Team

Faculty


Dr. Hao Wang

Assistant Professor of the CSE Division at LSU
Email: haowang at lsu.edu
Phone: +1 (225) 578-7510
Office: 3272X Patrick F. Taylor Hall


Ph.D. Students


Hanfei Yu

2021 Summer
[WWW'22], [HPDC'23], [ASPLOS'24], [AAAI'24], [SC'24], [VLDB'25], [TPDS], [SoCC'24]
B.S. Shanghai Jiao Tong University
M.S. University of Washington Tacoma

Zixun Xiong

2024 Summer
B.S. Nanking Audit University
M.S. University of Massachusetts Amherst

Qingyang Yu

2024 Summer
B.S. University of Liverpool
M.S. Rutgers University in New Brunswick

Richard (Rui) Wei

2024 Fall
B.S. Chongqing University
M.S. Boston University


Research Interns


Yifan Sui

[SoCC'24]
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Project: ML Pre-loading for Serverless Architectures

Peishen Yan

[ECCV'24]
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Project: FL Security & Efficiency


Master Students


Shaghayegh Rabbanian

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

Christian Templin

Master, 2024
Bachelor of Engineering
Stevens Institute of Technology


Undergraduate Students


Alejandra Malia Saez

Senior year, exchange student from Universidad Pontificia de Comillas ICAI
Stevens Institute of Technology
Project: Self-charging Smart Cars


High School Interns


Zi'ang Zhuang

Baton Rouge Magnet High School
2028 Class
Project: LLM for Math

Shelley Ma

McNair Academic High School
2026 Class
Project: ML-driven ANC for Misophonia


Alumni


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
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

:trophy: The 2nd place winner, LSU High School Summer Research Program, 2023
Baton Rouge Magnet High School
Project: Backdoor self-driving models :tada: 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

Haomin Zhuang

Research Intern, joined at 2022 Spring
[ICLR'24]
Now Ph.D. student @ Notre Dame

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]
Ph.D. from the MIE Department

Sowmya S Garikapati

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

Zhi-Ruei Tu

Master, 2023
Distributed Reinforcement Learning

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

:trophy: The 2nd place winner, LSU High School Summer Research Program, 2022
Baton Rouge Magnet High School
Project: Reinforcement Learning for Video Games

Christian Fontenot

Undergraduate RA, 2021-2022
Now Ph.D. student @ University of Colorado Boulder

Charitra Maharjan

Master, 2022
Thesis: "Evaluating ARM-based Serverless Computing"

Roshan Koirala

Master, 2021
Thesis: "Disease Prediction using CNN on Geo-Spatial Image Data"