We are looking for motivated postdoc and students who are committed to research to join us and solve cutting-edge problems through innovations.

  • Current Research Group Members:

Postdoc: Dr. Zulfikar Alom

PhD students: Mdsakibgalib Sourav

Master’s degree students: Katherine Berry, Noah Douglas, Tadi Nikhil Raja Naidu

Undergraduate students: Nandan Muthangi, Sai Sharvan Karanam

Lab Assistant: Shamin Alaghi

  • Former undergraduate research assistants:

Dharsan Guruparan, Unmesh Khanolkar, Amy Nguyen, Carol Wedding, Rudraksh Jadhav

Maximillian Machado, Kop Limprapaipong, Reyhan Guleryuz, Rohil Parikh

  • Former pre-doctoral research associates:

Isaac Howenstine, Ran Ran

  • Graduated Master’s degree students whose thesis projects were under my supervision/advisory:

Hua Lin (2003), Scott Weber (2003),
Tian Lin (2004), Wenbin Ma (2004),
Peter Chung (2006),
Avi Lessner (2011), Luis Rodriguez Ruiz (2011), Meredith Williams (2011),
Joshua Brown (2012), Justin Kast (2012), Nathaniel Nichols (2012), Richard Rothman (2012), Joren Wendschuh (2012),
Xu Li (2013), Mike Lucini (2013), Kadeem Samuels (2013),
Cheryl Cossel (2014), Marc Gagne (2014), Elena Schanta (2014), Zi Wang (2014),
Jiajun Duan (2015), Sean Lerch (2015), B. Bhagyavati (2015),
Dylan Gray (2019),
Hao Li (2020)
Amir Paudel (2023), Prashish Paudel (2023)

  • Graduated Ph.D. degree students:

Yuecheng Zhang (Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, Sept. 2006),
Dissertation: Studies on Reliable and Accurate Services for Event Sensing, Reporting, and Monitoring Applications,
Employed by CableVision when graduated;

Qiang Wang (Ph.D. degree in Compute Science, May 2007),
Dissertation: Middleware Support for Developing Adaptive Applications across Heterogeneous Environments and Systems,
Employed by Goldman Sachs when graduated;

Qing Ye (Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering, Jan. 2008),
Dissertation: Dynamic Multicast and Time Synchronization in Wide-area Sensor Networks,
Employed as a R&D Staff at Cash Cycle Solutions when graduated;

Shengpu Liu (Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering, Jan. 2012),
Dissertation: A Context-aware Reflective Middleware Framework for Mobile Ad-hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks,
Employed by Epic Systems Corporation when graduated;

Lisa Frye (Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Jan. 2012),
Dissertation: Applications of Ontology in Hierarchical, Multi-tier Networks for Network Management,
Employed as an Associate Professor at Kutztown University when graduated (Currently the Department Chair of Computer Science & Information Technology);

Suk-Un Yoon (Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering, Jan. 2013),
Dissertation: Wireless Signal Networks: A Proof of Concept for Subsurface Characterization and A System Design with Reconfigurable Radio,
Employed by Samsung when graduated (now Principal Engineer at Samsung Electronics).

Huan Yang (Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering, May 2019),
Dissertation: Delay Performance and Cybersecurity of Smart Grid Infrastructure,
Employed as an Associate Research Fellow/Professor at South China Normal University when graduated (Currently the Department Chair of Software and Communication Engineering).

Boyang Zhou (Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering, May 2024),
Dissertation: A Cloud-Edge Collaboration Approach to Drone Cyber-Physical Systems,
Employed by ByteDance when graduated.

  • Student awards: students were sponsored to attend various off-campus conferences, symposiums, and workshops. For example, Unmesh Khanolkar was sponsored to travel and present at IEEE ICC 2023.

Huan Yang was awarded a student travel grant to present at IEEE MASS 2015.
Suk-Un Yoon was awarded a student travel grant (sponsored by NSF) to attend IEEE PerCom 2012.
Qing Ye won the 2nd Prize Award in the Student Paper/Poster Competition at the 2006 IEEE Sarnoff Symposium;
Yuecheng Zhang won the Student Poster Award at the Wireless and Optical Communications Conference 2005.

An External Member of Twenty Ph.D. Dissertation Committees.

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