NYU Open Networks and Big Data

Lakshmi Subramanian
Professor at NYU Computer Science, faculty at NYU School of Medicine and NYU Stern School of Business

Rohail Asim
(advised by Yasir Zaki)
Ph.D. Student at the ComNets Lab in NYU Abu Dhabi

Ankit Bhardwaj
Ph.D. Student at NYU Computer Science

Ramakrishnan. K
Ph.D. Student at NYU Computer Science

Neelabh Madan
Ph.D. Student at NYU Computer Science

Denis Rybkin (co-advised by Anirudh Sivaraman)
Ph.D. Student at NYU Computer Science

Yunwei Zhao
Ph.D. Student at NYU Computer Science

Samuel Fraiberger
Data Scientist at the World Bank

Manuel Tonneau
PhD candidate in Social Data Science at Oxford

Philipp Zimmer
Consultant at the World Bank

Alex Beutel
Tech Lead, Safety Research at OpenAI

Anant Sudarshan
Associate Professor of Economics at University of Warwick; Senior Fellow at EPIC

Anirudh Sivaraman
Associate Professor at NYU Computer Science

Arpit Agarwal
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay

Beth Simone Noveck
Professor and Director, The Governance Lab, Northeastern University

Helen Nissenbaum
Professor of Information Science at Cornell Tech

Jinyang Li
Professor at NYU Computer Science

Jay Chen
Senior Researcher and Principal Investigator at ICSI Berkeley

Maximilian Nickel
Research Scientist Facebook AI Research

Rajesh Ranganath
Assistant Professor at NYU Computer Science

Rohini Pande
Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics and Director of the Economic Growth Center at Yale University

Rumi Chunara
Associate Professor at NYU Computer Science & Engineering

Shameer Khader
Executive Director at Sanofi

Srikanth Jagabathula
Professor of Tech, Ops, & Stats at NYU Stern School of Business

Sriram Sankararaman
Professor of Computer Science at UCLA

Sunandan Chakraborty
Associate Professor, Data Science, Indiana University Indianapolis

Thomas Wies
Professor at NYU Computer Science

Umar Saif
Chairman of Punjab IT Board; Associate Professor of Computer Science at LUMS

Varun Chandrasekaran
Assistant Professor at UIUC Electrical & Computer Engineering

Yasir Zaki
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at NYU Abu Dhabi

Yaw Nyarko
Professor of Economics at NYU

Yiye Zhang
Associate Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University

Muhammad Khan (2022)
Assistant Professor, Univ of Birmingham, UK
(Post-Doc under Prof. Yasir Zaki, NYU Abu Dhabi)

Moumena Chaqfeh (2022)
Assistant lecturer of CS, NYU Abu Dhabi (Sept 2021 - present)
(Post-Doc under Prof. Yasir Zaki, NYU Abu Dhabi)

Yan Shvartzshnaider (2020)
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at York University (Aug 2020 - present)

Fatima Zarinni (2018)
Working with Google networking team

Yasir Zaki (2015)
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at NYU Abu Dhabi

Shankar Kalyanaraman (2014)
Data Scientist at Facebook

Esther Ezra (2011)
~~Assistant Professor in the School of Mathematics at Georgia Tech~~
Senior Lecturer in the Dept of Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University

Vincent Toubiana (co-advised by Helen Nissenbaum) (2011)
DPA France

Mukund Sudarshan (Advised by Rajesh Ranganath and Oded Regev)(2022)
Co-founder and CTO at Quilt Labs

Ananth Balashankar (co-advised by Alex Beutel) (2022)
Research Scientist at Google, Greater New York area (Jun 2022 - present)

Shiva R. Iyer (2022)
~~Research Scientist at Intel, SF Bay Area (May 2022 - Aug 2024)~~
Research Engineer, Toyota InfoTechnology Center (Sept 2024 - present)

Talal Ahmad (2019)
Software Engineer at Google, Greater New York area (Sep 2019 - present)

Ashwin Venkataraman (co-advised by Srikanth Jagabathula) (2018)
~~Post-doc at Harvard Business School (Aug 2018 - Jul 2019)~~
Assistant Professor of Operations Management at UT Dallas (Jul 2019 - present)

Aditya Dhananjay (Advised by Jinyang Li and Sundeep Rangan)(2016)
Co-founder and President of Millilabs (Jun 2016 - present)

Sunandan Chakraborty (2015)
~~Moore-Sloan Post-Doc at NYU Center for Data Science (Aug 2015 - Aug 2017)~~
Assistant Professor of Data Science at IUPUI (Aug 2017 - present)

Michael Paik (2013)
~~Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept of Computer Science, NYU Abu Dhabi (Aug 2013 - Sep 2014)~~
Director of Documentation, MongoDB Inc. (July 2014 - present)

Ashlesh Sharma (2013)
Co-Founder and CTO at Entrupy Inc.

Matt Tierney (2013)
Staff Software Engineer at Google, Greater Boston Area

Nguyen Tran (co-advised by Jinyang Li) (2012)
Staff Software Engineer at Google, Bay Area (Aug 2012 - present)

Sherman Chow (co-advised by Yevgeniy Dodis and Victor Shoup) (2012)
Associate Professor of Information Engineering at CUHK (Nov 2012 - present)

Nektarios Paisios (2012)
Staff Software Engineer at Google

Jay Chen (2011)
~~Assistant Professor of Computer Science at NYU Abu Dhabi~~
Principal Investigator at ICSI Berkeley (July 2020 - present)

Rushabh Shah (co-advised by Prof. Daniel Neill) (2024)
MS student in Computer Science at NYU

Manuel Tonneau (2022)
PhD student at the Oxford Internet Institute

Sriram Ramesh (2022)
Software Engineer at Moloco

Sudharsana Kannappan Jaya Lakshmi (2022)
Software Engineer Intern at Synchron

Vikas Patidar (2021)
Software Engineer at Google, SF Bay Area

Crystal Butler (2020)
Human Machine Teaming Engineer at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (May 2021 - present)

Ulzee An (2019)
Ph.D. student at University of California, Los Angeles

Kate Boxer (2017)
Ph.D. student, Dept of Computer Science, New York University

Sam Royston (2016)
CEO at Replica Health

Varun Chandrasekaran (2016)
Assistant Professor at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Christopher Rohlfs (2015)
Executive Director at Morgan Stanley

Ruchi Tandon (2015)
Software Engineer at Google

Renfei Zou (2015)
Engineering Manager at Meta

Vipin Jain (2014)
Vice President, Marquee Engineering at Goldman Sachs

Rachid Ennaji (2012)
Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA

Vrutti Vyas (2012)
Staff Engineer at Qualcomm

Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy (2011)
Chief Security Solutions Engineer, Datadog

Brendan Linn (2011)
Staff Software Engineer at Cash App

Sindhura Chava (2011)
VP of Equity Derivatives, Barclays Capital

Lu Wei-Chih (2011)
Start-up in Taiwan

Meredith J. Hasson (2010)
Pivotal Labs

Ariel Nevarez (2010)
Senior Producer at American Museum of Natural History

Nahanaeli Schelling (2010)
Original Artists

Nathan Silberman (2010)
Vice President of Machine Learning at Path AI

Arvind Kumar (2009)
VM Ware

Faiz Kazi (2009)
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon

Amey Purandare (2009)
Senior Engineering Leader at Bloomberg LP

Saurabh Kumar (2009)
Engineering Manager at LinkedIn

Kevin Jin (expected 2025)
Dual degree BS student in Computer Science and Mathematics at NYU

Joshua Weiner (UPenn, 2023)
Software Engineer at Palantir

Rishabh Ranawat (2018)
Software Engineer at Google

Bob Gardner (2016)
Software Engineer at Adobe

Maaz Bin Safeer Ahmad (2014)
Ph.D. student under Prof. Alvin Cheung, University of Washington

David Iserovich (2014)
Software Engineer at Google

Nabeel Abdur Rehman (2013)
PhD student under Prof. Rumi Chunara, NYU

Mark Rich (2013)
Co-founder / Engineering at Threads

Fahad Pervaiz (2010)
Software Engineer at Microsoft

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