Our Team

The Lab

UC Santa Barbara

Developing advanced computer systems requires both breadth and depth and has much to draw upon from ideas in algorithms, operating systems, compilers, circuits, networks, machine learning, programming languages, device physics, and security. By looking at computer architecture and embedded systems through the eyes of its application we can enact the biggest change, but doing this requires students and collaborators willing to dive in, get their hands dirty, and learn something new!

Jonathan Balkind
Jonathan BalkindAssistant Professor of Computer Science
Timothy (Tim) Sherwood
Timothy (Tim) SherwoodProfessor of Computer Science
Yeganeh (Yegi) Aghamohammadi
Yeganeh (Yegi) AghamohammadiCS Ph.D. Student and Researcher
Pranjali Jain
Pranjali JainCS Ph.D. Student and Researcher
Dr. Jeremy Lau
Dr. Jeremy LauProject Scientist
Parker Murray
Parker MurrayCS Ph.D. Student and Researcher
Naomi Rehman
Naomi RehmanCS Ph.D. Student and Researcher
Nazerke Turtayeva
Nazerke TurtayevaECE Ph.D. Student and Researcher
Jingtao Xia
Jingtao XiaCS Ph.D. Student and Researcher

Alumni

  • Ci-Chain Lu, — M.S. 2023

  • Rory Zahedi — M.S. 2023. Position after: Apple

  • Iris Moini-Nazeri — M.S. 2023. Position after: Atlassian

  • Ashley Wang — M.S. 2022. Position after: Google

  • April Sanchez — M.S. 2022. Position after: Google

  • Deeksha Dangwal — Ph.D. 2022. Position after: Meta

  • Georgios (George) Tzimpragos — Ph.D. 2022. Position after: Assistant Prof., University of Michigan

  • Alvin Glova — Ph.D. 2022. Position after: AMD

  • Zhizhou (Chris) Zhang — Ph.D. 2022. Position after: Uber

  • Weilong Cui — Ph.D. 2019. Position after: Google

  • Joseph McMahan — Ph.D. 2019. Position after: Postdoc w/ Luis Ceze at UW

  • David Coffill — M.S. 2018. Position after: Arista Networks

  • Sammy Guo — M.S. 2018. Position after: iRobot

  • Zhaoxia (Summer) Deng — Ph.D. 2017. Position after: Facebook Research

  • Ying Gao — Ph.D. 2017. Position after: Startup

  • John Clow — B.S. 2016. Position after: Stanford Graduate School

  • Karim Elghamrawy — Ph.D. 2016. Position after: VMWare

  • Jianhua Liao — Visiting Researcher

  • Jeff Heckey — M.S. 2014. Position after: Avago Technologies

  • Xun Li — Ph.D. 2014. Position after: Facebook

  • Jeffrey Browne — Ph.D. 2013. Position after: Citrix Research

  • Heba Saadeldeen — Ph.D. 2013. Position after: Intel

  • Hassan Wassel — Ph.D. 2013. Position after: Google

  • Liang Xia — M.S. 2013. Position after: Microsoft

  • Bita Mazloom — Ph.D. 2013. Position after: Foothill College

  • Varun Jain — M.S. 2013. Position after: Researcher, Qualcomm

  • Jonathan Valamehr — Ph.D. 2012. Position after: Tortuga Logic

  • Vlasia Anagnostopoulou — Ph.D. 2012. Position after: Intel

  • Mohit Tiwari — Ph.D. 2011. Position after: PostDoc at Berkeley, Assistant Prof. UT Austin

  • Susmit Biswas — Ph.D. 2010. Position after: AMD

  • Hussam Mousa — Ph.D. 2010. Position after: Salesforce

  • Shashi Mysore — Ph.D. 2009. Position after: Eucalyptus Systems

  • Ryan Dixon — Ph.D. 2009. Position after: Apple

  • Banit Agrawal — Ph.D. 2008. Position after: VMware

  • Jed Crandall — Ph.D. 2007. Position after: Assistant Prof., University of New Mexico

  • Ted Huffmire — Ph.D. 2007. Position after: Assistant Prof., Naval Postgraduate School

  • Tzvetan Metodi — Ph.D. 2007. Position after: Quantum Research, Lockheed-Martin

  • John Oliver — Ph.D. 2007. Position after: Assistant Prof., Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

  • Chris Eberz — M.S. 2007. Position after: Startup

  • Rodolfo G. Neuber — B.S. 2006. Position after: Graduate School, Cal State Northridge

  • Nathan Patrick — M.S. 2006. Position after: Sonic.net

  • Shreyas Prasad — B.S. 2006. Position after: Graduate School, UIUC

  • Yan Meng — Ph.D. 2005. Position after: Cadence Research Labs

Former Directors

  • Fred Chong, now at University of Chicago

  • Diana Franklin, now at University of Chicago