Computer Systems Group at Harvard



Welcome to the Computer Systems Group (HarvardSys) at Harvard University. HarvardSys is an interdisciplinary lab with faculty members and students at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. We work on a wide range of topics related to computer systems, networking, and database.

People

Faculty
Current Students and Researchers
Researcher & Postdoc
Ph.D. students
Master & Undergraduate
Recent alumni
Researcher & Postdoc
  • Ran Ben Bassat (advised by Minlan Yu, co-advised with Michael Mitzenmacher, joined UCL as an assistant professor)
  • Alan Liu (advised by Minlan Yu, co-advised with Vyas Sekar, now an assistant professor at University of Maryland)
  • Sucha Supittayapornpong (advised by Minlan Yu, co-advised with Ramesh Govindan, joined Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC), Thailand as an assistant professor)
  • Siqiang Luo (advised by Stratos Idreos)
  • Niv Dayan (advised by Stratos Idreos)
  • Kostas Zoumpatianos (advised by Stratos Idreos)
  • Manos Athanassoulis (advised by Stratos Idreos)
  • Ivan Sinyagin (advised by Stratos Idreos)
Ph.D. students
  • Yang Zhou (advised by Minlan Yu, co-advised with James Mickens, Google Fellowship, honarable mention by Meta Fellowship, postdoc at UC Berkeley, before starting as an assistant professor at UC Davis)
  • Zhiying Xu (advised by Minlan Yu, now at Amazon)
  • Weiqi Feng (advised by Minlan Yu, MS, now at databricks)
  • Junzhi Gong (advised by Minlan Yu, now at Google)
  • Jiaqi Gao (advised by Minlan Yu, now at Alibaba Research)
  • Sivaram Ramanathan (advised by Minlan Yu, co-advised with Jelena Mirkovic at USC/ISI, now at Meta)
  • Yuliang Li (advised by Minlan Yu, Siebel Fellowship, winner of SIGCOMM doctoral dissertation award and Harvard CS Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award, now at Google)
  • Omid Alipourfard (advised by Minlan Yu, Facebook Fellowship)
  • Rui Miao (advised by Minlan Yu, now at Alibaba Research)
  • Masoud Moshref (advised by Minlan Yu, co-advised with Ramesh Govindan, Google Fellowship, now at Google)
  • Xuemei Liu (advised by Minlan Yu, MS, now at Meta)
  • Lukas Maas (advised by Stratos Idreos)
  • Kenneth B\xc3\xb8gh (advised by Stratos Idreos)
  • Minseo Kang (advised by Stratos Idreos)
Master & Undergraduate

Recent Courses

  • CS 145: Networking at Scale
  • CS 243: Advanced computer networks
  • CS 145/245: Cloud Networking and Computing
  • CS 144r/244r: Network Design Projects (co-teaching with HT Kung)
  • CS 161: Operating Systems
  • CS 61: Systems Programming and Machine Organization
  • CS 260r: Large-Scale Distributed and Parallel Computations
  • CS 260r: Serverless Computing
  • CS 260r: Verified Systems
  • CS 260r: Reliable Systems
  • CS 260r: Cloud Big Data Systems
  • CS 261: Research Topics in Operating Systems
  • CS 207: CS 207 Systems Development for Computational Science
  • CS 263: Systems Security
  • CS 165: Data Systems
  • CS 265: Big Data Systems