Ph.D. Students
(67 graduated):
1. Tak-Sun Yuen (finished August 1985)
Thesis
Title : Hashing Based Dynamic File Structures for
Associative Retrieval
Initial
Employer : Pace University
2. Kou-Chuan Chang (finished June 1986)
Thesis
Title : On Via Minimization and Layer Assignment Problems,
Initial
Employer : Boeing Electronics Company
3. Fernando
Naveda (joint with Professor Ibarra
; finished June 1986)
Thesis
Title : On the Routing Problem for Printed Circuit
Boards
Initial
Employer : University of Kansas
4. Suzanne
Sharrock (finished March 1987)
Thesis
Title : Voice/Data/Video Integration on Local Area
Networks
Initial
Employer : Network Architecture Company
5. Richard
Enbody (finished June 1987)
Thesis
Title : On Multiple Layer Channel Routing Problems
Initial
Employer : Michigan State University
6. Lee-Chin
Liu (finished
March 1989)
Thesis
Title : Routing Problems for VLSI Designs
Initial
Employer : IBM, Rochester, Minnesota
7. Ren-Ben
Shu (finished
June 1989)
Thesis
Title : Efficient and Reliable Architectures for Massively
Connected Multiprocessors
Initial
Employer : National Singapore University
8. Hung-Chuan Yen (finished June 1989)
Thesis
Title : Timing Analysis for VLSI
Initial
Employer : Cadence Co.
9. Shu-Ping
Chang (finished December 1989)
Thesis
Title : Multiple Packet Multiple Channel Local Area
Networks
Initial
Employer : IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
10. Yean-Shiang Leu (finished by March 1990)
Thesis
Title : Network Architectures for High-Speed
Communications
Initial
Employer : IBM, San Jose, California
11. Ichiang Lin (finished June 1990)
Thesis
Title : New Techniques for Performance Driven Layout
Initial
Employer : IBM, Kingston, New York
12. Chih-Hsiang Chou (finished Dec. 1990)
Thesis
Title : Network Architectures for Metropolitan Area
Networks
Initial
Employer : IBM, Rochester, Minnesota
13. Ching-Tin
Wu (finished September 1991)
Thesis
Title : Performance-Driven Layout and Wafer Packing
Problems for VLSI
Initial
Employer : 3M, Minnesota
14. Swie Tsing Tan (finished July 1991)
Thesis
Title : Distributed Processor Allocation for Hypercube
Multiprocessors and Embedded Virtual Incomplete Hypercubes for High-Speed
Optical Networks
Initial
Employer : AT&T Bell Lab
15. Lee-Ren
Liu (Finished August 1991)
Thesis
Title : Efficient Algorithms for Timing Verification and
Delay Fault Testing
Initial
Employer : Actel, California
16. Hsi-Chuan Chen (Finished Jan. 1992)
Thesis
Title : Study of Timing Verification and Timing Optimization
of Combinational Circuits
Initial
Employer : AT&T Bell Lab
17. Ron
Vetter (finished June 1992)
Thesis
Title : Network Architectures for High Performance Computing
Environment
Initial
Employer : Moorhead State University, Moorhead,
Minnesota
18. Kent
Williams (finished August 1992)
Thesis
Title : Study of Design Issues for High-Speed Optical
Passive Star Networks
Initial
Employer : North Carolina A&T University
19. Keumog Ahn
(finished June 1993; joint with S. Sahni)
Thesis
Title : Study of VLSI Circuits Layout Design Issues
Initial
Employer : AT&T Bell Labs
20. Sanghyun Ahn
(finished January 1994),
Thesis
Title : ATM Network VP Layout Design and Multicasting
Group Communication Problems
Initial
Employer : Seoul City University (Korea)
21. Sheau-Ru Tong (finished March 1994)
Thesis
Title : Hot-Spot Problem for Interconnection Networks
and High Performance Computing on Passive Star Networks
Initial
Employer : Industrial Technology Research Center (Taiwan)
22. Meng-Jou Lin (finished September 1994)
Thesis
Title : Distributed Network Computing Over Switch-Based
High-Speed Local Area Networks
Initial
Employer : Apple Computer
23. Rose
Tsang (finished Sept. 1995)
Thesis
Title : High Speed Network Support for Multimedia
Traffic
Initial
Employer : National Sandia Lab
24. James
Schnepf (finished Sept. 1995)
Thesis
Title : Multimedia Support for Distance Education
Initial
Employer : St. John's University, Minnesota
25. Juho
Kim (finished Sept. 1995)
Thesis
Title : Timing Analysis of CMOS VLSI and Performance
Optimization
Initial
Employer : Cadence Corp.
26. Shang-Zhi Sun (finished Nov. 1995)
Thesis
Title : Studies on Timing Analysis, Clock Period Optimization
and Testability
Initial
Employer : Lattice
Semiconductor
27. Mohamad
Rooholamini (finished May 1996; joint with V. Cherkassky)
Thesis
Title : ATM as the System Interconnect of a Multimedia
Server
Initial
Employer : Dell Computer
28. Yaun-Chung Hsu (finished in June 1996)
Thesis
Title : Study on Timing Analysis and Clocking Problems
of Logic Circuits
Initial
Employer : IBM Rochester
29. Ching-Liang
Liu (finished in June 1996)
Thesis
Title : Efficient Design of Video on Demand Server
Initial
Employer : Washington State University
30. Ren-Wei
Hsieh (finished in June 1997)
Thesis
Title: High-Speed Network Support for High-Performance Network and Multimedia
Communications
Initial
Employer: Dell Computer
31. Sangyup Shim (finished in July 1997)
Thesis
Title: Supporting I/O Intensive Applications in A High
Performance Storage System
Initial
Employer: San Jose State University
32. Yuewei Wang (finished in September 1997)
Thesis
Title: Video Allocation Schemes for Video-on Demand Services
Initial
Employer: IxMicro Inc., California
33. A.
Pavan (finished in March 1998)
Thesis
Title: Topological Issues in Time and Wavelength Division Multiplexed Multihop Lightwave Networks
Initial
Employer: Honeywell Technology Center
34. Yen-Jen
Lee (finished in February 2000)
Thesis
Title: Scalable Architectures for Multimedia Communications in Education and
Entertainment
Initial
Employer : Streaming21, San Jose, California36.
35.
Wei-Hsiu Ma (finished in June 2000)
Thesis Title: Video Delivery and Caching with Proxy Servers for Reducing Bandwidth Requirement over Wide Area Networks
Initial
Employer: Streaming21, San Jose, California
36.
Seijun
Song (Joint with Zhi-Li Zhang; finished in August
2000)
Thesis
Title: A Software-Based Approach to Scalable Fault-Tolerant Real-Time Ethernet
for Networked Control Systems
Initial
Employer: Cisco
37.
Srihari Nelakuditi
(Joint with Zhi-Li Zhang; finished in October 2001)
Thesis
Title: Localized Approach to Providing Quality-of-Service
Initial
Employer: University of South Carolina
38.
Tai-Sheng Chang (finished in December
2002)
Thesis
Title: On Several Design Issues of Intelligent High-Performance Storage Systems
Initial
Employer: General Electric Medical Imaging Division
39.
Zhenhai
Duan (joint with Zhi-Li Zhang; finished in July 2003)
Thesis
Title: On Scalable Support of Quality of Services in
the Internet
Initial
Employer: University of Florida State
40. Yingfei
Dong (Joint with Zhi-Li Zhang; finished in July 2003)
Thesis
Title: Efficient Resource Management in Multimedia Network Systems
Initial
Employer: University of Hawaii at Manoa
41.
Bae Young Choi (Joint with Zhi-Li Zhang; finished in August 2003)
Thesis
Title: Scalable Network Monitoring in High-Speed Large Networks
Initial
Employer: US Sprint
42.
Ewa
Kusmierek (Joint with Zhi-Li
Zhang; finished in May 2004)
Thesis
Title: Adaptive Streaming Techniques for Large Scale Video Delivery
Initial
Employer: Poznan Supercomputer Center (Poland)
43.
Dan Edeen
(finished in May 2005)
Thesis
Title: An Model for ADSL Link Aggregation with Qualify
of Service Support
Initial
Employer: Qwest Communications
44.
Ying-Ping Lu (finished in November
2005)
Thesis
Title: Design Issues in Networked Intelligent Storage Systems
: Performance and Quality of Service
Initial
Employer: Silicon Graphics Inc.
45.
James Beyer (finished in March 2006)
Thesis
Title: Control Algorithms for Observation Systems
Initial
Employer: CRAY Research
46.
Dingshen
He (finished in August 2006)
Thesis Title: Data Management in Intelligent Storage Systems
Initial
Employer: Microsoft
47.
Xiaobo Zhang (finished in July 2006)
Thesis
Title: Tape Storage Solutions: Meeting Growing Data Demands
Initial
Employer: Symantec
48.
Hyeran
Lim (finished in September 2006)
Thesis
Title: Designing Fair, Efficient and Scalable
Storage Systems Based on Emerging Storage Technologies
Initial
Employer: Samsung Electronics (Korea)
49.
Aravindan Raghuveer (finished in January
2008)
Thesis
Title: Techniques for Streaming, Storage and Search of Video
Initial
Employer: Yahoo India
50.
Jaehoon
Jeong (finished in December 2009)
Thesis
Title: Wireless Sensor Networking for Intelligent Transportation Systems
Initial
Employer: Brocade
51.
Guanlin
Lu (finished in December 2011)
Thesis
Title: Efficient Data Deduplication
Initial
Employer: EMC Corp. San Jose
52.
Dongchul
Park (finished in July 2012)
Thesis
Title: Hot and Cold Data Identification: Applications to Storage Systems
Initial
Employer: Samsung Electronic Research Center, San Jose
53.
Sarah Sharafkandi (finishing date: May 2013)
Thesis
Title: On QoS Provisioning for Vehicular Safety Communication
Initial
Employer: Qualcomm
54.
Muthukumar
Murgan (finishing date: June 2013)
Thesis
Title: Towards A Flexible and Energy Adaptive Datacenter Infrastructure
Initial
Employer: HP
55.
Xiaoxiao
Jiang (finishing date: July 2015)
Thesis
Title: Improving the Reliability and Efficiency of Data Transmission in Ad-Hoc
Vehicle Networks
Initial
Employer: Verizon
56.
Weiping
He (finishing date: July 2015)
Thesis
Title: The Applications of Workload Characterization in the World of Massive Data
Storage
Initial
Employer: Dell
57.
Nagapramod
Mandagere (finishing date: October 2015)
Thesis:
Techniques for Optimizing Cost of Enterprise Data Management
Initial
Employer: IBM Almaden Research Center
58.
Ziqi
Fan (finishing date: May 2017)
Thesis
Title: Improving Storage Performance with Non-Volatile Memory-based Caching Systems
Initial
Employer: Samsung Electronics, San Jose, California
59.
Xiang Cao (finishing date: June 2017
Thesis:
Efficient Data Management and Processing in Big Data Applications
Initial
Employer: Grand Valley State University, Michigan
60.
Xiongzi
Ge (finishing date: July 2017)
Thesis
Title: Improving Data Management and Data Movement Efficiency
in Hybrid Storage Systems
Initial
Employer: NetApp Advanced Technology Group, North Carolina
61.
Alireza Haghdoost
(finishing date: June 2018)
Thesis
Title: Towards Performance and Reliability Enhancements of Enterprise Data
Storage Systems
Initial
Employer: Dell/EMC, Minneapolis
62. Hao Wen (finished date: May 2019)
Thesis Title: Improving Application Performance in the Emerging Hyper-Converged
Infrastructure
Initial Employer: Twitter Company
63.
Fenggang
Wu (finished date: May 2020)
Thesis
Title: Large Capacity and High Performance Storage Devices/Systems for Big Data
Initial Employer: Facebook
64. Zhichao Cao (finished date: June 2020)
Thesis Title: High Performance
and Cost-Effective Storage Systems for Supporting Big Data Applications
Initial Employer: Facebook
65.
Baoquan Zhang (finished date: December
2020)
Thesis Title: Storage System Designs with
Emerging Storage Technologies
Initial Employer: Facebook
66.
Milan Shetti
(finished date: April 2021)
Thesis Title: Nubes:
Towards Building a Secure and Scalable Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure
Initial Employer: HPE & RocketSoftware
67.
Hebatalla
Eldakiky (finished date: August 2021)
Thesis Title: Scaling Up The Performance of Distributed Key-Value Stores Using
Emerging Technologies for Big Data Applications
Initial Employer: Amazon
Current Ph.D. Students (8):
Ben Dischinger (passed WPE and
Preliminary Oral)
Ming-Hung Yang (passed WPE)
Chia-Wen Hsieh (passed WPE)
Yixun
Wei (passed WPE)
Huibing
Dong
Haoyu
Gong
Wenlong
Wang
Zhaokang
Ke
Pos-Doc (2):
Bingzhe
Li (Ph.D. from University of Minnesota; Finished July 2019 and currently
Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University)
Naeyoung
Song (Ph.D. from National Seoul University; Finished July 2020 and currently
employed by Zoom)
Master
Students (109
graduated)
1982: Eunjin Han, Mai-Yung Yeh, Shuhua Lee
1984: Hasan Moustafa Dandashly, Alfred Huang, Eling Lou,
Hanhsing Tan, Shuhwa Yu, Kouchuan Chang, Yeanshiang Lee
1987: Jan
Kaldager, Earl Roethke, Karen Kleckner
1988: Tyan Leemay Yen, Aling Wu
1989: Corey Carlson, Yeongleh Lee,
Shijer Lin
1990: Tim Barry
1991: Victor Lin, Wayne Schaffran
1993: Yiju Yu, Ming-Tsung Darda Chang
1994: Lu Cheng, Michael H Lee, Ailing Ding, Charlene Sheueling Du
1995: Keith Cramer, Liangwei Kang,
Paisal Keattithananant, Lan
Lai
1996: Mahmood Qadir, Anthony Harder, Sudesh Kamath, Dan Li, Daiwei Yau, Weimin
Xin, Anand Srinivasan
1997: Ying-Li Wu, Dongli Su, Xiaolei Hu
1998: Shu-Fen Jen, Shouyen Teng, Hyeran Lim
1999: Zhifang liu,
Feng Nie, Suhnil Ghelani,
Aarti Lakhani, Visha Sinha, Jeong-Hyeok
Seo, Aditya Datta
2000: Vikram Kapoor, Chirag Wighe,
Calvin Chu, Imelda Sutedjo, Sai Chivukula,
Hongjing Zeng, Feng Li
2001: Peng-Fei Chuang, Suthep Vichiendilokkul,
Aixin Liu
2002: Mahjabeen Parween, Biren Damani, Fang Zhang,
Vikas Nahata, Sai Bathina, Avindashreddy Bathula, Urooj
Ahmed
2003: Ming Yu, Priyanka Jain, Rupali Jain, Parthasarathy
Sundaram, Heyi Wang, Zeyan
Wang, Yu-Han Yang, Xu Zhang, Kartik Gopal, Shuang Yi Tang, Abhishek Dhasmana, Sughosh Kalghatgi, Nishesh Gupta, Hui Ye,
Jibin Zheng, Srikanth Chirravuri,
Amit Paka, Shankar Srinivasan, Praveen Venkataramaiah, Farrukh Norman, Durgaprasad
Velagaleti, Geeta Gharpure,
Aravindan Raghuveer, Rajiv Srinivassan
2004: Vijaya Lenka, Jingjing Gu,
Subramanya Abhishek, Nitin Bhandari, Brad Pokormy, Joengmin Hwang, Rao Raghavendra
2005: Muhammad Jawad, Jinglei Li, Xianbo Zhang
2006: Ben Miller
2007: Meera Jindal,
Girish Moodalbail
2008: Sunil Subramanya, John Unterholzner
2013: Pradeep Ganesan, Muthukumar Murugan, Sandeep Ummadi, Xinyang
Yang
2016: Jeremy Kieser