Cornell High-Performance Computing (HPC) Group

Last modified on April 15, 2025.

I'm the proud PhD (co-)advisor of:

• Julian Bellavita (2023 —); DOE CSGF fellow (2024 — 2028)
• Ben Landrum with Professor Alex Conway (2024 —)
• Irene Simó Muñoz (2025 —)
• Yifan Li (2025 —)

As a placeholder for a real group photo, here's a Ghibli-style photo of some of us—from left: Yifan, Irene, me, Julian, Ben, and Cecilio (PhD student in ECE, but also member ad honorem of the Cornell HPC group).

Current MEng students:

• Andrew Chang
• Nakul Iyer
• Matthew Rubino

A group Ghibli-style picture of the "Popcorn team"—from left: Nakul, Andrew, and Matthew.

Current undergraduate students:

• Noam Benson-Tilsen (PhD student at Yale starting Fall 2025)
• Aaron Li
• Nolan Lizmi
• Thomas McFarland
• Zander Schatzberg

A group Ghibli-style picture of the Cornell HPC undergraduates—from left: Nolan, Aaron, Zander, Noam, and Thomas.

For a complete list of current and past students, please see my CV. I might hire one PhD student with background in parallel programming and interest in high-performance computing for computational sciences next year (to start Fall 2026). The admissions process is through Cornell CIS and not through me personally.

Useful Resources for Students

The list is under construction but in the meantime:

• A doc with advice related to graduate school application (I wrote this as a graduate student at UCB, but it generally applies to any research university).
• A repository with advice related to graduate school application, research, and PhD related to (mostly) CS, NLP, and ML.
• A curated list of application resources for prospective graduate students in Computer Science.
• Non-Technical Talks by David Patterson, UC Berkeley.
• How to Give a Good Colloquium by John E. McCarthy, Washington University in St. Louis.