Parallel and Distributed Computing Lab (PDCL)

Current Graduate Students

• Sanaz Rabinia (Ph.D.)
• Saeed Bakhshan (Ph.D.)
• Maedeh Yahaghi (Ph.D.)
• Yashar Naderzadeh (M.Sc.)

Alumni

• Laleh Ghalami (Ph.D., 2022), Staff Decision Scientist, Freight Science.
  • 2017 ACM Student Research Competition at the Tapia Conference, 1st place
• Tayebeh Bahreini (Ph.D., 2021), Research Scientist, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
  • 2021 IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award
    2020 Ralph H. Kummler Award for Distinguished Achievement in Graduate Student Research
    2020 Heidelberg Laureate Forum Alumna
    2019 Top 10 Women in Edge, Edge Computing World
• Hossein Badri (Ph.D., 2020), Vice President - Quant Modeling Lead, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
  • 2020 INFORMS Doctoral Dissertation Award for Operations Research in Telecommunications and Network Analytics, (Runner-Up)
• Safraz Rampersaud (Ph.D, 2016), Senior Quantitative Engineer, First Republic Bank.
  • 2017 IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award
• Lena Mashayekhy (Ph.D., 2015), Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Delaware.
  • 2016 IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award
    2014 Ralph H. Kummler Award for Distinguished Achievement in Graduate Student Research
    2015 Andrzej Olbrot Travel Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Research
    2015 Michael E. Conrad Graduate Research Award
    2017 IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing for Early Career Researchers
    2022 NSF CAREER Award
• Sharrukh Zaman (Ph.D., 2013), Advanced Software Engineer, Stellantis.
  • 2012 Michael E. Conrad Graduate Research Award
    2011 Andrzej Olbrot Travel Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Research
• Nandan Garg (Ph.D., 2010), Technical Project Manager, Accion Labs
• Thomas Carroll (Ph.D., 2009), Cyber Security Researcher, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
  • 2009 Michael E. Conrad Graduate Research Award


• Hossein Badri (M.Sc., 2019), Vice President - Quant Modeling Lead, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
• Laleh Ghalami (M.Sc., 2017), Staff Decision Scientist, Freight Science.
• Mahyar Nejad (M.Sc., 2014), Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware.
• Jonathan Widger (M.Sc., 2009), Software Architecture Senior Manager, Dassault Systemes.
• Thomas Carroll (M.Sc., 2006), Cyber Security Researcher, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
• Anubhav Das (M.Sc., 2005), Software Development Engineer, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Umesh Kant (M.Sc., 2005), Architect, Data Engineering, Deloitte Consulting.