Current Members
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Nalini Venkatasubramanian
Professor, Information and Computer Science
Research areas: concurrent/distributed systems, reflective and adaptive middleware, Internet-of-things, cyberphysical systems, smart resilient communities, middleware for pervasive and mobile computing environments, multimedia systems and applications.
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Guoxi Wang
Ph.D. Student
Research areas: software-defined networking (SDN) and network security.
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Tung-Chun Chang
Ph.D. Student
Research areas: Internet of Things, wireless networking, and social networks.
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Andrew Chio
Ph.D. Student
Research areas: Internet of Things, Middleware, Machine Learning, Optimization, Distributed Systems.
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Modeste Mefenya Kenne
Ph.D. Student
Research areas: Networked Systems, Internet of Things, Smart Resilient Communities, Cyber-physical Systems.
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Rahul Bhope
Ph.D. Student
Research areas: Machine Learning, Internet of Things(IoT) and Performance Evaluation.
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Ryan Hildebrant
Ph.D. Student
Research areas: Data Privacy Applications, Process Mining, and Privacy in IoT.
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R. Rahman
Ph.D. Student
Research areas: LoRa, 5G, and Internet of Things.
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Jared Macshane
Ph.D. Student
Research areas: Machine Learning, Distributed Inference, and Generative Models for Simulations
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Yuqiao Li
Ph.D. Student
Research areas: Internet of things, real-time systems and reinforcement learning
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Fangqi Liu
(Ph.D. 2023, Postdoctoral Researcher, Vanderbilt University)
Thesis: Leveraging Mobility to Enhance IoT Applications
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Hang Nguyen
(Ph.D. 2022, Research Engineer, Microsoft)
Thesis: Toward Scalable, Reliable and Efficient Big Data Publish Subscribe Systems.
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Praveen Venkateswaran
(Ph.D. 2021, Research Staff Member, IBM Research)
Thesis: Leveraging Community Structure and Behavior for Smart Infrastructure.
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Nailah Saleh, Alhassoun
(Ph.D. 2021, Associate professor in KSU)
Thesis: Perpetual Operations in IoT Deployments for Smart Communities.
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Qing Han
(Ph.D. 2019, Research Engineer, Facebook)
Thesis: Enabling Resilience in Cyber-Physical-Human Water Infrastructures.
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Qiuxi Zhu
(Ph.D. 2019,Research Scientist, VMWare)
Thesis: Exploiting Mobile Plus In-Situ Deployments in Community IoT Systems.
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Kyle Benson
(Ph.D. 2018, Research Scientist, RTI Inc)
Thesis: Resilient Communications Middleware for IoT Data Exchange.
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Zhijing Qin
(Ph.D. 2015, Senior Software Engineer, Pinterest Inc.)
Thesis: MINA: A Multinetwork INformation Architecture in Cyber Physical Systems/Internet of Things Environments.
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Ye Zhao
(Ph.D. 2014, Staff Member, Google Inc.)
Thesis: Middleware Approaches to Societal Scale Information Sharing
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Reza Rahimi
(Ph.D. 2014, Research Staff Member, Samsung Research Labs)
Thesis: Qos-aware middleware for optimal service allocation in mobile cloud computing.
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Do Minh Ngoc
(Ph.D. 2014, Senior Staff Member, Arista Networks Inc.)
Thesis: Content Delivery using Hybrid Infrastructure and Ad Hoc Networks.
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Leila Jalali
(Ph.D. 2012, Engineering Manager, Google Inc.)
Thesis: Middleware solutions for integrated simulation environments.
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Jehan Wickramasuriya
(Ph.D. Principal Research Engineer, Motorola Research Labs).
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Bo Xing
(Ph.D. 2009, Ericsson Research)
Thesis: A middleware approach to information dissemination in heterogeneous wireless networks.
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Daniel Massaguer
(Ph.D. 2009, Postdoctoral Researcher, UCI)
Thesis: A semantic approach for building sentient spaces.
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Vidhya Balasubramanian
(Ph.D. 2009, Assistant Professor, Amrita University, India)
Thesis: Supporting scalable activity modeling in simulators.
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Hojjat Jafarpour
(Ph.D. 2009, NEC Lab)
Thesis: Customized information dissemination in distributed publish/subscribe systems.
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Yun Huang
(Ph.D. 2008, CMU)
Thesis: MAPGrid : context aware grid middleware for mobile applications.
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Minyoung Kim
(Ph.D. 2008, Research Sceintist, SRI International)
Thesis: XTune : a formal methodology for cross-layer tuning of mobile real-time embedded systems.
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Kyoungwoo Lee
(Ph.D. 2008, Professor, Yonsei University, Korea)
Thesis: Cooperative cross-layer protection for resource constrained mobile multimedia systems.
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Mayur Deshpande
(Ph.D. 2007, Google Inc.)
Thesis: Peer-to-peer flash dissemination.
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Qi Han
(Ph.D. 2006, Associate Professor, Colorado School of Mines)
Thesis: Quality-aware context information collection.
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Sebastian Gutierrez-Nolasco
(Ph.D. 2007, NASA Ames Research Center)
Thesis: A semantic-driven communication framework for safe adaptability.
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Shivajit Mohapatra
(Ph.D. 2006, Motorola Research Labs)
Thesis: DYNAMO : Power aware middleware for distributed mobile computing.
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