Faculty
 

Roch Guerin

Research Interests: Design and analysis of communications and networking systems with a focus on robust and lightweight protocols and algorithms. Areas of recent focus include routing and traffic engineering, network manageability, leveraging of (path) diversity in wired and wireless settings, and application-centric networking.

 

Saswati Sarkar

Research Interests: My research interests are in the general area of communication networks with emphasis on resource allocation, routing and scheduling, optimization and control of stochastic systems, distributed systems and algorithms, quality of service and pricing issues and network security.

 
Post Doctoral Researchers
 

Saikat Ray

Research Interests: Distributed wireless systems such as wireless mesh networks, wireless sensor networks, etc., with emphasis on understanding stability, optimization and
robustness of these systems. Recent and on-going works include robust and optimized indoor positioning with wireless sensor networks, stability properties of 802.11 MAC in mesh topologies, low complexity scheduled MAC, distributed resource allocation, transient routing loop prevention, etc.

 
 
PhD students
 

Alireza Aram

Research Interests: Resource allocation, routing, scheduling, and cross layer control in wireless network.

 

Ratul K. Guha

Research Interests: Resource allocation in multiple access-point networks, wireless mesh networks, computer security and distributed control.

 

 

M. H. Rezaei Khouzani (Arman R. Khouzani)

Research Interests: Stochastic optimization, resource allocation and cross-Layer control in wireless networks and wireless networking in general.

 

Eric Kwong

Research Interests: Internet Routing, Peer-to-Peer Networking.

 

Soumya Sen

Research Interests: Analysis of path diversity benefits in wireless networks, Network routing issues.

 

Ramesh Ramakrishnan Subbaraman

Research Interests: Scheduling in EVDO Rev. A system, Network routing.

 

Pramod Vaidyanathan

Research Interests: Network Security in Wireless networks, Encouraging network co-operation and preventing freeloaders, Worm spreading and scanning.

 
 
   
 
 
Graduated PhD students (ordered by year of graduation)
 

Ashwin Sridharan

Graduated in 2004, presently at Sprint Labs

Rute Sofia

Graduated in 2004, presently at Siemens, Germany

 

Yaqing Huang

Graduated in 2005, presently in Jane Street Capital, LLC.

Prasanna Chaporkar

Graduated in 2005, presently at INRIA, France

Shu Tao

Graduated in 2005, presently at IBM, NY

Ying Xu

Graduated in 2005, presently at Aspera Soft, CA

Evangelos Vergetis

Graduated in 2006, presently at McKinsey & Co., USA

Dhanant Subhadrabandhu

Graduated in 2006, presently with CAT Telecom Public Company Limited, Thailand.

 
Graduated MS students
  Wael Ashmawi
  Srihari Narasimhan
  Vasileios A. Karyotis
  Wei Bi
   
 
 
Faculty Collaborators
  Michael Greenwald
Saleem Kassam
Sanjeev Khanna
Vijay Kumar
Jonathan Smith
Camillo J. Taylor
Santosh Venkatesh
 

Srisankar Kunniyur