Optimization, Probability
and Learning Lab

Our current research focuses on designing scalable and efficient algorithms for distributed machine learning training and inference. Please check out our research and publications.

Current Group Members

Akash Dhasade

Post-doctoral Scholar

Neharika Jali

PhD Student, ECE

Baris Askin

PhD Student, ECE

co-advised by Carlee Joe-Wong

Arian Raje

PhD Student, ECE

Anupam Nayak

PhD Student, ECE

Shivam Patel

PhD Student, ECE

He Wang

PhD Student, ECE

co-advised by Yuejie Chi

Susana Marques

PhD Student, CMU Portugal

co-advised by Fabio Coelho

Akaash Parthasarathy

MS Student, CMU MLD

Anirudh Dash

MS Student, CMU ECE

Alumni

Post-Doc

• Pranay Sharma, 2021-2024, now faculty member at C-MinDS IIT Bombay

PhD

• Jiin Woo (co-advised by Yuejie Chi), PhD 2026, now at Amazon
• Divyansh Jhunjhunwala, PhD 2025, now at Amazon
• Shuli Jiang, PhD 2025, now at Amazon
• Tuhinangshu Choudhury (co-advised by Weina Wang), PhD 2024, now at Meta
• Yae Jee Cho, PhD 2024, now at Google
• Samarth Gupta (co-advised by Osman Yaǧan), PhD 2022, now at Amazon
• Jianyu Wang, PhD 2022, now at Apple
• Ankur Mallick, PhD 2022, now at Microsoft
• Ahmet Inci (co-advised by Diana Marculescu), PhD 2022, now at NVIDIA
• Ting-Wu (Rudy) Chin (co-advised by Diana Marculescu), PhD 2021, now at Citadel Securities

Masters

• Andrea Vigano, CMU ECE M.S. 2025 → NVIDIA
• Siddharth Shah, CMU ECE M.S. 2025 → Credit Genie
• Siddharth Ambekar, CMU ECE M.S. 2024 → PhD at UIUC
• Eshika Pathak, CMU ECE M.S. 2024 → PhD at UIUC
• Jiarui Li, CMU ECE M.S. 2024 → PhD at U. Michigan
• Rohan Panda, CMU ECE M.S. 2022 → InWorld AI
• Aushim Nagarkatti, CMU ECE M.S. 2022 → NVIDIA
• Zhiyuan Zhao, CMU ECE M.S. 2021 → PhD at Georgia Tech
• Advait Gadhikar, CMU ECE M.S. 2020 → PhD at CISPA
• Shreyas Chaudhari, CMU ECE M.S. Dec 2020 → U Mass Amherst PhD
• Chaitanya Dwivedi, CMU ECE M.S. June 2020 → PathAI
• Hao Liang, CMU ECE M.S. June 2020 → Rice University PhD
• Zhouyi Yang, CMU ECE M.S. June 2020
• Sai Bhargav Yalamanchi, CMU ECE M.S. Dec 2018 → Uber
• Souptik Sen, CMU INI M.S. Jun 2018 → LinkedIn
• Mani Swetha Mandava, CMU ECE M.S. Dec 2018 → NVIDIA
• Malhar Chaudhari, CMU ECE M.S. Dec 2017 → Oracle

Undergraduate students

• Tarun Chiruvolu, CMU SCS, B.S. June 2024
• Sophie Smith, CMU SCS, B.S+M.S. Dec 2021 → Meta
• Dhruva Kaushal, CMU ECE, Integrated B.S. and M.S. Dec 2019 → Apple

Summer Interns

• Akash Dhasade, 2024 → PhD student from EPFL
• Divyansh Jhunjhunwala, 2019 → PhD student at CMU
• Subhojyoti Mukherjee, 2019 → PhD student at Wisconsin-Madison
• Sanghamitra Dutta, 2017 (at IBM Research) → faculty at U. Maryland