People
Faculty
Arpit Gupta
Associate Professor, Computer Science, UC Santa Barbara
Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Marjorie & Charles Benton Opportunity Fund Fellow, Benton Institute for Broadband & Society
HFH 5163, UCSB · arpitgupta@ucsb.edu · Google Scholar
PhD students
Haarika Manda
Since 2023
Data-driven Policymaking
Co-advised with Prof. Belding
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP), 2024.
- IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP), SIGCOMM, 2024.
Laasya Koduru
Since 2024
Broadband Affordability/Adoption Data Infrastructure
Co-advised with Prof. Belding
- DOE GEM Fellowship.
Research staff and collaborators
| Name | Role | Project | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yeasul Kim | Visiting Researcher | Programmable data generation for network security | Fall 2026 – |
| Shaunak G. Umarkhedi M.S., Cornell University | Research Collaborator | NetVibe | 2025 – Spring 2026 |
MS, undergraduate, and high school researchers
| Name | Project | Program | Since |
|---|---|---|---|
| Srinandha Murugesan | Making BQT a software service (SaaS) | ERSP | 2025 |
| Chen Hui Lin | Making BQT a software service (SaaS) | ERSP | 2025 |
| Ivy Holiday | Making BQT a software service (SaaS) | ERSP | 2025 |
| Daniel Chang | Making BQT a software service (SaaS) | ERSP | 2025 |
| Red Macasa | NetVibe | Undergraduate | 2025 |
| Sumedh Aerram | NetVibe | Undergraduate | 2025 |
| Anit Annadi | NetVibe | Undergraduate | 2025 |
| Srish Nigam | Pramana | Undergraduate | 2026 |
| Jenil Rajeshkumar | NetVibe / agentic systems | Undergraduate | 2026 |
| Sidharth Kalje | NetVibe | Undergraduate | 2026 |
| Sthanav Murali Monta Vista High School | NetGent / Pramana | High school | 2026 |
Alumni
PhD
Sanjay Chandrasekaran
PhD 2026
The Cost of Delay: Investigating the Impact of Last-mile Latency Inflations on Real-time Applications
- M-Lab Research Fellowship, 2022.
- UCSB CS Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, 2026.
- UCSB CS Outstanding Graduate Research Award, 2022.
Sylee Beltiukov
PhD 2026 · Now: Google
Credible Machine Learning for Networking: Diagnosis, Data Collection, and Network-Native Representation Learning
- IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP), IETF/IRTF, 2023.
- Best Paper Honorable Mention, ACM CCS, 2022.
- UCSB CS Summer Fellowship, 2023.
Udit Paul
PhD 2023 · Now: Ookla → Thousand Eyes (Cisco)
- Distinguished Paper Award, IMC 2022.
- Doctoral Dissertation Award, SIGCOMM 2024.
Postdocs
Hooman Mohajeri
12/2022–11/2023 · Now: Startup (current)
MS, undergraduate, and high school
| Name | Project | Program | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abhishek Kumar UCSB → Unwrap | MS | 2024-26 | |
| Amrutha Kalle UCSB → Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | US/CMS Network Traffic Classification using netFound (with Anna Giannakou, LBNL) | MS Project | 2025-26 |
| Punnal Ismail Khan UCSB | netMosaic: Harnessing Public Code Repositories to Develop Production-Ready ML Artifacts for Networking | MS Project | 2021-25 |
| Jessica Nguyen UCSB | NetReplica (co-author; see Publications) | MS Project | 2024-25 |
| Alexander Nguyen UCSB | Assessing Density-Driven Disparities in Broadband Access and Pricing | MS Project | 2025 |
| Daphne Jomo San Francisco State University | Replication of BST Methodology (IMC'23 Best Paper) | BS Project | 2024-25 |
| Ken Thampiratwong UCSB | Leveraging Large Language Models to Contextualize Network Measurements | ERSP | 2024-25 |
| Akul Singh UCSB | Leveraging Large Language Models to Contextualize Network Measurements | ERSP | 2024-25 |
| Evania Cheng UCSB | Leveraging Large Language Models to Contextualize Network Measurements | ERSP | 2024-25 |
| Karthik Bhattaram UCSB | Leveraging Large Language Models to Contextualize Network Measurements | ERSP | 2024-25 |
| Ziv Weissman UCSB → UC Berkeley (PhD) | Early speed termination (CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher — Honorable Mention, 2026) | BS Project | 2024-25 |
| Eugene Vuong CSU East Bay | NetGent: Agent-Based Automation of Network Application Workflows (see Publications); CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher — Honorable Mention, 2026 | Cal-Bridge | 2025 |
| William Chen Cary Academy High School | NetReplica: Toward a Programmable Substrate for Last-Mile Data Generation (co-author; see Publications) | High School Project | 2024-25 |
| Khalid Mihlar UCSB → PhD, University of Utah | MS | 2022-24 | |
| Zephyr (Xuanhe) Zhou UCSB | Analyzing the Impact of Socioeconomic Factors on Broadband Pricing: Insights from the Broadband-plan Querying Tool | MS Project | 2023-24 |
| Kevin Zhang UCSB | Assessing the Efficacy of the Connect America Fund in Addressing Internet Access Inequities in the US | ERSP | 2023-24 |
| Haarika Manda BITS Hyderabad | Speed test contextualization | BS Project | 2022-23 |
| Robin Martin CSU Stan | Visualizing Disparities in Broadband Plans Offered by Major US ISPs | Cal-Bridge | 2023 |
| Abel Atnafu UCSB | Modeling the Decision-Making Process of Black Box Models | ERSP | 2022-23 |
| Luis Bravo UCSB | Modeling the Decision-Making Process of Black Box Models | ERSP | 2022-23 |
| Aditi Phatak UCSB | Modeling the Decision-Making Process of Black Box Models | ERSP | 2022-23 |
| Emily Hu UCSB | Modeling the Decision-Making Process of Black Box Models | ERSP | 2022-23 |
| Michael Yang UCSB | Modeling the Decision-Making Process of Black Box Models | ERSP | 2022-23 |
| Navya Battula UCSB → AI/ML Engineer, OQ Point | Flexible and scalable data preprocessing system for ML for Networks pipelines | MS Thesis | 2022-23 |
| Grant Withee Laguna Blanca School, Santa Barbara | Last-mile RTT for Campus Networks | High School Project | 2021-22 |
| Chaofan Shou UCSB → Salesforce → UC Berkeley | Dynamic Query Planning for Network Streaming Telemetry Systems | BS Project | 2021-22 |
| Divyanshu Setia IIT Roorkee | QoE estimation in the wild | BS Thesis | 2021-22 |
| Aseem Verma IIT Roorkee | QoE estimation in the wild | BS Thesis | 2021-22 |
| Arnesh Agrawal IIT Roorkee | QoE estimation in the wild | BS Thesis | 2021-22 |
| Hemant IIT Roorkee | Curating Broadband Offerings Dataset | BS Thesis | 2021-22 |
| Hemil Panchiwala IIT Roorkee | Curating Broadband Offerings Dataset | BS Thesis | 2021-22 |
| Anmol Khemuka IIT Roorkee | Curating Broadband Offerings Dataset | BS Thesis | 2021-22 |
| Ethan Wu UCSB → USC | QoE Estimation for Video Conferencing Applications | ERSP | 2021-22 |
| Sam Liang UCSB → USC | QoE Estimation for Video Conferencing Applications | ERSP | 2021-22 |
| Rohan Bhatia UCSB → Google | Dynamic Query Planning for Network Streaming Telemetry Systems | MS Project | 2020-22 |
| Abtin Bateni UCSB → Google | Flexible and Scalable Network (Labelled) Data Collection Testbed for Campus Networks | MS Project | 2021-22 |
| Palak Goenka IIT Roorkee → Microsoft (Research Fellow) | A data-driven approach for detecting network degradation | BS Thesis | 2020-21 |
| Bhavye Jain IIT Roorkee → Microsoft → UCSB | Last Mile Network Telemetry System | BS Thesis | 2020-21 |
| Ritik Kumar IIT Roorkee → Microsoft | Last Mile Network Telemetry System | BS Thesis | 2020-21 |
| Kaustubh Trivedi IIT Roorkee → Tournafest (Founder) | Last Mile Network Telemetry System | BS Thesis | 2020-21 |
| Matthew Aragaw UCSB | Traffic Safeflisting | ERSP | 2020-21 |
| John-Michael Kirchner UCSB | Traffic Safeflisting | ERSP | 2020-21 |
| Ruchika Saswade UCSB | Traffic Safeflisting | ERSP | 2020-21 |
| Jake Miller UCSB | Traffic Safeflisting | ERSP | 2020-21 |
| Irene Pattarachanyakul UCSB → Embedded SWE, Ciena | Measuring TCP Roundtrip Time to Investigate Network Ephemeral Events | MS Project | 2020-21 |
| Samagra Sharma IIT Roorkee | Scalability and robustness of flexible network-monitoring systems | BS Thesis | 2019-20 |
| Rohan Bhatia IIT Roorkee | Scalability and robustness of flexible network-monitoring systems | BS Thesis | 2019-20 |