Current Graduate Students

• Tao Shu, Ph.D. candidate
  Dissertation topic: Resource optimization in spectrum adaptive wireless networks

• Raed Al-Zubi, Ph.D. candidate
  Dissertation topic: Cross-layer optimizations and protocols for multi-user UWB systems  

• Sisi Liu, Ph.D. candidate
  Dissertation topic: Secure communications in multi-channel cognitive radio systems
  

• Diep Nguyen, Ph.D. candidate
  Dissertation topic: TBD
  
  

Former Graduate Students (in reverse chronological order)

Ph.D.

• Fan Wang, Ph.D. in Aug. 2009 (currently with Qualcomm, San Jose)
  Dissertation title: Utility-based resource allocation strategies and protocol design for spectrum-adaptive wireless networks

• Mohammad Siam, Ph.D. in April 2009 (currently an Assistant Professor at Al-Isra University, Amman, Jordan)
  Dissertation title: Power-controlled channel access and routing protocols for MIMO-capable wireless networks

• Haythem Bany Salameh, Ph.D. in April 2009 (currently an Assistant Professor at Yarmouk University, Jordan)
  Dissertation title: Channel access mechanisms and protocols for opportunistic cognitive radio networks

• Satyajeet (Satya) Ahuja, Ph.D. in Aug. 2008 (currently with Infinera Corporation, San Jose, California)
  Dissertation title: Algorithms and protocols for constrained path selection and fault monitoring in packet networks

• Mohamed Hassan, Ph.D. in Nov. 2005 (currently an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates)
  Dissertation title: Adaptive techniques and optimizations for media streaming over wireless channels

• Alaa Muqattash, Ph.D. in Nov. 2005 (currently a Member of Technical Staff at Olympus Communication Technology of America, San Diego, California)
  Dissertation title: Medium access control and adaptive transmission techniques in wireless networks

• Abdullah Balamash, Ph.D. in Aug. 2004 (currently an Assistant Professor of ECE at King Abdul-Aziz University, Saudi Arabia)
  Dissertation title: Web traffic modeling and its application in the design of caching and prefetching systems

• Turgay Korkmaz, Ph.D. in Oct. 2001 (currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio)
  Dissertation title: QoS routing in packet networks

• Jeong-Geun Kim, Ph.D. in March 2000 (currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radio Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Korea)
  Dissertation title: Providing quality-of-service guarantees in multi-service wireless networks

M.S.

• Amit Kumar, M.S. degree in Dec. 2008 (currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Statistics Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
  Thesis title: Modeling the short-term characteristics of Internet traffic at boundary routers

• Aman Arora, M.S. in May 2004 (currently at Qualcomm Inc., San Diego)
  Thesis title: Interference-limited concurrent transmissions for wireless ad hoc networks with directional antennas

• Vignesh Bhvaneshwar, M.S. in Dec. 2003 (currently at Qualcomm Inc., San Diego)
  Thesis title: A cross-layer power aware protocol for wireless ad hoc networks

• Aytac Azgin, M.S. in Dec. 2003 (currently a Ph.D. candidate in ECE at Georgia Institute of Technology)
  Thesis title: Scheduling in wireless cellular networks under probabilistic channel information

• Michelle D'Souza, M.S. in April 2003 (currently at Mouser Electronics, Coppell, Texas)
  Thesis title: Evaluating the performance of TCP over wireless links

• Lifeng Zhang, M.S. in August 1999 (currently at ILS International Library Systems)
  Thesis title: Using M/G/infinity processes for modeling MPEG-compressed video traffic

• Arivu Ramasamy, M.S. in June 1999 (currently at Cisco Inc., San Jose)
  Thesis title: WWW traffic characterization and its application in dimensioning network resources

Postdoctoral Scholars and Visitors

• Dr. Ossama Younis (Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2005-2006, Assistant Research Scientist, 2006-2007), Ph.D. from Purdue University, 2005 (currently a Senior Research Scientist, Applied Research, Telcordia Technologies Inc.)
  

• Dr. Hicham Khalife, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6), University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Paris, France.

• Professor Young-Joo Suh, POSTECH University, Korea.

• Dr. Philippe Nain, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France.

• Professor Luigi Atzori, University of Cagliari, Italy.

• Professor Sung Jo Hong, Dongguk University, Korea.