Academic Descendants

Graduate students at UC Santa Barbara:

Student	degree and year	Updates
Nir Chemaya	PhD in economics, 2025	joined Ben-Gurion University, 2025
Swathi Bhat	Master, 2025	joined Arista
Rithwik Kerur	PhD	(started 2024)
Kali Hale	PhD	(started 2024)
Eirik (Jiaming) Xu	Master	(started 2024)
Kaiyang Chang	master	(started 2025)
Hugo Lin	MS/BS	(started 2025)
Tom Shangguan	MS/BS	(started 2025)

Interns at Chainlink Labs:

Intern	Grad-school	Internship Year	Updates
Harjasleen (Jasleen) Malvai	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	2023
Peiyao Sheng	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	2023
Chenyuan Wu	University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)	2023	professor at City Universtiy of Hong Kong (CityU), 2025
Chenkai Weng	Northwestern	2022	professor at Arizona State University, 2024
Deepak Maram	Cornell Tech	2022	researcher at Sui
Hongbo Zhang	Cornell	2022
Nibesh Shrestha	Rochester Institute of Technology	2022	researcher at SupraOracles

Interns at Novi:

Intern	Grad-school	Internship Year	Updates
Oded Naor	Technion	2019
Erica Blum	UMD	2020
Suyash Gupta	UC Davis	2020	postdoc at UC Berkeley
Zhuolun (Daniel) Xiang	UIUC	2020	postdoc at CMU
Shir Cohen	Technion	2020

Interns at VRG:

Intern	Grad-school	Internship Year	Updates
Ted Yin	Cornell	2018	co-founder and senior researcher at AVA Labs
Soujanya Ponnapalli	UT Austin	2018
Alin Tomescu	MIT	2017, 2018	researcher at VMware Research Group
Dragos-Adrian Seredinschi	EPFL	2017
Soumya Basu	Cornell	2017
Igor Zablotchi	EPFL	2016	postdoctoral researcher at MIT
Ling Ren	MIT	2016	faculty at UIUC
Kartik Nayak	UMD	2016	faculty at Duke
Heidi Howard	Cambridge	2016	researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
Sasha Spiegelman	Technion	2016	researcher at Novi Research
Amy Tai	Princeton	2015	researcher at Google System Research Lab
Tudor David	EPFL	2015
Michael Wei	UCSD	2015	senior researcher at VMware Research Group)

Interns at MSR SVC:

Intern	Grad-school	Internship Year	Updates
Michael Wei	UCSD	2011, 2012	(above)
Michael Dinitz	CMU	2010	faculty at JHU
Alex Shraer	Technion	2008, 2009
Mahesh Balakrishnan	Cornell	2007

Post-docs:

Post-doc	Grad-school	Postdoc Year	Updates
Ling Ren	MIT	2018	(above)
Kartik Nayak	UMD	2018	(above)
Amy Tai	Princeton	2017	(above)
Bernhard Haeupler	MIT	2012	faculty at CMU
Fabian Kuhn	ETH Zurich	2006	faculty at Freiburg

Students at the Hebrew University:

PhD student	Graduation Year	Updates
Gregory (Grisha) Chockler	2003	faculty at Royal Holloway UK
Yaron Sella	2004	Cisco
Elan Pavlov	2005
Ittai Abraham	2008	senior researcher at VMware Research Group
Danny Bickson	2008
Yaacov Fernandess	2010

MSc student	Graduation Year	Updates
Yaacov Fernandess	2002
Ofer Margoninsky	2002
Keren Horowitz	2002
Danny Bickson	2003
Tzachy Reinman	2005
David Rabinowitz	2004
Barak Merimovich	2004
Elliot Jaffe	2004

PhD Thesis committee member:

PhD student	Institution
Hongbo Wen, 2027 (expected)	UCSB
Robert McLaughlin, 2025	UCSB
Manuel José Ribeiro Vidigueira, 2025	EPFL, Switzerland
Michael Wei	UCSD
Leander Jehl	University of Stavanger, Norway
Richar Ekwall	Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland
Adnan Agabria	Technion, Israel
David Breitgand	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Xavier Defago	Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland
Carlo Marcetti	Rome ``La Sapienza’’, Italy
Ronen Kat	Beer-Sheva, Israel
Konstantin Shagin	Technion, Israel
Roie Melamed	Technion, Israel
Nuno Santos	Switzerland