Cornell High-Performance Computing (HPC) Group

Last modified on December 11, 2025.

I'm the proud PhD advisor of:

• Julian Bellavita (2023 —); DOE CSGF fellow (2024 — 2028)
• Irene Simó Muñoz (2025 —)
• Yifan Li (2025 —)
• Qingyao Sun (I've happily "adopted" Qingyao while his advisor, Professor Anil Damle, is on sabbatical, 2025 — 2026)

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 who's now at Cornell Tech working with Alex Conway, and Cecilio who's a PhD student in ECE working with José Martínez, but also member ad honorem of the Cornell HPC group.

Current MEng students:

• Thomas McFarland
• Pablo Raigoza
• Alan de Mersseman — Co-advised with Professor Aditya Devarakonda (Wake Forest University)
• Saksham Diwan — Co-advised with Professor Erik Garrison (University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis)

Current undergraduate students:

• Zander Schatzberg — Co-advised with Professor Shaila Musharoff (Cornell Univerisity)
• Aaron Li
• Jefferson Zhou
• Arman Margarian
• Calvin Zhang
• Zenchang Sun
• Jedi Lertviwatkul
• Andrew Kim

A group Ghibli-style picture of the Cornell HPC undergraduates—from left: Nolan, Aaron, Zander, Noam (now PhD student at Yale CS), and Thomas (now MEng student at Cornell CS).

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.

Out-of-Context Group Photos