryn Mohror: Lawrence Livermore National Lab: LLNL
- Jan Rellermeyer, Mike Kistler: IBM Research Austin
- Timothy Tsai: NVIDIA
- Donald Steiner, Jonathan Fulkerson: Northrop Grumman
- Russell Mackler: Lockheed Martin
- Mostafa Ammar: Georgia Tech
- Rajesh Panta, Kaustubh Joshi: AT&T Labs
Graduate Students
- Paul Wood
- Research Project: Economics-based security in inter-dependent cyber physical systems
- E-Mail: pwood AT purdue DOT edu
- Profile
- Christopher Gutierrez
- Research Project: Cybersecurity
- E-Mail: gutier20 AT purdue DOT edu
- Profile
- Jeff Avery (co-advised with Gene Spafford)
- Research Project: Mitigating unknown phishing attacks
- E-Mail: avery0 AT purdue DOT edu
- Profile
- Suhas Javagal
- Research Project: Failure Analysis of large computing clusters
- E-Mail: sjavagal AT purdue DOT edu
- Profile
- Lakshman Pasala
- Research Project: Network security inference based on imperfect IDS information
- E-Mail: vpasala AT purdue DOT edu
- Profile
- Ravi Gupta
- Research Project:Â Performance Debugging in Heterogenous Computing
(co-advised by Prof. Felix Lin) - E-Mail: gupta237 AT purdue DOT edu
- Profile
- Eli Kern
- Research Project:
- E-Mail: kern10 AT purdue DOT edu
- Profile
- I-Ta Lee
- Research Project:Â Crowdsensing systems based on mobile devices
- E-Mail: lee2226 AT purdue DOT edu
- Profile
- Taegyu Kim
- Research Project: Security with Machine learning
- E-Mail: kim2041 AT purdue DOT edu
- Profile
- Tara Thomas
- Research Project: Modelling, Simulation and Optimisation of Factory Operations
- E-Mail: thoma579 AT purdue DOT edu
- Profile
Undergraduate Students
- Jason Rahman
- Research Project: Multi-application performance prediction
- E-Mail:Â rahmanj AT purdue DOT edu
- Profile
- Michael Glapa
- Research Project:Performance debugging in heterogeneous computing
- E-Mail: mglapa AT purdue DOT edu
- Profile
DCSL Award Winners
Year | Group Champ Awardee | Best Fresher Awardee |
---|---|---|
Fall 2021 | Mustafa Abdallah "For making the twain meet: theory and practice of distributed security" | Joshua Zhao "For showing how to secure decentralized learning" |
Spring 2021 | Ran Xu "For uncovering video power on tiny devices" | Joshua Majors "For making our tiny devices more secure" |
Fall 2020 | Mustafa Abdallah "Showing that applying game theory to improve security is serious business" | Akhil Sai "Showing that tiny devices can agree even in Byzantium" |
Fall 2019 | Heng Zhang "For making mobile magic" | Atul Sharma "For making ML meaningful" |
Spring 2018 | Ashraf Mahgoub "Taming the power of Cassandras" | Pradeep Venkata Kotipalli "Fast and accurate: in GPU programs" |
Fall 2017 | Ran Xu "Accuracy, Reliability, & Speed: Making the twains meet" | Mustafa Abdallah "For gaming all the way to security" |
Spring 2017 | Paul Wood "All systems firing on all cylinders" | Joint winners: Ran Xu "For showing that we do not have to choose between accuracy and speed" Heng Zhang "For harnessing the wisdom of the crowds" |
Spring 2016 | Subrata Mitra "For bringing reliable system design principles to real systems" | Tara Elizabeth Thomas "For bringing optimization and simulation to an alien world of GE advanced manufacturing" |
Fall 2015 | Nawanol Theera-Ampornpunt "For application of ML to computer systems and genomics problems" | Christopher Michael Wright "For creating a new DSL and its compiler infrastructure" |
Fall 2014 | Kanak "For bringing the discipline of dependable computing to the magical work of genomics | Not Awarded |
Spring 2014 | Fahad "For work on NEES operations and systems debugging " | Raghav "For fearlessly working with Androids and Blades" |
Fall 2013 | Bowen "For work on performance evaluation and debugging of distributed applications For handling multiple bosses " | Kanak "For infusing path-breaking bioinformatics work into DCSL" |
Spring 2013 | Matt "For innovative work in embedded system debugging and taking bold steps toward commercializing it" | Subrata "For innovative work in large-scale system debugging and leading the LLNL collaboration" |
Fall 2012 | Gaspar | Chris |
Spring 2012 | Matt | Paul |
Spring 2011 | Ignacio | Bowen |
Spring 2010 | DongHoon | N/A |
Fall 2009 | Tanzima | N/A |
Spring 2009 | Rajesh | N/A |
Fall 2008 | Ignacio | N/A |
Fall 2007 | Rajesh | N/A |
Spring 2007 | Issa | Ignacio |
Fall 2006 | Issa | Gaspar |
Alumni (Ph.D.)
- Matthew Tan Creti
- Graduated: Spring 2015
- Employer: Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer, SensorHound, Inc.
- Amiya Maji
- Graduated: Spring 2015
- Tanzima Zerin
- Graduated: Spring 2013
- Employer: Lawrence Livermore
- National Lab Thesis [ pdf ]
- Ignacio Laguna
- Graduated: Fall 2012
- Employer: Lawrence Livermore
- National Lab Thesis URL [ pdf ]
- Donghoon Shin
- Graduated: Summer 2012
- Employer: Arizona State University (Assistant Professor)
- Thesis [ pdf ]
- Jinkyu Koo
- Graduated: Summer 2012
- Employer: Samsung Electronics
- Thesis [ pdf ]
- Sarah Sellke
- Graduated: Spring 2010
- Employer: Purdue University (Visiting Assistant Professor in the Statistics Department)
- Thesis [ pdf ]
- Rajesh Panta
- Graduated: Spring 2010
- Employer: AT&T Labs (Researcher in Florham Park, NY lab)
- Thesis [ pdf ]
- Yu-Sung Wu (Hank)
- Graduated: Spring 2009
- Employer: National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan (Assistant Professor)
- Thesis [ pdf ]
- Gunjan Khanna
- Graduated: Summer 2007
- Employer:McKinsey & Company
- Thesis [ pdf ]
- Issa Khalil
- Graduated: Fall 2006
- Employer: United Arab Emirates University (Assistant Professor)
- Thesis [ pdf ]
 Alumni (MS)
- Nina Baker
- Graduated: Summer 2011
- Employer: Google
- Ignacio Laguna
- Graduated: Summer 2008
- Employer: PhD student, Purdue
- Carlos Perez
- Graduated: Summer 2007
- Employer: US Patents and Trademarks Ofc.
- Mike Cheng
- Graduated: Summer 2006
- Employer: Morningstar
- Vinita Apte
- Graduated: Summer 2006
- Employer: Cummins
- Bryan Rabeler
- Graduated: Summer 2006
- Employer: AMD
- Padma Varadharajan
- Graduated: Summer 2005
- Employer: Microsoft
- Mark Krasniewski
- Graduated: Summer 2005
- Employer: Southwest Research Institute
- Yu-Chun Mao
- Graduated: Summer 2005
- Employer: Microsoft
- Nipoon Malhotra
- Graduated: Summer 2004
- Employer: Microsoft
- John Rogers
- Graduated: Summer 2003
- Employer: Bank of America