Hannah B. Pasandi
Research Scholar Fellow | UC Berkeley Sky Computing Lab
Research Scholar Fellow
Research Scholar Fellow | UC Berkeley Sky Computing Lab
I am a wireless and networked systems researcher currently serving as a Research Scholar Fellow at UC Berkeley's Sky Computing Lab, where I contribute to the SkyPilot project with Professor Ion Stoica. I have been fortunate to work with exceptional researchers throughout my journey: Prof. Tamer Nadeem at Virginia Commonwealth University during my PhD, Prof. Sylvia Ratnasamy and Prof. Scott Shenker at UC Berkeley's NetSys Lab, Dr. Juan A. Fraire and Prof. HervΓ© Rivano at INRIA Lyon, Prof. Franck Rousseau at LIG Lab (UniversitΓ© Grenoble Alpes), Prof. Gil Zussman at Columbia University's Wireless and Mobile Networking Lab, and industry leaders at Qualcomm, Skylark Wireless LLC, and Bell Labs.
My research interests are network protocol synthesis and certification, LLM serving and scheduling across device, edge, cloud, and direct-to-cell satellite tiers, plan-level accounting and reliability for agentic AI, cellular and voice privacy, and the security of connected vehicles and UAVs.
The commitment underneath the work is that systems should make decisions on predicted future state and prove bounds against the prediction error, rather than react to measured present state and bound average-case performance.
One principle, two arenas. In networks, teNET deploys only protocol compositions that carry a certificate they cannot collapse, and OrbitMesh turns direct-to-cell satellite into a first-class serving tier for LLM requests. In AI agents, where the unit of work is now the plan rather than the single call, Patient, Confine, and Gauge schedule, route, and evaluate at the plan level. Loom is both arenas in one system: an LLM agent held inside a safety certificate while it composes a live wireless MAC layer.
The same discipline extends to connected vehicles and smart farming through the students I advise: Mahsa Tavasoli's rural connected-vehicle communication survey (IEEE Access '25), Mohammad Sepahi's co-authored VIN2VICTIM (USENIX VehicleSec '26), and Radwan Rouzky's smart-farming data-governance review (Information Processing in Agriculture '26).
Some of my work has shipped into production. At Skylark Wireless, my MU-MIMO scheduler improved spectral efficiency by 23 percent and serves millions of users on commercial 5G fixed-wireless deployments. At Qualcomm, my Wi-Fi 7 protocol contributions are integrated into commercial chipsets. My open-source tools (SIMSAT, SATMetrics, OffloadSim) are used by satellite operators and academic groups evaluating LEO constellations.
Wireless protocols across Wi-Fi 4 through Wi-Fi 7 and Wi-Fi 8 drafts. Cellular and 5G NR across 3GPP Releases 15 through 18, with O-RAN Near-RT RIC rApp development. Direct-to-cell LEO satellite systems across Starlink, Kuiper, OneWeb, and Globalstar architectures. Multi-tier LLM serving across device, edge, cloud, and satellite compute. SkyPilot, vLLM, Triton, and Ray for inference orchestration. PyTorch and JAX for learning. StarryNet, ns-3, and MATLAB for protocol simulation. C, C++, Python, Rust, and Go for systems code.
♠ A note on my name: I go by Hana or Hannah. My publications appear under Hannaneh B. Pasandi and Hannaneh Barahouei Pasandi.
♠ Collaborations: If you want to build systems for networks or AI agents, feel free to reach me at h.pasandi@berkeley.edu. My inbox has a soft spot for hard problems.
My work has been recognized by the N2Women Top 10 Rising Star Award, the NCWIT Collegiate Award, and the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, and supported by the Schlumberger Foundation and HIDA (Germany).
Nominated to join Sigma Xi, the research honor society whose members since 1886 have included Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, and more than 200 Nobel laureates.
Our paper "The Reasoning Tax: Profiling Test-Time Compute Carbon in Agentic AI Workloads" is accepted to HotCarbon 2026.
Our VIN2VICTIM paper, in collaboration with Rivian, was accepted at USENIX VehicleSec 2026.
Our paper "CacheCatalyst" has been accepted to USENIX NSDI 2025.
Our paper "Balancify" won Best Paper Award and Best Contribution Award at ACM Student Workshop CoNEXT 2025.
Co-chaired ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop and gave a talk on "AI for Networks and Networks for AI".
Our three papers were presented at MobiCom'25.
Invited as Young Researcher to the 10th HLF in Germany.
Research on datacenter microbursts accepted to ACM SIGMETRICS 2025.
Received Best Paper Award for "Role of Machine Learning in Satellite IoT".
Talk on "Privacy and Security Challenges in Space Terrestrial Networks".
Delivered talks at IEEE S&P, USENIX SOUPS/Security, Microsoft BlueHat, and MSR on 5G privacy.
Received grant from Helmholtz Information and Data Science Academy, Germany.
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