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Careers of Some Graduates

  • Zhiqiang (Zeeman) Zhang, Ph.D., "On Generalized Adaptive Neural Filters," October 1993, COO, Sea Sky Land (previously with BellSouth and involved in a few ventures). (my first doctoral graduate)
  • Gangsheng (Gary) Wang, Ph.D., "On the Optimization Problems in Multiaccess Communication Systems," January 1996, Principal Software System Engineer, Broadcom (previously with INTEL, San Diego, CA).
  • Ambalavanar Arulambalam, Ph.D., "Explicit Congestion Control Algorithms for Available Bit Rate Services in Asynchronous Transfer Mode Networks," May 1996, Senior Systems Architect, Distinguished MTS, LSI Corp., Allentown, PA.
  • Jianguo Chen, Ph.D., "Adaptive Distributed Detection with Applications to Cellular CDMA," Jan. 1997, Distinguished MTS, LSI Corp., Allentown, PA.
  • Shizhao Li, Ph.D., "On Scheduling Input Queued Cell Switches," May 1999; MTS at Tintri (previously with EMC, Teneros Inc., Cisco, Lucent).
  • Hai Liu, Ph.D., "Video Traffic Modeling and Delivery," May 2000; MTS, Globespan, Redbank, NJ. (co-advisor)
  • Jinhui Li, Ph.D., "Scheduling Algorithms for High Speed Switches," May 2001; Senior MTS, LSI Inc., Allentown, PA.
  • Jong-Ho Bang, Ph.D., "Buffer Management and Cell Switching Management in Wireless Packet Communications," May 2001; Senior Director, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Samsung Electroncis, Korea.(co-advisor)
  • Dequan Liu, Ph.D., "Joint Buffer Management And Scheduling For Input Queued Switches," January 2003; CTO, Beijing United TopIC Co., Ltd. (co-advisor)
  • Andrey Belenky, Ph.D., "IP Traceback with Deterministic Packet Marking (DPM)," August 2003; Associate, Jones Day.
  • Jingdi Zeng, Ph.D., "IP-Based Virtual Private Networks and Proportional Quality of Service Differentiation," January 2004; Associate Professor, DeVry University (previously with INRIA, France)
  • Hong Zhao, Ph.D., "QoS Provisioning in Multimedia Streaming," May 2004; Associate Professor, Fairleigh Dickenson University.
  • Dong Wei, Ph.D., "Providing Guaranteed QoS in the Hose-modeled VPN," May 2004; Research Scientist, SIEMENS Corporate Research, Inc.
  • Jingxuan Liu, Ph.D., "On IP over WDM Burst-swtiched Long Haul and Metropolitan Area Networks," May 2004; Associate, JP Morgan Chase & Co. (previously with Panasonic Information & Networking Technologies Laboratory and AIG)
  • Zhicheng Ni, "Image Data Hiding," January 2005; MTS, LSI Inc. (served as co-advisor).
  • Fahd A. Alharbi, Ph.D., "Congestion Control in the Resilient Packet Ring Networks," January 2005; Assistant Professor, King Abulaziz University, KSA.
  • Gang Cheng, Ph.D., "Quality-of-Service Provisioning in High Speed Networks: Routing Perspective," May 2005; Senior Software Development Engineer (Sr. SDE), Microsoft.
  • Kevin Xu, Ph.D., "TCP Performance Enhancement in Wireless Networks Via Adaptive Congestion Control And Active Queue Management," May 2005; Principal, System Design and Engineering IP Storage Dvision, EMC Corporation.
  • Wei Yan, Ph.D., "Security Information Management with Frame-based Attack Representation and First-order Reasoning," May 2005; CEO, VisualThreat (previously with Zscaler Inc., McAfee, HS USA, Trend Micro) (co-advisor)
  • Li Zhu, Ph.D., "Network Level Performance of Differentiated Services (DiffServ) Networks," January 2006; LTE Voice and Data Quality Engineer, Alcatel-Lucent.
  • Zhigang Wang, Ph.D., "Mobile Ad Hoc Networks For Intelligent Systems," January 2006. (co-advisor)
  • Yuanqiu Luo, Ph.D., "Dynamic Bandwidth Management with Service Differentiation over Ethernet Passive Optical Networks," May 2006; Principal Architect, Huawei Technologies (USA).
  • Zhiqiang Gao, Ph.D., "On Mitigating Distributed Denial of Service Attacks," May 2006; VP-CyberSecurity, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
  • Si Yin, Ph.D., "A Novel Storage Area Network Extension Solution over Passive Optical Networks (S-PONs)," January 2009; Software Development Engineer, Microsoft.
  • Amey Shevtekar, Ph.D., "On Modeling and Mitigating New Breed of DoS Attacks," May 2009; Senior Member of Technical Staff III at Commvault.
  • Ehsan Haghani, Ph.D., "Service Oriented Networking for Multimedia Applications in Broadband Wireless Networks," January 2010; Senior Wireless System Archittect, Apple, Cupertino, CA.
  • Pitipatana Sakarindr, Ph.D., "Adaptive Trust and Reputation Systems as a Service in Communications Networks," January 2010; Network Administrator, Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, Englewood, NJ.
  • Jingjing Zhang, Ph.D., "Optimizing Resource Allocation in Next-generation Optical Access Networks," May 2011; Software Engineer, Arista Networks, Santa Clara, CA.
  • Nan Wang, Ph.D., "Efficient Packet Delivery in Modern Communication Networks," May 2012;  Mediacom.
  • Mete Yilmaz, Ph.D., “Novel Algorithms for Fair Bandwidth Sharing on Counter Rotating Rings,” Jan. 2013; Hardware Engineering Manager, ASR 9K HW team, Cisco, San Jose, CA.
  • Chun-Hao Lo, Ph.D., “Enabling Sustainable Power Distribution Networks by Using Smart Grid Communications,” May. 2013; Postdoc Research Associate at Huawei Technologies, NJ.
  • Yan Zhang, Ph.D., “Congestion Control, Energy Efficiency and Virtual Machine Placement for Data Centers,” May. 2014; Lecturer, University of South Florida.
  • Tao Han, Ph.D., “The Design and Optimization of Renewable Energy Powered Mobile Networks,” April 27, 2015; Assistant Professor, University of North Caroline at Charlotte.
  • Mina Taheri Hosseinabadi, Ph.D., “On Greening Optical Access Networks,” April 20, 2016; System Engineer, Advanced Rotorcraft Technology (ART) Inc., CA.
  • Apoorv Khare, MS, January 2010, Senior Mobile QA Engineer, Taqua (formerly with Kineto Wireless).
  • Karunakar Anantharamy, MS, December 2004, Software Engineer/ Scrum Master at Siemens HealthCare USA
  • Mandur Bajracharya, MS, May 2005, Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Broadcom
  • Anil Bhargav Gorthy, MS, August 2004, Board Member and Co-Chair, Mobile SIG at Wireless Communication Alliance and Senior Programmer Analyst at Qualcomm
  • Asim (Muhammad) Zafir, MS, 2004, Big Data Systems Architect, YuMe
  • Som Sengupta, MS, May 2003, Architecture/Project Management Consultant, AIG Investment
  • Ye Tian, MS, 2002, Senior Consultant in Telecom, Corporate Value Associates, Beijing
  • Liping An, M.S. December 1996, Sr. System Engineer, RTP Technology.
  • Bin Zhu, M.S. December 1993, Bell Laboratories, Piscataway.
  • Insoo Sohn, MS, 1995, Ph.D. from Southern Methodist University 1998. Associate Professor, Dongguk University, Korea
  • Yuzheng Zhang, M.S. January 1994, SW Engineer, Sarnoff Corporation.
  • Bin Zhu, M.S. December 1993, Bell Laboratories, Piscataway.
  • Ashish Agrawal, M.S. December 1993, Business Analyst/Project Manager, Morgan Stanley (previously, Dept. R&D, Associated Press).
  • Henry Hanek, M.S. August 1993, Allied Signals Inc.
  • Santhalingam Balasekar, M.S. December 1992, Opencon Inc.
  • Youyi Yu, M.S. May 1992, Senior Software Engineer, Telcordia.
  • Vivek Mehrotra, M.S. May 1992,Engineer, Ditto at O!Wireless.
  • Min (Bill) Zhao, M.S. August 1991, GISO/CIO, Lucent Technologies.
  • Rolf Schuster, M.S. May 1991, Ph.D. from Technische Universitat Munchen, 1995, Head of Value Creation Centre, Vodafone Group, Germany.
  • Herman Agustiawan, M.S. January 1991, Chairman of Advisory Board, National Energy Council.
  • Yuchou (David) Huang, M.S. January 1991, The IntePlas Group.
  • Xianjun (Louis) Liu, M.S. August 1990, Paradign Networks.
  • Yizhong (John) Chen, M.S. May 1990, President, New Century Development Inc. (an International Business and Engineering Company) (my first MS graduate)