Faculty

Boon Thau Loo

RCA Professor
Senior Associate Dean, Education and Global Initiatives – School of Engineering and Applied Science
Director, Distributed Systems Laboratory
Department of Computer and Information Science (Primary appointment)
Electrical and Systems Engineering (Secondary appointment)
University of Pennsylvania


Ph.D students and postdocs

Masters/undergraduate students

  • Nupur Baghel (MSc. 2021 alum)
  • Zhenping Khor (master’s)
  • Haoyun Qin (undergrad)

PhD/Postdoc alumni

Other alumni (first employment)

  • Neelesh C A (MSc. 2024, Canopy)
  • Prashanth S Iyer (MSc. 2024, ASML)
  • Jingyi Li (MSc. 2023, Esri)
  • Andrew Zhao (BSc. 2023, MSc. 2023, Ph.D. student at Princeton University)
  • Jared Asch (BSc. 2023, Five Rings Capital LLC)
  • Brendan Massey (MSc. 2022, Ph.D. in University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  • Shubhendra Pal Singhal (MSc. 2022, Ph.D. student at Georgia Institute of Technology)
  • Aishwarya Wesanekar (MSc. 2021, Meta)
  • Junyong Zhao (MSc. 2021, Ph.D. student at University of Arizona)
  • Zachary Zhao (BSc. 2021, Moloco)
  • Ruijie Mao (MSc. 2021, Meta)
  • Zhilei Zhang (BSc. 2021, Ph.D. student at University of Pennsylvania)
  • Liana Patel (BSc. 2021, Ph.D. student at Stanford University)
  • Saket Saket (MSc. 2021, 6Sense)
  • Stephen Carrasquillo (MSc. 2021, Extron Electronics)
  • Heena Nagda (MSc. 2021, Ph.D. student at University of Pennsylvania)
  • Rakesh Nagda (MSc. 2020, Frontiir)
  • Isaac Pedisich (Staff programmer at DARPA XD3, GrammaTech)
  • Henry Zhu (MSc. 2020, Ph.D. student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
  • Nishanth Shyamkumar (MSc. 2020, Frontiir)
  • Shivani Burad (MSc. 2020, Cisco)
  • Garvit Khandelwal (MSc. 2020, Microsoft)
  • Manqiu Zhang (MSc. 2020, Amazon)
  • Ritika Gupta (MSc. 2020, Facebook)
  • Ritvik Sadana (MSc. 2020, Qualcomm)
  • Hui Lyu (MSc. 2020, PwC)
  • Simran Arora (BSc. 2019, Ph.D. student at Stanford University)
  • Shilpi Bose (MSc. 2019, VMware)
  • Nishant Prabhu (MSc. 2019, Nutanix)
  • Deepika Vasudevan (MSc. 2019, Amazon)
  • Saeed Abedi (MSc. 2019, Oracle)
  • Yucheng Lu (Ph.D. student at Cornell University)
  • Akash Acharya (MSc. 2018, Rivian)
  • Anirudh Chelluri (MSc. 2018, Meta)
  • Mark Lippincott (MSc. 2018, Netflix)
  • Achala Rao (MSc. 2018, Bloomberg)
  • Bowen Wang (MSc. 2018, Cohesity)
  • Anupam Alur (MSc. 2017, Bloomberg)
  • Miao Cheng (MSc. 2017, VMWare)
  • Siri Anil (MSc. 2017, Bloomberg)
  • Robert Dimaiolo (MSc. 2017, Cognescent)
  • Harshal Lehri (MSc. 2017, Google)
  • Sajal Marwaha (MSc. 2017, Dataminr)
  • Chirag Shah (MSc. 2017, Real Time Innovations)
  • Hitali Sheth (MSc. 2017, Oracle)
  • Akshay Sriraman (MSc. 2017, Bloomberg)
  • Prahalad Venkataramanan (MSc. 2017, Magic Leap)
  • Harsh Verma (MSc. 2017, IntentionNet)
  • Tengyuan Ye (MSc. 2017, VMware)
  • Meryem Essaidi (BSc/MSc. 2016, Ph.D. in Computer Science at Princeton University)
  • Jitesh Gupta (MSc. 2016, Microsoft)
  • Prithvi Karapa (MSc. 2016, Appian)
  • Nicholas Iodice (MSc. 2016, Audible)
  • Ankit Mishra (MSc. 2016, Microsoft)
  • Sudarshan Muralidhar (BS/MSc. 2016, Igneous Systems)
  • Anand Sriramalu (MSc. 2016, Oracle)
  • Stuart Wagner (MSc. 2016, Microsoft)
  • Priya Venkatraman (MSc. 2016, Microsoft)
  • Shanni Xi (MSc. 2016)
  • Sibi Vijayakumar (MSc. 2016, GitStar)
  • Nikhilesh Behera (MSc. 2016, Taser)
  • Jatin Sharma (MSc. 2016, Taser)
  • Rahul Nafde (MSc. 2015, ColdLight)
  • Sonal Ektaa (MSc. 2015, Goldman Sachs)
  • Bo Li (MSc. 2014, Google)
  • Sitian Cheng (MSc. 2014, Box)
  • Anh Nguyen (BSc. 2014, Co-founder at Netsil)
  • Tanveer Gill (MSc. 2014, Co-founder at Netsil)
  • Eric Gang Xiang (MSc. 2014, Yahoo)
  • Harjot Gill (MSc. 2013, Co-founder at Netsil)
  • Yuankai Zhang (MSc. 2013, Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Georgetown University)
  • Sandy Sun (BSc. 2013, Box)
  • Kenton Lee (BSc. 2013, Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Washington-Seattle)
  • Xianglong Han (MSc. 2013, Google)
  • Hao Xu (MSc. 2013, Google)
  • Ying Zheng (MSC. 2013, Google)
  • Sanchit Aggrawal (MSc. 2013, Microsoft)
  • Cheng Luo (BSE, MSc. 2012, Harvard University Ph.D. program in Finance)
  • Cam Nguyen (BSc. 2012, Co-founder at Netsil)
  • Yiqing Ren (MSc. 2012, Georgetown University)
  • Suyog Mapara (MSc. 2012, Microsoft)
  • Saravana Soundararajan (MSc. 2012, Oracle)
  • Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi (MSc. 2012, Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  • Ren Lu (MSc. 2012, Bank of America)
  • Qiong Fei (MSc. 2011, Amazon)
  • Taher Saeed (MSc. 2011, DramaFever)
  • Qi Zheng (MSc. 2011, Microsoft)
  • Saumya Jain (MSc. 2010, Microsoft)
  • Xiaozhou Li (MSc. 2010, Ph.D. in Computer Science at Princeton University)
  • Shivkumar Muthukumar (MSc. 2010, Amazon)
  • Tao Tao (MSc. 2010, Microsoft)
  • Andrew Mao (B.Sc 2009, Ph.D. in Computer Science at Harvard University)
  • Bill Marczak (B.Sc 2009, Ph.D. in Computer Science at UC Berkeley, honorable mention for CRA outstanding undergraduate awards)
  • Mihai Oprea (MSc. 2009)
  • Richardo Correa (MSc. 2008, Betchel Engineering)