The most fun part of my job is getting to work with and learn from so many excellent students.
Alan Tang
(co-advised with George
Varghese), Ph.D. 2023, Microsoft
Exploiting
Modularity to Scale Verification of Network Router Configurations
Aishwarya Sivaraman, Ph.D. 2022, Research Scientist at Meta
Ensuring
Correctness of Modern Software Systems by Example
Siva Kesava
Reddy Kakarla
(co-advised with George
Varghese), Ph.D. 2022, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research
Formal
Methods for a Robust Domain Name System
2023 ACM SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention
2023 Applied Networking Research Prize
Steven Holtzen
(co-advised with Guy Van den
Broeck), Ph.D. 2021, Assistant Professor at Northeastern
University
Exploiting
Program Structure for Scaling Probabilistic Programming
Lun
Liu (co-advised with Madan Musuvathi),
Ph.D. 2020, Research Scientist at Facebook
Safe
and Efficient Concurrency for Modern Programming Languages
Saswat
Padhi, Ph.D. 2020
first employment: Applied Scientist in Amazon's Automated
Reasoning Group, current employment: Senior Software Engineer at Google
Data-Driven
Learning of Invariants and Specifications
Sai
Deep Tetali (co-advised with Rupak Majumdar), Ph.D. 2015, first
employment: Google, current employment: Facebook
Program
Analyses for Cloud Computations
Hesam
Samimi, Ph.D. 2013, first employment: SAP Labs, current
employment: BSD Academy
From
Validation to Automated Repair & Beyond with Constraint Solving
Jeff Vaughan, Postdoc 2010-12, Google
Dan Marino (co-advised with Madan Musuvathi), Ph.D. 2011, Symantec Research
Labs
Simplified
Semantics and Debugging of Concurrent Programs via Targeted Race Detection
Recipient of the 2012 ACM SIGPLAN
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
Nupur Kothari (primary advisor: Ramesh Govindan), USC Ph.D. 2010,
Microsoft
Language Abstractions and Program Analysis
Techniques to build Reliable, Efficient,
and Robust Networked Systems
Brian Chin, Ph.D. 2009, Google
Language
Features and Patterns for Developing Interactive Software
Shane Markstrum,
Ph.D. 2009, first employment: Assistant Professor at Bucknell
University, current employment: Google
Enforcing
and Validating
User-Defined
Programming Disciplines
Alex
Warth (co-advised with Alan Kay), Ph.D. 2009
first employment: Viewpoints Research
Institute, current employment: Principal Investigator
at Ink & Switch
Experimenting
with Programming Languages