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Current Members<\/span><\/h1>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Mohsen Amini Salehi<\/a>, Ph.D (Director)<\/h2>\n

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Akiharu Esashi (PhD Student)<\/h3>\n
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  • Democratizing Cloud-native Application Development using LLMs<\/li>\n
  • Contact: akiharuesashi@my.unt.edu<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n

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Mohsen Riahi Alam (Postdoctoral Associate)<\/h3>\n
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  • Low-Latency Machine Learning Inference across Edge-to-Cloud Continuum for Blind & Low-Vision Individuals<\/li>\n
  • Contact: Mohsen.Riahialam@unt.edu<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n

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Tapajit Chandra\u00a0Paul\u00a0(Phd Student)<\/h3>\n
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  • New Abstraction for Mitigating IoT-Edge-Cloud Application Development<\/li>\n
  • Contact: TapajitChandraPaul@my.unt.edu<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n

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Pawissanutt (Wis) Lertpongrujikorn (Postdoctoral)<\/h3>\n
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  • Developing Object as a Service (OaaS) on Serverless Cloud<\/li>\n
  • Contact: pawissanuttlertpongrujikorn@my.unt.edu<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n

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Gayani Gupta (PhD Student)- co-advised by Dr. Sanjukta Bhowmick<\/h3>\n
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  • Approximate Processing of DAGs across federated fogs<\/li>\n
  • Contact: gayani.guta@unt.edu<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n

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\u00a0Aliyan Haghollahi (PhD Student)<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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  • Semantic Query Routing across Edge-Fog Continuum<\/li>\n
  • Contact: AliyehHaghollahi@my.unt.edu<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n

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Jacob Bradshaw (PhD Student)<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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  • SmartSight: Edge-Cloud+AI for Blind & Low Vision Ambient Perception<\/li>\n
  • Contact: JacobBradshaw2@my.unt.edu<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n

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Devotion Ekueku<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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  • Enabling Cloud-like Services in Remote Areas Where There is No Cloud<\/li>\n
  • DevotionEkueku@my.unt.edu<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n

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Former Members<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/td>\n

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Pawissanutt (Wis) Lertpongrujikorn (PhD)<\/h3>\n
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  • Aug ’21 – Dec. ’25<\/li>\n
  • Developing Object as a Service (OaaS) on Serverless Cloud<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n

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Bhanuja Ainary (M.Sc.)<\/h3>\n
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  • Aug. ’24 – May ’25<\/li>\n
  • Thesis: Developing Active Ambient Perception for Blind and visually individuals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n

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Ali Mokhtari (PhD)<\/h3>\n
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  • Spring ’19 – Dec. ’23<\/li>\n
  • Dissertation: Natively-Heterogeneous Design of Distributed Systems<\/li>\n
  • Currently, faculty at Radford University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n

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Razin Farhan Hussain<\/a> (PhD)<\/h3>\n
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  • Aug. ’17 – Dec. ’22<\/li>\n
  • Dissertation: Federated Fog Computing for Remote Industry 4.0 Applications<\/li>\n
  • Currently, Software Engineer at Tricycle Data Systems, CA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n

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SM Zobaed<\/a> (PhD)<\/h3>\n
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  • Aug. ’17 – Dec. ’22<\/li>\n
  • Dissertation: AI-Driven Confidential Computing across Edge-to-Cloud Continuum<\/li>\n
  • Currently, Tenure Track faculty at Lincoln University, USA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n

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Connor Rawls (Master’s)<\/h3>\n
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  • Jan. ‘2020 – Dec. ’22<\/li>\n
  • Cost-efficient Scale Out via HAProxy in Cloud Computing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n

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Chavit Denninart<\/a> (Postdoc and Ph.D)<\/h4>\n

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Mahmoud Darwich<\/a> (PhD)<\/h4>\n
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  • Aug. ’15 – Dec. ’17<\/li>\n
  • Dissertation: Cost-Efficient Video On Demand (VOD) Streaming Using Cloud Services<\/li>\n
  • Currently, a Assistant Prof. at University of Mount Union<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n

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Xiangbo Li<\/a> (PhD)<\/h4>\n
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  • March\u00a0’15 – Dec ’16<\/li>\n
  • Dissertation: High Performance on-demand Video
    \nTranscoding using Cloud\u00a0Services<\/li>\n
  • Currently working at Twitch.tv<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n

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Vaughan Veillon (Master’s)<\/h4>\n

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James Gentry (Master’s)<\/h4>\n

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Jason Woodworth<\/a> (Master’s)<\/h4>\n

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Research Scholar Visitors:<\/h3>\n

Sayem Kamal<\/strong> (May ’25 – Aug. ’25): Undergraduate Intern<\/p>\n

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  • OCR for blind and low vision individuals in collaboration with IMDEA Network Institute, Madrid, Spaing<\/li>\n
  • Visiting from: Columbia University, USA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Amisha Gupta<\/strong> (May ’24 – Dec. ’24): Undergraduate Intern<\/p>\n

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Selected Undergraduate Researchers:<\/h3>\n

Jacob Bradshaw (Jan ’25 — Dec ’25): Development of the SmartSight platform\u2014Received CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award<\/a><\/p>\n

Simone Brewington<\/strong> (Sep ’23–Dec ’23): Development edge-friendly obstacle detection ML application<\/p>\n

Jeremiah Green<\/strong> (Jan ’23–May ’23): Development of output metrics for E2C Simulator<\/p>\n

Drake Rawls<\/strong> (Aug ’22–May ’23): Developing workload generator for E2C Simulator<\/p>\n

Tony Huynh<\/strong> (Jan ’22–May ’22): Developing a platform for object-based multi-media streaming in the cloud<\/a><\/p>\n

Flavien Missier<\/strong> (Jan ’22–May ’22): Extending HAProxy load balancer for efficient scale-out policy<\/p>\n

Zi Ming Yap<\/strong> (Jan ’22–May ’22): Developing an interactive GUI for Edge-to-Cloud simulator<\/a><\/p>\n

Michael Rahaim<\/strong> (Jan ’22–May ’22): Developing a high-availability distributed machine learning inference across Edge-to-Cloud<\/a><\/p>\n

Alex Schexnaydre<\/strong> (May ’21–Dec ’21): Partitioning Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) across Edge-to-Cloud Continuum<\/p>\n

Adam Roach<\/strong> (Jan. ’20–Dec. ’20): Performance modeling of containerized systems<\/p>\n

Diana Nguyan<\/strong>\u00a0(Jan. ’20–Dec. ’20): Benchmarking machine learning application on heterogeneous cloud machines<\/p>\n

Holden Babineaux<\/strong> (Aug. ’19–Dec. ’19):\u00a0Developing Extensible Serverless Platform for Interactive Video Streaming Engine<\/p>\n

Te Ann Yap<\/strong> (Jan. ’19–Dec. ’19): Benchmarking video processing on heterogeneous cloud machines<\/p>\n

Anna Kovalenko<\/strong> (Dec. ’17 – Dec. ’18): Edge Computing for Disaster
\nManagement Using Vehicular Networks<\/p>\n

Connor Fontenot<\/strong> (Aug. ’18 – Dec. ’18):\u00a0Extended Secure Semantic Search project (S3C) system<\/p>\n

Hoang Pham<\/strong> (Jan ’17 – Dec. ’17):\u00a0Implementated Secure Semantic Search on Cloud<\/p>\n

Brad\u00a0Landreneau\u00a0<\/strong>(May ’16 –\u00a0Dec. ’16):\u00a0Implemented on-demand transcoding for video\u00a0streaming on a local cluster<\/p>\n

Kaleb\u00a0Heinzen<\/strong>\u00a0(Aug ’16 – Dec ’16):\u00a0Implemented Cloud Video Streaming\u00a0on Cloud and provided a web interface for it<\/td>\n

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Current Members 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 Mohsen Riahi Alam (Postdoctoral Associate) Low-Latency Machine Learning Inference across Edge-to-Cloud Continuum for Blind & Low-Vision Individuals Contact: Mohsen.Riahialam@unt.edu Tapajit Chandra\u00a0Paul\u00a0(Phd Student) New Abstraction for Mitigating IoT-Edge-Cloud Application Development Contact: TapajitChandraPaul@my.unt.edu Pawissanutt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"no-sidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-48","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpcclab.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpcclab.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpcclab.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpcclab.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpcclab.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":146,"href":"https:\/\/hpcclab.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1470,"href":"https:\/\/hpcclab.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpcclab.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}