IntelliSys Team
Doorman
Velut arbor ævo
Dr. Hao Wang
Assistant Professor of the CSE Division at LSUEmail: haowang at lsu.edu
Phone: +1 (225) 578-7510
Office: 3272X Patrick F. Taylor Hall
Ph.D. Students
For the boundaries of knowledge we are pushing
Hanfei Yu
2021 Summer[WWW'22], [HPDC'23], [ASPLOS'24], [AAAI'24], [SC'24], [VLDB'25], [TPDS], [SoCC'24 Best Paper Award], [2025 ML and Systems Rising Stars]
B.S. Shanghai Jiao Tong University
M.S. University of Washington Tacoma



Research Interns
For the discoveries we are uncovering

Yifan Sui
[SoCC'24 Best Paper Award]Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Project: ML Pre-loading for Serverless Architectures



Master Students
For the expertise we are achieving

Shaghayegh Rabbanian
Master, 2023, LSUReinforcement Learning-driven Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing [IISE'23]
Ph.D. from the MIE Department

Christian Templin
Master, 2024Bachelor of Engineering
Stevens Institute of Technology Generative Spatial Audio Diffusion Model

Gaoyi Wu
Master, 2024Stevens Institute of Technology
AI Security
Undergraduate Students
For the foundation we are building

Alejandra Malia Saez
Senior year, exchange student from Universidad Pontificia de Comillas ICAIStevens Institute of Technology
Project: Self-charging Smart Cars
High School Interns
For the bright future we are creating

Zi'ang Zhuang
Baton Rouge Magnet High School2028 Class
Project: LLM for Math

Shelley Ma
McNair Academic High School2026 Class
Project: ML-driven ANC for Misophonia
IntelliSys Alumni
For the memorial journey we shared together

Xingqi Cui,
Research Intern, joined at 2024 Fall,
MoE-based LLM System

Peiman Fotouhi,
Master, 2024, LSU | B.S. University of Isfahan,
Thesis: "Resource Harvesting for Parallel Functions in Serverless Workflows"

Damien H Nguyen,
Joined at 2023 Fall, LSU,
Freshmen student from the President's Future Leader in Research (PFLR) scholarship project

Hudson N Vu,
Joined at 2023 Fall,
Computer Vision,

Sahithi Rampally,
Joined at 2024 Spring,
Federated Learning
Jackson Descant,
Joined at 2024 Spring,
Serverless Computing

Nasser J Mohammed,
Joined at 2021 Fall,
Automating Material Measurement and Evaluation using CV Approaches,
Admitted by LSU CS Master program

William Wei,
The 2nd place winner, LSU High School Summer Research Program, 2023 | Baton Rouge Magnet High School | Project: Backdoor self-driving models
Admitted by Yale



Jacob Carter,
Joined at 2023 Fall,
Serverless computing systems for AI,
Now Ph.D. student @ University of Florida

Faris Khattak,
Joined at 2022 Fall,
LLM-driven Scheduling for Distributed Systems


Hanxi Guo,
Research Intern, joined at 2021 Spring,
[SoCC'21], [TDSC], [IEEE Network],
Now Ph.D. student @ Purdue

Jianqing Zhang,
Research Intern, joined at 2023 Summer,
[ICCV'23], [AAAI'23], [KDD'23], [NeurIPS'23],
Now Ph.D. student @ SJTU

Saber Nemati,
Master, 2023,
Material Fatigue Measurement with Computer Vision [NeurIPS AI4Mat'23],
now works for GE Aerospace

Sowmya S Garikapati,
Master, 2023,
Co-advised with Dr. Juana Moreno,
Gaming AI and AI Education for BRBytes


Michelle Vo,
Undergrad from Women in Computer Science at LSU (WICS LSU),
Backdoor Attack to AI Models

Sejal V Patel,
Undergrad from Women in Computer Science at LSU (WICS LSU),
Backdoor Attack to AI Models

Ashutosh Neupane,
Master, 2022,
Thesis: "High Performance Computing in a Serverless Environment"

Kaitlyn Smith,
The 2nd place winner, LSU HSSR Program, 2022,
Baton Rouge Magnet High School,
Project: Reinforcement Learning for Video Games



