I have contributed (or currently contributing) to the research-based training of a broad body of 31 graduate and postdoc students and over 45 undergraduate students between 2005-present. Eight of my former PhD students and postdoctoral fellows are faculty and ten are industrial researchers. We are currently recruiting postdoctoral fellows and students at all levels. See my advice on this matter.

Current Graduate Students and Postdocs

• Fraol Batole, PhD Student, Reliable Agentic Output
• Ruchira Manke, PhD Student, Separate development of Data and Artificial Intelligence Models
• Deepak George Thomas, PhD Student, Verifying Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
• Sayma Sultana, Postdoctoral Fellow, Software Engineering of AI-enabled Systems

Former Postdoctoral Fellows

• Breno Dantas Cruz, Research Scientist at Samsung Research
• Ali Ghanbari, Assistant Professor at Auburn University
• Hoan A. Nguyen, Applied Scientist at Amazon
• Zhen Yu, Associate Professor at Guizhou Education University

Former Graduate Students

• Sumon Biswas (PhD Spring’22, MS Fall’20), Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University
• Shibbir Ahmed (PhD Spring’24, MS Summer’22), Assistant Professor at Texas State University
• Giang Nguyen (PhD Summer’24), Research Scientist at Meta
• David O’Brien (PhD Summer’24), Research Scientist at Amazon AWS
• Mohammad Wardat (PhD Summer’23), Assistant Professor at Oakland University
• Rangeet Pan (PhD Summer’22), Research Staff Member at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
• Samantha Khairunnessa (PhD Summer’21, MS Fall’17), Assistant Professor at Florida Gulf Coast University
• Hamid Bagheri (PhD Summer’20, MS Fall’19), Data Scientist at John Deere
• Md. Johirul Islam (PhD Summer’20, MS Fall’19), Amazon R&D
• Ganesha Upadhyaya (PhD Fall’17, MS Spring’15), Harmony.One R&D
• Mehdi Bagherzadeh (PhD Summer’16, MS Fall’10), Associate Professor at Oakland University
• Yuheng Long (PhD Spring’16, MS Spring’10), Meta
• Robert Dyer (PhD Fall’13, MS Fall’08), Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln
• Tyler Sondag (PhD Fall’11, MS Fall’09), Principal Architect - CPU, NVIDIA
• Astha Singh (MS Spring’24), PhD Program at Iowa State University
• Ramanathan Ramu (MS Fall’17), Microsoft
• Nitin M. Tiwari (MS Spring’17), SAP
• Sean L. Mooney (MS Summer’15), SourceAllies
• Harish Narayanappa (MS Spring’10), eBay
• Jaikishan Jalan (MS Fall’09), Squad
• Youssef W. Hanna (MS Fall’08), Google
• Rakesh Setty (MS Fall’08), eBay
• Mahantesh Hosamani (MS Fall’07), Ericsson

Academic Geneology

My advisor at University of Virginia was Kevin Sullivan, whose advisor was David Notkin. My academic genealogy goes all the way to Edsger Dijkstra, who won the Turing award in 1972.

In prior life, I worked at Bell Labs India, the R&D organization of Lucent Technologies. At the time, I was interested in bandwidth and power optimization issues in mobile ad hoc & sensor networks as they scale up. I still keep up with these topics.