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Synergistic Networking and Augmented Intelligence Lab (SNAIL)

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Postdoctoral Associates

Ph.D. Students

Former Ph.D. Students

  • Osama Bajaber (Ph.D., Virginia Tech, Fall 2021 - Fall 2025; co-advised by Dr. Peng Gao; Davenport Leadership Scholarship in 2024; Bitshares Fellowship in 2023; now Assistant Professor at King AbdulAziz University in Saudi Arabia)

  • Matthew Corbett (Ph.D., Virginia Tech, Fall 2021 - Spring 2024; Dept. of Computer Science Ph.D. Research Award in 2024; Richard E. Nance Graduate Fellowship in Computer Science in 2023; now Senior Research Scientist at Army Cyber Institute, West Point, NY)

  • Zhongdong Liu (Ph.D., Virginia Tech, Fall 2020 - Spring 2024; Fall 2017 - Summer 2020 at Temple University; now Software Engineer at Meta; Instructor at Virginia Tech (2024 - 2025))

  • Fengjiao Li (Ph.D., Virginia Tech, Spring 2018 - Fall 2022; Dept. of Computer Science Ph.D. Research Award in 2023; IEEE/IFIP WiOpt 2022 Best Student Paper Award; Dr. Dennis G. Kafura Graduate Fellowship in Computer Science in 2022; N2Women Young Researcher Fellowship in 2020; Scott Hibbs Future of Computing Award in 2020; IEEE INFOCOM 2019 Best Paper Award; IEEE INFOCOM 2019 Best-in-Session Presentation Award; now Assistant Professor at Shanxi University in China)

  • Yanlong Qiu (Ph.D., Temple University, Fall 2017 - Summer 2023; co-advised by Dr. Jin Zhang at SUSTech; now Algorithm Engineer at Calterah Semiconductor, China)

  • Gamal Sallam (Ph.D., Temple University, Fall 2016 - Summer 2020; Temple University Doctoral Dissertation Completion Grant in 2020; CST Graduate Research Assistant Award in 2019; CIS Graduate Research Assistant Award in 2019; IEEE INFOCOM 2018 Best-in-Session Presentation Award; now Research Scientist at Facebook)

  • Yu Sang (Ph.D., Temple University, Fall 2014 - Summer 2019; Presidential Fellowship from Temple University in 2014; Scott Hibbs Future of Computing Award in 2017; now Research Scientist at Facebook)

Former Master's Students

  • Akash Mittal (M.S. in CS, December 2024; co-advised by Dr. Sharath Raghvendra)

  • Mostafa Meimand (M.S. in CS and Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, December 2024; co-advised by Dr. Farrokh Jazizadeh)

  • Matthew Jackson (M.S. in CS, May 2023; now at Applied Physics Laboratory; co-advised by Dr. Dimitrios Nikolopoulos)

  • Aayush Sureshchander (M.S. in ECE, May 2021)

  • Yiqun Wu (Master's Project, Temple University, May 2020)

  • Pradipti Pal (Independent Study, Temple University, Summer 2016)

Former Undergraduate Students

  • Kim Giordano (BS in CS, Fall 2025; co-advised by Dr. Brendan David-John; Second-Place Research Award at VTURCS (Fall 2025))

  • Gayatri Kamtala (BS in CS, Fall 2025; co-advised by Dr. Brendan David-John)

  • Claire Shin (BS in CS, BURGS, Spring 2025; co-advised by Dr. Brendan David-John; First-Place Research Award at VTURCS (Spring 2025); Best Poster Award at CCI Student Researcher Showcase (2025))

  • Jai Sundaram (BS in CS, BURGS, Spring 2025; co-advised by Dr. Brendan David-John; First-Place Research Award at VTURCS (Spring 2025); Best Poster Award at CCI Student Researcher Showcase (2025))

  • Allie Craddock (BS in CS, Fall 2024, Fall 2025; co-advised by Dr. Brendan David-John; First-Place Research Award at VTURCS (Spring 2025); Best Poster Award at CCI Student Researcher Showcase (2025))

  • Casie Peng (BS in CS, Fall 2024, Summer 2025, Fall 2025; co-advised by Dr. Brendan David-John; Second-Place Research Award at VTURCS (Fall 2025); First-Place Research Award at VTURCS (Spring 2025); Best Poster Award at CCI Student Researcher Showcase (2025))

  • Noah Webber (BS in Engineering, Fall 2024; co-advised by Dr. Siwei Cao)

  • Lucas Liebermann(BS in CS, Summer 2024; co-advised by Dr. Siwei Cao; now undergrad student at Georgia Tech)

  • John Zhao (BS in CS, Summer 2024; co-advised by Dr. Siwei Cao)

  • Ken Lin (BS in CS, Spring 2024; co-advised by Dr. Brendan David-John; First-Place Research Award at VTURCS (2024))

  • Bharathi Ganesan (BS in CS, Fall 2023 and Spring 2024; People's Choice Award at VTURCS (2024))

  • Van Ha Nguyen (BS in CS, Fall 2023 and Spring 2024; People's Choice Award at VTURCS (2024))

  • Mary Zeno (BS in CS, Fall 2023 and Spring 2024; People's Choice Award at VTURCS (2024))

  • Srinjoy Dey (BS in CS, Spring 2023)

  • Andrew Tran (BS in CS, Fall 2022)

  • Pierre Tran (BS in CS, Fall 2022)

  • Shalini Dubey (BS in CS, Spring/Summer 2022)

  • Jeremy Sanchez (BS in CS, Spring 2022)

  • Rui Wang (B.S. in ECE, Fall 2021; joining UIUC in Fall 2022 as a Master's student)

  • Chengpei Wu (B.S. in ECE, Fall 2021)

  • Helene Mbonda (B.S. in CS, Summer 2021)

  • Nahom Atsbeha (B.S. in CS, Summer 2021)

  • Skylar Liang (B.S. in CS, Spring 2021; joining Virginia Tech in Spring 2023 as a Master's student)

  • Jared Joo (B.S. in CS, Spring 2021)

  • Jaswant Kasinedi (B.S. in CS, Spring 2021)

  • Ishaan Lubana (B.S. in CS, Spring 2021)

  • Zifan Wang (B.S. in CS, Spring 2021)

  • Andrew Posmontier (Temple University, Science Scholars Program, Summer 2019 - Summer 2020)

  • Lauren Kimpel (Temple University, URP, Summer 2020)

  • Caleb Okoh-Aihe (Temple University, URP, Summer 2020)

  • Jason Duong (Temple University, URP, Summer 2020)

  • Victor Chan (Temple University, Undergrad Researcher, Spring/Summer 2020)

  • Giovanni Mancini (Temple University, NSF REU, Spring 2020)

  • Paul Pesnell (Temple University, URP, Fall 2019)

  • Jenna Ryan (Clarkson University, NSF REU, Summer 2019; The third place at Temple NSF REU Site Research Symposium)

  • Collin Rehmeyer (Temple University, Undergrad Researcher, Summer 2019)

  • Shmuel Jacobs (Temple University, URP, Spring/Summer 2019)

  • Parisa Khan (Temple University, Undergrad Researcher, Spring/Summer 2019)

  • Aamir Mandviwalla (Temple University, Merit Scholar, Summer/Fall 2018; now Ph.D. student at RPI)

  • Hoang Nguyen Khanh Ho (Temple University, Merit Scholar, Summer 2018; now Ph.D. student at UMass Amherst)

  • Jiawei Zhou (St. John's University, NSF REU, Summer 2018)

  • Chelsea Zackey (Temple University, URP, Summer/Fall 2018; now Master's student at Temple)

  • Kyle Meyers (Temple University, URP, Summer 2018)

  • Keita Ohshiro (Temple University, URP, Spring/Summer 2018, Spring 2019; Scott Hibbs Future of Computing Award in 2019; now Master's student at NYU)

  • Hasan Ali Ghazzawi (Temple University, Undergrad Researcher, Spring 2018)

  • Yi Ping Wu (Stony Brook University, NSF REU, Summer 2017)

  • Minh Nguyen (Temple University, Undergrad Researcher, Spring/Summer 2017)

  • Yeahuay Wu (Temple University, Undergrad Researcher, Fall 2016 and Spring/Summer 2017; now Ph.D. student at UMass Amherst)

  • Caleb Skinner (University of Texas at Austin, NSF REU, Summer 2016; now Software Engineer at Dimensional Fund Advisors)

  • Aashir Nuri (Temple University, Undergrad Researcher, Fall 2015; NSF REU, Summer 2015)

  • Helen Vasiliki Hansel (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NSF REU, Summer 2015)

  • Aron Cowen (Temple University, Science Scholars Program (SSP), Spring 2015)

Former K-12 Students

  • Kabir Suri (McLean High School, Summer 2022)

  • Rishi Peddakama (Del Norte High School, Spring 2022)

  • Arpan Banerjee (William G. Enloe High School, co-advised by Dr. Xingyu Zhou@Wayne State University, Summer 2021; now undergrad student at Georgia Tech)