Students
The group currently includes 6 PhD students, 10 BS, 1 high school, 2 research staff/collaborators; our alumni include 2 PhD graduates, 1 postdoc, 9 MS, 36 BS, and 2 high school.
Current Students
PhD Students
Sanjay Chandrasekaran
Topic: QoE Optimization
Honors: M-Lab Research Fellowship 2022
Internships: Google (2023, 2024)
Satyandra Guthula
Topic: Network Foundation Models
Internships: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (2024, 2025)
Papers (6)
- Demystifying Network Foundation Models
- NetReplica: Toward a Programmable Substrate for Last-Mile Data Generation
- NetBurst: Event-Centric Forecasting of Bursty, Intermittent Time Series
- netFound: Foundation Model for Network Security
- When Something Looks too Good to be True, it Usually is! AI is Causing a Credibility Crisis in Networking
- Harnessing Public Code Repositories to Develop Production-Ready ML Artifacts for Networking
Jaber Daneshamooz
Topic: Prog. Data-Generation Substrate for Networking
Haarika Manda
Topic: Data-driven Policymaking
Honors: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP), 2024. IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP), SIGCOMM, 2024.
Internships: Idaho National Lab (2024)
Laasya Koduru
Topic: Broadband Affordability/Adoption Data Infrastructure
Honors: DOE GEM Fellowship.
Internships: Idaho National Lab (2025)
Papers (8)
- NetGent: Agent-Based Automation of Network Application Workflows
- Broadband Affordability and the BEAD Program: Analysis and Policy Recommendations
- Beyond Access: Broadband Affordability & Adoption
- Assessing the Broadband Service Gaps and Affordability Barriers in BEAD-Eligible Areas
- Evaluating the Effects of and Interdependencies among Federal Broadband Funding Programs
- Strategic Reporting in the National Broadband Map
- Assessing the Efficacy of the Connect America Fund in Addressing Internet Access Inequities in the US
- Measuring Broadband Policy Success
Manni Moghimi
Topic: Broadband Quality Data Infrastructure
Research Staff & Collaborators
| Name | Years | Project | Role | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eugene Vuong | 2026-* | Agentic systems for networking (NetGent, BQT-SaaS) | Research Engineer (incoming PhD, Fall 2026) | UCSB |
| Shaunak G. Umarkhedi | 2025-* | NetVibe | Research Collaborator | M.S., Cornell University |
BS/MS Students
| Name | Years | Project | Type | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Srinandha Murugesan | 2025-* | Making BQT a software service (SaaS) | ERSP | UCSB |
| Chen Hui Lin | 2025-* | Making BQT a software service (SaaS) | ERSP | UCSB |
| Ivy Holiday | 2025-* | Making BQT a software service (SaaS) | ERSP | UCSB |
| Daniel Chang | 2025-* | Making BQT a software service (SaaS) | ERSP | UCSB |
| Red Macasa | 2025-* | NetVibe | Other | UCSB |
| Sumedh Aerram | 2025-* | NetVibe | Other | UCSB |
| Anit Annadi | 2025-* | NetVibe | Other | UCSB |
| Srish Nigam | 2026-* | Pramana | Other | UCSB |
| Jenil Rajeshkumar | 2026-* | NetVibe / agentic systems | Other | UCSB |
| Sidharth Kalje | 2026-* | NetVibe | Other | UCSB |
High School Students
| Name | Years | Project | Type | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sthanav Murali | 2026-* | NetGent / Pramana | High School Project | Monta Vista High School |
Alumni
PhD Alumni
Sylee Beltiukov
Placement: Google
Honors: IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP), IETF/IRTF, 2023. Best Paper Honorable Mention, ACM CCS, 2022. UCSB CS Summer Fellowship, 2023.
Papers (11)
- Demystifying Network Foundation Models
- SpliDT: Partitioned Decision Trees for Scalable Stateful Inference at Line Rate
- SpliDT: Partitioned Decision Trees for Scalable Stateful Inference at Line Rate
- netFound: Foundation Model for Network Security
- In Search of netUnicorn: A Data-Collection Platform to Develop Generalizable ML Models for Network Security Problems
- When Something Looks too Good to be True, it Usually is! AI is Causing a Credibility Crisis in Networking
- A NetAI Manifesto (Part I): Less Explorimentation, More Science
- A NetAI Manifesto (Part II): Less Hubris, more Humility
- Harnessing Public Code Repositories to Develop Production-Ready ML Artifacts for Networking
- AI/ML for Network Security: The Emperor has no Clothes
- PINOT: Programmable Infrastructure for Networking
Udit Paul
Thesis: Towards Bridging the Divide: Enhancing Understanding of Digital Inequity
Placement: Ookla → Thousand Eyes (Cisco)
Honors: Distinguished Paper Award, IMC 2022. Doctoral Dissertation Award, SIGCOMM 2024.
Papers (9)
- Decoding the Divide: Analyzing Disparities in Broadband Plans Offered by Major US ISPs
- The Importance of Contextualization of Crowdsourced Active Speed Test Measurements
- Internet Inequity in Chicago: Adoption, Affordability, and Availability
- Characterizing Internet Access and Quality Inequities in California M-Lab Measurements
- Characterizing Performance Inequity Across US Ookla Speedtest Users
- Coverage is Not Binary: Quantifying Mobile Broadband Quality in Urban, Rural, and Tribal Contexts
- Too Late for Playback: Estimation of Video Stream Quality in Rural and Urban Contexts
- Assessing the Efficacy of the Connect America Fund in Addressing Internet Access Inequities in the US
- Measuring Broadband Policy Success
Postdoc Alumni
Hooman Mohajeri
Placement: Startup (current)
Others
BS/MS and high-school project alumni.
| Name | Years | Project | Type | Affiliation | Papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abhishek Kumar | 2024-26 | MS | UCSB → Unwrap | ||
| Amrutha Kalle | 2025-26 | US/CMS Network Traffic Classification using netFound (with Anna Giannakou, LBNL) | MS Project | UCSB → Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | |
| Jessica Nguyen | 2024-25 | NetReplica (co-author; see Publications) | MS Project | UCSB | |
| Alexander Nguyen | 2025 | Assessing Density-Driven Disparities in Broadband Access and Pricing | MS Project | UCSB | |
| Daphne Jomo | 2024-25 | Replication of BST Methodology (IMC'23 Best Paper) | BS Project | San Francisco State University | |
| Ken Thampiratwong | 2024-25 | Leveraging Large Language Models to Contextualize Network Measurements | ERSP | UCSB | |
| Akul Singh | 2024-25 | Leveraging Large Language Models to Contextualize Network Measurements | ERSP | UCSB | |
| Evania Cheng | 2024-25 | Leveraging Large Language Models to Contextualize Network Measurements | ERSP | UCSB | |
| Karthik Bhattaram | 2024-25 | Leveraging Large Language Models to Contextualize Network Measurements | ERSP | UCSB | |
| Ziv Weissman | 2024-25 | Early speed termination (CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award nominee, 2025) | BS Project | UCSB → UC Berkeley (PhD) | |
| Eugene Vuong | 2025 | NetGent: Agent-Based Automation of Network Application Workflows (see Publications) | Cal-Bridge | CSU East Bay | |
| William Chen | 2024-25 | NetReplica: Toward a Programmable Substrate for Last-Mile Data Generation (co-author; see Publications) | High School Project | Cary Academy High School | |
| Punnal Ismail Khan | 2021-25 | netMosaic: Harnessing Public Code Repositories to Develop Production-Ready ML Artifacts for Networking | MS Project | UCSB | |
| Kevin Zhang | 2023-24 | Assessing the Efficacy of the Connect America Fund in Addressing Internet Access Inequities in the US | ERSP | UCSB | |
| Zephyr (Xuanhe) Zhou | 2023-24 | Analyzing the Impact of Socioeconomic Factors on Broadband Pricing: Insights from the Broadband-plan Querying Tool | MS Project | UCSB | |
| Khalid Mihlar | 2022-24 | MS | UCSB → PhD, University of Utah | ||
| Luis Bravo | 2022-23 | Modeling the Decision-Making Process of Black Box Models | ERSP | UCSB | |
| Emily Hu | 2022-23 | Modeling the Decision-Making Process of Black Box Models | ERSP | UCSB | |
| Michael Yang | 2022-23 | Modeling the Decision-Making Process of Black Box Models | ERSP | UCSB | |
| Navya Battula | 2022-23 | Flexible and scalable data preprocessing system for ML for Networks pipelines | MS Thesis | UCSB → AI/ML Engineer, OQ Point | |
| Haarika Manda | 2022-23 | Speed test contextualization | BS Project | BITS Hyderabad | |
| Robin Martin | 2023 | Visualizing Disparities in Broadband Plans Offered by Major US ISPs | Cal-Bridge | CSU Stan | |
| Abel Atnafu | 2022-23 | Modeling the Decision-Making Process of Black Box Models | ERSP | UCSB | |
| Aditi Phatak | 2022-23 | Modeling the Decision-Making Process of Black Box Models | ERSP | UCSB | |
| Chaofan Shou | 2021-22 | Dynamic Query Planning for Network Streaming Telemetry Systems | BS Project | UCSB → Salesforce → UC Berkeley | |
| Rohan Bhatia | 2020-22 | Dynamic Query Planning for Network Streaming Telemetry Systems | MS Project | UCSB → Google | |
| Aseem Verma | 2021-22 | QoE estimation in the wild | BS Thesis | IIT Roorkee | |
| Ethan Wu | 2021-22 | QoE Estimation for Video Conferencing Applications | ERSP | UCSB → USC | |
| Abtin Bateni | 2021-22 | Flexible and Scalable Network (Labelled) Data Collection Testbed for Campus Networks | MS Project | UCSB → Google | |
| Arnesh Agrawal | 2021-22 | QoE estimation in the wild | BS Thesis | IIT Roorkee | |
| Anmol Khemuka | 2021-22 | Curating Broadband Offerings Dataset | BS Thesis | IIT Roorkee | |
| Hemant | 2021-22 | Curating Broadband Offerings Dataset | BS Thesis | IIT Roorkee | |
| Sam Liang | 2021-22 | QoE Estimation for Video Conferencing Applications | ERSP | UCSB → USC | |
| Hemil Panchiwala | 2021-22 | Curating Broadband Offerings Dataset | BS Thesis | IIT Roorkee | |
| Divyanshu Setia | 2021-22 | QoE estimation in the wild | BS Thesis | IIT Roorkee | |
| Grant Withee | 2021-22 | Last-mile RTT for Campus Networks | High School Project | Laguna Blanca School, Santa Barbara | |
| Jake Miller | 2020-21 | Traffic Safeflisting | ERSP | UCSB | |
| Irene Pattarachanyakul | 2020-21 | Measuring TCP Roundtrip Time to Investigate Network Ephemeral Events | MS Project | UCSB → Embedded SWE, Ciena | |
| Palak Goenka | 2020-21 | A data-driven approach for detecting network degradation | BS Thesis | IIT Roorkee → Microsoft (Research Fellow) | |
| Bhavye Jain | 2020-21 | Last Mile Network Telemetry System | BS Thesis | IIT Roorkee → Microsoft → UCSB | |
| Ritik Kumar | 2020-21 | Last Mile Network Telemetry System | BS Thesis | IIT Roorkee → Microsoft | |
| Kaustubh Trivedi | 2020-21 | Last Mile Network Telemetry System | BS Thesis | IIT Roorkee → Tournafest (Founder) | |
| Matthew Aragaw | 2020-21 | Traffic Safeflisting | ERSP | UCSB | |
| John-Michael Kirchner | 2020-21 | Traffic Safeflisting | ERSP | UCSB | |
| Ruchika Saswade | 2020-21 | Traffic Safeflisting | ERSP | UCSB | |
| Samagra Sharma | 2019-20 | Scalability and robustness of flexible network-monitoring systems | BS Thesis | IIT Roorkee | |
| Rohan Bhatia | 2019-20 | Scalability and robustness of flexible network-monitoring systems | BS Thesis | IIT Roorkee |