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Leana Golubchik

Leana Golubchik

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.

Marco Paolieri

Marco Paolieri

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

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.

Bowen Song

Bowen Song

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

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.

Alumni

  • Danielle Bragg

    Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research

  • Dr. Chien-Lun Chen

    Applied Scientist at Amazon

  • Ranjan Pal, PhD

    Research Scientist at MIT Sloan

  • Dr. Yuan Yao

    Wuhan Institute of Technology

  • Sara Babakniya

    Ph.D. student at USC

  • Meiyu Zhong

    Ph.D. student at The University of Arizona

  • Nidhi Shah

    PhD Student at the University of Maryland

  • Wumo Yan

    Software Engineer at TikTok

  • Christine Chao

    Senior Startup Solutions Architect at Amazon

  • Kai Song

    Engineer at Google

  • Dr. Sung-Han Lin

    Performance and Capacity engineer at Meta

  • Dr. Michael Chien-Chun Hung

    Software Engineer at Google

  • Dr. Bo-Chun Wang

    Senior Performance Engineer at Couchbase (SF)

  • Dr. Alix Chow

    Senior Researcher at Nokia (Beijing)

  • Dr. Leslie Cheung

    iCloud Efficiency Engineer at Apple

  • Dr. Yan Yang

    Engineer at Meta

  • Dr. Abhishek B. Sharma

    SVP of Engineering at Rhombus Power

Visitors

  • Hong-Yun Chen

    National Taiwan University

  • Prof. Cheng-Fu Chou

    National Taiwan University

  • Prof. John C.S. Lui

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  • Prof. Longbo Huang

    Tsinghua University

  • Prof. Samir Khuller

    University of Maryland

  • Eli Friedman

    Computer science major at Dartmouth

  • Samantha Morris

    Computer science major at Northwestern University