Received the TREES (Teachers Rated Excellent Educators by their Students) award from the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences for 2024-2025 and 2025-2026.

Very happy to receive a DARPA award for our project "Optimizing Machine Learning Models using Accurate Energy Prediction" through the DARPA ML2P program. Thank you DARPA!

Second paper in quantum networks accepted at Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE) 2026. The paper provides an alternate technique for entanglement verification.

The first quantum paper from the lab accepted at ICDCS 2026. The paper builds an alternate stack for Quantum routing. Thrilled that this paper received the Distinguished Paper Award Congratulations to all co-authors. News

Received a grant from IBM as part of the SUNY-IBM partnership 2025-2027 to make agentic models more efficient. Thank you IBM!

Received a seed grant from the AI3 to start an interdisciplinary course CDC 222 to introduce AI Ecologies

Finished serving as the Program Committee co-chair for IMC 2025 with Alberto Dainotti.

In 2025, NetSys lab students published papers at ASSETS, ISMAR, AACL, TMA, and COMSNETS. Congratulations!

In 2024, NetSys lab students published papers at CHI, IFIP Networking, Sensys, and COMSNETS. Congratulations!

Received a SBU-BNL seed grant on the topic "A Simulation Testbed for Hop by Hop Quantum Classical Hybrid Networks". Thank you BNL!

Spent my sabbatical year in SUNY Korea 2023-2024 working on AR, autononmous vehicles, and Quantum networks related projects

Our paper on performance of IPFS over video accepted at WWW2023. Congratulations to Zhenggyu, Ryan, and Santiago

BBR on mobile paper accepted at IMC 2022 and our first paper on system design for accessibility (AccessWear) accepted at MobiCom 2023. Congratulations to student leads Santiago Vargas and Prerna Khanna, as well as all co-authors

Lead the design and execution of a large scale, interactive, TA training course for 300 TAs in computer science, partially funded by the Center for Inclusive Computing. This was a collaborative project involving a large number of contributers. Story here.

Gave a reflections talk as part of the SIGMOBILE Rockstar award. The talk video is here.

Our work on mobile Visual Question Answering accepted at Ubicomp/IMWUT. Last part of Qingqing Cao's thesis. Super thrilled.

A new paper on neural video coding to appear at NSDI 22. Congratulations to Mallesh, Kumara, and all senior co-authors.

I am chairing MobiSys 2022 with Junehwa Song. Very excited for a (hopefully) in-person conferene in Portland, OR. More details here.

Thrilled and humbled to receive the 2021 SIGMOBILE Rockstar award

I received the Google Research Scholar Award in 2021. This award will help bootstrap our research on improving accessibility of mobile applications.

Happy to have received tenure and promotion, effective January 2021. I am now called an Associate Professor. Looking forward to using my tenure well.

Our work on BBR bufferbloat has been accepted to WWW 2021. Congratulations to Santiago and Rebecca

Two papers conditionally accepted at MobileHCI 2020. One paper on measuring and modeling mobile browser user experience and the other on characterizing how smartphone UIs are adapted to smartwatches. Congratulatons to Conor, Zhilan, and Jian.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the CRA/CCC, with funding from NSF, is resuming the CI Fellowship program in 2020. More details here. I am thrilled to be on the steering committee of this program.

I will be co-chairing COMSNETS 2021 with Salil Kanhere and Krishna Jagannathan. Excited to be co-chairing this conference--it is the biggest conference in India on communication systems and networking.

Our paper "Deformer: Decomposing Pre-trained Transformers for Faster Question Answering" has been accepted at ACL 2020. This is turning out to be quite a year!

Our paper "Need for Mobile Speed: A Longitudinal Study of Mobile Web Performance" has been accepted at TMA 2020.

Our short paper "Towards Predicting Reading Comprehension From Gaze Behavior" has been accepted at ETRA 2020. This paper extends our 2019 paper on differentiating reading and skimming behaviour.

Our paper "Streaming 360 degree Videos using Super-resolution" accepted at InfoCom 2020. Congratulations to Mallesh and other co-authors.

Three papers accepted at IMC 2019. One paper on modeling TCP performance, one paper on BBR, and one paper on characterizing JSON traffic in CDNs. Congratulations to Yi and Santiago.

NSF funds our work on rethinking TCP modeling to improve application performance