Daniel Suarez, PhD
Assistant Professor · Computer Science and Engineering
I am an assistant professor in CSE at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering. I run SERA Lab. We build systems that have to survive the messy parts of computing: phones that throttle, radios that stall, and users who notice when the 95th percentile is late.
Most of the work is measurement-first. We instrument real devices and campus networks, then use those traces to design schedulers, runtimes, and protocols that still hold up outside the lab. If that sounds like your kind of systems work, email me.
d.suarez@nyu.edu · 370 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Research
Three threads, one habit: start from a bottleneck we have actually measured.
On-device ML systems
ThermEdge looks at what happens when a phone has to keep running a vision or language model for minutes, not seconds. We log SoC frequency, skin temperature, and tail latency on Pixel and Snapdragon boards, then schedule work so the device does not fall off a thermal cliff.
Campus wireless measurement
JayNet is a small testbed we run out of 370 Jay Street: SDRs, phones, and a handful of rooftop vantage points. We collect 5G / Wi-Fi handover traces while walking the MetroTech loop, then use them to debug interactive video and conferencing stacks.
Live 3D and XR pipelines
DeltaMesh is our attempt to stream volumetric captures without pretending the network is a datacenter. Depth cameras in the lab, a headset on the other end of a flaky link, and a lot of arguing about which deltas are actually worth sending.
Selected writing
Maya Chen, Omar Haddad, Daniel Suarez
Technical report. 2026.
Omar Haddad, Luis Ortega, Daniel Suarez
Technical report. 2026.
Priya Shah, Maya Chen, Daniel Suarez
Workshop paper. 2025.
Maya Chen, Priya Shah, Daniel Suarez
Manuscript. 2026.
People
Small group. Everyone still writes code and still sits through the traces.
Teaching
- Computer Networks — Fall 2025
- Mobile and Wireless Systems — Spring 2026
- Distributed Systems (graduate) — Fall 2026
About
SERA Lab sits in the Computer Science and Engineering department at NYU Tandon, a few floors up in 370 Jay Street. The name is just Systems for Edge, Real-time, and Adaptive computing — the kind of systems work that only gets interesting once the network and the hardware start misbehaving.
I am looking for PhD students, master’s students, and undergrads who like building things and then measuring them until the story changes. Send a CV and a few sentences on what you have actually built to d.suarez@nyu.edu.
Daniel Suarez, PhD
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
NYU Tandon School of Engineering
370 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
d.suarez@nyu.edu