Colosseum Team



Principal Investigators

Tommaso Melodia

Tommaso Melodia

Principal Investigator
melodia@northeastern.edu

Tommaso Melodia serves as the project Principal Investigator, with responsibilities of overall project leadership, coordination, outlining new research directions, and evolution of the capabilities of Colosseum.

Stefano Basagni

Stefano Basagni

Co-PI

Stefano Basagni serves as Director of Community Outreach and Engagement. His responsibilities include coordinating with the communities of Colosseum stakeholders, event organization and supervision, as well as engaging the Colosseum community for feedback and guidelines on continuous development, management and usage of the system.

Kaushik Chowdhury

Kaushik Chowdhury

Co-PI

Kaushik R. Chowdhury serves as Director of Research Planning. He is responsible of managing the capabilities of the system concerning external access for research. He is also involved in Colosseum enhancements for supporting advanced studies on machine learning in wireless.

Abhimanyu (Manu) Gosain

Abhimanyu (Manu) Gosain

Co-PI

Manu Gosain serves as the project manager for the Colosseum team. He manages engagement with Academic, Industry, SME, and federal agency users to customize research topics and deployment on Colosseum. He also serves as the main interface with PAWR platforms for consistence and integration of the experimenter frameworks.

Consultants

Cerbo IO

Cerbo IO

Cloud Technologies and Cybersecurity Consulting

Cerbo IO is responsible for Colosseum’s secure AWS-Private hybrid cloud architecture, and site reliability engineering, visibility and monitoring operations through DevOps and CI/CD practices for agile Infrastructure-as-Code for cloud-native efficiencies.

Cerbo IO is a Cloud Technologies and Cybersecurity Consulting Practice with deep expertise in Distributed Systems, Cybersecurity, Data Engineering, and High Performance Computing, with verticals focus in Financial Services, Life Sciences, Healthcare, and Telecommunications.

Kurt Yoder

Kurt Yoder

DevOps Subject Matter Expert

Kurt Yoder has been working with the Colosseum since the Spectrum Collaboration Challenge in 2018. He is the DevOps SME for the Colosseum. His technical knowledge areas include Puppet and Ansible automation, Linux administration, and Python debugging.