Faculty
Katia Obraczka
Director • Professor
Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at UC Santa Cruz and Campus Director of CITRIS at UC Santa Cruz. Her research and teaching interests include computer networks, distributed systems, operating systems, Internets, and IoT.
B.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Universidade Federale do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
M.S. + Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, California, U.S.
J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves
Affiliated Professor
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science & Engineering at UC Santa Cruz and Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. His research covers network architectures, communication protocols, and performance analysis.
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Universidad Iberoamericana, Ciudad de México, México
M.S. + Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawai’i
Current Ph.D. Students
Andrea David
Routing & Clustering for Remote Monitoring IoT Systems
Tyler Morton
Light-based Network Protocols & Systems / LightLinks
Current M.S. Students
Zach Halverson
Alumni
Past Graduate Researchers
Shesha Sreenivasamurthy, Ph.D. • UC Santa Cruz • 2023
Sinjoni Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D. • UC Santa Cruz • 2023
Tamir Melzer-Bronstein, M.S. • UC Santa Cruz • 2023
Kerry Veenstra, Ph.D. • UC Santa Cruz
Fabiano Bhering, Ph.D. • Federal Fluminense University, Brazil • 2022
Daniel Alves, Ph.D. • UC Santa Cruz
Katelyn Stone, M.S. • UC Santa Cruz • 2021
Sam Mansfield, Ph.D. • UC Santa Cruz • 2021
Barbara Moreto Dama, M.S. • UC Santa Cruz • 2020
Ben Handley, M.S. • UC Santa Cruz
Christopher Villalpando, M.S. • UC Santa Cruz • 2019
Vinicius Guimaraes, Ph.D. • UC Santa Cruz
Yalda Edalat, Ph.D. • UC Santa Cruz
Yona Lopes, Ph.D. • UC Santa Cruz
Allison Hume, M.S. • UC Santa Cruz • 2016
Larissa Marinho Eglem de Oliveira, M.S. • UC Santa Cruz
Kevin Abas, M.S. • UC Santa Cruz • 2015
Aloizio Silva, Ph.D. • Aeronautics Technological Institute, Brazil • 2015
Mateus Santos, Ph.D. • University of Sao Paulo, Brazil • 2014
Marc Mendonca, M.S. • UC Santa Cruz • 2013
Bruno Nunes, Ph.D. • UC Santa Cruz • 2012
Vladislav Petkov, Ph.D. • UC Santa Cruz • 2012
Daniel Hiranandani, M.S. • UC Santa Cruz • 2012
Matt Bromage, M.S. • UC Santa Cruz • 2009
Gefan Zhang, M.S. • UC Santa Cruz • 2007
Jay Boice, M.S. • UC Santa Cruz • 2007
Chansook Lim, Ph.D. • UC Santa Cruz • 2006
Cintia Margi, Ph.D. • UC Santa Cruz • 2006
Venkatesh Rajendran, Ph.D. • UC Santa Cruz • 2006
Ignacio Solis, Ph.D. • UC Santa Cruz • 2005
Kumar Viswanath, Ph.D. • UC Santa Cruz • 2005
Junsoo Lee, Ph.D. • UC Santa Cruz • 2004
Past Undergraduate Researchers
Kyle Batross, UC Santa Cruz
Eric Vin, UC Santa Cruz
Leland Miller, UC Santa Cruz
Jonathan Lin, UC Santa Cruz
Benjamin Cizdziel, UC Santa Cruz
James Koshimoto, UC Santa Cruz
Sean Bromage, UC Santa Barbara
Collin Engstrom, Southwest Minnesota State University