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Faculty
Purdue Affiliated Faculty
- Chris Brinton: Secure distributed ML
- Ananth Grama: Cyberinfrastructure for genomics
- David Inouye: Secure distributed ML
- Aniket Kate: Secure distributed protocols for CPS
- Milind Kulkarni: Reliable parallel applications
- Felix Lin: Performance debugging in heterogeneous systems
- Chunyi Peng: Reliable edge computing
- Bruno Ribeiro: Neural networks for systems
- Eugene Spafford: Deception for enhancing computer security
- Shreyas Sundaram: Game theory for embedded security
Outside Purdue External Collaborators
- Sasa Misailovic: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Ignacio Laguna, Todd Gamblin, Dong Ahn: Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL)
- Mostafa Ammar: Georgia Tech
- Larry Deatrick, James MacDonald: Northrop Grumman
- Rajesh Panta, Kaustubh Joshi: AT&T Labs
- Folker Meyer: Argonne National Lab
- Mathias Payer: EPFL, Switzerland
- Rudi Eigenmann: University of Delaware
- Subrata Mitra, Kanak Mahadik, Tom Jacobs: Adobe Research
Research Scientists
None currently. Looking for one-two.
Graduate Students
Manish Nagaraj
Co-supervised with Aniket Kate, CS
Research Project: Reliable distributed protocols in IoT systems
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Shikhar Suryavansh
Co-supervised with Mung Chiang, ECE
Research Project: Dependable edge computing
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Pengcheng Wang
Research Project: Dependability in edge computing
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Austin Ketterer
Research Project: Firmware emulation
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Sheikh Shams Azam
Co-supervised with Christopher Brinton, Purdue ECE
Research Project: Privacy-preserving distributed ML
Undergraduate Students



DCSL Award Winners
Year | Group Champ Awardee | Best Fresher Awardee |
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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.)

Naif Saleh Almakhdhub
Graduated: March 2020
Employer: Assistant Professor, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Thesis



Jeffrey Avery
Graduated: Summer 2017
Employer: Northrop Grumman (Future Technical Leader program)
Thesis
Nawanol Theera-Ampornpunt
Graduated: Summer 2017
Employer: Assistant Professor at Prince of Songkla University, Thailand
Thesis



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




Donghoon Shin
Graduated: Summer 2012
Employer: Arizona State University (Assistant Professor)
Thesis



Yu-Sung Wu (Hank)
Graduated: Spring 2009
Employer: National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan (Assistant Professor)
Thesis

Issa Khalil
Graduated: Fall 2006
Employer: United Arab Emirates University (Assistant
Professor)
Alumni (MS)

Ayush Patwari
Graduated: Summer 2017
Employer: Google, CA

Tara Thomas
Graduated: Summer 2017
Employer: Apple, CA

Suhas Javagal
Graduated: Spring 2016
Employer: Oracle, CA

Lakshman Pasala
Graduated: Spring 2016
Employer: Intel, OR

Jason Rahman
Graduated: Spring 2016
Employer: Facebook

Ravi Gupta
Graduated: Summer 2016
Employer: Intel, OR

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