Our Team
Muhammad Shahbaz
Principal Investigator (PI)
Assistant Professor, U-M (CSE)
Ertza Warraich
Ph.D. Student (Purdue)
Focus: ML Systems and Networks, Security, and AI
Annus Zulfiqar
Ph.D. Student (U-M)
Focus: HW/SW Co-Design, Virtual Networks, and In-Network AI
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
Ali Imran
Ph.D. Student (U-M)
Focus: Programmable Data Planes, In-Network ML, and Agentic Systems
Qizheng Zhang
Ph.D. Student (Stanford), co-advised with Kunle Olukotun
Focus: ML and Agentic Systems, In-Network ML, and Video Streaming
Omar Basit
Ph.D. Student (Purdue), co-advised with Y. Charlie Hu
Focus: AR/VR, 5G Systems and Cloud/Edge Computing
Marilyn Rego
B.S. Student (Purdue)
Focus: Agentic Systems, In-Network ML, and Domain-Specific LLMs
Venkat Kunaparaju
B.S./M.S. Student (Purdue)
Focus: HW/SW Co-Design, Virtual Networks, and Cloud Computing
Our Alumni
Lauren Trinks
B.S. Student (Purdue)
Now: Software Engineer at Bloomberg
Chunao Liu
B.S./M.S. Student (Purdue)
Now: Cloud Engineer at HPE
Enkeleda Bardhi
Visiting Researcher (Purdue)
Now: PostDoc with Delft University of Technology
Tushar Swamy
Ph.D. Student (Stanford), co-advised with Kunle Olukotun
Alexander Rucker
Ph.D. Student (Stanford), co-advised with Kunle Olukotun
Now: Senior GPU Architect at Nvidia
Sean Choi
Ph.D. Student (Stanford), co-advised with Mendel Rosenblum
Now: Assistant Professor at Santa Clara University
Aakanksha Desai
M.S. Student (Purdue)
Now: Lecturer at Purdue
Leonard Liu
B.S./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)