Mohsen Amini Salehi, Ph.D (Director)

• Contact: mohsen.aminisalehi[at]unt.edu
• Homepage: https://hpcclab.org/amini/

Akiharu Esashi (PhD Student)

• Democratizing Cloud-native Application Development using LLMs
• Contact: akiharuesashi@my.unt.edu

 Minseo Kim (PhD Student)

• Low-Latency Machine Learning Inference across Edge-to-Cloud Continuum
• Contact: minseokim@my.unt.edu

Masoud Rafiei (PhD Student)

• Heterogeneous Edge-Cloud Computing (Cloud+ASICs)
• Contact: masoudrafiei@my.unt.edu

Thanawat Chanikaphon (Phd Student, UL Lafayette)

• Enabling Container Migration within Edge and Cloud
• Contact: thanawat.chanikaphon1@louisiana.edu

Pawissanutt (Wis) Lertpongrujikorn (PhD Student)

• Developing Object as a Service (OaaS) on Serverless Cloud
• Contact: pawissanuttlertpongrujikorn@my.unt.edu

Praveen Kumar Suggula (M.Sc. Student)

• Developing CloudAI applications for blind and visually impaired users
• Contact: praveenkumarsuggula@my.unt.edu

Former Members

Ali Mokhtari (PhD)

• Spring ’19 – Dec. ’23
• Dissertation: Natively-Heterogeneous Design of Distributed Systems
• Currently, lecturer at UL Lafayette

Razin Farhan Hussain (PhD)

• Aug. ’17 – Dec. ’22
• Dissertation: Federated Fog Computing for Remote Industry 4.0 Applications
• Currently, Software Engineer at Tricycle Data Systems, CA

SM Zobaed (PhD)

• Aug. ’17 – Dec. ’22
• Dissertation: AI-Driven Confidential Computing across Edge-to-Cloud Continuum
• Currently, Tenure Track faculty at Lincoln University, USA

Connor Rawls (Master’s)

• Jan. ‘2020 – Dec. ’22
• Cost-efficient Scale Out via HAProxy in Cloud Computing

Chavit Denninart (Postdoc and Ph.D)

• Aug. ’17 – Dec. ’21
• Dissertation: Cost- and QoS-Efficient Serverless Cloud Computing
• Currently, a software engineer at MasteryPrep Inc., USA

Mahmoud Darwich (PhD)

• Aug. ’15 – Dec. ’17
• Dissertation: Cost-Efficient Video On Demand (VOD) Streaming Using Cloud Services
• Currently, a Assistant Prof. at University of Mount Union

Xiangbo Li (PhD)

• March ’15 – Dec ’16
• Dissertation: High Performance on-demand Video
  Transcoding using Cloud Services
• Currently working at Twitch.tv

Vaughan Veillon (Master’s)

• August ’17 – May ’19
• Thesis: Fog Computing for Low Latency, Interactive Video Streaming

James Gentry (Master’s)

• Aug ’17 – Aug. ’18
• Thesis:  Robust Resource Allocation of Independent Tasks in Heterogeneous Computing Systems via Probabilistic Task Pruning.
• Currently a software engineer at Spectra Logic

Jason Woodworth (Master’s)

• Jan ’16 – May ’17
• Thesis: Secure Semantic Search Over Encrypted Big Data in the Cloud
• Currently a PhD student at UL Lafayette

Research Scholar Visitors:

Russell Lee (May ’21 – Jul. ’21): Ph.D. Researcher

• Energy-efficient Federate Fog Computing for Multimedia Streaming
• Visiting from: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

Shengrui Wu (Aug. ’19 – Jan. ’20): Master’s researcher

• Performance evaluation of video streaming on heterogeneous Cloud resources
• Visiting from: Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, China

Mateus Souza(May ’16 – Aug. ’16): Undergraduate Intern

• Implemented a CPU-GPU cluster using SLURM
• Visitor from: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Brazil

Selected Undergraduate Researchers:

Simone Brewington (Sep ’23–Dec ’23): Development edge-friendly obstacle detection ML application

Jeremiah Green (Jan ’23–May ’23): Development of output metrics for E2C Simulator

Drake Rawls (Aug ’22–May ’23): Developing workload generator for E2C Simulator

Tony Huynh (Jan ’22–May ’22): Developing a platform for object-based multi-media streaming in the cloud

Flavien Missier (Jan ’22–May ’22): Extending HAProxy load balancer for efficient scale-out policy

Zi Ming Yap (Jan ’22–May ’22): Developing an interactive GUI for Edge-to-Cloud simulator

Michael Rahaim (Jan ’22–May ’22): Developing a high-availability distributed machine learning inference across Edge-to-Cloud

Alex Schexnaydre (May ’21–Dec ’21): Partitioning Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) across Edge-to-Cloud Continuum

Adam Roach (Jan. ’20–Dec. ’20): Performance modeling of containerized systems

Diana Nguyan (Jan. ’20–Dec. ’20): Benchmarking machine learning application on heterogeneous cloud machines

Holden Babineaux (Aug. ’19–Dec. ’19): Developing Extensible Serverless Platform for Interactive Video Streaming Engine

Te Ann Yap (Jan. ’19–Dec. ’19): Benchmarking video processing on heterogeneous cloud machines

Anna Kovalenko (Dec. ’17 – Dec. ’18): Edge Computing for Disaster
Management Using Vehicular Networks

Connor Fontenot (Aug. ’18 – Dec. ’18): Extended Secure Semantic Search project (S3C) system

Hoang Pham (Jan ’17 – Dec. ’17): Implementated Secure Semantic Search on Cloud

Brad Landreneau (May ’16 – Dec. ’16): Implemented on-demand transcoding for video streaming on a local cluster

Kaleb Heinzen (Aug ’16 – Dec ’16): Implemented Cloud Video Streaming on Cloud and provided a web interface for it