Darko Marinov's Students

I am always seeking bright, motivated (undergrad or grad) students to work with on projects related to my research interests. If you are interested to work with my group, please email me or drop by my office.

I currently advise several students and have worked with many more over the years.

Current Students

• Yang Chen (PhD, co-advised by Reyhan Jabbarvand)
• Runxiang (Sam) Cheng (PhD)
• Sam Grayson (PhD, co-advised by Dan Katz)
• Kaiyao Ke (MS)
• Yicheng Ouyang (PhD, co-advised by Lingming Zhang)
• Shuai Wang (PhD, co-advised by Tianyin Xu)

Graduated Graduate Students

• Marcelo d'Amorim (PhD, August 2007, first job: Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil)
• Lamyaa Eloussi (MS, April 2015, Siebel Scholar Class of 2015, first job: Salesforce, San Mateo, CA)
• Kely Garcia (MS, September 2007, first job: Strata Decision Technology, Champaign, IL)
• Milos Gligoric (PhD, July 2015, awarded Saburo Muroga Endowed Fellowship for 2009-2010, won C.L. and Jane W.S. Liu Award for 2012, won C. W. Gear Outstanding Graduate Student Award for 2014, awarded Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship for 2014-2015, won David J. Kuck Outstanding PhD Thesis Award for 2016, won ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award for 2016, first job: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX)
• Alex Gyori (PhD, July 2017, awarded Saburo Muroga Endowed Fellowship for 2014-2015, first job: Facebook, Seattle, WA)
• Milica Hadzi-Tanovic (MS, April 2018, Siebel Scholar Class of 2018, next: PhD studies at the Technical University of Munich, Germany)
• Farah Hariri (PhD, April 2018, awarded Saburo Muroga Endowed Fellowship for 2013-2014, first job: Granular, Champaign, IL)
• Vilas Jagannath (PhD, April 2012, MS, July 2010, co-advised by Gul Agha, first job: Optiver LLC, Chicago, IL)
• Mathew (Matt) Kirn (MS, December 2011, first job: Microsoft, Redmond, WA)
• Wing Lam (PhD, July 2021, co-advised by Tao Xie, won ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award for 2022, awarded Google - CMD-IT Dissertation Fellowship in 2020, Yunni & Maxine Pao Memorial Fellowship in 2018, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention in 2017, State Farm Companies Foundation Doctoral Scholarship in 2016, Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Finalist in 2016, Ray Ozzie Computer Science Fellowship in 2015, Illinois Technology Foundation Fifty for the Future Award in 2015, first job: George Mason University, Fairfax, VA)
• Steven (Steve) Lauterburg (PhD, August 2011, first job: Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD)
• Owolabi Legunsen (PhD, December 2019, co-advised by Grigore Rosu, won ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ASE 2016, first job: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)
• Xinyu Lian (MS, April 2024, co-advised by Tianyin Xu, next: PhD studies at Illinois)
• Qingzhou Luo (PhD, May 2015, co-advised by Grigore Rosu, first job: Google, Mountain View, CA)
• Chaitra Niddodi (PhD, June 2023, co-advised by Sibin Mohan)
• Adrian Nistor (PhD, April 2014, co-advised by Shan Lu, won ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ICSE 2015, first job: Chapman University, Orange, CA)
• Qianyang Peng (MS, April 2019, co-advised by Lingming Zhang, first job: Google, Seattle, WA)
• Rohan Sharma (MS, December 2013, co-advised by Matt Caesar, first job: Dropbox, San Francisco, CA)
• August Shi (PhD, July 2020, won ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award for 2021, awarded Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship for 2019-2020, won ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ICSE 2017, awarded Ray Ozzie Computer Science Fellowship for 2013-2014, first job: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX)
• Shin Hwei Tan (MS, April 2012, won David J. Kuck Outstanding MS Thesis Award, co-advised by Lin Tan, next: PhD studies at the National University of Singapore)
• Peilun Zhang (MS, May 2020, co-advised by Victoria Stodden, first job: Google, Austin, TX)
• Peiyuan Zhao (BS-MS, April 2018, first job: Amazon, Seattle, WA)

Former Graduate Students

• Deniz Arsan (PhD, switched to the HCI area after a year, in 2018)
• Sandro Badame (MS, switched to Danny Dig's group after a semester, in 2011)
• Brett Daniel (PhD unfinished, Brett passed away on December 5, 2010)
• Wajih Ul Hassan (PhD, awarded Sohaib and Sara Abassi Fellowship for 2015-2016, switched to the systems area after a year, in 2016)
• Yun Young Lee (MS, switched to Ralph Johnson's group after a year, in 2009)
• Yu Lin (PhD, started co-advised by Danny Dig in 2011, switched to Danny Dig's group in 2015)
• Muhammad Suleman Mahmood (PhD, awarded Sohaib and Sara Abassi Fellowship for 2016-2017, switched group after two years, in 2018)
• Rutvik Choudhary (PhD, switched to the architecture area after a semester, in 2020)
• Tifany Yung (MCS, graduated from a program with no thesis requirement in 2015)

Former Visitors

• Mirco Dotta (visited in Fall 2008, MS, March 2009, from EPFL, Switzerland, advised by Viktor Kuncak)
• Yanjie Jiang (visited October 2019-October 2020, PhD student from Beijing Institute of Technology, China)
• Davino Mauro Junior (visited in Spring 2018, MS student from Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil)
• Ziyi Lin (visited September 2013-September 2014, PhD student from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, advised by Jianjun Zhao)
• Luis Melo (visited in Spring 2018, MS student from Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil)
• Mehdi Mirzaaghaei (visited in Spring 2011, PhD student from the University of Lugano, Switzerland, advised by Mauro Pezzè)
• Stefan Winter (visited in Fall 2019, postdoc from TU Darmstadt, Germany)

• Khalique Ahmed (collaboration with Sarita Adve's group; grad school: Illinois MS)
• Nader Al Awar (visiting researcher from AUB, Lebanon, July-August 2018; grad school: UT Austin)
• Igor Andjelkovic (ITI Undergraduate Research Internship Opportunity, Summer 2008; won Second Prize for Best Diploma Thesis at the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade in 2008; grad school: University of Belgrade, Serbia)
• Sang Baik (senior thesis, Fall 2009 and Spring 2010)
• Chris Baker (II-EN, Fall 2010; REU, Spring 2011)
• Anirudh Balagopal (research, Fall 2012; II-EN Spring 2013; worked with Milos Gligoric)
• Adhithya Bhaskar (collaborator, Spring 2019-Fall 2020; grad school: University of Southern California)
• Xinxi Chen (visited July-September 2014, undergraduate student from the University of Hong Kong, China; worked with Ziyi Lin; grad school: Cornell Tech University MS)
• Jesus DeLaTorre (McNair scholar, Summer and Fall 2006)
• Jordan Ebel (PURE, Spring 2012; REU, Fall 2012; worked with Milos Gligoric)
• Joshua Friedman (REU, Fall 2012; worked with Milos Gligoric)
• Stoyan Gaydarov (REU, Spring and Fall 2009)
• Milos Gligoric (ITI Undergraduate Research Internship Opportunity, Summer 2007; grad school: Illinois)
• Mert Guldur (individual study, Summer 2012; worked with Adrian Nistor)
• Tihomir Gvero (ITI Undergraduate Research Internship Opportunity, Summer 2007; grad school: EPFL, Switzerland)
• Bobak Hadidi (REU, Spring and Fall 2009; ITI Undergraduate Summer Intern Program Summer 2009; grad school: Princeton)
• Karl Hajal (visiting researcher from AUB, Lebanon, July-August 2018)
• Kai Huang (co-authored one paper with Michael Hilton and Danny Dig from Oregon State)
• Cheng Ji (research Spring 2021)
• Johnston Jiaa (REU, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011; II-EN, Fall 2010; individual study, Spring 2013 worked with Yun Young Lee; won Best Undergraduate Research Project Award at the Illinois Department of Computer Science 2011 Undergraduate Research Symposium sponsored by Yahoo!)
• Pengyue Jiang (hourly pay Summer 2022 and Fall 2022; grad school: Cornell)
• Arash Khan (II-EN, Fall 2010)
• Mathew (Matt) Kirn (individual study, Fall 2010; grad school: Illinois MS)
• Ben Lambeth (worked with Alex Gyori, Owolabi Legunsen, and August Shi; co-authored two papers)
• Yilong Li (research Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Summer 2013, and individual study Fall 2013; worked with Milos Gligoric, co-advised by Grigore Rosu; grad school: Stanford)
• Zhengxi Li (research Fall 2020-Spring 2021; worked with Wing Lam; grad school: Illinois MCS)
• Fei Luo (visited July-September 2014, undergraduate student from Tsinghua University, China; worked with Ziyi Lin; grad school: Northwestern University MS)
• Aleksandar Milicevic (visiting researcher, Summer 2006; grad school: MIT)
• Sasa Misailovic (visiting researcher, Summer 2006; grad school: MIT)
• Reed Oei (REU, Summer and Fall 2018; Runner Up CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards 2021; NSF Graduate Research Fellowship; worked with Wing Lam and August Shi; grad school: UCLA)
• Uma Pal (collaboration with PKU, China; Spring-Summer 2021; grad school: UMass Amherst)
• Vasko Popstojanov (REU, Summer 2009; individual study, Fall 2009)
• Dan Schweikert (REU Spring 2014 worked with Milos Gligoric)
• Rohan Sehgal (individual study Spring 2014 worked with Milos Gligoric)
• Rohan Sharma (individual study, Fall 2009; research Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, and Spring 2012; II-EN Summer 2011; Finalist CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards 2012; won Best Undergraduate Research Project Award at the Illinois Department of Computer Science 2012 Undergraduate Research Symposium sponsored by Yahoo!; Finalist CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards 2013; worked with Milos Gligoric; grad school: Illinois BS-MS)
• Corbin Souffrant (REU Fall 2013; worked with Rohan Sharma)
• Mirko Stojmenovic (ITI Undergraduate Research Internship Opportunity, Summer 2008)
• Paras Sud (PURE, Spring 2012; worked with Adrian Nistor)
• Shin Hwei Tan (senior thesis, Fall 2009 and Spring 2010; grad school: Illinois MS, National University of Singapore PhD)
• Timothy (TJ) Tunnell (co-authored two papers with Michael Hilton and Danny Dig from Oregon State)
• Nikhil Unni (PURE, REU Fall 2013 worked with Yun Young Lee; REU Spring 2014 worked with Milos Gligoric; ISUR 2014-2015 worked with Milos Gligoric)
• Kai Wang (senior thesis, Fall 2010 and Spring 2011)
• Anjiang Wei (remote collaborator from PKU, China; January 2020-May 2021; worked with Wing Lam and August Shi; grad school: Stanford)
• Xinyu Wu (hourly pay Summer 2022; grad school: Illinois MS?)
• Xinyue Xu (hourly pay Spring 2015 worked with Alex Gyori, Farah Hariri, and August Shi; Spring 2016 worked with Owolabi Legunsen; grad school: Illinois MS)
• Pu (Luke) Yi (remote collaborator from PKU, China; July 2020-May 2022; worked with Wing Lam; grad school: Stanford)
• Andrey Zaytsev (PURE, individual study Fall 2013 worked with Yun Young Lee; II-EN Winter 2013; individual study Spring 2014 worked with Milos Gligoric, Alex Gyori, and August Shi; hourly pay Spring 2015 worked with Lamyaa Eloussi and Milos Gligoric; Honorable Mention CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards 2016; grad school: Illinois BS-MS)

Remote Mini-Crowd Undergraduate Summer Research Program

• Basak Balci (Ozyegin University, Turkey; grad school: TUM, Germany MS)
• Juan Pablo Bortol (National University of Rio Cuarto, Argentina)
• Yang Chen (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China; grad school: Illinois)
• Satvik Eltepu (undergrad school: UCLA)
• Huseyin Gokay (Ozyegin University, Turkey; grad school: George Mason)
• Bryan Guo (Case Western Reserve University, USA)
• Peilin Pan (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
• Jeremias Parladorio (National University of Rio Cuarto, Argentina)
• Tuna Tuncer (Ozyegin University, Turkey; grad school: TUM, Germany MS)
• Dobrosav Vlaskovic (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
• Hao Wang (Peking University, China)
• Ruixin Wang (Zhejiang University, China; grad school: Purdue)
• Anjiang Wei (Peking University, China; grad school: Stanford)
• Alexander Williams (New College of Florida, USA)
• Jingtao Xia (Peking University, China)
• Yiwei Yang (ShanghaiTech University, China; grad school: UC Santa Cruz)
• Mohammed Yaseen (Bilkent University, Turkey)
• Pu Yi (Peking University, China; grad school: Stanford)
• Ruidong Zhu (Peking University, China)

• Muhammad Salman Abid (Habib University, Pakistan; grad school: Cornell)
• Sugam Adhikari (Islington College, Nepal)
• Faustino Aguilar (University of Panama, Panama)
• Ryed Badr (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA)
• Asha Boyapati (Monta Vista High School, USA)
• Xuyan Cheng (Dickinson College, USA; grad school: Ohio State)
• Mehzabin Haque (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh)
• Choiyin Li (Beanstalk International Bilingual High School Chengdu, China)
• Licheng Lin (Zhejiang University, China)
• Lu Liu (University of Washington, USA)
• Que Liu (University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China)
• Rohit Sai Naidu (Dublin High School, USA; undergrad school: UC Berkeley)
• Asif Zubayer Palak (BRAC University, Bangladesh)
• Mrigank Pawagi (Indian Institute of Science, India)
• Ronghui Qi (Wuhan University, China; grad school: Michigan MS)
• Vedant Rathi (Adlai E Stevenson High School, USA; undergrad school: Illinois)
• Md Wahiduzzaman (BRAC University, Bangladesh)
• Hao Wang (Peking University, China; grad school: UC Berkeley)

Students Supervised at MIT

As a PhD student at MIT, I was fortunate to work with 12 undergraduate and M.Eng. students, mostly through the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) and on Advanced Undergraduate Projects (AUP). Sarfraz Khurshid and I co-supervised 9 students in the MulSaw project, and I supervised 3 students in the D2 project.

• Omar Abdala (UROP)
• Daniel G. Adkins (AUP, D2 project; grad school: UC Berkeley)
• Basel Al-Naffouri (AUP, also M.Eng. student, thesis not supervised)
• Alexandr Andoni (UROP; grad school: MIT)
• Faisal Anwar (UROP)
• Suhabe Bugrara (UROP; grad school: Stanford)
• Cristian Cadar (UROP, D2 project; grad school: Stanford)
• Dumitru Daniliuc (UROP)
• Ang-Chih (Brendan) Kao (M.Eng. student, thesis not supervised)
• Ioan Tudor Leu (UROP, D2 project)
• Jelani Nelson (UROP; grad school: MIT)
• Lev Teytelman (AUP)