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Where are our former students now

Former Ph.D students:

Yun Wei, Senior Quantitative Researcher, Altonomy, NJ

Ph.D Thesis: Large-scale Data Analytics, Modeling and Resilience of Energy Infrastructure and Service, 2017

Supaporn Erjongmanee, Assistant Prof., Kasetsart Univ. Thailand

Ph.D Thesis: Understanding Communication Infrastructure Using Large-Scale Measurements, 2011

Sung-eok Jeon, Uber, Seattle.

Ph.D Thesis: Near-Optimality of Distributed Network Management using Machine Learning Approach, 2007

Rajesh Narasimha (Co-advised with Prof. Steve Mclaughlin), Texas Instruments.

Ph.D Thesis: Application of Information Theory and Learning to Network and Biological Tomography, 2007

Zesheng Chen, Associate Prof., Purdue University Fort Wayne.

Ph.D Thesis: Modeling and Defending Against Internet Worm Attacks, 2007

Clever award, ECE Gatech

Guanglei Liu, Prof., Roan-state Community College, Tennessee

Ph.D Thesis: Management and Control of Scalable and Resilient Next-Generation Optical Networks, 2007

Clever award, ECE Gatech

Xusheng Tian, Quant Developer, Bloomberg, Inc. NY

Ph.D Thesis: Modeling and Understanding Heterogeneous Network Traffic, 2002.

Dongxu Shen, University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong.

Ph.D Thesis: Resource Management of Wireless CDMA Networks, 2001.

Marina Thottan, Vice President, Bell Labs Nokia, NJ.

Ph.D Thesis: Fault Detection and Prediction for the Management of Computer Networks,  2000.

Founder’s award of excellence, RPI

Sheng Ma,  Principal data scientist, Amazon, CA

Ph.D Thesis (Charlie Close Ph.D Thesis Award): Network Traffic Modeling and Analysis in Wavelet Domain, 1998

Founder’s award of excellence, RPI

Cindy Hood, Associate Prof. Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.

Ph.D Thesis: Intelligent Detection for Fault Management of Communication Networks, 1996.

Former MS students:

Guanglei Liu, continued Ph.D.

Thesis: Decentralized Wavelength Assignments and Control of Optical Networks, 2001.

Ying Dong, Ph.D student, Hong Kong University.

Thesis: Simulating a Wireless Network Environment, 2001.

Yingmei Sun, Technical staff member, Oracle, MA. 

Thesis: A Simulation Environment for Intelligent Network Agents, 2000.

Peihua Qi, Technical staff member, IBM, NY. 

Thesis: Network Anomaly Generation Using ns, 2000.

Andrew Weate, Instructor, the West Point Military Academy, NY.

Thesis: Reinforcement Learning and Applications, 1998.

Dongxu Shen, continued Ph.D.

Thesis: Prediction of Network Traffic for Network Management, 1998.

Min Wei, Technical staff member, IBM Watson Research Center, NY.

Thesis: Investigations of Self-Similar Traffic on Network Management, 1996.

David Durham, Technical staff member, Intel Corporation, Portland, OR.

Thesis: Wide Area Network Flow Control Possibilities via Active Signal End-to-End Time Series Prediction, 1996.

Richard Schaaf, Technical staff member, IBM, Vermont.

Thesis: Array Signal Processing Using Neural Networks, 1995.

Tashin Hasin Demiral, Ph.D. student, Turkey.

Thesis: Combinations of Weak Classifiers, 1994.

Sheng Ma, continued Ph.D.

Thesis: Expectation-Maximization Algorithms for Feedforward and Recurrent Networks, 1994.

(Henry J. Nolte Memorial Award for Master Thesis, RPI)

James Farmer, Technical staff member, Allied Signals, Washington DC.

Thesis: Expectation-Maximization Algorithm For Feedforward Neural Networks, 1993.

Aaron Dentinger, Technical staff member, General Electric Research and Development Center.

Thesis: Fast Training Algorithms for Recurrent Networks with Ramp Functions, 1993.

More than 40 undergrad researchers at GT, RPI, and SURE.

Former Postdocs/Visitors:

Dr. Sung-Ho Huang (Visiting Posdoc), 2005-2006, Samsung, Korea

Dr. Minsu Kim (Visiting Postdoc), 2005-2006, Samsung, Korea

Dr. Guang Cheng (Visiting Prof.) 2006-2007, South East University, China.

Prof. Suming Li, (Visiting Prof.), 2007-2008, National Univ.,  China

Dr. Shikang Chen, (Visiting Postdoc), 2008-2009, Sichung, China

James Gu, (Visiting Student), 2008-2009, China

Prof. Ekrem Duman (Visiting Prof.), 2011, Turkey

Prof. Ling Wang (Visiting Prof.), 2013, China