Students
PhD Graduates
Jian Tang
Professor, IEEE Fellow and ACM Distinguished Member
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Syracuse University Google Scholar (PhD received May 2006) Dissertation: Cross-Layer Optimization for Resource Allocation in Multihop Wireless Networks Initial Job: Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Montan
Tie Wang
Sr Staff ML Tech Lead at Catalog/Ads
Coupang (PhD received May 2007) Dissertation: Modeling and Function Prediction of Large Scale Biological Networks Initial Job: Senior software engineer on search Yahoo! Tie joined Yahoo in January, 2007, and defended his di
Weiyi Zhang
Principal Inventive Scientist
AT&T Labs Research Google Scholar (PhD received August 2007) Dissertation: Survivablity and Quality of Service Issues in High-Speed Networks Initial Job: Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science North Dakota Stat
Satyajayant Misra
Nakayama Professor of Engineering, Associate Dean of Research College of Engineering
New Mexico State University Google Scholar (PhD received August 2009) Dissertation: SAS: Security, Anonymity, and Survivability in Wireless Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks Initial Job: Assistant Professor Department of Computer
Xi Fang
Founding Partner
BUTTON (PhD received January 2013) Dissertation: Optimization for Resource-Constrained Wireless Networks Initial Job: Software Engineer Microsoft, Inc. Seattle, Washington
Dejun Yang
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Colorado School of Mines Google Scholar (PhD received June 2013) Dissertation: Coping with Selfish Behavior in Networks using Game Theory Initial Job: Ben L. Fryrear Assistant Professor Department of Electrical Engineering
Lingjun Li
CEO
Button Tech Inc (PhD received July 2014) Dissertation: Identity Authentication and Near Field Device Authentication for Smart Devices Initial Job: Google, Inc. Mountain View, CA.
Xinxin Zhao
(PhD received August 2015) Dissertation: Identity Privacy and Location Privacy in Online Environments Initial Job: Hermes Microvision, Inc. San Jose, CA.
Qian Sun
Staff Software Engineer
YouTube (PhD received November 2015, co-supervised with Jieping Ye) Dissertation: Transfer Learning for BioImaging and Bilingual Applications Initial Job: Software Engineer Google, Inc. Mountain View, CA.
Tao Yang
Director
Taimei Technology (PhD received December 2016, co-supervised with Jieping Ye) Dissertation: Structured Sparse Methods for Imaging Genetics Initial Job: Senior Research Scientist Baidu Research, Inc. Sunnyvale, CA.
Qingyang Li
Head of RLHF in LLMs and Multi-modality
Kuaishou Technology Google Scholar (PhD received May 2017, co-supervised with Jieping Ye) Dissertation: Scaling up Large-scale Sparse Learning and Its application to Medical Imaging Initial Job: Senior Research Engineer Di
Yashu Liu
(PhD received August 2018, co-supervised with Jieping Ye) Dissertation: Mining Data with Feature Interactions Initial Job: DiDi Chuxing, Beijing, China.
Ruozhou Yu
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
North Carolina State University Google Scholar Github (PhD received June 2019) Dissertation: Smart Resource Allocation in Internet-of-Things: Perspectives of Network, Security, and Economics Ruozhu received the NSF CAREER
Zhen Zeng
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Google Scholar (PhD received May 2022, co-supervised with Professor Dijiang Huang) Dissertation: Risk-based Network Vulnerability Prioritization
Yinxin Wan
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts Boston Google Scholar (PhD received August 2023, co-supervised with Professor Kuai Xu) Dissertation: Mining IoT Network Traffic in Smart Homes: Traffic Measurement, Pattern Recognition, and Secut
Master’s Graduates
- Karan Jain, (Arizona State University, April 2019)
Multiobjective optimization based approach for truth discovery,
Initial Job: Software Engineer at Walmart Labs, Sunnyvale, CA. - Roozbeh Khodadadeh, (Arizona State University, April 2019), co-supervised with Lalitha Sankar.
Designing a software platform for evaluating cyber-attacks on the electric power grid,
Initial Job: Software Engineer. - Margaret Todd, (Arizona State University, November 2016)
An Investigation of Machine Learning for Password Evaluation,
Initial Job: Sandia National Labs. - Lingfang Zhu, (Arizona State University, November 2015)
Adaptive Sampling and Learning in Recommendation Systems,
Initial Job: General Motors. - Pritam Gundecha, (Arizona State University, April 2010)
EcoBand-Pro: Economical Bandwidth Provisioning Schemes for Periodically Measured Non-Stationary Traffic,
Initial Job: PhD student, CSE at ASU. - Nirav Shah, (Arizona State University, April 2010), co-supervised with Dijing Huang
A-WEOR: Anonymous Wireless Encoded Opportunistic Routing,
Initial Job: Intel, AZ. - Jun Shen, (Arizona State University, Jun 2009)
A Fully Poynomial Time Approximation Scheme for A Multiple QoS Routing Problem,
Initial Job: PhD student, CSE at ASU. - Anjan Meenakshisundaram, (Arizona State University, May 2009)
Establishing Node-Disjoint Multipath Routes Using Dynamic Source Routing Protocol in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,
Initial Job: ResponseLogix, Sunnyvale, CA. - Afsheen Irani, (Arizona State University, Jul 2008)
Interference-Aware Link Scheduling for Wireless Mesh Networks with the Physical Interference Model,
Initial Job: Goldman, Sachs & Co., New York City. - Manvendu Bharadwaj, (Arizona State University, Jan 2005)
Distributed Topology Control in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,
Initial Job: Motorola, Chicago, IL. - Ashish Shah, (Arizona State University, Jan 2004)
Location Computation in Wireless Ad Hoc Sensor Networks,
Initial Job: Goldman, Sachs & Co., New York City. - Rakesh Banka, (Arizona State University, Dec 2003)
Efficient Multicasting in WDM Optical Networks,
Initial Job: Infobox, Inc., San Jose. - Arpan Shah, (Arizona State University, May 2003)
Protection and Quality of Service Issues for Lightpath Establishment in Optical Networks,
Initial Job: Goldman, Sachs & Co., New York City. - Ravi Gottapu, (Arizona State University, May 2003)
Improved Protection Schemes in Optical Networks,
Initial Job: Microsoft, Seattle. - Li Chen, (University of Vermont, Aug 2002)
QoS Multicast Routing and Protection Planning in Optical Networks,
Initial Job: Instructor at University of Vermont. - Jana Kepkova, (University of Vermont, May 2001)
Parallel Algorithms for Fast Evaluation of Force Fields in Particle Systems,
Initial Job: IBM, Vermont. - Wei Xiao, (University of Vermont, Mar 2001)
Approximation Algorithms for Delay Constrained Minimum Cost Multicast in Computer Networks,
Initial Job: Cadence. - Andrew Thurber, (University of Vermont, Mar 1999)
Exact and Efficient Approximation Algorithms for Computing Hexagonal Steiner Trees in VLSI Circuit Design,
Initial Job: Trex Medical Corporation, Boston. Now with Cisco. - Greg Stadtlander, (University of Vermont, Mar 1998)
The K-Optimal Heuristic for Computing Rectilinear Steiner Trees,
Initial Job: IBM, Vermont. - Mark Lasher, (University of Vermont, Dec 1997)
Rapid Evaluation of Force Fields in N-Body Simulations using a Fair-Split Tree,
Initial Job: IBM, Vermont. - Alan Zall, (University of Vermont, May 1995)
Fast Evaluation of Potential and Force Field,
Initial Job: Insurance Technology Services of America, Boston.
Former REU Students
- Gabriel Silva
- David Curtiss
- Samuel Rasumssen
- David Webber
- Christopher Chandler
Postdocs and Visitors
- Guangting Chen
February 2000 – May 2000
Professor and Provost
Hangzhou Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Hangzhou, China - Guojun Li
January 2000 – May 2000
Professor
Department of Mathematics and Systems Science
University of Shandong
Jinan, China - Guohui Lin
January 1998 – August 1999
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E8 - Lunjiang Ling
January 1994 – December 1995
Professor
Institute of Biophysics and Protein Science
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing, China