IntelliSys Team
Doorman
Velut arbor ævo
Dr. Hao Wang
Assistant Professor of ECE, StevensEmail: hwang9 at stevens.edu
Phone: +1 (201) 216-3325
Office: Burchard Building 211
Ph.D. Students
For the boundaries of knowledge we are pushing
Qingyang Yu
2024 Summer[NeurIPS'26], [ICML'26], [TMLR'26], and [HealthCom'26]
B.S. University of Liverpool
M.S. Rutgers University in New Brunswick
Ricky (Rui) Wei
[Chief Infra Officer] 2024 Fall[SoCC'26], [SoCC'25]
B.S. Chongqing University
M.S. Boston University
Xuan Li
2025 FallB.S. Southeast University
Qingqian Yang
2027 Spring[ICCV'25], [INFOCOM'26-EIN], and [ECCV'26]
M.S. Shanghai University of Electric Power
Research Interns
For the discoveries we are uncovering
Yifan Sui
[SoCC'24 Best Paper Award], [TPDS]Ph.D. at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Serverless AI Systems
Weixuan Ding
Bachelor at Wuhan UniversityFL Privacy & Security
Master Students
For the expertise we are achieving
Zirui Wen
Master, 2025Stevens Institute of Technology
Trustworthy AI
Undergraduate Students
For the foundation we are building
Xuanlin (Terry) Liu
Stevens Institute of TechnologyClass of 2028
Provost Undergraduate Research Fund
Project: FL+X
Karan Kapoor
Stevens Institute of TechnologyClass of 2027
[MILCOM-WS'26]
CRA REU: Energy-efficient ML
Jared Surajballi
Stevens Institute of TechnologyClass of 2027
[MILCOM-WS'26]
CRA REU: Energy-efficient ML
Team Building
For the team spirit we are cultivating
IntelliSys Alumni
For the memorial journey we shared together
32 graduate students · 14 undergraduates · 8 K-12 students
Ph.D. Alumni
Interns, Master's, Undergrad, & K-12 Student Alumni
Bener Dulger,
High Technology High School,
Class of 2027
Project: AI-driven Smart Car for Racing, [BigData-HS'26]
Project: AI-driven Smart Car for Racing, [BigData-HS'26]
Jinru Duan,
Research Intern, 2026,
Master at NEU,
LLM Inference Systems
Jiabin Luo,
Research Intern, 2026,
Ph.D. at PKU,
LLM Inference Systems
Shaoyu Zhang,
Master, 2025,
Stevens Institute of Technology,
LLM Serving Systems
Anika Jolly,
Union County Magnet High School,
Class of 2027
Project: ML for Healthcare
Project: ML for Healthcare
Yufan Lin,
Bronx High School of Science,
Class of 2027
Project: MARL for Gaming
Project: MARL for Gaming
Qi Qi,
Master at UCSD, Bachelor at HUST,
Now: Ph.D. at UMass,
Serverless computing for AI
Serverless computing for AI
Zhanming Shen,
Research Intern, 2026,
Ph.D. at Zhe Jiang University,
[EMNLP'25], [ICML'26], pFL & LLM fine-tuning
Rui Du,
Master, 2025,
Stevens Institute of Technology,
LLM Serving Systems
Longzhao Gong,
2026 Outstanding Master's Student Award 
Master, 2024, Stevens Institute of Technology, Smart Kart & RL, [BigData-HS'26]
Master, 2024, Stevens Institute of Technology, Smart Kart & RL, [BigData-HS'26]
Shlok Patel
Bergen County Academies
Class of 2026
Project: MARL for Gaming
Class of 2026
Project: MARL for Gaming
Alice Agnoletto
Provost Undergraduate Research Fund
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2026
Project: MARL for Gaming
Project: MARL for Gaming
Shravani Sawant,
Master, 2025
Stevens Institute of Technology
Fault Tolerance in Serverless Computing
Stevens Institute of Technology
Fault Tolerance in Serverless Computing
Kedarnath Naik,
Master, 2024
Stevens Institute of Technology
Smart Kart & RL
Stevens Institute of Technology
Smart Kart & RL
Shelley Ma,
McNair Academic High School,
Class of 2026
Project: ML-driven ANC for Misophonia
Project: ML-driven ANC for Misophonia
Lucas (Hao) Wang,
2025 Fall,
B.S. Tongji University,
M.S. Tongji University
B.S. Tongji University,
M.S. Tongji University
Shubham Jain,
Master's, 2024,
Stevens Institute of Technology,
RLHF and Serverless Computing
Rushi Lunagariya,
Master's, Applied AI, 2025,
Stevens Institute of Technology
LLM Serving
Zixun Xiong,
[AAAI'26], [AsiaCCS'26]
B.S. Nanking Audit University, M.S. University of Massachusetts Amherst
B.S. Nanking Audit University, M.S. University of Massachusetts Amherst
Bei Ouyang,
Master and Bachelor at Sun Yat-sen University
Serverless LLM Serving Systems
PhD student @ UT Austin 2026 Fall
Serverless LLM Serving Systems
PhD student @ UT Austin 2026 Fall
Rajat Jaiswal,
Master of Science, Applied Artificial Intelligence, 2024,
Stevens Institute of Technology
LLM Serving
Krishna Sai Srinivas Venigalla,
Master, 2024,
Stevens Institute of Technology,
LLM Serving
Yogarajan Sivakumar,
Master, 2024 (AIRS Fellowship),
Stevens Institute of Technology,
RLHF and Serverless Computing
Christian Templin,
Master, 2024,
Bachelor of Engineering,
Stevens Institute of Technology,
Generative Spatial Audio Diffusion Model [ICASSP'26]
Shaghayegh Rabbanian,
Master, 2023, LSU,
Reinforcement Learning-driven Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing [IISE'23], [AIEng'26],
Ph.D. from LSU MIE Department
Zi'ang Zhuang, Baton Rouge Magnet High School, 2028 Class
Project: LLM for Math
Project: LLM for Math
Alejandra Malia Saez, Exchange student from Universidad Pontificia de Comillas ICAI, Stevens Institute of Technology, Project: Self-charging Smart Cars
Xingqi Cui,
Research Intern, joined in 2024 Fall,
[EuroSys'26]
MoE-based LLM System,
PhD student @ Rice University 2025 Fall
MoE-based LLM System,
PhD student @ Rice University 2025 Fall
Peiman Fotouhi,
Master, 2024, LSU | B.S. University of Isfahan,
Thesis: "Resource Harvesting for Parallel Functions in Serverless Workflows"
Hudson N Vu,
joined in 2023 Fall,
Computer Vision. Volunteer for TigerAI.
Sahithi Rampally,
joined in 2024 Spring,
Federated Learning. Volunteer head for TigerAI
Jackson Descant,
joined in 2024 Spring,
Serverless Computing, Volunteer for TigerAI
Nasser J Mohammed,
joined in 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
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 in 2023 Fall,
Serverless computing systems for AI,
Now Ph.D. student @ University of Florida
Faris Khattak,
joined in 2022 Fall,
LLM-driven Scheduling for Distributed Systems
Jianqing Zhang,
Research Intern, joined in 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
Admitted by Yale
The 2nd place winner, LSU HSSR Program, 2022,
Baton Rouge Magnet High School,
Project: Reinforcement Learning for Video Games
Admitted by Yale
