Former CIRRUS Lab Members
Faculty Members and Researchers:
- Prof. Alain Tchana, Visiting Faculty Member (July 14-25, 2025)
- Dr. Mohamed Elsakhawy, Adjunct Professor (5/22-8/23)
Graduate Students:
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Nima Nasiri, MASc Student (9/22-1/25, co-supervised with Sathish Gopalakrishnan) → ML Platform Software Engineer at Lyft
[Characterization and Improved Lifetime Management of Serverless Cloud Systems]
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Praveen Gupta, MSc Student (9/22-12/24, co-supervised with Aastha Mehta) → Senior SWE at Rivian VW Tech
[Thesis: A Developer-Centric Compliance Tool for Serverless Applications]
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Arshia Moghimi, MASc Student (6/22-9/24, co-supervised with Aastha Mehta) → DevOps Engineer at a stealth startup
[Thesis: Automating Resource and Security Configuration of Serverless Applications]
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Nalin Munshi, MASc Student (9/21-7/24) → SDE at Amazon Web Services
[Thesis: Using Markov Chains for adaptive lifetime management of serverless applications]
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Viktor Gsteiger, MSc Student from ETHZ, thesis conducted at UBC, Mitacs Globalink Research Awardee (11/23-4/24) → Forward Deployed Software Engineer at Palantir
[Thesis: Holistically Optimizing Geospatial Serverless Workflow Deployment for Sustainable Computing]
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Ghazal Sadeghian, MASc Student (9/21-12/23) → Cloud Engineer at SAP
[Thesis: Improving the efficiency of serverless applications through reducing allocation footprint]
Undergraduate Students:
- Muhammad Naufal Rayhan Wibawa, WLIURA, UBC Computer Science undergrad (5/25-8/25)
- Harris Liu, UREP, UBC Electrical Engineering undergrad (5/25-8/25)
- Joshua Wu, UREP, UBC Computer Engineering undergrad (5/25-8/25)
- Visal Saosuo, UREP, UBC Computer Engineering undergrad (1/24-4/24 & 9/24-12/24)
- Parshan Javanrood, UREP, UBC Computer Engineering undergrad (5/23-8/23 & 5/24-8/24)
- Sarra Refai, MITACS GRI, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis (5/24-8/24)
- Yiran (Jerry) Sun, UREP, UBC Computer Engineering undergrad (1/24-4/24)
- Yuanzhi (Gigi) Ma, NSERC USRA and UREP, UBC Computer Engineering undergrad (5/23-12/23) → MSECS student at Johns Hopkins University
- Alexander Li, UREP, UBC EngPhys undergrad (5/23-8/23)
- Xiaoyang (Sofia) Zhang, Work Learn, UBC CS undergrad (5/23-8/23)
- Mehdi Ben Chikha, MITACS GRI, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie (5/23-8/23)
- Joe Hattori, VIRS, University of Tokyo (9/22-12/22)
