Maleeha Masood
PhD Candidate
Computer Science @ UIUC
maleeha2@illinois.edu
3111, 201 N Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL
Introduction
Hi, this is Maleeha. I am a PhD Candidate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) co-advised by Deepak Vasisht and Indy Gupta. Before here, I had the time of my life fighting dragons with my friends and getting my undergraduate degree at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). I also worked with Dr. Ihsan and Zafar Ayyub Qazi during my time at LUMS.
I am currently exploring Multi-Agent Workflows. My past interests span Vision Language Models for Video Streaming, Recommender Systems, Content Distribution Networks and Satellite Networks.
Publications
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SILC: Lookahead Caching for Short Video Delivery Systems
Maleeha Masood, Shreya Kannan, Om Chabra, Deepak Vasisht, Indranil Gupta
Under Review -
Counting How the Seconds Count: Understanding Algorithm-User Interplay in TikTok via ML-driven Analysis of Video Content
Maleeha Masood, Shreya Kannan, Zikun Liu, Deepak Vasisht, Indranil Gupta
arXiv 2025 -
StarCDN: Moving Content Delivery Networks to Space
William X. Zheng, Aryan Taneja, Maleeha Masood, Anirudh Sabnis, Ramesh K. Sitaraman, Deepak Vasisht
SIGCOMM 2025 -
Transmitting, Fast and Slow: Scheduling Satellite Traffic through Space and Time
Bill Tao, Maleeha Masood, Indranil Gupta, Deepak Vasisht
MobiCom 2023 -
Technology, Privacy, and User Opinions of COVID-19 Mobile Apps for Contact Tracing: Systematic Search and Content Analysis
Mahmoud Elkhodr, Omar Mubin, Zainab Iftikhar, Maleeha Masood, Belal Alsinglawi, Suleman Shahid, Fady Alnajjar
Journal of Medical Internet Research in Volume 23, Number 2, February 2021
Education
- 2021 - present PhD Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- 2017 - 2021 BS Computer Science, Lahore University of Management Sciences
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
Internships
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Microsoft Research
Networking Research Group (Mentor: Ganesh Ananthanarayanan)
Summer 2025
Students I Mentor at UIUC
News Articles
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