Current Members

		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.
		Tung-Chun Chang Ph.D. Student Research areas: Internet of Things, Wireless Networking, Networked Systems.
		Andrew Chio Ph.D. Student Research areas: Internet of Things, Cyber-Physical Systems, Middleware, Machine Learning, Optimization, Distributed Systems.
		Modeste Mefenya Kenne Ph.D. Student Research areas: Networked Systems, Internet of Things, Cyber-Physical Systems, Disaster Resilience.
		Rahul Bhope Ph.D. Student Research areas: Systems and Machine Learning, LLMs, In-Context Learning.
		Ryan Hildebrant Ph.D. Student Research areas: Data Privacy Applications, Process Mining, and Privacy in IoT.
		R. Rahman Ph.D. Student Research areas: LoRa, 5G, and Internet of Things.
		Jared Macshane Ph.D. Student Research areas: Machine Learning, Distributed Inference, and Generative Models for Digital Twins.
		Yuqiao Li Ph.D. Student Research areas: Internet of Things, Cyber-Physical Systems, Machine Learning.
		Fernanda Ventorim Ph.D. Student Research areas: Data Science, Internet of Things, and Smart Resilience Communities.

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Alumni

Ph.D. Students

		Fangqi Liu (Ph.D. 2023) Thesis: Leveraging Mobility to Enhance IoT Applications Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher in ISIS, Vanderbilt University First Position After Graduation: Postdoctoral Researcher in ISIS, Vanderbilt University
		Guoxi Wang Current Position: Product Security Engineer, Healthcare Security, Amazon First Position After Graduation: Privacy Engineer, Meta
		Hang Nguyen (Ph.D. 2022) Thesis: Toward Scalable, Reliable and Efficient Big Data Publish Subscribe Systems. Current Position: Software Engineer, Microsoft First Position After Graduation: Software Engineer, Microsoft
		Praveen Venkateswaran (Ph.D. 2021) Thesis: Leveraging Community Structure and Behavior for Smart Infrastructure. Current Position: Staff Research Scientist, IBM Research First Position After Graduation: Research Scientist, IBM Research
		Nailah Saleh Alhassoun (Ph.D. 2021) Thesis: Perpetual Operations in IoT Deployments for Smart Communities. Current Position: Associate Professor, King Saud University First Position After Graduation: Associate Professor, King Saud University
		Qing Han (Ph.D. 2019) Thesis: Enabling Resilience in Cyber-Physical-Human Water Infrastructures. Current Position: Research Scientist, Meta First Position After Graduation: Research Scientist, Meta
		Qiuxi Zhu (Ph.D. 2019) Thesis: Exploiting Mobile Plus In-Situ Deployments in Community IoT Systems. Current Position: Software Development Engineer, Amazon Web Services First Position After Graduation: Technical Staff, VMWare
		Kyle Benson (Ph.D. 2018) Thesis: Resilient Communications Middleware for IoT Data Exchange. Current Position: Research Engineer, RTI Inc. First Position After Graduation: Research Engineer, RTI Inc.
		Zhijing Qin (Ph.D. 2015) Thesis: MINA: A Multinetwork INformation Architecture in Cyber Physical Systems/Internet of Things Environments. Current Position: Engineering Manager, Google First Position After Graduation: Software Engineer, Pinterest
		Ye Zhao (Ph.D. 2014) Thesis: Middleware Approaches to Societal Scale Information Sharing Current Position: Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google First Position After Graduation: Software Engineer, Google
		Reza Rahimi (Ph.D. 2014) Thesis: Qos-aware middleware for optimal service allocation in mobile cloud computing. Current Position: Head of AI & Data, iHealth Labs First Position After Graduation: Staff Software Engineer, Samsung Research America
		Do Minh Ngoc (Ph.D. 2014) Thesis: Content Delivery using Hybrid Infrastructure and Ad Hoc Networks. Current Position: Software Engineer, Meta First Position After Graduation: Software Engineer, Arista Networks
		Leila Jalali (Ph.D. 2012) Thesis: Middleware solutions for integrated simulation environments. Current Position: Engineering Manager, Intuit First Position After Graduation: Software Engineer, IBM
		Bo Xing (Ph.D. 2009) Thesis: A middleware approach to information dissemination in heterogeneous wireless networks. Current Position: Software Engineering Manager, Meta First Position After Graduation: Senior Researcher, Ericsson
		Daniel Massaguer (Ph.D. 2009) Thesis: A semantic approach for building sentient spaces. Current Position: Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Google First Position After Graduation: Software Development Engineer, Amazon
		Vidhya Balasubramanian (Ph.D. 2009) Thesis: Supporting scalable activity modeling in simulators. Current Position: Principal, Amrita University First Position After Graduation: Assistant Professor, Amrita University
		Yun Huang (Ph.D. 2008) Thesis: MAPGrid : context aware grid middleware for mobile applications. Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign First Position After Graduation: Senior Business Analyst, Southern California Edison
		Minyoung Kim (Ph.D. 2008) Thesis: XTune : a formal methodology for cross-layer tuning of mobile real-time embedded systems. Current Position: Senior Computer Scientist, SRI International First Position After Graduation: Postdoctoral Fellow, SRI International
		Kyoungwoo Lee (Ph.D. 2008) Thesis: Cooperative cross-layer protection for resource constrained mobile multimedia systems. Current Position: Professor, Yonsei University First Position After Graduation: Senior Software Engineer, Digital Spectrum Solutions Inc.
		Mayur Deshpande (Ph.D. 2007) Thesis: Peer-to-peer flash dissemination. Current Position: Infra Storage for Machine Learning Technical Lead, Google First Position After Graduation: Google-Analytics Real-Time Technical Lead and Engineering Manager, Google
		Qi Han (Ph.D. 2006) Thesis: Quality-aware context information collection. Current Position: Professor, Colorado School of Mines First Position After Graduation: Associate Professor, Colorado School of Mines
		Sebastian Gutierrez-Nolasco (Ph.D. 2007) Thesis: A semantic-driven communication framework for safe adaptability. Current Position: Senior Scientist, USRA, NASA Ames Research Center First Position After Graduation: Software Engineer, NASA Ames Research Center
		Jehan Wickramasuriya (Ph.D. 2005) Current Position: Senior Vice President, AI & Incident Mangement, Motorola Solutions First Position After Graduation: Senior Staff Research Engineer, Motorola
		Shivajit Mohapatra (Ph.D. 2006) Thesis: DYNAMO : Power aware middleware for distributed mobile computing. Current Position: Director of Software Engineering, Oracle Cloud First Position After Graduation: Research Scientist, Motorola Research Labs

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Postdoctoral Researchers

		Georgios Bouloukakis (Postdoctoral Researcher, 2020) Current Position:Associate Professor, Telecom SudParis
		Yusuf Sarwar (Postdoctoral Researcher, 2019) Current Position:Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City
		Kyungbaek Kim (Postdoctoral Researcher, 2012) Current Position:Professor, Chonnam National University
		Wooyoung Kim (Postdoctoral Researcher) Current Position:Senior Staff Engineer, Qualcomm

M.S. and B.S. Students

• Prateek Swamy (M.S. Student)
• Yoon Kyung Shon (M.S. Student)
• Han Gia Pham (B.S. Student)
• Taylor Arin Caulfield (B.S. Student)
• Phu Huu Nguyen (M.S. 2015)
• Xiujuan Yi (M.S. 2012)
• Jonathan Cristoforetti (M.S. 2007, Google Inc.)
• Jinsu Wang (M.S. 2007, Ernst Young Inc.)
• Humeyra Altintas (M.S. 2006)
• Bhaskar Chatterjee (M.S. 2006)
• Zhenghua Fu (M.S. 2006, Pelco Lab)
• Suraj Nagasrinivasa (M.S. 2005)
• Xiaoping Wei (M.S. 2005, CNET Networks)
• Henry Yan (M.S. 2005)
• Xing Zheng (M.S. 2005, Samsung)
• Mark Panahi (M.S. 2004)

Collaborators and Visitors

• Cheng-Hsin Hsu (Professor, National Tsing Hua University)
• Kyungbaek Kim (Associate Professor, Chonnam National University)
• Roman Vitenberg (Professor, University of Oslo)
• Aiman Erbad (Assistant Professor, Qatar University)
• Yong-Jin Lee, (Professor, Korea National University of Education)
• Alfredo Weitzenfeld (Professor, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México)
• Dan Hoffman (Chief Innovation Officer, Montgomery County, MD)
• Yi-Ying Huang (Visiting Graduate Student from National Tsing Hua University)
• Meng-Wei Lee (Visiting Graduate Student from National Tsing Hua University)
• Shu-Ting Wang (Visiting Graduate Student from National Tsing Hua University)