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.
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
Anyong received his B.Sc. from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2025. His current research focuses on building efficient machine learning systems and optimizing ML inference pipelines.
Ph.D. Student in Computer Engineering
Pasha received his B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Tehran in 2025. He is a PhD student at USC, working on the security of networked and decentralized systems.
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