Students | Boleslaw K. Szymanski

Ph.D. Graduates

- David Hunt (graduated in 2012)
- Supervised jointly with Gyorgy Korniss
- First position after graduation: Postdoc at Nest Center, RPI, Troy, NY
- Ph.D. Thesis: Network Synchronization in a Noisy Environment with Time Delays
- Sahin Cem Geyik (graduated in 2012)
- First position after graduation: Senior Engineer and Scientist at Turn Inc, Redwood City, CA
- Ph.D. Thesis: Network Data Modeling Via Grammatical Structures
- Jierui Xie (graduated in 2012)
- Supervised jointly with Gyorgy Korniss
- First position after graduation: Senior Engineer at Oracle, Inc, Redwood City, CA
- Ph.D. Thesis: Agent-Based Dynamics Models for Opinion Spreading and Community Detection in Large-Scale Social Networks
- Apirak Hoonlor (graduated in 2011)
- First position after graduation: Assistant Professor, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
- Ph.D. Thesis: Sequential Patterns and Temporal Patterns for Text Mining
- Eyuphan Bulut (graduated in 2011)
- First position after graduation: senior engineer, Mobile Internet Technology Group, Cisco, Richardson, TX
- Ph.D. Thesis: Opportunistic Routing Algorithms in Delay Tolerant Networks
- Travis Desell (graduated in 2009)
- Supervised jointly with Carlos Varela
- Received the 2010 McNaughton Award
- First position after graduation: postdoc at the NeST Center, RPI, Troy, NY
- Ph.D. Thesis: Asynchronous Global Synchronization for Massive-Scale Computing
- Qiming Lu (graduated in 2009)
- Supervised jointly with Gyorgy Korniss
- First position after graduation: researcher at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), Batavia, IL
- Ph.D. Thesis: Propagation, Cascades, and Agreement Dynamics in Complex Communication and Social Networks
- Juong-Sik Lee (graduated in 2007)
- First position after graduation: researcher at the Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, CA
- Ph.D. Thesis: Recurrent Auctions in E-Commerce
- Joel Branch (graduated in 2007)
- Received the 2007 McNaughton Award
- First position after graduation: researcher at the IBM TJ Watson Research Laboratory, Hawthorne, NY
- Ph.D. Thesis: Opportunistic Routing and Middleware Composition for Sensor and Actuator Networks
- - Bouchra Bouqata (graduated in 2006)
  - Supervised jointly with Christopher Carothers and Mohammed Zaki
  - First position after graduation: Researcher, the GE Center for Research and Development, Schenectady, NY
  - Ph.D. Thesis: Vogue: A Novel Variable Order-Gap State Machine for Modeling Sequences
- - Paul Evangelista (graduated in 2006)
  - Supervised jointly with Mark Embrechts
  - First position after graduation: faculty at USMA, West Point, NY
  - Ph.D. Thesis: Computer Intrusion Detection through Statistical Analysis and Prediction Modeling
- - Houda Lamehamedi (graduated in 2005)
  - First position after graduation: Researcher, Oracle, Inc., Seattle, WA
  - Ph.D. Thesis: Decentralized Data Management Framework for DataGrids
- - Yu Liu (graduated in 2004)
  - First position after graduation: Researcher, SincSort, Inc., Woodcliff Lake, NJ
  - Ph.D. Thesis: Loosely-Coordinated, Distributed, Packet-Level Network Simulation
- - Alan Bivens (graduated in 2003)
  - First position after graduation: The IBM TJ Watson Laboratory, Hawthorne, NY
  - Ph.D. Thesis: Distributed Framework for Deploying Machine Learning in Network Management and Security
- - Gang Chen (graduated in 2003)
  - Received 2003 McNaughton Award
  - First position after graduation: Postdoctoral researcher at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
  - Ph.D. Thesis: New Methods for Parallel Discrete Event Simulation
- - Jeffrey Nesheiwat (graduated in 2000)
  - First position after graduation: Researcher in Oracle Inc., Nashua, NH
  - Ph.D. Thesis: Instrumentation Data Base Approach to the Analysis of Large Parallel and Object-Oriented Scientific Applications
- - Wesley Kaplow (graduated in 1998)
  - First position after graduation: Chief Technology Officer, Office of Government Division, Qwest, Inc., Washington, DC
  - Ph.D. Thesis: Compile-Time and Run-Time Methods for Cache Optimization in Scientific Codes
- - Mohan Nibhanupudi (graduated in 1998)
  - First position after graduation: Researcher at the General Telephone and Electronics, Irving, TX
  - Ph.D. Thesis: Adaptive Parallel Computations on Network of Workstations
  - - William Maniatty (graduated in 1998)
    - Received the 1998 McNaughton Award
    - Received the 1997 Karen and Lester Gerhardt Prize
    - First position after graduation: Faculty at the State University of New York in Albany, NY
    - Ph.D. Thesis: High-Performance Computing Ecological Modeling
  - - Ewa Deelman (graduated in 1997)
    - First position after graduation: Research faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles, CA
    - Ph.D. Thesis: Performance Optimization of Parallel Discrete Event Simulation of Spatially Explicit Problems
  - - Charles Norton (graduated in 1996)
    - First position after graduation: Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, Pasadena, CA
    - Ph.D. Thesis: Object Oriented Paradigms in Scientific Computing
  - - Can Ozturan (graduated in 1995)
    - First position after graduation: faculty at the Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
    - Ph.D. Thesis: Distributed Environment and Load Balancing for Adaptive Unstructured Meshes
  - - Balaram Sinharoy (graduated in 1992)
    - Received the 1992 McNaughton Award
    - First position after graduation: Scientist at the IBM Future Directions Division, Poughkeepsie, NY and a faculty at the University of North Texas, Denton, TX
    - Ph.D. Thesis: Optimizing Iterative Algorithms for Distributed-Memory Machines
  - - Jeanette Bruno (graduated in 1989)
    - Received the 1989 McNaughton Award
    - First position after graduation: Scientist at GE Center for Research and Development, Schenectady, NY
    - Ph.D. Thesis: Analyzing Conditional Data Dependencies in an Equational Language Compiler

M.S. Graduates

- Tommy Nguyen
- M.S. Thesis: Network Structures on Human Movements (2012)
- Syed Yousaf Shah
- M.S. Thesis: Use of Auctions in Wireless Sensor Networks (2011)
- Caleb Vincent
- M.S. Thesis: Evaluating Implementations of Service Oriented Architecture for Sensor Network Via Simulation (2011)
- Anthony Waters
- M.S. Thesis: Development and Optimization of the NVIDIA Cuda Application for MilkyWay@home (2010)
- Rui Huang (supervised jointly with Gyorgy Korniss)
- M.S. Thesis: Flow Optimization in Complex Networks (2010)
- Lei Chen
- M.S. Thesis: Market-Based Bandwidth Allocation For Target Tracking In Wireless Sensor Networks (2010)
- Thomas Babbitt
- M.S. Thesis: Self-Selecting Reliable Path Routing For All Environments Using Sense With Visualization (2009)
- Christopher Morrell
- M.S. Thesis: Path Preference In Self-Healing Routing Verified And Improved Through Visualization In Sense (2008)
- Kevin Barlett
- M.S. Thesis: Application Of Unsupervised Learning Methods To An Author Separation Task (2008)
- Edward Levie (supervised jointly with Sibel Adali)
- M.S. Thesis: Visualising Large Web Application Datasets In Google Earth (2008)
- Cagri Ozcaglar (supervised jointly with Sibel Adali)
- M.S. Thesis: Classification Of Email Messages Into Topics Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (2008)
- Jon Chen
- M.S. Thesis: Extensible Source-Level Instrumentation Tool for Performnance Measurements (2007)
- Christopher Morrell
- Summer Project: Biological Inspiration in the Improvement of Self Healing Routing (2007)
- Brenden Conte
- M.S. Thesis: Communication Protocol and Handling for a Decentralized Data Management Framework for Data Grids (2006)
- Paul Evangelista (supervised jointly with Mark Embrechts)
- M.S. Thesis: Computer Intrusion Detection Through Statistical Analysis And Prediction Modeling (2005)
- Scott Coull
- M.S. Thesis: Sequence Alignment for Masquerade Detection (2005)
- Lijuan Zhu
- M.S. Thesis: Parallel Logic Simulation Of Million-Gate VLSI Circuits (2005)
- Michael Pflug
- M.S. Thesis: Comparison of Sensor Network Simulators (2004)
- Lizhuang Zhao
- M.S. Thesis: A Functional Level Memory Optimization Tool - The Slicer (2004)
- Joel Branch
- M.S. Thesis: Extended Automata-Based Approaches to Intrusion Detection (2003)
- Rashim Gupta
- M.S. Thesis: Scalable And Efficient Techniques For Network Management And Network Simulation (2003)
- Kiran Madnak
- M.S. Project: The Gensis Interface to Distributed Wireless Simulation (Using GloMoSim) (2003)
- Ingo Mclead
- M.S. Thesis: Methodology Of Risk Assessment In Mobile Agent System Design (2003)
- Anand Sastry
- M.S. Project: GENESIS support for ns and SSFNet (2003)
- Johnathan Shea
- M.S. Project: Converting SSFNet Simulation Definition to Genesis Format (2003)
- Chi Yu Chan
- M.S. Project: A Network Packet Analyzer with Database Support (2002)
- Christopher Cramer
- M.S. Project: DIG: Detecting Intrusions Graphically (2002)
- Seth Freeman
- M.S. Project: Host-Based Intrusion Detection Using Signatures (2002)
- Kewei Hwang
- M.S. Project: Component-based Simulation Visualization Toolkit (2002)
- Chandrika Pelagrini
- M.S. Project: Network-Based Intrusion Detection Using Neural Networks II (2002)
- Rasheda Smith
- M.S. Project: Network-Based Intrusion Detection Using Neural Networks I (2002)
- Sunil Upales
- M.S. Thesis: Network Monitoring Using DOORS and Mobile Agents (2002)
- Jianliang Yi
- M.S. Project: Improving the Performance of Remote Read with Fork and Thread Technology (2002)
- Shan Jin
- M.S. Project: Communication between Client and Server in the Distributed Object-oriented Repository Network Management System (2001)
- Li Li
- M.S. Project: Seepdup of SSFNET simulation over NS (2001)
- Adnan Saifee
- M.S. Project: Integrating Feedback based Protocols to the Genesis system (2001)
- Tevfik Kosar
- M.S. Project: Harvesting Idle Processor Cycles on Nondedicated Network of Workstations (1999)
- Dahong Li
- M.S. Project: Networks Traffic Collection and Characterization (1999)
- Qifeng Zhang
- M.S. Project: An Object Oriented Database for Network Management Data (1999)
- William Maniatty
- M.S. Project: A Spatial Model of Multi-Species Systems on Parallel Machines (1993)
- Member of the Ph.D. Committee for Weituo Zhang
- Ph.D. Thesis: Analytical Approach for Opinion Dynamics on Scoial Networks (2012)
- Member of the Ph.D. Committee for Akintayo Holder
- Ph.D. Thesis: The Impact of Irregularity on Efficient Large-Scale Integer-Intensive Computing (2011)
- Member of the Committee for Thomas J. Reale III
- M.S. Thesis: Data Routing With Wireless Sensor Networks (2011)