Front row (from L to R): Yilun, Xingchen, Mustafa, Saurabh, Edgardo, Ran, Manish, Heng
Missing in action: Naif, Abe, Heron
Back row: (From L to R) Pengcheng, Manish, Edgardo, Xingchen, Karthick, Mustafa, Shams, Heron
Xingchen, Atul, Shams, Yilun
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Faculty
Purdue Collaborators
- 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
- Chunyi Peng: Reliable edge computing
- Qiang Qiu: Secure distributed learning
- Eugene Spafford: Deception for enhancing computer security
- Shreyas Sundaram: Game theory for embedded security
Outside Purdue External Collaborators
- Mostafa Ammar: Georgia Tech
- Salman Avestimehr, Ramesh Govindan: University of Southern California
- Larry Deatrick, James MacDonald: Northrop Grumman
- Ignacio Laguna, Todd Gamblin, Dong Ahn: Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL)
- Yin Li: University of Wisconsin at Madison
- Rajesh Panta, Kaustubh Joshi: AT&T Labs
- Mathias Payer: EPFL, Switzerland
- Rudi Eigenmann: University of Delaware
- Subrata Mitra, Kanak Mahadik, Shiv Saini: Adobe Research
Research Staff
Graduate Students
Undergraduate Students
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.)
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)
Austin Ketterer
Graduated: Summer 2021
Employer: AMD, CO
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