People

RCA Professor
Associate Dean, Graduate Programs - School of Engineering and Applied Science
Director, Distributed Systems Laboratory
Department of Computer and Information Science (Primary appointment)
Electrical and Systems Engineering (Secondary appointment)
University of Pennsylvania

Contact:

Office
605 Levine Hall, 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389

boonloo@seas.upenn.edu

Refer to full list of students that did research with me, including postdocs, doctoral students, master's and undergraduate students.

Current PhD students and postdocs:

• Tao Luo
• Lan Lu
• Bhavana Mehta (co-advised with Mohammad Javad Amiri)
• Heena Nagda (co-advised with Mohammad Javad Amiri)
• Gerald Whitters
• Chenyuan Wu

Graduated Ph.D. students (16) and postdocs (3) [Genealogy] [Dissertations]:

• Dr. Mohammad Javad Amiri (postdoc)
  • Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University (2023)
• Dr. Haoxian Chen
  • Assistant Professor at ShanghaiTech University (2023)
• Dr. Qizhen Zhang (with Vincent Liu)
  • Winner of Rubinoff award for best Computer Science thesis at the University of Pennsylvania (2022)
  • Assistant Professor at University of Toronto (2023)
  • Microsoft Research postdoc (2022)
• Dr. Lei Shi (with Rajeev Alur)
  • Huawei (2022)
• Dr. Nik Sultana (postdoc)
  • Assistant Professor at Illinois Institute of Technology (2021).
• Dr. Max Demoulin (with Linh Phan).
  • DBOS Inc. (2023).
  • Astronomer (2021).
• Dr. Chen Chen (with Limin Jia)
  • Research Scientist at Megagon Labs (2017).
• Dr. Behnaz Arzani (with Roch Guerin).
  • Winner of Rubinoff award for best Computer Science thesis at the University of Pennsylvania (2017)
  • Principal researcher at Microsoft Research (2019).
  • Postdoc at Microsoft Research (2017).
• Dr. Yang Li (with Sanjeev Khanna and Linh Phan)
  • Research Scientist at Meta (2017).
• Dr. Yifei Yuan (with Rajeev Alur)
  • Alibaba (2020)
  • Intentionet (2018).
  • Postdoc at Carnegie Mellon University (2016).
• Dr. Mengmeng Liu (with Zachary Ives).
  • Senior Manager at WalmartLabs (2016).
• Dr. Dong Lin.
  • Alibaba (2021)
  • Google (2018)
  • LinkedIn (2015).
• Dr. Zhuoyao Zhang (with Insup Lee).
  • Honorable Mention for the SPEC Distinguished Dissertation Award (2014)
  • Google (2014).
• Dr. Alex Gurney (postdoc).
  • Webflow (2021).
  • Comcast (2014).
• Dr. Anduo Wang (with Andre Scedrov).
  • Associate Professor at Temple University (2023),
  • Assistant Professor at Temple University (2016).
  • Postdoc at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2013).
• Dr. Changbin Liu.
  • VP Engineering of Frontiir (2020) after acquisition of Termaxia
  • Founding CEO/CTO of Termaxia (2016).
  • AT&T Labs Research (2012).
• Dr. Steven Wenchao Zhou.
  • Honorable Mention for the SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award (2013)
  • Alibaba (2021)
  • Associate Professor at Georgetown University (2018).
  • Assistant Professor at Georgetown University (2012).
• Dr. Micah Sherr (with Matt Blaze).
  • Winner of Rubinoff award for best Computer Science thesis at the University of Pennsylvania (2009)
  • Callahan Family Professor at Georgetown University (2021).
  • Associate Professor at Georgetown University (2015).
  • Assistant Professor at Georgetown University (2010).
• Dr. Yun Mao (with Jonathan M. Smith).
  • Engineering Director at Meta (2013).
  • AT&T Labs Research (2008).