Students

Eyal Castiel (2022 – 2024), hosted jointly with Siva Theja Maguluri

Zihao He (2024 - )

Jingyi (Joy) Zhang (2024 – ), co-advised with Cheng Mao

Neelkamal Bhuyan (2022 – )

Zhisheng Zhao (2020 – 2024): First position: Research Scientist at Uber

Daan Rutten (2020 – 2024): First position: Applied Scientist at Amazon

Arnav Hiray (Summer 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025) from Georgia Tech.
NSF REU fund as part of CCF: 2113027
Topic: Spread of epidemics on large networks
2025 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award from the College of Engineering

Christopher Michel (Summer 2023) from Florida International University via SURE program at Georgia Tech. (selected as Intel Scholar 2023).
Graduate student mentor: Prakirt Raj Jhunjhunwala
Topic: Load balancing in reward-based parallel server system

Gerald Ahn (Summer 2023) from Georgia Tech via 2023 ISyE Summer Undergraduate Scholars Research Program.
Postdoctoral mentor: Eyal Castiel
Topic: Algorithms for large-scale switch scheduling

Meti Haile (Summer 2022) from Kennesaw State University via SURE program at Georgia Tech. (selected as Intel Scholar 2022).
Graduate student mentor: Zhisheng Zhao
Topic: Simulation of Heterogeneous Load Balancing Systems

Yanyu Xie (Spring 2022) Undergraduate Research Assistant at Gergia Tech.
Graduate student mentor: Daan Rutten
Topic: Improving Multi-armed Bandits with Confidence Estimates
First position: Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company

Unduwap KandageDon (Summer 2021) from University of California, San Diego, via SURE program at Georgia Tech.
Graduate student mentor: Daan Rutten
Topic: The Online Knapsack Problem

Rajita Chandak (Spring 2019). Energy-aware optimization of scalable load balancing strategies (with K. Ramanan) at Brown University.
First position: PhD student at Princeton ORFE.

Misha Sohan (Spring 2019). Stability of parallel-server systems with service elasticity (with K. Ramanan) at Brown University.
First position: Investment Banking Analyst at Goldman Sachs.

Yuanzhe Ma (Fall 2020): Hypercontractive operator norms of centered random matrices.

Daan Rutten (Aug 2019 – Oct 2019), visiting student from Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. Topic: Load balancing under limited flexibility.