Meet Our Team

People

We are a diverse group and are always looking to recruit strong students, post-docs, and new faculty to join us.

Faculty

Bill Aiello
In Loving Memory arrow_forward
Margo Seltzer
Data quality
Systems
Storage arrow_forward
Ivan Beschastnikh
Distributed systems
Networks
Software engineering arrow_forward
Alexandra Fedorova
Operating systems
Storage systems
Memory systems arrow_forward
Aastha Mehta
Systems security
Data Privacy
Operating and Distributed Systems arrow_forward
Mathias Lécuyer
Security & Privacy
Systems
Machine Learning arrow_forward
Thomas Pasquier
Systems
Security arrow_forward
Arpan Gujarati
Real-time systems
Scheduling
Fault Tolerance arrow_forward
Nguyen Phong Hoang
Network security
Online privacy
Internet measurement arrow_forward
Reto Achermann
Operating Systems
Memory Systems
Applied Verification arrow_forward
Mike Feeley
Distributed systems
Operating systems arrow_forward
Norm Hutchinson
Distributed systems
Compilers arrow_forward

Post Docs

Hugo Lefeuvre
Systems
Security arrow_forward

PhD Students

Swati Goswami
Systems arrow_forward
Tony Mason
File systems arrow_forward
Surbhi Palande
Systems
Storage arrow_forward
Puneet Mehrotra
Operating systems
Distributed systems
Graph processing arrow_forward
A. Finn Hackett
Programming Language Design
Applied Declarative Programming arrow_forward
Sid Agrawal
Operating Systems arrow_forward
Christopher Chen
Program synthesis
Formal verification arrow_forward
Bingyao "Jerry" Wang
Operating Systems
Security arrow_forward
Joseph Wonsil
Provenance
Reproducibility arrow_forward
Soo Yee Lim
Systems
Security arrow_forward
Joel Nider
Operating Systems
Storage Systems
Memory Systems arrow_forward
Qiaoyue Tang
Privacy
Machine Learning arrow_forward
Saiyue Lyu
Privacy
Machine Learning arrow_forward
Shaurya Patel
Operating Systems
Memory Systems arrow_forward
Zainab Saeed Wattoo
Systems
Security arrow_forward
Xuechun Cao
Systems arrow_forward
Zefeng Li
Security arrow_forward
Philip Schowitz
Real-time systems arrow_forward

Master's Students

Rut Vora
Systems Security
Networks Security arrow_forward
Yayu Wang
Systems
Security arrow_forward
Ilias Karimalis
Operating Systems and Program Synthesis arrow_forward
Sepehr Noorafshan
Operating Systems arrow_forward
Frederick Shpilevskiy
Privacy
Machine Learning arrow_forward
Jonas Tai
Systems
Machine Learning arrow_forward
Tanya Prasad
Operating systems
Systems Security arrow_forward
Satvik Vemuganti
System Security
Side Channels arrow_forward

Undergraduate Students

Anastasiia Beheni
Operating Systems
Security arrow_forward
Xingyu (Tom) Wang
Computer Architecture
Memory Systems arrow_forward
Iris Xu
Robotics
Computer Vision arrow_forward

Research Staff

Phoenix Synkova
Fine-grain file system design
System synthesis arrow_forward

Faculty Alumni

Charles "Buck" Krasic
(Assistant Professor, UBC)
Son Vuong
(Associate Professor Emeritus, UBC)
Alan Wagner
(Professor Emeritus, UBC)
Andrew Warfield
(Amazon)

Post Doc Alumni

Maryam R. Aliabadi
(2024)
Arpan Gujarati
(2023, Professor UBC)
Amee Trivedi
(2022, AT&T)
Mohamad-Jaafar NEHME
(2022, Huawei)
Adalberto Sampaio Junior
(2021, Huawei Research)
Jean-Sébastien Légaré
(2020, Amazon)
Ali Razeen
(2019, Amazon)
Yanyan Zhuang
(2016, Assistant Professor @ UCCS)

PhD Alumni

Paul H. B.
(2024, Teleoscope Inc.)
Mohammad Dashti
(2023)
Nodir Kodirov
(2021, Huawei Research)
Patrick Colp
(2021, Oracle)
Craig Mustard
(2020, Oracle Labs)
Mihir Nanavati
(2018, Microsoft Research)
Jake Wires
(2017, Coho Data)
Brendan Cully
(2017, Amazon)
Jean-Sébastien Légaré
(2017, AWS)
Dutch Meyer
(2015, Microsoft)
Mahdi Tayarani Najaran
(2015, SAP)
Kan (Ken) Cai
(2015)
Mohammed Alam
(2015, MDA)
Shriram Rajagopalan
(2014, IBM Research)
Humaira Kamal
(2013, PostDoc at UBC)
Aiman Erbad
(2012, Assistant Professor @ QU)
Brad Penoff
(2011, Google)
Geoffrey Lefebvre
(2011, Coho Data)
Michael Blackstock
(2008, INETCO)
Chamath Keppitiyagama
(2005, Lecturer @ Univ. of Colombo)
Alex Brodsky
(2003, Assistant Professor @ UWinnipeg)
Yvonne Coady
(2003, Professor @ UVIC)
Joon Suan Ong
(2003, Google)
Matt Pederson
(2003, Assistant Professor @ UNLV)

...and many more!

MSc Alumni

Milad Rezaei Hajidehi
(2024, PhD @ Harvard)
Mishaal Kazmi
(2024)
Shadab Shaikh
(2024)
Praveen Gupta
(2024)
Haley Li
(2024)
Jinyuan Liang
(2024, WeBank)
Nichole Boufford
(2024, Oracle)
Sepehr Jalalian
(2024)
Sadaf Sadeghian
(2024, Chubb)
Niloofar Gharavi
(2024, Arista Networks)
Augustine Wong
(2024, Intel)
Hadi Sinaee
(2023)
Amir Sabzi
(2023)
Alex Trostanovsky
(2023, Arista Networks)
Shayan Hosseini
(2023, Axiom)
Niloofar Zarif
(2023, TorcAI)
Ali Behrouz
(2023, PhD @ Cornell)
Mayank Tiwary
(2023, Salesforce)
Shiqi He
(2022, PhD @ UMich)
Faqia Iqbal
(2022)
Lana Sodol
(2022)
Seyed Ali Tabatabaee
(2021, PhD @ UBC)
Matheus Stolet
(2021, PhD @ MPI-SWS)
Syed Mubashir Iqbal
(2021, Amazon Automated Reasoning Group)
Joseph Wonsil
(2021, PhD @ UBC)
Bingyao (Jerry) Wang
(2021, PhD @ UBC)
Adam Geller
(2020, PhD @ UBC)
Muhammad Shayan
(2020, Korbit AI)
Jose Pazos
(2020, Wolfram)
Vaastav Anand
(2020, PhD @ MPI-SWS Saarbrucken)
Anand Jayarajan
(2019, PhD @ Univ. of Toronto)
Renato Costa
(2019)
Matthew Do
(2019, Hopper)
Jodi Spacek
(2019, Shopify)
Fabian Ruffy
(2019, PhD @ NYU)
Gleb Naumenko
(2019, Chaincode Labs)
Clement Fung
(2018, PhD @ CMU)
Stewart Grant
(2018, PhD @ UC San Diego)
Amanda Carbonari
(2018, Google)
Peter Chen
(2017, Arista Networks)
Wali Usmani
(2017, TwoTallTotems)
Kent Williams-King
(2017, PhD @ Brown)
David Williams-King
(2016, PhD @ Columbia)
Mark Spear
(2015, Google)
Michael Phan-Ba
(2015)
Daniel Rozenberg
(2015, Google)
Kalan MacRow
(2014, Coho Data)
Alexandru Totolici
(2013, Demonware)
Wenhao Xu
(2012, SmartX)
Nathan Taylor
(2012, Twitter)
Cody Brown
(2012)
Sara Dadizadeh
(2012, A Thinking Ape)
Arseniy Akuney
(2011, TELUS)
Jimmy Wong
(2011, Amazon)
Mohammad (Shamma) Abdul-Amir
(2011, Google)
Seyed Mirtaheri
(2011, PhD @ uOttawa)
Ryan O'Connor
(2011, F5 Networks)
Primal Wijesekera
(2011, PhD @ UBC)
Sunjeet Singh
(2011, INETCO)
Gitika Aggarwal
(2008, Bycast)
Sharath George
(2008, Microsoft)
Andrei Lifchits
(2008, Citrix)
Mayukh Saubhasik
(2008, Microsoft)
Nels Anderson
(2007, Livecast)
Petter Haggholm
(2007, eRezLife)
Shuang Hao
(2007, PhD @ Georgia Tech)
Camilo Ellis Rostoker
(2007)
Anirban Sinha
(2007, Zeugma Systems)
Mike Tsai
(2007)
Gang Peng
(2007)
Michael Wood
(2007)
Abhishek Gupta
(2006, Microsoft)
Bhavana Saha
(2006, Microsoft)
Randeep Singh Gakhal
(2006, TiVo)
Jake Wires
(2006, Citrix)
Mohammed Alam
(2005, PhD @ UBC)
Lowell Kirsh
(2005, Amazon)
Greg Kempe
(2005, Amazon South Africa)
Kapil Kumar Singh
(2005, PhD @ Georgia Tech)

...and many more!

Visiting Alumni

Tristan Bilot
(2024, Université Paris-Saclay France)
Wellison Raul Mariz Santos
(2024, UFPE Brazil)
Fangyu "Gary" Gai
(2022)
Konstantin Pandl
(2022, KIT)
Akshitha Sriraman
(2021, CMU)
Jimmy Lin
(2020, University of Toronto)
Adalberto Junior
(2017, UFPE Brazil)

Systopia lab is supported by a number of government and industrial sources, including Cisco Systems, the Communications Security Establishment Canada, Intel Research, the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Network Appliance, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, and the National Science Foundation (NSF).