
Chenghao Duan
ECE, Georgia Tech
Ph.D student 2020-
B.S. University of Illinois
Where are our former students now
Former Ph.D students:
Amir Hossein Afsharinejad, Data Scientist, The Home Depot, GA
Ph.D Thesis: Large scale data analytics for energy networks, 2021
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