Team

Current Members

Mohsen Amini Salehi, Ph.D (Director)

Akiharu Esashi (PhD Student)

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

Vedansh Tembhre (PhD Student)

  • Dynamic Computing for Efficient AI across Edge-Cloud Continuum
  • Contact: VedanshTembhre@my.unt.edu

Tapajit Chandra Paul (Phd Student)

  • New Abstraction for Mitigating IoT-Edge-Cloud Application Development
  • Contact: TapajitChandraPaul@my.unt.edu

Aliyan Haghollahi (PhD Student)

  • Semantic Query Routing across Edge-Fog Continuum
  • Contact: AliyehHaghollahi@my.unt.edu

Gayani Gupta (PhD Student)- co-advised by Dr. Sanjukta Bhowmick

  • Approximate Processing of DAGs across federated fogs
  • Contact: gayani.guta@unt.edu

Jacob Bradshaw (PhD Student)

  • SmartSight: Edge-Cloud+AI for Blind & Low Vision Ambient Perception
  • Contact: JacobBradshaw2@my.unt.edu

Sai Donepudi (MS Student)

  • Curating a Dataset for Domain-Specific Computing
  • Contact: SaiDonepudi@my.unt.edu

Chad Reardon (MS Student)

  • EchoCode: A programming platform for blind and visually-impaired developers
  • ChadReardon@my.unt.edu

Former Members

Mohsen Riahi Alam (Postdoc)

  • Sep. ’25 – Jul. ’26
  • Low-Latency Machine Learning Inference across Edge-to-Cloud

Pawissanutt (Wis) Lertpongrujikorn (Postdoc & PhD)

  • Aug. ’21 – April ’26
  • Developing Object as a Service (OaaS) on Serverless Cloud

Bhanuja Ainary (M.Sc.)

  • Aug. ’24 – May ’25
  • Thesis: Developing Active Ambient Perception for Blind and visually individuals

Ali Mokhtari (PhD)

  • Spring ’19 – Dec. ’23
  • Dissertation: Natively-Heterogeneous Design of Distributed Systems
  • Currently, faculty at Radford University

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

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

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.

Jason Woodworth (Master’s)

  • Jan ’16 – May ’17
  • Thesis: Secure Semantic Search Over Encrypted Big Data in the Cloud

Research Scholar Visitors:

Illango Zaruba (May ’26 – Aug. ’26): Undergraduate Intern

  • Developing Edge-Cloud LLM fusion methods, in collaboration with IMDEA Network Institute, Madrid, Spain
  • Visiting from: University of Texas Austin, USA

Sayem Kamal (May ’25 – Aug. ’25): Undergraduate Intern

  • OCR for blind and low vision individuals in collaboration with IMDEA Network Institute, Madrid, Spain
  • Visiting from: Columbia University, USA

Amisha Gupta (May ’24 – Dec. ’24): Undergraduate Intern

  • Approximate computing of DAGs across federated fogs in collaboration with IMDEA Network Institute, Madrid, Spain
  • Visiting from: UC Berkeley, USA

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:

Benjamin Nelson (May ’26– Dec ’26): Developing MQ-Bench platform to evaluate message brokers

Jacob Bradshaw (Jan ’25 — Dec ’25): Development of the SmartSight platform—Received CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award

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