Our Team
Muhammad Shahbaz

Principal Investigator (PI)

Assistant Professor, U-M (CSE)

Bilal Saleem

Ph.D. Student (Purdue)

Focus: Cloud-Native Systems, Edge Computing, and 5G

Murayyiam Parvez

Ph.D. Student (Purdue)

Focus: Network Security, In-Network ML, and Programmable Data Planes

Marilyn Rego

Ph.D. Student (U-M)

Focus: Agentic Systems, In-Network ML, and Domain-Specific LLMs

Andrew Ajamian

Ph.D. Student (U-M)

Focus: Computer Systems and Architecture + ML

Veronika Kitsul

Ph.D. Student (U-M)

Focus: Computer Systems and Architecture + ML

Max Tang

Ph.D. Student (U-M)

Focus: Computer Systems and Architecture + ML

Omar Basit

Ph.D. Student (Purdue), co-advised with Y. Charlie Hu

Qizheng Zhang

Ph.D. Student (Stanford), co-advised with Kunle Olukotun

Focus: ML and Agentic Systems, In-Network ML, and Video Streaming

Advay Singh

B.S. Student (U-M)

Focus: Cloud Computing, and ML Systems and Networks

Sruthi Shivaramakrishnan

M.S. Student (U-M)

Focus: AI and Systems

Geon Kim

B.S. Student (U-M)

Focus: Systems and Networks

Yasin Huq Shafiq

B.S. Student (U-M)

Focus: Systems and Networks

Our Alumni
Annus Zulfiqar

Ph.D. Student (U-M)

Now: Research Scientist at a Stealth Startup

Ali Imran

M.S. Student (U-M)

Now: Software Engineer at NVIDIA

Venkat Kunaparaju

B.S. Student (Purdue)

Now: Software Engineer at NVIDIA

Ertza Warraich

Ph.D. Student (Purdue)

Now: Research Scientist at a Stealth Startup

Regan McDonald

B.S. Student (U-M)

Now: Software Engineer at AWS

Shina Patel

B.E. Student (U-M)

Focus: Embedded Systems and Networks

Sophia Chen

B.E. Student (U-M)

Focus: In-Network ML, and Domain-Specific LLMs

Lauren Trinks

B.S. Student (Purdue)

Now: Software Engineer at Bloomberg

Chunao Liu

M.S. Student (Purdue)

Now: Software Engineer at Apple

Enkeleda Bardhi

Visiting Researcher (Purdue)

Now: PostDoc with Delft University of Technology

Tushar Swamy

Ph.D. Student (Stanford), co-advised with Kunle Olukotun

Now: Senior Software Engineer at AMD

Alexander Rucker

Ph.D. Student (Stanford)

Now: Senior GPU Architect at NVIDIA

Sean Choi

Ph.D. Student (Stanford)

Now: Assistant Professor at Santa Clara University

Yaqi Zhang

Ph.D. Student (Stanford)

Now: Compiler Engineer at SambaNova

Stephen Ibanez

Ph.D. Student (Stanford)

Now: Network Systems Architect at Intel

Aakanksha Desai

M.S. Student (Purdue)

Now: Lecturer at Purdue

Leonard Liu

M.S. Student (Purdue)

Now: Software Engineer at Bloomberg LP

Siddharth Dhar

M.S. Student (Purdue)

Now: Software Engineer at Amazon

Sharuna Anandraj

M.S. Student (Purdue)

Now: Software Engineer at Meta

Qiren Zhao

B.S. Student (Purdue)

Now: Software Engineer at Bentley Systems

Xander Weintraut

B.S. Student (Purdue)

Now: Software Engineer at The RND Group | a gener8 company

Ishan Gaur

B.S. Student (Stanford)

Now: Ph.D. Student at UC Berkeley

Ben Heller

B.S. Student (Stanford)

Zhiying Dong

B.S. Student (Purdue)