Students | Boleslaw K. Szymanski

Ph.D. Graduates

- Cheng Ma (Ph.D. Physics, May 2022)
- Co-advisor with advisor Prof. Gyorgy Korniss, and co-advisor Jianxu
- Researcher Scientist at Meta, Sunnyvale, CA
- Ph.D. thesis:Phase Transitions, Critical Phenomena, and Applications to Resilience and Tipping Points in Complex Networks
- Omar Malik (Ph.D. Physics, May 2022)
- Co-advisor with advisor Prof. Gyorgy Korniss, and co-advisor Jianxu
- Researcher Scientist at Meta, Sunnyvale, CA
- Ph.D. thesis:Classical and Quantum Spreading Processes on Disorder and Complex Networks
- Amr Elsisy (Ph.D. Computer Science, November 2021)
- Chief Data Scientist, Raseedi App, Cairo, Egypt
- Ph.D. thesis:Dynamics and Stability of Edges and Communities in Social Networks
- James Flamino (Ph.D. Physics, November 2021)
- Co-advisor Prof. Gyorgy Korniss
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
- Ph.D. thesis:Analyzing and Modeling Human Behavioral Dynamic in Social Networks
- Stephen Dipple (Ph.D. Physics, July 2019)
- Co-advisor with Prof. Gyorgy Korniss
- Postdoctral Researcher, Carnegi Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
- Ph.D. thesis:Modeling Complex Human Behavior in Socio-Economic Networks
- Ashwin Bahulkar (Ph.D. Computer Science, July 2019)
- Researcher, Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA
- Ph.D. thesis:Evolution Dynamics of Attribute-Rich Social Networks
- Xiang Niu (Ph.D. Computer Science, June 2019)
- Supervised jointly with Prof. Gyorgy Korniss and Prof. Jianxi Gao
- Researcher, Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA
- Ph.D. thesis:The Dynamics in Opinion and Global Risk Networks: Modeling, Discovering and Control
- Xiaoyan Lu (Ph.D. Computer Science, May 2019)
- Researcher, Google, Inc., New York, NY
- Ph.D. thesis:Community Detection and its Applications in Understanding Dynamics of Social Networks
- Casey Doyle (Ph.D. Physics, July 2018)
- Supervised jointly with Prof. Gyorgy Korniss
- Researcher, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
- Ph.D. thesis:Introducing Non-Markovian and Empirical Effects into Social Interaction Models
- Alaa Moussawi (Ph.D. Physics, March 2018)
- Supervised jointly with Prof. Gyorgy Korniss
- Chief Data Scientist, The New York City Council, New York, NY
- Ph.D. thesis: Failure Mitigation, Vulnerability Detection and Persistence of Network Flows in Complex Systems
- Konstantin Kuzmin (Ph.D. Computer Science, November 2017)
- Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
- Ph.D. thesis:New Approaches to Efficient Structural Analysis of Social and Biological Networks
- Panagiotis Karampourniotis (Ph.D. Physics, June 2017)
- Supervised jointly with Prof. Gyorgy Korniss
- Postdoc, IBM, Inc., Boston, MA
- Ph.D. thesis: The Impact of Heterogeneity in Thresholds of Opinion Dynamics, and in Crowd Decision-Making
- Xin Lin (Ph.D. Computer Science, March 2017)
- Co-advisor Prof. Gyorgy Korniss
- Financial software engineer, Bloomberg, Inc., New York, NY
- Ph.D. thesis: Predictability Limit of Cascades in Interconnected Models
- Herbert O. Holzbauer (Ph.D. Computer Science, November 2016)
- Lecturer, Dept. Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
- Ph.D. Thesis: How Embedding of Social Ties in Space Impacts Human Behavior
- Thomas Babbitt (Ph.D. Computer Science, May 2016)
- Academy Assistant Professor, USMA, West Point, NY
- Ph.D. Thesis: Information Assurance in Resource Constraint Networks
- Mingming Chen (Ph.D. Computer Science, December 2015)
- Software engineer, Google, Mountain View, CA
- Ph.D. Thesis: Discovering Community Structure by Optimizing Community Quality Metrics
- Xiaoming Liu (Ph.D. Computer Science, March 2015)
- Supervised jointly with Prof. Ian Cloete, and Prof. Yongxin Xu
- Postdoc at University of Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
- Ph.D. Thesis: Towards a Unified Modelling Framework for Adaptive Networks
- Ferenc Molnar (Ph.D. Physics, December 2014)
- Supervised jointly with Prof. Gyorgy Korniss
- First position after graduation: Postdoc, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
- Ph.D. Thesis: Computational Analysis of Complex Systems: Applications to Population Dynamics and Networks
- S. Yousaf Shah (Ph.D. Computer Science, December 2014)
- First position after graduation: Researcher, TJ Watson IBM Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
- Ph.D. Thesis: Dynamic Management of Network Systems
- Tommy Nguyen (Ph.D. Computer Science, December 2014)
- Ph.D. Thesis: Proximity, Interactions, and Communities in Social Networks: Properties and Applications
- Pramesh Singh (Ph.D. Physics, August 2014)
- Supervised jointly with Prof. Gyorgy Korniss
- First position after graduation: Postdoc at NeST Center, RPI, Troy, NY
- Ph.D. Thesis: Opinion Formation Models in Static and Dynamic Social Networks
- David Hunt (Ph.D. Physics, December 2012)
- Supervised jointly with Prof. 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 (Ph.D. Computer Science, August 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 (Ph.D. Computer Science, August 2012)
- Co-advisor Prof. 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 (Ph.D. Computer Science, August 2011)
- First position after graduation: Assistant Professor, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
- Ph.D. Thesis: Sequential Patterns and Temporal Patterns for Text Mining
- Eyuphan Bulut (Ph.D. Computer Science, May 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 (Ph.D. Computer Science, December 2009)
- Supervised jointly with Prof. 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 (Ph.D. Physics, December 2009)
- Supervised jointly with Prof. 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 (Ph.D. Computer Science, December 2007)
- First position after graduation: researcher at the Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, CA
- Ph.D. Thesis: Recurrent Auctions in E-Commerce
- Joel Branch (Ph.D. Computer Science, May 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
- - Paul Evangelista (Ph.D. Industrial Systems Engineering, December 2006)
  - Supervised jointly with Prof. Mark Embrechts
  - First position after graduation: faculty at USMA, West Point, NY
  - Ph.D. Thesis: Computer Intrusion Detection through Statistical Analysis and Prediction Modeling
- - Bouchra Bouqata (Ph.D. Computer Science, August 2006)
  - Supervised jointly with Prof. Christopher Carothers and Prof. 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
- - Houda Lamehamedi (Ph.D. Computer Science, December 2005)
  - First position after graduation: Researcher, Oracle, Inc., Seattle, WA
  - Ph.D. Thesis: Decentralized Data Management Framework for DataGrids
- - Yu Liu (Ph.D. Computer Science, December 2004)
  - First position after graduation: Researcher, SincSort, Inc., Woodcliff Lake, NJ
  - Ph.D. Thesis: Loosely-Coordinated, Distributed, Packet-Level Network Simulation
- - Gang Chen (Ph.D. Computer Science, May 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
- - Alan Bivens (Ph.D. Computer Science, May 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
- - Jeffrey Nesheiwat (Ph.D. Computer Science, December 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 (Ph.D. Computer Science, December 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 (Ph.D. Computer Science, May 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 (Ph.D. Computer Science, May 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 (Ph.D. Computer Science, December 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 (Ph.D. Computer Science, December 1996)
    - First position after graduation: Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, Pasadena, CA
    - Ph.D. Thesis: Object-Oriented Programming Paradigms in Scientific Computing
  - - Can Ozturan (Ph.D. Computer Science, August 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 (Ph.D. Computer Science, August 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 (Ph.D. Computer Science, December 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. Computer Science Graduates

Daniel R. Tabin
M.S. Thesis: A network and agent-based model of political polarization (2021)
Juntao Zhuang
M.S. Thesis: Design and Implementation of the Web Interfaces and Middleware for Synergy Project, (2017)
Partha Sarathi Mukherjee
M.S. Thesis: Search Algorithms for Promotion of Novel Biomedical Research (2017)
Bolong Liang
M.S. Thesis: A Discrete-Event Simulation Tool for Resource Constrained Networks (2015)
Konstantin Kuzmin
M.S. Thesis: Parallel Overlapping Community Detecion with SLPA (2014)
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: Visualizing 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 Performance 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 Madnani
M.S. Project: The Genesis 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: Speedup 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 William Pickering
Ph.D. Thesis: Solution of Urn Models by Generating Functions with Applications to Social, Physical, Biological, and Network Sciences (2016)
Member of the Ph.D. Committee for James Thompson
Ph.D. Thesis: Community Evolution in Temporal Networks (2012)
Member of the Ph.D. Committee for Weituo Zhang
Ph.D. Thesis: Analytical Approach for Opinion Dynamics on Social 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)