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, Cyber-Physical Systems, 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: Machine Learning, Distributed Inference, and Generative Models for Simulations
		Yuqiao Li Ph.D. Student Research areas: Internet of things, real-time systems and reinforcement learning
		Fernanda Ventorim Ph.D. Student Research areas: Data Science, Internet of Things, and Smart Resilience Communities

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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.
		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) Current: Assistant Professor, Chonnam National University, Korea
		Wooyoung Kim (Postdoctoral Researcher)

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)

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)