Our Mission

The Radiant Systems Lab in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Missouri-Columbia is dedicated to advancing the path from data to informed decisions across a wide range of domains. The Lab is a front runner in the design of reproducible, accountable, and trustworthy data-driven systems and infrastructure. It is directed by Dr. Tanu Malik and member expertise spans machine learning, big data management, resource and system optimization, data provenance and policy frameworks, scientific workflows, and DevOps solutions and practices.

Recent News

• July 23, 2025 - Ahmad Raza’s manuscript accepted in Future Generation Computer Systems: “Improving Reproducibility of Interactive Notebooks using Application Virtualization”
• July 3, 2025 - Welcome Ziyang Jia to the Radiant-Systems Lab at Mizzou as a new PhD student!
• June 23, 2025 - The paper ‘Similarity-Based Assessment of Computational Reproducibility in Jupyter Notebooks’ by A S M Shahadat Hossain, Colin Brown, David Koop, and Tanu Malik got accepted at the ACM Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability (ACM REP ’25). Shahadat will present the paper in Vancouver, Canada.
• May 16, 2025 - Congratulations to Bhanu Prakash Vangala on graduating with his master’s degree in computer science! He is now continuing on to pursue his PhD in computer science at Mizzou.
• May 1, 2025 - Welcome Shankaradithyaa Venkateswaran, an undergraduate student from IISc, joining as a research intern in the lab!
• March 14, 2025 - Congratulations to Bhanu Prakash Vangala on receiving the Outstanding Masters Student Award at the Mizzou Engineering Awards Banquet 2025!
• February 16, 2024 - ‘Differential Analysis for System Provenance’ accepted to the PhD Symposium at the 40th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE). Congratulations Yuta Nakamura!
• February 12, 2024 - ‘Efficiently Reducing Storage Footprint in Reproducible Containers via I/O Specialization’ accepted to the 24th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid). Congratulations Aniket Modi, Rohan Tikmany, and Moaz Reyad!

Research Areas

Explore our six key research areas that define Radiant Lab’s expertise and innovation.