{"id":78,"date":"2018-09-18T15:23:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T15:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/ramesh\/?page_id=78"},"modified":"2026-08-30T01:53:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T01:53:36","slug":"lids-lab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/ramesh\/lids-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"LiDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/ramesh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/11\/lids_text.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-374 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/ramesh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/11\/lids_text.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/ramesh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/11\/lids_text.png 656w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/ramesh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/11\/lids_text-300x69.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/ramesh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/DSC02955-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-656\" src=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/ramesh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/DSC02955-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/ramesh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/DSC02955-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/ramesh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/DSC02955-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/ramesh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/DSC02955-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/ramesh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/DSC02955-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/ramesh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/DSC02955-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/ramesh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/DSC02955-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;border-style: solid;background-color: #ede9c2\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Prospective Students<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;font-family: -webkit-standard\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">We are looking for highly-talented grad students who are passionate about distributed systems and infrastructure for AI. Our research spans the whole range: algorithms, distributed system design, and AI\/ML. If interested, <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u00a0please apply to our grad program and mention either me or the LIDS lab.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: inherit;font-size: 18pt\">Research<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">We study foundational scientific principles that enable Internet-based services to be reliable, scalable, secure, high-performance, energy-efficient, and low-cost.\u00a0 Current research topics include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Distributed AI systems and infrastructure<\/li>\n<li>Distributed systems for AI agent-serving systems<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Web and Video Content Delivery.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Energy-aware Computing for AI<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><hr \/>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Students<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"id5\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Over the years, we are lucky to have had talented students who have made major contributions to the state-of-the-art and have established successful careers in academia and industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Current:<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>Lingdong Wang <span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">(Doctoral)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Diptyaroop Maji <span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">(Doctoral)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Kevin Chen <span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">(Doctoral)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Tung-I Chen (Doctoral)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: inherit;font-size: 1.25em\">Alumni:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ali-zeynali\/\">Ali Zeynali<\/a> <span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">(Doctoral). First position: Databricks<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><a title=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/anirudh-sabnis-3a301085\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/anirudh-sabnis-3a301085\/\">Anirudh Sabnis<\/a> (Doctoral). First position: Akamai<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sahmad\/\">Sohaib Ahmad<\/a> (Doctoral). First position: Meta<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><a title=\"https:\/\/people.cs.umass.edu\/~kspiteri\/\" href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=msoY114AAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">Kevin Spiteri<\/a> (Doctoral). First position: Google.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><a title=\"http:\/\/adityasundarrajan.github.io\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/aditya-sundarrajan-1b98a520\/\">Aditya Sundarrajan<\/a> (Doctoral). First position: Meta<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><a title=\"http:\/\/people.cs.umass.edu\/~vani\/\" href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=OsAPUBYAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">Vani Gupta<\/a> (Doctoral). First position: Providence College.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Sweetesh Singh (Masters). First position: EMC<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Brandon McPhail (Masters)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/michael-sindelar-3a39349\/\">Michael Sindelar<\/a> (Masters). First position: Google.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/shashi-singh-2306612\/\">Shashi Singh<\/a> (Masters). First position: Bloomberg.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/venkataramaniharish\/\">Harish Venkataramani<\/a> (Masters). First position: Google.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><a title=\"http:\/\/www.cse.yorku.ca\/~datta\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cse.yorku.ca\/~datta\/\">Suprakash Datta<\/a> (Doctoral).\u00a0 First position: York University.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kamalkasera\/\">Kamal Kumar Kasera<\/a> (Masters). First position: Goldman Sacks.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><a title=\"http:\/\/www-unix.ecs.umass.edu\/~lgao\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www-unix.ecs.umass.edu\/~lgao\/\">Lixin Gao<\/a> (Doctoral). Currently: UMass (ECE). Sloan Fellow, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Other Student Collaborators\/Mentees:<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><a title=\"https:\/\/people.cs.umass.edu\/~abhigyan\/\" href=\"https:\/\/people.cs.umass.edu\/~abhigyan\/\">Dr. Abhigyan Sharma<\/a>, First position: AT&amp;T Labs Research<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/benjaminheintz\/\">Dr. Benjamin Heintz<\/a>, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/danielsebastianberger\/\">Daniel Berger<\/a>, University of Kaiserslautern<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prospective Students We are looking for highly-talented grad students who are passionate about distributed systems and infrastructure for AI. 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