Keegan Ryan (Ph.D. 2025)
Evan Johnson (Ph.D. 2025) → NYU
Zesen Zhang (Ph.D. 2025) → Amazon
Zhiyuan Guo (Ph.D. 2025) → Cornell (postdoc)

Samir Rashid (M.S. 2025) → Starlink
Anthony Tarbinian (M.S. 2025) → Apple

Hadi Givehchian (Ph.D. 2024) → Apple
Rajdeep Das (Ph.D. 2024) → Microsoft
Stewart Grant (Ph.D. 2024) → Roblox
Yibo Guo (Ph.D. 2024) → Google
Anil Yelam (Ph.D. 2024) → Google
Li Zhong (Ph.D. 2024) → Apple → Anthropic

Saath Deshpande (M.S. 2024) → UT Austin Ph.D. program
Yunxiang Chi (B.S. 2024) → Princeton Ph.D. program

Alex Forencich (postdoc 2020-2024) → UCSD (proj scientist)

Nishant Bhaskar (Ph.D. 2023) → MQ Prime
Ariana Mirian (Ph.D. 2023) → Censys
Audrey Randall (Ph.D. 2023) → Google

Zachary Blanco (M.S. 2023) → IBM → TikTok
Abhishek Vijeev (M.S. 2023) → Georgia Tech Ph.D. program
Yudong Wu (M.S. 2023)

Grant Ho (postdoc 2021-2023) → University of Chicago
Alex Marder (Res. Scientist 2019--2023) → Johns Hopkins University

Lixiang Ao (Ph.D. 2022) → Databricks
Gautam Akiwate (Ph.D. 2022) → Stanford postdoc → Apple
Sam Crow (Ph.D. 2022) → Meta
Haochen Huang (Ph.D. 2022) → Whova
Yizhou Shan (Ph.D. 2022) → Huawei Cloud
Bingyu Shen (Ph.D. 2022) → Meta

Isabel Suizo (B.S. 2022) → Google → CMU Ph.D. program
Jie Jeff Xu (B.S. 2022) → Georgia Tech Ph.D. program

Alex Gamero-Garrido (Ph.D. 2021) → NEU Postdoc → UC Davis
Rob McGuinness (Ph.D. 2021) → UCSD ECE Postdoc
Chengcheng Xiang (Ph.D. 2021) → Meta

Stephan Chenette (M.S. 2021) → Co-Founder and CTO AttackIQ
Xuhao Luo (M.S. 2021) → UIUC Ph.D. program

Godwin Pang (B.S. 2021) → Confluent
Priyal Suneja (B.S. 2021) → UW Ph.D. program

Oscar Acevedo (ERSP 2020–2021)
Prothit Halder (ERSP 2020–2021)
Young Kim (ERSP 2020–2021)
Johnny Padungyothee (ERSP 2020–2021)
Josh Santillan (ERSP 2020–2021)
Elizabeth Tran (ERSP 2020–2021)
Marlon Trujillo-ariza (ERSP 2020–2021)

Moein Khazraee (Ph.D. 2020) → MIT Postdoc → NVIDA
Guo "Vector" Li (Ph.D. 2020) → Google
Shelby Thomas (Ph.D. 2020) → Lore → OctoAI → NVIDIA

Keerthana Ganesan (M.S. 2020) → Meta

Weiyang "Frank" Wang (B.S. 2020) → MIT Ph.D. program

Yehonatan Hezkiya (ERSP 2019–2020) → Meta
Christina Leung (ERSP 2019–2020)
Malcolm Mcswain (ERSP 2019–2020)
Keshav Mittal (ERSP 2019–2020)
Yana Pyryalina (ERSP 2019–2020)
Eric Siu (ERSP 2019–2020) → Western Digital → Tesla
Aaron Wu (ERSP 2019–2020)
Jie Xu (ERSP 2019–2020)

Zhaomo Yang (Ph.D. 2019) → Google
Louis DeKoven (Ph.D. 2019) → Meta
Brown Farinholt (Ph.D. 2019) → Meta
Max Mellette (Postdoc 2016-2019) → InFocus Networks → Google

Brian Johannesmeyer → Vrije Universiteit Ph.D. program
Maxwell Bland (M.S. 2019) → University of Illinois Ph.D. program → Motorola

Ansel Blume (B.S. 2019) → Amazon → University of Illinois Ph.D. program

Joe DeBlasio (Ph.D. 2018) → Google
Arjun Roy (Ph.D. 2018) → Google

Liz Izhikevich (M.S. 2018) → Stanford Ph.D. program → UCLA
Rohit Kulkarni (M.S. 2018) → Qualcomm → Intuitive

Elizabeth Farkas (ERSP 2017–2018)
Elizabeth Guerrero (ERSP 2017–2018)
Adrian Mendoza (ERSP 2017–2018)
Zheng Tang (ERSP 2017–2018)

Brian Kantor (retired 2018)
→ ARDC

Tianyin Xu (Ph.D. 2017) → Facebook (Visiting Scientist) → University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Danny Huang (Ph.D. 2017) → Princeton (postdoc) → NYU
Xinxin Jin (Ph.D. 2017) → Whova → Linkedin

Ruby Rose (M.S. 2017) → Amazon → Robinhood → Yahoo

Karyn Benson (Ph.D. 2016) → Akamai → Meta
Peng Huang (Ph.D. 2016) → MSR (Postdoc) → Johns Hopkins University → University of Michigan
Wilson Lian (Ph.D. 2016) → Google

Rahul Bhalerao (M.S. 2016) → Google → Apple → Microsoft
Benjamin Braun (M.S. 2016) → Facebook
Jacob Maskiewicz (M.S. 2016) → Facebook
Liqiong Yang (M.S. 2016) → Google

Karl Koscher (Postdoc 2014–2016) → University of Washington → OctoML

Keyue Bao (ERSP 2015–2016, B.S. 2018) → Square → CashApp
Tina Chung (ERSP 2015–2016, B.S. 2017) → Marketo → Adobe → Google
Yimeng Gu (ERSP 2015–2016)
Aaron Hurtado (ERSP 2014–2016)
Laifeng Royston Lai (ERSP 2015–2016)
Angela Lin (ERSP 2015–2016)
Alex Tsang (ERSP 2015–2016)

Neha Chachra (Ph.D. 2015) → Facebook
Rishan Chen (2015) → Whova → AutoBizLine
Mike Conley (Ph.D. 2015) → Google
Matthew Der (Ph.D. 2015) → Notch → Capital One
Tristan Halvorson (Ph.D. 2015) → Google
Rishi Kapoor (Ph.D. 2015) → Google
He Liu (Lonnie) (Ph.D. 2015) → Google → Loon → Anyscale
Keaton Mowery (Ph.D. 2015) → Apple
Malveeka Tewari (Ph.D. 2015) → Google
Bhanu Vattikonda (Ph.D. 2015) → Apple → Google
Jing Zheng (2015) → Oracle

Gautam Akiwate (M.S. 2015) → PureStorage → UCSD CSE Ph.D. program
Tao Cai (M.S. 2015) → LinkedIn → Meta
Ian Foster (M.S. 2015) → Salesforce → Google → Snap
Mohit Kothari (M.S. 2015) → Groupon → Linkedin
Sen Zhang (M.S. 2015) → Google

Kathy Krane (CNS MSO 2008-2015) → South County Center for Change → Mental Health Systems → The Heart of the Matter Relationship Counseling

Tiffany Allen (ERSP 2014–2015, B.S. 2017) → Nathan Kunes Inc → Qualcomm
Andrew Jabasa (ERSP 2014–2015, B.S. 2017) → UNC → SAIC → Marlin Alliance → Verint
Kelsey Ma (ERSP 2014–2015, B.S. 2017) → Ad-juster → AppDynamics

Do-kyum Kim (Ph.D. 2014) → Google → Airbnb
Feng Lu (Ph.D. 2014) → Google → Databricks
Sarah Meiklejohn (Ph.D. 2014) → UCL → UCL and Google
Sivasankar Radhakrishnan (Ph.D. 2014) → Forward Networks
David Wang (Ph.D. 2014) → Google → Etsy → Uber
Jiaqi Zhang (Ph.D. 2014) → Whova → Snowflake → Meta
Qing Zhang (Ph.D. 2014) → Google

Chris Gardner (M.S. 2014) → Arris → Seismic Software
Gen Liu (M.S. 2014) → Google → Waymo
Devin Lundberg (M.S. 2014) → Pinterest
Malathi Raghavan (M.S. 2014) → Google → Verily Life Sciences → Amazon

Congming Chen (Postdoc 2013–2014) → Whova → Nebulas.io → Ant Group
Alexandros Kapravelos (Visiting Ph.D. 2014) → UCSB → NC State

Keith Marzullo (CSE faculty) → NSF CISE DD → Dean at UMD

Christos Kozanitis (Ph.D. 2013) → Berkeley (Postdoc) → ICS-FORTH
Vinh The Lam (Ph.D. 2013) → Google → Facebook
Radhika Niranjan Mysore (Ph.D. 2013) → Google → VMWare
Andreas Pitsillidis (Ph.D. 2013) → Google → Bridgewater Associates
Alexander Rasmussen (Ph.D. 2013) → Trifacta → Freenome → Bits on Disk
Daniel Turner (Ph.D. 2013) → TurboSquid → Shopify → Robinhood
Kevin Webb (Ph.D. 2013) → Swarthmore College
Weiwei Xiong (UIUC Ph.D. 2013) → Whova
Gjergji Zyba (Ph.D. 2013) → Meraki

Vacha Dave (Postdoc 2013) → Microsoft
Soyeon Park (Research Scientist 2009–2013) → Whova
Amin Vahdat (Faculty 2003–2013) → Google
Nicholas Weaver (Researcher 2012–2013) → ICSI and UC Berkeley → UC Davis

Mohammad Al-Fares (Ph.D. 2012) → Google
Nathan Farrington (Ph.D. 2012) → Facebook → Packetcounter → Rockley Photonics → Twitter → Google → Airbnb
Chris Kanich (Ph.D. 2012) → University of Illinois, Chicago
Xiao Ma (UIUC Ph.D. 2012) → Pattern Insight → Medium.com → Splunk
John McCullough (Ph.D. 2012) → Google
Cynthia Taylor (Ph.D. 2012) → University of Illinoism, Chicago → Oberlin College
Meg Walraed-Sullivan (Ph.D. 2012) → Microsoft Research (Postdoc) → SpaceX → Set Your Intention, LLC
Ding Yuan (UIUC Ph.D. 2012) → University of Toronto

Soumyarupa De (M.S. 2012) → Microsoft → Google
Deepika Gopal (M.S. 2012) → Cisco → Sree Sharadamba Vidyaniketan → RenKube
Utpal Kumar (M.S. 2012) → Arista Networks → Philips → Aarohi Softwares → KLA → Adamya Software Solutions → Terryberry
Aishwarya Venkataraman (M.S. 2012) → StackIQ → Teradata → Amazon

Christian Kreibich (Researcher 2012–2013)
→ Lastline → Corelight
George Varghese (Faculty 1999–2012) → Microsoft Research → UCLA
Ken Yocum (Research Scientist 2004–2012) → Illumina → Human Longevity, Inc. → Intuit

James Anderson (Ph.D. 2011) → Thesys Technologies → Old Mission Capital
Dionysios Logothetis (Ph.D. 2011) → Telefonica Research → Facebook
Marti Motoyama (Ph.D. 2011) → FitBit → Stripe → Google
Frank Uyeda (Ph.D. 2011) → Google → Loon → Google
Michael Vrable (Ph.D. 2011) → Google
Zuoning Yin (UIUC Ph.D. 2011) → Coverity → GraphSQL → UberL → Yongche.com → Tantan → Meicai → Re:Tech → NeuronForce

Danny Anderson (2011)
Sushma Bannur (M.S. 2011) → Microsoft → Facebook
Hamid Bazzaz (M.S. 2011) → Google
Sambit Das (M.S. 2011) → Cisco → Avi Networks
Kourosh Derakshan (M.S. 2011) → Qualcomm → Google
Moitrayee Gupta (M.S. 2011) → NetApp → AppFormix → Juniper Networks → Tromzo → Ironclad
Nelson Huang (M.S. 2011) → Cisco → Packetcounter → One Cloud Consulting → ePlus Technology Services → Apple
Ankur Jain (M.S. 2011) → Amazon
Michael Mihn-Jong Lee (M.S. 2011) → Google
Aram Shahinfard (M.S. 2011) → Bionic Panda → Flurry → Yahoo → Vave Health → LinkedIn → Amazon

Damon McCoy (Postdoc 2009–2011) → George Mason University → NYU

Alvin AuYoung (Ph.D. 2010) → HP Labs (CIFellows Postdoc) → HP Labs → Uber → Aurora
Ryan Braud (Ph.D. 2010) → ThousandEyes
Justin Ma (Ph.D. 2010) → UC Berkeley (postdoc) → Google → startup
Yanhua Mao (Ph.D. 2010) → Facebook
Patrick Verkaik (Ph.D. 2010) → Meraki

Fallon Chen (M.S. 2010) → Teradata → Bandsintown → Seed Scientific → Spotify
Pardis Miri (M.S. 2010) → Microsoft → NASA Ames → UC Santa Cruz (Ph.D. program) → Stanford (postdoc) → UCSD (visiting postdoc) → Maryland (postdoc) → Stanford (postdoc)
Sriram Ramabhadran → Goldman Sachs
Erik Rubow (M.S. 2010) → Ericsson → Google
Vikram Subramanya (M.S. 2010) → Google → Arista → Cisco → Google
Chris Trezzo (M.S. 2010) → Salesforce → Twitter → LinkedIn
Hakon Verespej (M.S. 2010) → Microsoft → Madrona Venture Group → Arivale → Institute for Systems Biology → AngelList → Independent contractor

Brandon Enright (B.S. 2010) → Cisco

Harsha Madhyastha (Postdoc 2009–2010) → UC Riverside → University of Michigan → USC

Kevin Bauer (Colorado visitor, 2010) → UWaterloo postdoc → MIT Lincoln Labs → Akamai → MIT Lincoln Labs
Alexander Pucher (TU Vienna visitor, 2010) → UCSB Ph.D. program → LinkedIn → StarTree → Parasail

Walter Burkhard (emeritus faculty, 2010)

Mikhail Afanasyev (Ph.D. 2009) → CSIRO (Postdoc) → Jaybridge Robotics → Toyota Research Institute
Yuvraj Agarwal (Ph.D. 2009) → UCSD (Research Scientist) → CMU
Kirill Levchenko (Ph.D. 2009) → UCSD (Postdoc) → UCSD (Research Scientist) → University of Illinois
Barath Raghavan (Ph.D. 2009) → Williams College → ICSI → Google → USC

Jeff LeFevre (M.S. 2009) → UCSC Ph.D. program → Hewlett Packard Enterprise → UCSC
Andreas Pamboris (M.S. 2009) → Imperial College London Ph.D. program → Imperial College London Postdoc → UCLan Cyprus
Ryan Roemer (M.S. 2009) → Microsoft → IP Street → Curiosity Media → Nearform Commerce/Formidable Labs
Pongsakorn Teeraparpwong (M.S. 2009) → Amazon → Indie Dish → Hato Hub

Matteo Varvello (ParisTech Visiting Ph.D. 2009) → Bell Labs → Telefonica Research → AT&T → Brave → Nokia Bell Labs

Greg Bruno (Ph.D. 2008) → SDSC → StackIQ → Teradata → Softiron
Diwaker Gupta (Ph.D. 2008) → Aster Data → Maginatics → EMC → Dropbox → Hiro Systems
Chip Killian (Ph.D. 2008) → Purdue University → Google
Marvin McNett (Ph.D. 2008) → Microsoft
David Moore → Cisco Systems → Google → Vectra AI → Teradata
Kashi Vishwanath (Ph.D. 2008) → Microsoft Research → Google

Varun Almaula (M.S. 2008) → Cisco → Health Technology Forum → Cyber Defenders → Chan Zuckerberg Initiative → Independent consultant
Erik Buchanan (2008) → Websense → Google → Connectifier → LinkedIn → CloseFactor → Semgrep
Justin Burke (M.S. 2008) → BigFix → IBM → Google → Tanium → Google
Daren Dao (M.S. 2008) → RippleTV → eHarmony → JPL → Intuit
Jim Hong (M.S. 2008) → Cisco → Cenzic → Trustwave
Alex Loukissas (M.S. 2008) → Cisco → Maginatics → EMC → AgentRisk → Whatnot → Adim → Fanatics
Shaan Mahbubani (M.S. 2008) → Qualcomm → HKUST MBA program → Accenture
Taurin Tan-atichat (M.S. 2008) → Google → Independent consultant
Nikolay Topilski (M.S. 2008) → Akamai

Sue Moon (Visiting Researcher, 2008) → KAIST

Kim Graves (2007–2008) → CSE fiscal affairs (2nd in line of great admin pantheon) → Biology AP/HR

Jeannie Albrecht (Ph.D. 2007) → Williams College
Yu-Chung Cheng (Ph.D. 2007) → Google
Richard Huang (Ph.D. 2007) → Oracle → Riviera Partners → Delphix → MindMeld → Oculus VR → Playground Global → Stochos Talent
Ramana Kompella (Ph.D. 2007) → Purdue University → Google → Cisco
Priya Mahadevan (Ph.D. 2007) → HP Labs → PARC → Google
Alper Mizrak (Ph.D. 2007) → VMWare
Nut Taesombut (Ph.D. 2007) → Abbot at KPY USA
Eric Weigle (Ph.D. 2007) → Google
Xinran (Ryan) Wu (Ph.D. 2007) → Microsoft → Intel Research → Tuan800

David Anderson (M.S. 2007) → Move Networks → Mozy → VMWare → EMC → Google
Jennifer Chiang (M.S. 2007) → Microsoft → U.S. International Trade Commission → Morrison & Foerster → Dentons → Slack → Stripe
Chris Fleizach (M.S. 2007) → Apple
Carmelo Kintana (M.S. 2007) → Google
Sangmin Lee (M.S. 2007) → UT Austin Ph.D. program → Microsoft → Facebook → Moloco
Nabil Schear (M.S. 2007) → UIUC Ph.D. program → MIT Lincoln Laboratory → Netflix → Google
Ming Woo-Kawaguchi (2007) → UCSD Ph.D. program (PL) → Harvard (postdoc) → Goldman Sachs

Michelle Panik (2004–2007) → Famed writing career (beloved group editor and asst)

John Bellardo (Ph.D. 2006) → Cal Poly SLO
Eugene Hung (Ph.D. 2006) → IBM → Plato
Flavio Junqueira (Ph.D. 2006) → Yahoo! ResearchMSR Cambridge → ReScale Limited → Confluent → EMC → QBeast
Kiran Tati (Ph.D. 2006) → VMWare → Google
Huaxia Xia (Ph.D. 2006) → Google → Baidu → Meituan
Xianan Zhang (Ph.D. 2006) → VMWare → Meta

Jay Chen (M.S. 2006) → NYU Ph.D. program → NYU Abu Dhabi → ICSI
Troy Trimble (M.S. 2006) → Google
Chris Tuttle (M.S. 2006) → Google → Ableton → Fastly

Krishna Gummadi (Visitor 2006) → Return to MPI-SWS
Péter Benkö (Visitor 2005–2006) → Return to Ericsson Research, Budapest → Independent

Yang-Suk Kee (Postdoc 2003–2006) → USC postdoc → Oracle → Samsung
David Oppenheimer (Postdoc, 2005–2006) → Google → Databricks

Leeann Bent (Ph.D. 2005) → Google
Dejan Kostić (Duke Ph.D. 2005) → EPFL → IMDEA → KTH
Xin (Paff) Liu (Ph.D. 2005) → Ask.com → Amazon
Sumeet Singh (2005) → NetSift → Cisco → Microsoft → AppFormix → Juniper Networks → Aptori
Renata Teixeira (Ph.D. 2005) → CNRS Researcher @ Laboratoire d'informatique de Paris 6 (Lip6) → Inria Paris and Netflix
Ju (Tony) Wang (Ph.D. 2005) → Ask.com → Microsoft → Snapchat → Google → Facebook → NVIDIA

John Ehrhardt (M.S. 2005) → Amazon → Facebook
Josh Opos (M.S. 2005) → Scaleable Network Technologies → Symantec → Amazon
Ishwar Ramani (M.S. 2005) → Juniper Networks → VUDU → Lab126 → Amazon → A9.com
Luis Rivera (M.S. 2005) → Verimatrix

Venkat Rangan (Faculty 1989–2005) → Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Andrew A. Chien (Faculty 1998–2005) → VP Research, Intel → University of Chicago

Ranjita Bhagwan (Ph.D. 2004) → IBM Research → Microsoft Research → Google
Yun Fu (Duke Ph.D. 2004) → Yahoo! → Alohar Mobile → Particle Media → Otter.ai
Jesse Steinberg (Ph.D. 2004) → Northrop Grumman Mission Systems
Dmitrii Zagorodnov (Ph.D. 2004) → Postdoc University of Tromsø, Norway → Researcher at UCSB → Eucalyptus Systems → Hewlett-Packard → AppScale → Danaher Corporation

Genevieve Bartlett (2004) → USC Ph.D. program → ISI
Rajiv Bharadwaja (M.S. 2004) → Microsoft → Facebook → Google → Microsoft
Jason Krasnow (M.S. 2004) → Motorola → Northrup Gruman Xetron → iCR
Travis Newhouse (M.S. 2004) → Netsift → Cisco → AppFormix → Juniper Networks → Aptori
Michael Sirivianos (M.S. 2004) → UCI Ph.D. program → Duke Ph.D. program → Telefonica → Cyprus University of Technology
Erik Vandekieft (M.S. 2004) → IBM → NEC → Tap11 → CircleUp → AVOS → CircleUp → Lyft → Facebook

Michela Taufer (Postdoc 2004) → Scripps Research and SDSC → University of Delaware → University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Florin Baboescu (Ph.D. 2003) → Cisco → Qualcomm → Huawei → Broadcom
Anand Balachandran (Ph.D. 2003) → Intel Research → Microsoft → Docusign → Atlassian
Kay Connelly (Ph.D. 2003) → Indiana University → Michiran State University
Cristian Estan (Ph.D. 2003) → University of Wisconsin → Netlogic → Broadcom → Google

Doug Brown (M.S. 2003) → NYU Law School → Asst U.S. Attorney → Chapin Fitzgerald LLP → Abelson, Herron and Halpern LLP → Halpern May Ybarra Gelberg LLP
Ping Guan (M.S. 2003) → Qualcomm
Vineet Kumar (M.S. 2003) → CMU Tepper School of Business Ph.D. program → Harvard Business School (faculty) → Yale School of Management (faculty)
Harsha Narayan (M.S. 2003) → UT Austin Ph.D. program → Juniper Networks → Rohati Systems → Riverbed Technology → Arista Networks → Google → LinkedIn → Machinify → Palo Alto Networks
Aditya Ojha (M.S. 2003) → Sun Microsystems → Cisco → Google → Databricks

Edward D. Lazowska (Sabbatical 2002) → University of Washington

Karan Bhatia (Ph.D. 2001) → NPACI SDSC → Joint Genomics Institute → Lila Technologies → Amazon → Exusia → Surf Labs → Google → Dexcom

George C. Polyzos (Faculty 1988–2001) → Athens University of Economics and Business