Current Graduate Students

I currently have 8 graduate students (3 Ph.D., 5 M.Sc.) working with me at the University of Calgary. In alphabetical order, these students are:

  • Marian Doerk
    Marian is a Ph.D. student who entered our program in September 2008, following his Diplom from the University of Magdeburg in Germany. His primary supervisor is Sheelagh Carpendale, and I am co-supervisor. Marian's area of research is information visualization on the Web. A paper describing his recent work on visualizing Twitter feeds appeared at IEEE InfoVis 2010.
  • Maryam Elahi
    Maryam started the Ph.D. program in September 2010. She is co-supervised by Philipp Woelfel. Her current work focuses on the efficiency and fairness of dynamic speed scaling strategies used for energy management in computer systems.
  • Faisal Iqbal
    Faisal is an M.Sc. student who joined our group in January 2010. His research focuses on detection of network traffic anomalies. He is co-supervised by Carey Williamson and Michael Locasto.
  • Yang Li
    Yang Li is a new M.Sc. student who joined our group in September 2011, following his B.Sc. at the University of Lethbridge. He is currently doing the coursework component of his M.Sc. program. His research interests include P2P systems, streaming, wireless networks, and network simulation. He is co-supervised by Mea Wang and Carey Williamson.
  • Aniket Mahanti
    Aniket started the Ph.D. program in September 2008, following his M.Sc. on WLAN traffic measurement, and a year or so as a full-time Research Associate in the group. His interests focus on Web 2.0 applications, including online social networks and one-click file hosting services. Some of his recent work appeared at IFIP Performance 2011. He will be graduating in Spring 2012, and is currently on the job market.
  • Ashwathi Samba Shiva
    Ashwathi is a new M.Sc. student who joined our group in September 2011. She is currently taking the courses required for her M.Sc. program. Her research interests are in network security. She is co-supervised by Michael Locasto and Carey Williamson.
  • Shambhavi Srinivasa
    Shambhavi started the M.Sc. program in September 2009. She is co-supervised by Zongpeng Li and Carey Williamson. Sham's work focuses on barrier coverage in WSNs, and involves theoretical and simulation investigation of WSNs. She will be defending her M.Sc. thesis in December 2011, and then starting the Ph.D. program in our group.
  • Ruiting (Rebecca) Zhou
    Rebecca started the M.Sc. program in September 2010. She is co-supervised by Zongpeng Li and Carey Williamson. Her current work focuses on network coding in wireless networks. Some of her work was recently published at IEEE MASS 2011.

Former Students

  • Ali Dabirmoghaddam
    Ali started the M.Sc. program in September 2008, and defended in December 2010. His area of research was energy-efficient clustering strategies for wireless sensor networks. He was co-supervised by Majid Ghaderi and Carey Williamson.
  • Sean Boyden
    Sean started the M.Sc. program in September 2004. He is co-supervised by Anirban Mahanti and Carey Williamson. Sean is interested in video streaming protocols. Some of his early work on characterization of RealVideo streaming applications appeared at SCS SPECTS 2005.
  • Xiaozhen (Jean) Cao
    Jean started her Ph.D. in September 2003, and defended in December 2008. She worked on Quality of Service (QoS) issues for wireless media streaming. In particular, she explored the "bad apple" problem in WLANs, and the design of possible solutions for stadium-scale wireless media streaming. Some of her work appeared at EuroIMSA 2005 and IEEE MASCOTS 2006. She currently works at General Dynamics Canada in Calgary.
  • Mingwei Gong
    Mingwei started the Ph.D. program in September 2003, following the completion of his M.Sc. on Web server scheduling. His Ph.D. thesis studied the applicability of size-based scheduling in computer networks, and related fairness issues. Some of his most recent work appeared in RAWNET 2006, Computer Networks, and IEEE MASCOTS 2009. Mingwei completed his Ph.D. in July 2009, and currently works at Wedge Networks in Calgary.
  • Abhinav Gupta
    Abhinav started the M.Sc. program in September 2002. His thesis studied routing protocols for ad hoc wireless networks. In particular, his research implemented and evaluated a location-aware version of AODV. He defended in August 2004. A paper describing his work appeared in IEEE/ACM MASCOTS 2004.
  • Emir Halepovic
    Emir graduated from our Ph.D. program in August 2010. He was co-supervised by Carey Williamson and Majid Ghaderi. Emir's research interests include wireless and cellular networks, WiMAX, and multimedia application performance. Some of his recent work appeared in IEEE MASCOTS 2008 and IEEE Network (March 2009).
  • Islam Hegazy
    Islam was a Ph.D. student co-supervised by Rei Safavi-Naini and Carey Williamson. He defended successfully in Summer 2011. His research interests were on wireless sensor networks and network security. Papers describing his work appeared at AdHocNets 2009 and D-SPAN 2010.
  • Andreas Hirt
    Andreas defended his Ph.D. in March 2010. He worked on the design, implementation, and evaluation of anonymous communication protocols for the Internet, significantly extending the work from his M.Sc. thesis in 2004. Some of his recent work appeared in IEEE MASCOTS 2008. Andreas was co-supervised by Michael Jacobson.
  • Gwen Houtzager
    Gwen started her M.Sc. program in September 2002, working on optimizing Web proxy cache placement. Gwen explored different solution techniques to tackle this challenging optimization problem, including packet-level simulation and evolutionary algorithms. Papers describing her work appeared in IEEE/ACM MASCOTS 2003 and EC 2006. She defended her thesis in January 2005.
  • Ibrahim Ismail
    Ibrahim started the M.Sc. program in September 2007, and defended in January 2011. His area of research was network security and privacy. His M.Sc. thesis work focused on the performance benchmarking of anonymity protocols.
  • Rohit Joshi
    Rohit started the M.Sc. program in January 2008, with research interests include wireless network security. Rohit has since transferred to the MBA program at UNB.
  • Ahmed Obied
    Ahmed was an M.Sc. student with interests in network security. His thesis was on the collection and analysis of Web-based exploits and malware. Ahmed was co-supervised by Michael Jacobson and Carey Williamson.
  • Yujian (Peter) Li
    Peter entered the M.Sc. program in May 2002. He worked on Web/TCP performance. In particular, his research developed a stochastic mathematical model for estimating Web document download latency when using the TCP protocol. Peter defended his M.Sc. thesis in February 2004. A paper describing his work appeared in IEEE/ACM MASCOTS 2004.
  • Alok Madhukar
    Alok started the M.Sc. program in September 2003. His thesis was on peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic classification. He successfully defended his thesis in October 2005.
  • Aniket Mahanti
    Aniket started the M.Sc. program in September 2004. His thesis work was on wireless network traffic measurement.
  • Dan Munteanu
    Dan started his M.Sc. program in September 2002. He designed and implemented an FPGA-based network processor board that can do on-the-fly processing of network packets (e.g., just-in-time compression, Web content transcoding, network monitoring, network intrusion detection). He defended his M.Sc. thesis in August 2004.
  • Kehinde (Kenny) Oladosu
    Kenny started the M.Sc. program in September 2001, and finished in August 2003. His work was on wireless Web performance. In particular, his research used wireless LAN traffic measurements to identify performance problems in the interactions between HTTP and TCP/IP protocols on wireless LANs. A paper describing his work appeared at MWAN 2004. Kenny is now pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Western Ontario.
  • Nadim Parvez
    Nadim started the Ph.D. program in January 2005, following the completion of his M.Sc. at the University of Manitoba. His research interests include analytical modeling of TCP. Nadim was co-supervised by Carey Williamson and Anirban Mahanti. He successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis in August 2009. Papers describing his work appeared in ICC 2006, ACM SIGMETRICS 2008, and IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (2010).
  • Tuan Vu
    Tuan was an M.Sc. student co-supervised by Rei Safavi-Naini and Carey Williamson. His research interests include computer network security, and secure key distribution in wireless sensor networks. He successfully defended his M.Sc. thesis in October 2009. Some of his work appeared at ICST ValueTools 2009.
  • Ian Wormsbecker
    Ian started the M.Sc. program in September 2003. His work studied MAC protocols for multi-channel wireless ad hoc networks, looking at the interactions of these protocols with TCP. A paper describing some of his work has been submitted for possible publication.
  • Fang (Shelly) Xiao
    Shelly started her M.Sc. program in September 2001. She studied TCP performance over wireless networks. She used wireless LAN traffic measurements to identify fairness problems for the TCP protocol on IEEE 802.11b wireless LANs and WANs. She defended her M.Sc. in August 2004.

 

Last Updated 13 November 2011