Faculty

Katia

Katia Obraczka

DirectorProfessor

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

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

Nayan Bhatia, Ph.D. Student
Nayan Bhatia

WiFi-based Indoor Localization using AI/ML

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Andrea David

Routing & Clustering for Remote Monitoring IoT Systems

Anuj Kaul, Ph.D. Student
Anuj Kaul

Distributed Network Control in Autonomous Vehicles

Lakshmi Krishnaswamy, Ph.D. Student
Lakshmi Krishnaswamy

Load-Balancing for Geo-Distributed Data Center Networks

Harikrishna Kuttivelil, Ph.D. Student
Harikrishna Kuttivelil

Collaborative Decentralized Learning for IoT Systems

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Tyler Morton

Light-based Network Protocols & Systems / LightLinks

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Firouz Vafadari

Light-based Network Protocols & Systems / LightLinks

Li Xue, Ph.D. Student
Li Xue

Network-based Cybersecurity & Device Fingerprinting

Current M.S. Students

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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