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.
		Guoxi Wang Ph.D. Student Research areas: software-defined networking (SDN) and network security.
		Tung-Chun Chang Ph.D. Student Research areas: Internet of Things, wireless networking, and social networks.
		Andrew Chio Ph.D. Student Research areas: Internet of Things, Middleware, Machine Learning, Optimization, Distributed Systems.
		Modeste Mefenya Kenne Ph.D. Student Research areas: Networked Systems, Internet of Things, Smart Resilient Communities, Cyber-physical Systems.
		Rahul Bhope Ph.D. Student Research areas: Machine Learning, Internet of Things(IoT) and Performance Evaluation.
		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:

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Alumni

Ph.D. Students

•   Fangqi Liu (Ph.D. 2023, Postdoctoral Researcher, Vanderbilt University) Thesis: Leveraging Mobility to Enhance IoT Applications
  Hang Nguyen(Ph.D. 2022, Research Engineer, Microsoft) Thesis: Toward Scalable, Reliable and Efficient Big Data Publish Subscribe Systems.
•   Praveen Venkateswaran (Ph.D. 2021, Research Staff Member, IBM Research), Thesis: Leveraging Community Structure and Behavior for Smart Infrastructure.
• Nailah Saleh, Alhassoun (Ph.D. 2021, Associate professor in KSU), Thesis: Perpetual Operations in IoT Deployments for Smart Communities.
•   Qing Han (Ph.D. 2019, Research Engineer, Facebook), Thesis: Enabling Resilience in Cyber-Physical-Human Water Infrastructures.
•   Qiuxi Zhu (Ph.D. 2019,Research Scientist, VMWare), Thesis: Exploiting Mobile Plus In-Situ Deployments in Community IoT Systems.
  
•   Kyle Benson (Ph.D. 2018, Research Scientist, RTI Inc), Thesis: Resilient Communications Middleware for IoT Data Exchange.
  
• Zhijing Qin (Ph.D. 2015, Senior Software Engineer, Pinterest Inc.), Thesis: MINA: A Multinetwork INformation Architecture in Cyber Physical Systems/Internet of Things Environments.
• Ye Zhao (Ph.D. 2014, Staff Member, Google Inc.), Thesis: Middleware Approaches to Societal Scale Information Sharing .
• Reza Rahimi (Ph.D. 2014, Research Staff Member, Samsung Research Labs), Thesis: Qos-aware middleware for optimal service allocation in mobile cloud computing.
• Do Minh Ngoc (Ph.D. 2014, Senior Staff Member, Arista Networks Inc.), Thesis: Content Delivery using Hybrid Infrastructure and Ad Hoc Networks.
• Leila Jalali (Ph.D. 2012, Engineering Manager, Google Inc.), Thesis: Middleware solutions for integrated simulation environments.
• Jehan Wickramasuriya (Ph.D. Principal Research Engineer, Motorola Research Labs).
• Bo Xing (Ph.D. 2009, Ericsson Research), Thesis: A middleware approach to information dissemination in heterogeneous wireless networks.
• Daniel Massaguer (Ph.D. 2009, Postdoctoral Researcher, UCI), Thesis: A semantic approach for building sentient spaces.
• Vidhya Balasubramanian (Ph.D. 2009, Assistant Professor, Amrita University, India), Thesis: Supporting scalable activity modeling in simulators.
• Hojjat Jafarpour (Ph.D. 2009, NEC Lab), Customized information dissemination in distributed publish/subscribe systems.
• Yun Huang (Ph.D. 2008, CMU), Thesis: MAPGrid : context aware grid middleware for mobile applications.
• Minyoung Kim (Ph.D. 2008, Research Sceintist, SRI International), Thesis: XTune : a formal methodology for cross-layer tuning of mobile real-time embedded systems.
• Kyoungwoo Lee (Ph.D. 2008, Professor, Yonsei University, Korea), Thesis: Cooperative cross-layer protection for resource constrained mobile multimedia systems.
• Mayur Deshpande (Ph.D. 2007, Google Inc.), Thesis: Peer-to-peer flash dissemination.
• Qi Han (Ph.D. 2006, Associate Professor, Colorado School of Mines), Thesis: Quality-aware context information collection.
• Sebastian Gutierrez-Nolasco (Ph.D. 2007, NASA Ames Research Center), Thesis: A semantic-driven communication framework for safe adaptability.
• Shivajit Mohapatra (Ph.D. 2006, Motorola Research Labs), Thesis: DYNAMO : Power aware middleware for distributed mobile computing.

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Postdoctoral Researchers

•   Georgios Bouloukakis (Postdoctoral Researcher, 2020)
  
•   Yusuf Sarwar (Postdoctoral Researcher, 2019)
  
• Kyungbaek Kim (Postdoctoral Researcher 2012, Assistant Professor, Chonnam National University, Korea)

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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)

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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)