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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

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  • Saurabh Baghchi
  •  E-Mail: sbagchi AT purdue DOT edu
  •  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

 
  • Nawanol Theera-Ampornpunt
  • Research Project: Proactive performance management in cellular networks
  • E-Mail: ntheeraa AT purdue DOT edu
  • Webpage
  • Profile


 
  • 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


 
  • Subrata Mitra
  • Research Project:Root cause determination for performance anomalies in distributed applications
  • E-Mail: mitra4 AT purdue DOT edu
  • Webpage
  • Profile

 
  • Kanak Mahadik (co-advised with Milind Kulkarni)
  • Research Project: Scalable execution of computational genomics applications
  • E-Mail: kmahadik AT purdue DOT edu
  • Webpage
  • 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: Performance Debugging in Heterogenous Computing
    (co-advised by Prof. Felix Lin)
  • E-Mail: gupta237 AT purdue DOT edu
  • Profile

 
  • Ayush Patwari
  • Research Project: Identifying undesirable behavior in crowdsourced systems.
    (co-advised by Prof. Alex Quinn)
  • E-Mail: patwaria AT purdue DOT edu
  • Profile

 
  • Eli Kern
  • Research Project:
  • E-Mail: kern10 AT purdue DOT edu
  • Profile

 
  • I-Ta Lee
  • Research Project: 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: 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

YearGroup Champ AwardeeBest Fresher Awardee
Fall 2021Mustafa Abdallah
"For making the twain meet: theory and practice of distributed security"
Joshua Zhao
"For showing how to secure decentralized learning"
Spring 2021Ran Xu
"For uncovering video power on tiny devices"
Joshua Majors
"For making our tiny devices more secure"
Fall 2020Mustafa Abdallah
"Showing that applying game theory to improve security is serious business"
Akhil Sai
"Showing that tiny devices can agree even in Byzantium"
Fall 2019Heng Zhang
"For making mobile magic"
Atul Sharma
"For making ML meaningful"
Spring 2018Ashraf Mahgoub
"Taming the power of Cassandras"
Pradeep Venkata Kotipalli
"Fast and accurate: in GPU programs"
Fall 2017Ran Xu
"Accuracy, Reliability, & Speed: Making the twains meet"
Mustafa Abdallah
"For gaming all the way to security"
Spring 2017Paul 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 2016Subrata 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 2015Nawanol 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 2014Kanak

"For bringing the discipline of dependable computing to the magical work of genomics
Not Awarded
Spring 2014Fahad

"For work on NEES operations and systems debugging "
Raghav

"For fearlessly working with Androids and Blades"
Fall 2013Bowen

"For work on performance evaluation and debugging of distributed applications For handling multiple bosses "
Kanak

"For infusing path-breaking bioinformatics work into DCSL"
Spring 2013Matt

"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 GasparChris
Spring 2012MattPaul
Spring 2011IgnacioBowen
Spring 2010DongHoonN/A
Fall 2009 TanzimaN/A
Spring 2009RajeshN/A
Fall 2008 IgnacioN/A
Fall 2007RajeshN/A
Spring 2007IssaIgnacio
Fall 2006 IssaGaspar

Alumni (Ph.D.)

  • Matthew Tan Creti
  • Graduated: Spring 2015
  • Employer: Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer, SensorHound, Inc.

  • Amiya Maji
  • Graduated: Spring 2015

  • Fahad Ali Arshad
  • Graduated: Summer 2014
  • Employer: eLynx (Cincinnati, OH)
  • Thesis [ pdf ] URL [ www ]

  • Bowen Zhou
  • Graduated: Summer 2014
  • Employer: Turn (Redwood City, CA)
  • Thesis [ pdf ] URL [ www ]

  • Gaspar Modelo Howard
  • Graduated: Spring 2013
  • Employer: Boeing (Sunnyvale, CA)
  • Thesis [ pdf ] URL [ www ]

  • 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

Last modified: December 22, 2015