
Actively looking to hire CS and EE PhD students in the area of software systems.
If you are interested please send an email with your CV to:
first_name (dot) last_name (at) columbia (dot) edu
I am an associate professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (jointly affiliated) at Columbia University, and a member of Columbia's Data Science Institute. I have broad research interests in software systems, storage, ML for systems and ML for security.
Previously I was the Senior Vice President of Email Protection at Barracuda Network, where I was the co-GM of the $200M email security and archiving business, with a team of 100 engineers and product managers. I was fortunate to take part in building two successful products, (Sentinel and Forensics). I joined Barracuda via the acquisition of the startup I founded during my PhD, Sookasa, where I was the CEO and co-founder.
I completed my PhD at Stanford University under Mendel Rosenblum and Sachin Katti, focusing on distributed storage systems. My research was adopted in commercial storage systems of several companies, including Facebook, Tibco, Hortonworks and Rubrik, and was recognized by best paper awards in OSDI, Usenix Security and Usenix ATC. I obtained a PhD and MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and BS in Computer and Software Engineering from the Technion.
Link to full CV.
Office: CEPSR 913, Columbia University
If you are interested please send an email with your CV to:
first_name (dot) last_name (at) columbia (dot) edu
I am an associate professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (jointly affiliated) at Columbia University, and a member of Columbia's Data Science Institute. I have broad research interests in software systems, storage, ML for systems and ML for security.
Previously I was the Senior Vice President of Email Protection at Barracuda Network, where I was the co-GM of the $200M email security and archiving business, with a team of 100 engineers and product managers. I was fortunate to take part in building two successful products, (Sentinel and Forensics). I joined Barracuda via the acquisition of the startup I founded during my PhD, Sookasa, where I was the CEO and co-founder.
I completed my PhD at Stanford University under Mendel Rosenblum and Sachin Katti, focusing on distributed storage systems. My research was adopted in commercial storage systems of several companies, including Facebook, Tibco, Hortonworks and Rubrik, and was recognized by best paper awards in OSDI, Usenix Security and Usenix ATC. I obtained a PhD and MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and BS in Computer and Software Engineering from the Technion.
Link to full CV.
Office: CEPSR 913, Columbia University

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PhD Students:
Current MS Students and Undergrads:
Alums
- [09/2023] Mars Attacks! work accepted to HotNets'23
- [07/2023] Turbo accepted to SOSP’23.
- [04/2023] RubbleDB accepted to ATC'23.
- [03/2023] Chardonnay and Karma accepted to OSDI'23.
- [03/2023] Memtrade accepted to SIGMETRICS'23.
- [02/2023] Won IBM grant on using eBPF to cut software bloat. Thanks IBM!
- [01/2023] PrismDB accepted to ASPLOS'23.
- [07/2022] XRP wins Jay Lepreau best paper award at OSDI'22!
- [05/2022] Won an Intel gift. Thanks Intel!
- [04/2022] Neuroshard acceped to aiDM'22.
- [03/2022] XRP and Roller accepted to OSDI'22.
- [01/2022] Published a whitepaper on carbon-free datacenter software.
- [01/2022] DIVA accepted to MLSys'22.
- [12/2021] Won CAIT + Amazon grant on securing edge ML models. Thanks CAIT and Amazon!
- [12/2021] Hydra is accepted to FAST'22.
- [12/2021] Won NSF CAREER award on BPF for storage. Thanks NSF!
- [05/2021] Won an NSF grant on blended storage. Thanks NSF!
- [04/2021] BPF for storage paper accepted to HotOS'21.
- [04/2021] Won a NSF/VMware sustainable data center grant. Thanks VMware and NSF!
- [03/2021] Privacy scheduling paper accepted to OSDI'21.
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- Wei Hao (co-advised with Junfeng Yang)
- Harry Wang (co-advised with Junfeng Yang)
- Yannis Zarkadas
- Yuhong Zhong
- Tal Zussman
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- Jeremy Carin (BS)
- Andy Cheng (BS)
- Helen Chu (BS)
- Josh Haskins (MS)
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- Phoebe Lu (BS)
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- Ryan Wee (BS)
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- Chen Chen (BS, 2021) --> Hudson River Trading
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- Tao Luo (MS, 2021) --> UPenn PhD
- Hongyi Wang (MS, 2021) --> SMBC
- Yifan Liu (MS, 2020) --> Facebook