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Gauri JoshiView profile

Associate Professor

• Distributed Machine Learning
• Federated Learning
• Stochastic Modeling
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Gauri Joshi is an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department at Carnegie Mellon University, with affiliate appointments in the Machine Learning Department and Robotics Institute. Her work focuses on system-aware algorithms for distributed machine learning, combining optimization, probability, and coding theory to address communication and computational constraints in edge networks. MIT Ph.D. in EECS (2016) IIT Bombay B.Tech/M.Tech in Electrical Engineering (2010) Research themes include federated learning with communication efficiency, erasure coding for non-linear computations, and reinforcement learning for heterogeneous queueing systems. She leads the Optimization, Probability and Learning (OPAL) lab , affiliated with the Parallel Data Lab (PDL), CyLab, and FLAME Center. Recent publications highlight advances in: federated fine-tuning with low-rank adaptation, robust PCA for model aggregation, privacy-preserving prediction mechanisms, and adaptive reinforcement learning for job dispatching systems. Her group has received 15+ paper awards across SIGMETRICS, MobiHoc, and NeurIPS workshops. Scientific recognition includes: IEEE Goldsmith Lecturer (2025), MIT Technology Review '35 Innovators Under 35' (2022), ONR Young Investigator Award (2023), NSF CAREER (2021), and ACM SIGMETRICS Best Paper (2020). She has advised 20+ graduate students, many now at tech giants like Google, Apple, and Meta. Service contributions span program co-chair roles (MLSys 2025), associate editorships (IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking), and workshop organization (ICML, NeurIPS). Her NSF AI-EDGE Institute leadership (2021-present) drives next-generation intelligent edge networks for robotics and aerospace applications.

James C. HoeView profile

Professor

• Computer Architecture
• Reconfigurable Computing
• High-Level Hardware Design and Synthesis
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James C. Hoe is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (College of Engineering). He is on sabbatical at MangoBoost and directs research in computer architecture, reconfigurable computing, and high-level hardware design. Education Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT (2000) M.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT (1994) B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley (1992) Research Interests Professor Hoe’s work spans computer architecture , reconfigurable computing , FPGA architectures , and high-level hardware synthesis . His group created the CoRAM abstraction for virtualized FPGA computing and leads efforts in power-efficient accelerators, in-network computing, and security-oriented FPGA systems. Scientific Awards IEEE Fellow (2013) Intel Outstanding Researcher Award (2021) Research Funding & Projects Intel / VMware Crossroads 3D-FPGA Academic Research Center – co-leading exploration of FPGA roles in future datacenters. DARPA BRASS program ($2.7 M, 4 years) – ensuring long-lived software systems remain robust to resource changes. Pigasus open-source IDS – world’s fastest FPGA-accelerated intrusion-detection system (100 Gb/s on one server). Labs & Teams He heads activities within the Computer Architecture Lab at Carnegie Mellon (CALCM) , supervising graduate researchers on CoRAM++, SPIRAL autotuning, and FPGA overlays for stream processing.

Jignesh M. PatelView profile

Professor

• Data Management
• Database Systems
• Machine Learning
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Jignesh M. Patel is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University , focusing on Data Management , System Efficiency (e.g., Scalable Data Platforms), and Human Efficiency (e.g., LLM-Based Query Interfaces). His work bridges Database Systems , Machine Learning , and Human-Computer Interaction . Co-founder of four startups: Paradise (1997), Locomatix (2007), Quickstep (2015), and DataChat (2017). Member of SIGMOD 2025 (AE) , CIDR 2024 (Co-Chair) , and other program committees. Research Interests include efficient data analysis algorithms , LLM-based data interaction , and systems security . His group develops platforms combining scalability and user productivity . Scientific Awards include Best Paper Awards at SIGMOD and VLDB, and Fellowships from AAAS, ACM, and IEEE. He also received Teaching Awards at CMU. Professional Activities feature co-founding startups , serving on program committees , and teaching courses like Database Systems and Advanced Database Systems at CMU.

Franz FranchettiView profile

Professor

• High-Performance Computing (HPC)
• Parallel Computing
• Algorithm and Hardware Co-Synthesis
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Franz Franchetti is the Kavčić-Moura Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He serves as Associate Dean for Research and Director of the Engineering Research Accelerator at CMU. Education: Ph.D. in Computational Mathematics (Vienna University of Technology, 2003) M.Sc. in Technical Mathematics (Vienna University of Technology, 2000) His research interests focus on automatic performance tuning and program generation for emerging parallel computing platforms , including multicore CPUs , GPUs , and 3DIC chip design . He leads the SPIRAL effort to automate highly optimized software libraries and explores domain-specific compiler transformations in HPC applications for smart grids and material sciences . Recent work extends SPIRAL to quantum computing . The scientific awards Franchetti has received include the Gordon Bell Prize (2006) , HPC Challenge Class II Award (2010) , and the CIT Dean's Early Career Fellowship (2013) . He and his students have won multiple Best Paper Awards at HPEC, DAC, and ISPA ACM TODAES Best Paper (2014) Student Research Competition wins (PACT 2024, CGO 2023) Franchetti has advised students like Richard Veras and Thom Popovici . He has secured significant grants from agencies such as DARPA, DOE, NSF, and industry partners (Intel, NVIDIA, Mercury). He co-founded SpiralGen, Inc. and holds leadership roles in organizations like ASciNA Western Pennsylvania and as Honorary Consul of Austria in Pittsburgh.

Bruce MacDowell MaggsView profile

Professor

• Computer Networks
• Distributed Systems
• Algorithms
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Bruce MacDowell Maggs is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Duke University and serves as Vice President of Research at Akamai Technologies. His career bridges academic research and industrial innovation in computer science, particularly in distributed systems and networking. Research Interests: His work spans computer networks , distributed systems , parallel algorithms , content delivery , and fault-tolerant computing . He has made significant contributions to network routing, load balancing, scalability of web applications, and energy efficiency in large-scale systems. His research often combines theoretical rigor with practical system design. The recent publications highlight a consistent focus on scalability , network performance , and security in internet-scale applications. Key themes include query caching , traffic modeling , resilient routing , and energy optimization , reflecting his deep involvement in the infrastructure of modern web services. No scientific awards are mentioned in the provided text. Advising and Teaching: He has advised numerous Ph.D. students, many of whom are now faculty or researchers at top institutions. His former students include Ramesh Sitaraman, Anja Feldmann, and Andrea Richa. He currently advises Anat Talmy at Duke. He has taught a wide range of courses at Duke, Carnegie Mellon, and MIT, including Computer Networks, Operating Systems, Algorithms, and Discrete Mathematics. Labs and Teams: While not explicitly named, his research is closely tied to systems and networking groups at Duke and his industrial work at Akamai, a leader in content delivery networks. His collaborations with Tom Leighton and others at Akamai suggest leadership in research teams developing foundational internet technologies.

• Materials Science and Engineering
• Additive Manufacturing
• Materials Informatics
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S. Mohadeseh Taheri-Mousavi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), part of the College of Engineering. She joined CMU in September 2022 after postdoctoral appointments at MIT and Brown University. Her research is supported by major grants from NASA STRI, DARPA, the Army Research Laboratory, and the Naval Nuclear Laboratory, and she is affiliated with the NextManufacturing Center and the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation. Her educational background includes a Ph.D. from EPFL, Switzerland, and M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees from Sharif University of Technology, Iran. She was awarded both early and advanced Swiss National Science Foundation fellowships during her postdoctoral studies. Taheri-Mousavi’s research focuses on the intersection of materials science, mechanical engineering, and computer science. She develops multi-scale computational models and AI-driven frameworks—such as AlloyGPT and generative AI agents—to design next-generation structural alloys, particularly for additive manufacturing and extreme environments. Her work emphasizes materials sustainability, industrial decarbonization, and uncertainty quantification in alloy design. The integration of machine learning with Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) and CALPHAD methods enables rapid exploration of high-dimensional composition and processing spaces. Her recent publications (2023–2025) show a strong trend toward AI/ML applications in alloy discovery, hydrogen embrittlement modeling, and high-temperature aluminum and tungsten alloys. These works reflect a deep commitment to accelerating materials innovation through human-AI collaboration and smart experimental validation. Her scientific honors include prestigious Swiss National Science Foundation fellowships. She has also received seed funding from the Scott Institute for Energy Innovation to study hydrogen embrittlement. She advises a dynamic team of doctoral students and a postdoctoral researcher, working on topics including hydrogen embrittlement, generative AI for welding, and gradient alloys. Her research is funded by high-impact grants from NASA, DARPA, the Army, and the Naval Nuclear Laboratory, supporting transformative projects in structural alloy design. She leads the Taheri-Mousavi Group, which operates within CMU’s Materials Characterization Facility and the NextManufacturing Center. The group focuses on developing novel AI-integrated computational frameworks to guide efficient and intelligent experimentation in alloy development.

Garth GibsonView profile

Professor

• Data-Intensive and Cloud Computing
• Distributed Systems
• Large Scale Parallelism
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Garth Gibson is a Professor in the Computer Science Department and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science. He serves as Co-Director of the Master of Computational Data Science program and as Associate Dean for Master's Programs. Gibson has been a faculty member at CMU since 1991, after receiving his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley and a Bachelor of Mathematics in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from the University of Waterloo. Gibson's research focuses on large-scale parallelism in computer systems, secondary memory system technologies and optimization, scalable file and key-value storage systems, scalable machine learning, and systematic testing for large scale systems. His work bridges theoretical concepts with practical implementations, with a strong emphasis on shepherding technological advances from academic research to commercial reality. He has made significant contributions to RAID technology, network-attached secure disks (NASD), and parallel file systems that have shaped industry standards and products. Gibson's recent publications reveal a strong trend toward data-intensive scalable computing, with increasing focus on machine learning systems, distributed storage solutions, and high-performance computing infrastructure. His research has evolved from foundational storage technologies to address the challenges of petascale and exascale computing environments, with particular attention to the intersection of storage systems and machine learning workloads. The papers demonstrate a consistent theme of addressing system scalability challenges through innovative architectural approaches. Scientific Awards: 2014 Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to the performance and reliability of transformative storage systems 2012 Fellow of the ACM for contributions to the performance and reliability of storage systems 2012 Jean-Claude Laprie Award in Dependable Computing Industrial/Commercial Product Impact Category 2011 SIGOPS Hall of Fame for the SIGMOD88 RAID paper 1999 Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Award 1999 Allan Newell Award for Research Excellence 1998 Test of Time Award 1991 A.C.M. Doctoral Dissertation Award (tied for second) Gibson has advised numerous graduate students who have gone on to influential positions in both academia and industry, including Swapnil Patil who won first place in the 2010 ACM Graduate Student Research Competition. He has secured significant research funding through initiatives like the DOE Petascale Data Storage Institute and the Intel Science and Technology Center for Cloud Computing. His research has been supported by collaborations with national laboratories including Los Alamos, Sandia, Oak Ridge, Pacific Northwest, and Lawrence Berkeley. Gibson founded CMU's Parallel Data Laboratory (PDL) in 1993, which has grown into a vibrant research community comprising 6-9 faculty members, 2-3 dozen students, and 4-10 staff. The PDL operates with guidance from the Parallel Data Consortium, which includes 15-25 companies interested in parallel data systems. He also founded Panasas Inc. in 1999, a scalable storage cluster company that has deployed technology in national laboratories, energy sectors, and other high-performance computing environments. More recently, Gibson established the Big Learning research group and created the Systems Major curriculum within CMU's Master of Computational Data Science program.

Reza ZadehView profile

Adjunct Professor

• Machine Learning
• Distributed Computing
• Discrete Mathematics
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Reza Zadeh is a Computational Mathematics professor at Stanford University's School of Engineering and Founder & CEO of Matroid . He previously served as a Technical Advisory Board member for Databricks and leads the Spark Tutorial at Stanford. Research Interests: Specializing in Machine Learning and Distributed Computing , his work bridges theoretical mathematics with practical implementations in big data systems. Key focus areas include Optimization of Apache Spark 3D Convolutional Neural Networks Discrete Mathematics and Graph Theory Medical Imaging Applications Academic Contributions: His publications reveal trends across multiple disciplines: Adapting machine learning for medical diagnostics (2019-2022) Advancing distributed computing frameworks (2014-2016) Developing mathematical foundations for social networks (2009-2013) Creating scalable optimization algorithms (2014-2016) Scientific Awards: Best Paper Award runner-up at KDD 2016 Academic Leadership: He has taught SMACC Consulting and designed courses including CME 323: Distributed Algorithms and Optimization (2015-2024) and CME 305: Discrete Mathematics and Algorithms (2010-2017). His lectures cover graph theory, approximation algorithms, and spectral sparsification. Labs & Teams: Organized Spark Summit workshops and leads Scaled Machine Learning Conference . Collaborates with Stanford's ICME computational consulting services.

Ralf BrownView profile

Researcher

• Machine Translation
• Computational Linguistics
• Digital Forensics
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Ralf Brown is a Principal Systems Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, affiliated with the Language Technologies Institute (LTI). His research focuses on machine translation , language identification , and digital forensics , with notable contributions like the open-source CMU-EBMT system and the LTI LangID Corpus for 2000+ languages. Academic Roles: Research faculty since 1993, teaching courses like Coding & Algorithms Bootcamp and MIIS Capstone Project . Research Interests: Multilingual processing, example-based translation, low-resource languages, and text mining. Scientific Contributions: Authored 15+ publications on EBMT, corpus indexing, and context-sensitive translation. Developed tools for digital forensics (corrupted ZIP recovery) and language identification at scale. Awards: IJCAI Distinguished Paper Award Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence Open-Source Contributions: Key developer of darktable image editor Maintainer of the Interrupt List and other technical resources

• Process Systems Engineering
• Nonlinear Optimization
• Parallel Scientific Computing
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Carl D. Laird is the John E. Swearingen Professor and Department Head of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering. He holds affiliations with the Center for Advanced Process Decision-making (CAPD) and the Center for Materials Data Science for Reliability and Degradation (MDS-Rely). His academic journey includes a B.S. from the University of Alberta (2000), a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon (2006), and postdoctoral training in Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh. Laird's research integrates optimization, data science, and systems engineering. Key focus areas include high-performance computing for large-scale nonlinear problems, parallel scientific computing, and open-source software development, applied to domains like public health, homeland security, critical infrastructure, and energy systems. His work also spans machine learning, operations research, and advanced process decision-making. Awards and Honors: 2024 Steven J. Fenves Award for Systems Research INFORMS Computing Society Prize Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software (for IPOPT development) NSF CAREER Award Best Oral Presentation at ESCAPE 33 John E. Swearingen Endowed Professorship He advises graduate students including Carolina Colombo Tedesco and leads the Laird Research Group, part of the Center for Advanced Process Decision Making (CAPD). His collaborations include projects with Imperial College and Sandia National Labs, such as the OMLT Python package for machine learning optimization.

George AmvrosiadisView profile

Research Professor

• Distributed Systems
• Cloud Storage
• High Performance Computing (HPC)
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George Amvrosiadis is a Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, with a courtesy appointment in Computer Science. He is a core member of the Parallel Data Lab and spends part of his time at Amazon S3 as an Amazon Scholar. Education: 2016 - Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Toronto 2009 - BA, Computer Science, University of Ioannina Research Interests: His work focuses on distributed systems , operating systems , data analysis , cloud computing , and storage technologies . He explores high performance computing (HPC), zoned storage , systems security , and storage solutions for machine learning . Scientific Trends: Articles highlight innovations in storage systems, including zoned storage , HPC data services , and machine learning infrastructure . Research spans distributed systems , I/O optimization , and data integrity in large-scale environments. Scientific Awards: DeltaFS project received the R&D 100 Award from R&D World Magazine Teaching & Service: He co-teaches graduate courses on storage and cloud systems, serves on program committees for top conferences (SOSP, OSDI, FAST), and mentors students in systems research and infrastructure projects.

Benoit HudsonView profile

Assistant Professor

• Computational Geometry
• Scientific Computing
• Mesh Refinement
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Benoit Hudson is an Assistant Professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, specializing in computational geometry and algorithm design with theoretical guarantees. His work bridges practical implementation and theoretical analysis in mesh refinement, with applications to scientific computing and computer graphics. He has also contributed to auction theory and hybrid systems simulation. Research interests include: Computational geometry Mesh refinement algorithms Scientific computing Data structures Algorithm design His recent publications analyze: Volume mesh size complexity Linear-time surface reconstruction Delaunay refinement guarantees Dynamic mesh updating Parallel mesh generation He maintains the sparse-meshing.com resource and previously worked on spacecraft diagnosis systems at NASA Ames Research Center. His academic advisors included Gary Miller (Carnegie Mellon University) and Tuomas Sandholm during early PhD years.

• Process Systems Engineering
• Large-Scale Optimization
• High-Performance Computing
• +2 more

Carl D. Laird is the John E. Swearingen Professor and Department Head of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He leads an internationally recognized research program in process systems engineering, known for high-performance computing techniques in large-scale nonlinear optimization, parallel scientific computing, and open-source software development. Education: Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University (2006) B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of Alberta (2000) Research Focus: His work solves problems in non-traditional domains including public health, homeland security, critical infrastructure, and energy systems through advanced optimization methodologies. Current research integrates machine learning with optimization for improved decision-making in complex systems. Publication Trends: Recent work focuses on mathematical optimization frameworks, decomposition methods for large-scale problems, integration of machine learning surrogates, and applications in energy systems and chemical manufacturing. Research demonstrates consistent innovation in computational methods for engineering challenges. Awards and Honors: Steven J. Fenves Award for Systems Research INFORMS Computing Society Prize CAST Division Outstanding Young Researcher Award NSF CAREER Award Montague Center Teaching Excellence Award Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software (for IPOPT development) Leadership and Funding: As director of the Center for Advanced Process Decision-Making, he oversees collaborative research with industry partners. His research has been supported by NSF, DOE, and industrial consortia.

Wenting ZhengView profile

Assistant Professor

• Secure Systems
• Applied Cryptography
• Privacy-Preserving Computation
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Wenting Zheng is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), with a courtesy appointment in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. She co-founded Opaque Systems and serves as a core faculty member at CyLab Security and Privacy Institute. Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) from UC Berkeley M.Eng. and Bachelor’s degrees from MIT under Barbara Liskov Her research focuses on system security and applied cryptography , particularly systems enabling “sharing without showing.” Key areas include secure cloud computation, collaborative privacy-preserving analytics, and practical cryptographic frameworks for machine learning. Recent work emphasizes encrypted AI (e.g., Cinnamon), secure multi-party computation (e.g., Silph), and private information retrieval (e.g., PIANO). Notable scientific honors include the Berkeley Fellowship (2014-2016) , IBM Research Fellowship (2017-2018) , and the USENIX Security 2021 Distinguished Paper Award . She has advised numerous Ph.D. and Master’s students, including collaborators at CMU and UC Berkeley. Teaching: Distributed Systems, Secure Computer Systems, Cryptosystems: Theory and Practice Research grants from NSF, AWS, Cisco, Google, Samsung, and CMU CyLab Co-founder of DARE, a diversity-focused research mentorship program

Guy E. BlellochView profile

Professor

• Parallel Computing
• Programming Languages
• Algorithms and Complexity
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Guy E. Blelloch is the U.A. and Hellen Whitaker University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University , affiliated with the Computer Science Department . He focuses on the intersection of algorithms and programming languages within parallel computing , with significant experimental and theoretical contributions. His recent work includes the PSCICO project (with Gary Miller, Bob Harper, Peter Lee) exploring high-level programming constructs in geometric algorithms, and continued development of the NESL programming language for parallel computation. Research spans Parallel Garbage Collection Work-Efficient Scheduling Deterministic Parallel Algorithms Processing-in-Memory Models Key publications since 2022 show trends in dynamic data structures , cache-oblivious algorithms , and concurrent memory management , with applications in graph processing (PIM-tree), geometric computation (tree-based sorting), and multiversioning systems. His work often bridges theory and practice, demonstrated in frameworks like Ligra , GBBS , and Aspen for large-scale graph analysis. Scientific awards include ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award (2023) IEEE Charles Babbage Award (2021) Best Paper Awards at PPoPP 2022, SPAA 2021 SCS Doctoral Dissertation Award (Honorable Mention) He has advised numerous PhD students including Magdalen Dobson (current student on nearest-neighbor problems), Daniel Anderson (parallel batch-dynamic algorithms), and Julian Shun (graph processing frameworks). His teaching includes advanced courses on Parallel and Sequential Data Structures and Parallel and Concurrent Algorithms .