Group

I work with a team of excellent researchers. We call ourselves the FPSG. What this acronym means is left as an exercise for the reader (most people want the “G” to stand for “Group”).

I am very proud of my academic family (and slightly extended academic family). Here is a recent group photo (Summer 2023):

PostDocs

PhD

  • Sushant Dinesh (2019-present); UIUC CS Excellence Award
  • Rutvik Choudhary (2020-present)
  • Nandeeka Nayak (2020-present); SURGE Fellow (2020-2025), NSF GRFP Honorable Mention
  • Hannah Leung (2022-present; co-advised with Talia Ringer)
  • Boru Chen (2022-present)
  • Shashank Anand (Starting Fall 2024; co-advised by Sophia Shao)
  • Yan Zhu (Starting Fall 2024)
  • Kris Dong (2024-present; co-advised by Sophia Shao)
  • Alex Thomas (2024-present; co-advised by John Kubiatowicz)

Masters

Undergraduate

Interns/Visitors

  • Jules Peyrat (Summer 2024)
  • Yuxin Jin (Summer 2024)
  • Chenxi Wan (Summer 2024)

Alumni

PhD

  • Hadi Asgharimoghaddam (2018-2021) → Meta Research
  • Jose Rodrigo Sanchez Vicarte (2018-2022) → Intel Labs
  • Kartik Hegde (2017-2023); Facebook PhD Fellow (2019-21) → Allen Institute
  • Jiyong Yu (2017-2023); Microsoft PhD Fellow (2020-22), W. J. Poppelbaum Memorial Award → Tenstorrent
  • Riccardo Paccagnella (2019-2023); Siebel Scholar, Chirag Foundation Graduate Fellow, Distinguished Reviewer – Oakland/SP Shadow PC, Kuck PhD Thesis Award → CMU Assistant Professor

Close PhD collaborators

  • Mengjia Yan (Fall 2017-2019) → MIT Assistant Professor
  • Dimitrios Skarlatos (Fall 2017-2020) → CMU Assistant Professor
  • Vivek Nair (2020) → UC Berkeley PhD; Hertz Fellow

Masters

  • Rohit Agrawal (Fall 2017-2019) → NVIDIA
  • Mohamad El-Hajj → Very Good Security Inc. → Google

Undergraduate

  • Lucas Hsiung (2018-2019) → SiFive
  • Ben Schreiber (2018-2019) → UIUC PhD
  • Yulun (Allen) Yao (2017-2019) → Cornell PhD
  • Rohan Prabhakar (2019-2021) → Princeton PhD
  • Pradyumna Shome (2019-2021) → Georgia Tech PhD
  • Joseph Ravichandran (2020-2021) → MIT SM/PhD; NSF Fellow
  • Elizabeth He (2021-2022) → Startup
  • Aishani Dhutta (2022-2023)
  • Alan Wandke (2022-2023)
  • Grant Garrett-Grossman (2020-2023) → DoD

High School

  • Max Wolff (Summer 2018)
  • Sammy Shang (Summer 2018)
  • Nicole Emi (Summer 2019)
  • Benjamin ZeBrack (Summer 2019)
  • Maya Viswanathan (Summer 2022)

Interns/Visitors

  • Alice Wu (Summer 2023) → UCLA PhD
  • Mohamad El-Hajj (Summer 2018) → UIUC MS
  • Sachit Kuhar (Summer 2019) → Georgia Tech MS

Affiliated Groups