Samir Rashid (M.S. 2025)
→ Starlink
Anthony Tarbinian (M.S. 2025)
→ Apple
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)
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
Isabel Suizo (B.S. 2022)
→ Google
→ CMU Ph.D. program
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)
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)
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
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
Ruby Rose (M.S. 2017)
→ Amazon
→ Robinhood
→ Yahoo
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)
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
George C. Polyzos (Faculty 1988–2001)
→ Athens University of Economics and Business