Students

Current

Postdoctoral Fellow

PhD lead supervisor

Yihang She (co-supervised with David Coomes and Andrew Blake)
Zhengpeng (Frank) Feng
Andrea Domiter
Robin Young

PhD co-supervisor

Madeline Lisaius (co-supervised with Clement Atberger, Cyclops and Andrew Blake, Mantle Labs)
Felipe Begliomini (co-supervised with David Coomes, Plant Sciences)
Jovana Knezevic (co-supervised with David Coomes, Plant Sciences)
Tom Ratsakatika (co-supervised with Emily Lines, Geography)
Jakob Poffley (co-supervised with Rachael Garrett, Geography)

Students elsewhere

Enming Liang (CityU HK, supervised by Minghua Chen)

Masters

PhD oversight

Grace Colverd, Engineering (supervised by Jonathan Cullen)
Scott Jeen, Engineering (supervised by Jonathan Cullen)
Luke Cullen, Engineering (supervised by Jonathan Cullen)
Matt Allen, Geography (supervised by Emily Lines)
Danny Lockwood, Civil Engineering (supervised by Ruchi Choudhary)

Undergraduates

Alumni

Post-doc

E-Ping Rau (co-supervised with David Coomes) [2023-2025] –> Gothenburg University, Sweden
Charlotte Wheeler, Quantification of carbon credits from afforestation, reforestation, and regrowth [2023-2025]
Ju Wang, Ph.D. from Northwestern University, China. RFID sensors. [2018-2019]
Liqiong Chang, Ph.D. from Northwestern University, China. RFID sensors. [2018-2019]
Sun Sun, Ph.D. from University of Toronto, Canada. Stochastic matching and synthetic trace generation. [2017-2019]
Ansis Rosmanis, Ph.D. from University of Waterloo. Smart lighting. [2016]
Rachel Kalaimani, Ph.D. from IIT Bombay. Energy-efficient HVAC operation. [2015-2016]
Yashar Ghiassi-Farrokhfal, Ph.D. from University of Toronto. Solar and Storage management. (2012-2015)
Hanan Shpungin, Ph.D. from Ben Gurion University. Energy systems. (2012)
Kirill Kogan, Ph.D. from Ben Gurion University. Multi-connected microgrids. (2012-2013)
Weihong Wang, Ph.D. from U. Toronto. EV scheduling. (2010-2011)
Andre Allavena, Ph.D. from Cornell University. Leaf-only trees for massively parallel computing. (2005-2006)

Ph.D.

Cambridge

Amelia Holcomb: 2021-2025, Co-supervised by Prof. D.A. Coomes. Thesis: Measuring Tropical Forest Disturbance and Regrowth with Spaceborne Lidar (–> NASA/GEDI team at U. Maryland)

Waterloo

Theses can be found in UWspace

Sajjad Rizvi: 2015-2021, Co-supervised by Prof. B. Wong. Thesis: On the Importance of Infrastructure-Awareness in Large-Scale Distributed Storage Systems (–> Cockroach DB)
Christian Gorenflo: 2015-2020, Co-supervised by Prof. L. Golab. Thesis: Towards a New Generation of Permissioned Blockchain Systems (–> Axelar)
Fiodar Kazhamiaka: 2014-2019, Co-supervised by Prof. C. Rosenberg. Thesis: Modelling, Design, and Control of Energy Systems: A Data-Driven Approach (–> Postdoc at Stanford –> Microsoft) Winner of the Cheriton Distinguished Dissertation Award
Adedamola Adepetu: 2012-2016. Thesis: An Agent-Based Modeling Framework for Energy Policies (CIBC Bank –> Loblaws)
Rayman Preet Singh: 2011-2015, Co-supervised by Prof. T. Brecht. Thesis: Personal Data Management in the Internet of Things (Samsung Research –> Amazon –> LinkedIn)
Omid Ardakanian: 2009-2015, Co-supervised by Prof. C. Rosenberg. Thesis: On the Control of Active End-nodes in the Smart Grid (Postdoc UC Berkeley –> Postdoc UBC –> Associate Professor at U. Alberta)
Tommy Carpenter: 2010-2015. Thesis: Measuring & Mitigating Electric Vehicle Adoption Barriers (AT&T Research –> MerQube)
Earl Oliver: 2006-2012. Thesis: Censorship Tolerant Networking (–>Brio Mobile)
Andy Curtis: 2008-2012, Co-supervised by Prof. A. Lopez-Ortiz. Thesis: Reducing the cost of Operating a Datacenter Network (–>Nicera –> VmWare –> Avi Networks)
Nabeel Ahmed: 2004-2009. Thesis: Interference Management in Dense 802.11 Networks (–>post-doc at MIT –> Ruckus Wireless –> Facebook)
Aaditeshwar Seth: 2004-2008, Co-supervised by Prof. R. Cohen. Thesis: Design of a Recommender System for Participatory Media Built on a Tetherless Communication Infrastructure (IBM Research, India –> Assistant Professor at IIT Delhi –> Associate Professor at IIT Delhi)
Majid Ghaderi: 2004-2006, Co-supervised by Prof. R. Boutaba. Thesis: Resource management in heterogeneous wireless networks (PostDoc at U. Mass. Amherst –> Associate Professor at U. Calgary)

Cornell

Cristian Estan⁽²⁾: 1998-99. (U. Wisconsin –> Architect at NetLogic Microsystems)
Yin Zhang⁽¹⁾: 1997-99. (AT&T Labs –> Associate Professor at UT Austin)
Lili Qiu⁽¹⁾: 1997-99. (Microsoft Research –> Associate Professor at UT Austin –> Professor at UT Austin)
Jia Wang⁽¹⁾: 1997-99. (–>Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Labs)
Snorri Gylfason⁽³⁾: 1997-99. (Ensim –> VmWare –> Facebook)
Rosen Sharma: 1996-99. Thesis: ‘Internet TV’ (Ensim –> SolidCore –> CTO of the Systems and Virtualization Business at McAfee –> CEO BlueStacks)

M.S./MMath/M. Phil/M. Res.

Cambridge

2025: Hetong Shen, Julia Gschwend (visiting from ETH)
2024: Livia Carol (visiting from ETH Zurich)
2023: Yihang She, Sharan Agarwal, Sachin Matthew, Johanna De La Cruz-Rothenfusser
2022: Madeline Lisaius, Sofija Stefanovic
2021: Simon Mathis, Arduin Findeis
2020: David Adeboye. Project report: Exploring the effect of spatial faithfulness on group decision-making

Waterloo

Theses can be found in UWspace

2023: Abhinav Bora, Data-driven Estimation of Soiling Loss and Optimal Cleaning Schedule for a Utility-scale PV Plant (–> Amazon)
2021: Amelia Holcomb, Mobile Phone Depth Sensors for Forest Carbon Measurement (–> PhD student at Cambridge)
2020: Dimcho Karakashev, Making Renewable Energy Certificates Efficient, Trustworthy, and Private
2019: Yerbol Aussat, A Power-Efficient Smart Lighting System (–> Snapchat)
2016: Alimohammad Rabbani, Practical Systems for Personal Thermal Comfort (–> Google)
2016: Michael Doroshenko, Quantifying the Effects of Solar Panel Orientation on the Electrical Grid (–> Google)
2016: Ankit Pat, Towards Data-Leveraged Behavioral Policy Design for Alleviating Peak Electricity Demand
2015: Ivan Rios, Analyzing the Usage Patterns of Electric Bikes
2014: Elnaz Rezaei (–> Microsoft), Xiang Gao
2013: Peter X. Gao (–> PhD student at UC Berkeley –> Waymo), Sahil Singla (–> PhD student at CMU), Pirathayini Srikantha (PhD at U. Toronto –> Faculty member at York)
2012: Bo Hu, Ryan Case
2011: Omid Ardakanian (–>PhD at UWaterloo)
2009: Usman Ismail
2008: Hossein Falaki (–>UCLA–>DataBricks), Sumair Ur Rahman, David Hadaller
2007: Shimin Guo (–>DataBricks), Omar Beg, Earl Oliver (–>PhD at UWaterloo)
2005: Nabeel Ahmed (–>PhD at UWaterloo)

Cornell

1999: Y. Xu, Naveen Sastry, J. Wann, P. Singh, A. Singh, M. Ranjan, W. Ng, J. Howes
1998: K. Lee, R. Schwager, R. Siamwalla (–>Ensim–>Facebook)
1997: D. Balakrishna, K. Chan, B. Nicks, J. Teo, M. Wu (–> Ensim), L. Wu (–> Ensim), H. Jamjoom (–>U. Mich–>IBM)

AT&T Bell Laboratories

1995: Matthias Grossglauser (–>PhD at INRIA–>AT&T Labs–>EPFL–>Nokia–>EPFL)

Bachelor’s Thesis advisees

Cambridge

2023: Ned Groom, Benediktas Tarasovas
2022: Thomas Barker
2020: Jan Deller

ETH

2023: Anais Berkes

IIT Delhi

2003: Ankur Jain and Gaurav Kwatra
1993: Anurag Sahay

One-year research interns at Bell Labs

1995-1996: Ankur Jain
1994-1995: Matthias Grossglauser
1994-1995: Ritesh Ahuja

Undergraduate Research Assistants (mostly Waterloo)

2025: Edwin Yang
2024: Zhengpeng (Frank) Feng, UEST, China (–> Cambridge)
2023: Manaswinee Gupta, Zuomiao Hu, Miranda Xie (–> UC Berkeley)
2022: Harsimrat Singh Bhundar
2021: Brad Huang (–> Jane Street), Abhinav Bora, Beihan Liu, Tom Shan, David Liu, Rui Chai, Xinhai (Hector) Wei, Mingjie Zhu
2020: Ivy Liu (–> Columbia), Brad Huang, Bill Tong (–> UC Berkeley), Yijie Wang, Alan Marko, Yu He (–> Stanford), David Wesby, Siqing Huo, Siyi Ji, Megan Penny, Shivam Saraf
2019: Samuel Lu (–> UC Berkeley), Yingjie (Jenny) Chen, Runbiao Zhang, Ashwin Sekhari, Bhargav Das, Tingyin Liu, Shela Qiu, Jia Ying Lin, Kayla Hardie
2018: Sasha Doubov, Kayla Hardie (–> Google), Ankai Jie
2017: Ankai Jie
2015: Kewei Charlie Shi
2008: C. Tang, A. Leong, C. Ho, D. Yim
2007: Matei Zaharia (–> UC Berkeley–>MIT–>Stanford–>UC Berkeley)
2006: Y. Xu, Matei Zaharia, G. Wang
2005: Michael Liang, Geoffrey Salmon, H. Pan, Matei Zaharia, Stephen Fung
2004: Henry Pan, Matei Zaharia, Patrick Darragh, J. Hilliker, Geoffrey Salmon, B. Redman, M. Thomas, A. Lifchits, S. Fung, Neil Arora
2003: Patrick Darragh, Stepehn Fung, M. Tariq
1999: W. Chang, H. Chan, D. Guitirrez, L. Ku
1998: Al Landrum, J. Lin
1997: Aravind Narasimhan

Visitors

2018: Guoming Tang (U. Victoria)
2017: Niko Fink (Passau)
2016: Lukas Gebhard (Passau)
2012: Hadi Zarkoob (UW, Statistics)
2008: A. Narayan (DEI, Agra, India)
2007: R. Sethi (IIT KGP), S. Dube (IITK), U. Ismail (LUMS), S. Mustaq (LUMS)
2006: G. Goel (IITD), Z. Koradia (IITK)
2005: M. Thomas (IIT KGP), H. Chopra (IIT B), G. Singh (IIT D), R. Garg (IIT K), R. Jain (IIT B), A. Agarwal (IIT D), Y. Yin, G. Wang

Completed Ph.D. with Dr. Robbert van Renesse at Cornell
Completed Ph.D. with Prof. George Varghese at UC San Diego
Left the Ph.D. program to join Ensim Corp.