About me
I am a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. Prior to this, I was a Research Associate in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh working in the research group of Dr. Mahesh K. Marina. I received my PhD in Computer Science in 2018 from the University of Edinburgh and my MSc in Advanced Computing in 2013 from Imperial College London.
My research broadly falls under the intersection of edge computing, AI and next-generation mobile networks. My on-going research is on the following topics:
- Edge platforms for physical AI
- Intelligent edge observability and control
- AI-RAN architecture & performance
- Applications of machine learning to mobile networks
- Large-scale testbeds and experimentation
Publications
You can find a list of selected publications here.
Interns
Over the years, I have had the pleasure to collaborate and publish with several amazing interns.
- Tenzin Samten Ukyab - RANBooster (ACM SIGCOMM ‘25)
- Leyang Xue - Towards Energy Efficient 5G vRAN Servers (USENIX NSDI ‘25)
- Chuanhao Sun - SpotLight (ACM MobiCom ‘24)
- Jiarong Xing - RAN fronthaul integrity protection (USENIX Security ‘24), Atlas (ACM MobiCom ‘23)
- Sophia Yoo - RAN fronthaul integrity protection (USENIX Security ‘24)
Open source projects
Here is a list of some open source projects that I am (have been) involved with:
- jbpf: Userspace eBPF instrumentation and control framework for deploying control and monitoring functions in a secure manner.
- jrt-controller: Real-time controller providing functionalities envisaged by the concept of real-time RIC in O-RAN.
- RANBooster: Reference implementations of middleboxes for enhancing the fronthaul capabilities of Open RAN DU network functions.
- FlexRAN: Software-defined RAN platform based on OpenAirInterface.
Professional service (selected)
TPC member:
- ACM MobiCom (‘26, ‘25, ‘24, …)
- USENIX NSDI ‘26
- ACM CoNEXT ‘25
- ACM MobiSys ‘24
External reviewer:
- ACM SIGCOMM ‘25