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I am always excited to serve on thesis committees. It exposes me to research ideas and gives me a chance to participate in many interesting topics. Below is a list of PhD students whose committees I had the privileges to serve on. I copied the text from Darko Marinov, because I completely agree with him.

Houxiang Ji
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Advisor: Nam Sung Kim

Kuan-Yen Chou
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Advisor: Matthew Caesar

Runxiang (Sam) Cheng
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Advisor: Darko Marinov

Tzu-Bin Yan
Evaluating and Extending the PacketLab Design
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, passed prelim on Dec 2023.
Advisor: Kirill Levchenko

Jie Huang
Augmenting and Safeguarding Knowledge in Large Language Models
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, passed prelim on Sep. 2023.
Advisor: Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang

Hongpeng Guo
Multi-objective Optimizations for Resource-efficient Large Scale Machine Learning Systems
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, defended on Feb. 2024.
Advisor: Klara Nahrstedt

Bingzhe Liu, Ph.D.
Enhancing the Reliability of Dynamic Management in Cloud Infrastructures
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, defended on Nov. 2023.
Advisor: Brighten Godfrey

Dan Plyukhin, Ph.D.
Fault-Tolerant and Fault-Recovering Garbage Collection for The Actor Model: A Collage-based Approach
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, defended on Aug. 2023.
Advisor: Gul Agha

Zhe Yang, Ph.D.
Soft Real Time Resource Management for Vision Based Internet of Things Systems
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, defended on Sep. 2022.
Advisor: Klara Nahrstedt

Wenyu Wang, Ph.D.
Empowering Automated Mobile UI Testing With External Support
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, defended on Jun. 2022.
Advisors: Tao Xie and Tianyin Xu

Hsuan-Chi (Austin) Kuo, Ph.D.
Attack Surface Reduction in Contemporary Operating Systems via Practical Kernel Debloating
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, defended on Apr. 13, 2022.
Advisor: Sibin Mohan

Apostolos Kokolis, Ph.D.
New Architectures for Non-Volatile Memory Technologies
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, defended on Apr. 6, 2022.
Advisor: Josep Torrellas
David J. Kuck Outstanding PhD Thesis Award

Atul Sandur, Ph.D.
Scalable Resource Management for Internet-of-Things (IoT) Applications: Challenges, Methods and Tools
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, defended on Jan. 6, 2022.
Advisor: Gul Agha

Saurabh Jha, Ph.D.
Machine Learning For Achieving Dependability in Mission-Critical Systems
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, defended on Oct. 14, 2021.
Advisor: Ravishankar K. Iyer

Ali Kheradmand, Ph.D.
Foundations for Practical Network Verification
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, defended on July 27, 2021.
Advisors: Brighten Godfrey and Grigore Roşu

Wing Lam, Ph.D.
Software Testing in a Non-Deterministic World
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, defended on June 24, 2021.
Advisors: Tao Xie and Darko Marinov
ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award

Dimitrios Skarlatos, Ph.D.
Rethinking Computer Architecture and Operating System Abstractions for Good & Evil
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, defended on August 19, 2020.
Advisor: Josep Torrellas
ACM SIGARCH - IEEE-CS TCCA Outstanding Dissertation Award
David J. Kuck Outstanding PhD Thesis Award

Faria Kalim, Ph.D.
Satisfying Service Level Objectives in Stream Processing Systems
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, defended on July 1, 2020.
Advisor: Indranil Gupta

Tarek Elgamal, Ph.D.
Utility-driven Optimization and Placement Framework for Visual IoT Analytics over Edge-cloud Environments
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, defended on May 8, 2020.
Advisor: Klara Nahrstedt

Santhosh Prabhu, Ph.D.
Practical Verification of Network Planes
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, defended on March 12, 2020.
Advisor: Matthew Caesar