Scholar
Maleeha Masood
Google Scholar ID: tRrlT0cAAAAJ
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Citations & Impact
Citations
142
H-index
3
i10-index
2
Publications
4
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume
Academic Achievements
- Publications:
- - Designing CDNs for Short Video Delivery Systems
- - Counting How the Seconds Count: Understanding Algorithm-User Interplay in TikTok via ML-driven Analysis of Video Content
- - StarCDN: Moving Content Delivery Networks to Space
- - Transmitting, Fast and Slow: Scheduling Satellite Traffic through Space and Time
- - Technology, Privacy, and User Opinions of COVID-19 Mobile Apps for Contact Tracing: Systematic Search and Content Analysis
- Awards:
- - 2021 - 2025 Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Computer Science Fellowship
- - 2024 Fall 2024 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
- - 2023, 2024 Travel Grant to attend SOSP
- - 2023 Attendee at the 2024 CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women
- - 2023 Travel Grant to attend Mobicom
- - 2023 Honored to be a nosebleed attendee at the Eras Tour in Chicago
- - 2023 Travel Grant to attend NSDI
- - 2022 Travel Grant to attend OSDI
- - 2021 Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degrees Student Scholarship (received but declined)
- - 2018 - 2021 LUMS Merit Scholarship
- - 2017 - 2021 Dean's Honor List
- - 2017 100 Best Applications to LUMS
- - 2017 Outstanding Cambridge Learner Award
Research Experience
- Intern at Microsoft Research Networking Research Group (Mentor: Ganesh Ananthanarayanan), Summer 2025.
Education
- 2021 - present: PhD in Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, advised by Deepak Vasisht and Indy Gupta; 2017 - 2021: BS in Computer Science, Lahore University of Management Sciences, worked with Dr. Ihsan and Zafar Ayyub Qazi during this time.
Background
- PhD Candidate in Computer Science at UIUC, with research interests spanning Multi-Agent Workflows, Vision Language Models for Video Streaming, Recommender Systems, Content Distribution Networks, and Satellite Networks.
Miscellany
- Personal interest: Fighting dragons with friends.