Professor
Leana Golubchik is Professor of Electrical Engineering at USC, with joint appointment in Computer Science. Before, she was Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, and Assistant Professor at Columbia University. Leana received her Ph.D. from UCLA. Her research interests are broadly in the design and evaluation of large scale distributed systems, with an emphasis on analysis techniques needed for rapid evaluation of design ideas that lead to insight about systems' performance and reliability.
Senior Research Associate
Marco Paolieri received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Florence (Italy) in 2015 and was a postdoc at USC 2016-2018. His research focuses on stochastic models for performance and reliability evaluation, solution techniques for non-Markovian processes, modeling of computer systems, including AI systems, satellite constellations, networks.
Ali Abbasi
Ph.D. Student in Computer Science
Ali received his M.Sc. from University of calgary in 2024 and his B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2022. His current research focuses on optimization methods using machine learning.
Ph.D. Student in Computer Science
Bowen was a software engineer at Red Hat, Inc., working on the Operator framework and the Kubernetes scheduler. He received his M.S. from Boston University and BEng from the University of Victoria in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests focus on signal processing and machine learning for health and data-driven personalized wellness.
Zhuojin Li
Ph.D. Student in Computer Science
Zhuojin received his M.S. in Computer Science from University of Southern California in 2020. His current research focuses on performance evaluation of distributed machine learning systems and, more recently, the performance of AI applications on mobile and edge devices.
Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research
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Ph.D. student at USC
Meiyu Zhong
Ph.D. student at The University of Arizona
Nidhi Shah
PhD Student at the University of Maryland
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Christine Chao
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Kai Song
Engineer at Google
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Dr. Yan Yang
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Hong-Yun Chen
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National Taiwan University
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Computer science major at Dartmouth
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