teaching

academic teaching and mentoring experience

🎓 Academic Positions

  • Assistant Research Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology ⟨2019–present⟩
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, Illinois Institute of Technology ⟨2013–2015⟩
    • CS450: Operating Systems
    • CS485: Computers in Society (Best Teaching Assistant Award, 2014)
    • CS546: Parallel and Distributed Processing
    • CS550: Advanced Operating Systems

📚 Guest Lecturer

  • CS546: Parallel and Distributed Processing ⟨2019–2024⟩
  • CS550: Advanced Operating Systems ⟨2019–2024⟩
  • CS553: Cloud Computing ⟨2023⟩
  • CS554: Data-Intensive Computing ⟨2023⟩
  • CS570: Advanced Computer Architecture ⟨2021–2022⟩
  • CS695: Doctoral Seminars ⟨2019–2024⟩
  • CS492: Introduction to CS Research ⟨2022⟩

Student Supervision

Current Ph.D. Students (Co-Advised with Dr. Xian-He Sun)
  • Luke Logan ⟨2025⟩
    • Dissertation: “ReCombinant: An Active, Composable, and Heterogeneous I/O Platform for Diverse AI Applications”
    • Status: Proposal Passed
  • Jaime Cernuda ⟨2025⟩
    • Dissertation: “FlowForge: A Real-Time, Active, and Adaptive Data Engine for Quality-Driven Exascale Computing”
    • Status: Proposal Passed
  • Neeraj Rajesh ⟨2026⟩
    • Research: Machine Learning for Systems, AI-Assisted I/O Optimizations
  • Keith Bateman ⟨2026⟩
    • Research: Task-Based I/O, Scheduling, Storage Provisioning, Tuning
  • Jie Ye ⟨2027⟩
    • Research: Data Management for Deep Learning, I/O for Scientific ML
  • Meng Tang ⟨2027⟩
    • Research: Workflow Profiling and Optimizations, Performance Modeling
  • Izzet Yıldırım ⟨2027⟩
    • Research: I/O Characterization, Bottleneck Detection, I/O Benchmarks
  • Hua Xu ⟨2029⟩
    • Research: Metadata Management, Parallel File Systems, I/O Modeling
  • Shazzadul Islam ⟨2030⟩
    • Research: IOWarp
  • Isa Muradli ⟨2030⟩
    • Research: IOWarp
Current Master’s Students
  • Mani Patamseetti ⟨2025⟩
  • Vaishnavi Papudesi Babu ⟨2025⟩

Mentoring Statistics

  • Thesis Advisor: 10 Ph.D. students, 8 M.Sc. students
  • Graduate Student Mentor: 24 students
  • Staff Supervision: 3 full-time staff

Educational Initiatives

  • Established and directed academic summer internship programs
  • Created fellowship opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students