Students

 

Currently Advised Students

  • Bipul Thapa, Ph.D. student
  • Jianbo Zhang, Ph.D. student
  • Xinyang Shen, Ph.D. student
  • Ahmad Almansoor, Ph.D. student

    • Our wonderful research team:

    Lab Alumni

    • Weibin Ma, Ph.D. (2023)
      • Dissertation: "Enhancing IoT Services in Mobile Edge Computing: Offloading Strategies and SFC Placement Techniques"
      • Intern, Meta, Summer 2022.
      • Outstanding Graduate Student Award, 2021 (one CIS student per academic year).
      • CIS Distinguished Graduate Student Award, 2020.
      • NSF-sponsored Student Travel Grant to attend ACM/IEEE SEC, 2019.
    • Erfan Farhangi Maleki, Ph.D. (2023)
      • Dissertation: "Systems Solutions for Emerging Mobility Challenges in Smart Cities"
      • University Doctoral Fellowship Award, 2022-2023.
      • CIS Distinguished Graduate Student Award, 2022.
      • CIS Distinguished Graduate Student Award, 2021.
    • Dixit Bhatta, Ph.D. (2022)
      • Dissertation: "Efficient and Scalable Cloudlet Placement Approaches for Edge Computing in Next-Generation Networks"
      • University Dissertation Fellowship, 2021-2022.
      • Outstanding Graduate Student Award, 2020 (one CIS student per academic year).
      • University Doctoral Fellowship Award, 2020-2021.
      • NSF-sponsored Student Travel Grant to attend ACM/IEEE SEC, 2019.
    • Nafiseh Sharghivand, Ph.D. (2020), co-advisor
      • Dissertation: "Auction-based Virtual Machine Provisioning, Allocation, and Dynamic Pricing in Cloud Environments with Heterogeneous Resources"
    • Daniah Jones, undergrad student, Spring-Summer 2025 (Senior Thesis)
    • Everett Richards, undergrad student, Summer 2024
    • Rifat Sadik, Fall 2023 - Spring 2024
    • Patrick Gagliano, Fall 2020 - Spring 2022
    • Xuanzhang Liu, M.Sc. student, Spring 2018 - Spring 2020
    • Mu He, M.Sc. student (data science), Spring 2019 - Spring 2020
    • Betty Zhang, undergrad student, Fall 2018
    • Scott Miller, undergrad student, Summer-Fall 2018
    • Aamir Majeed, undergrad student, Spring-Summer 2018
    • Boris Huang, undergrad student, Summer 2017

    Ph.D. Committee Member

    • Sha Liu, University of Delaware, CIS, advisor: Dr. Keith Decker
    • Xiao Qian, University of Delaware, Civil Eng, advisor: Dr. Shangjia Dong
    • Saurabh Balasaheb Mohite, University of Delaware, Civil Eng, advisor: Dr. Shangjia Dong
    • Felipe Arruda Pontes, Ph.D. (2025), University of Galway, Data Analytics, advisors: Dr. Edward Curry & Dr. Michael Schukat
    • Motahare Mounesan, Ph.D. (2025), The City University of New York, CS, advisor: Dr. Saptarshi Debroy
    • Sanaz Rabinia, Ph.D. (2025), Wayne State University, CS, advisor: Dr. Daniel Grosu
    • Heeseung Bang, Ph.D. (2024), Cornell University, Mechanical Engineering, advisor: Dr. Andreas Malikopoulos
    • Abdullah Alnajim, Ph.D. (2024), University of Delaware, CIS, advisor: Dr. Chien-Chung Shen
    • Mina Samizadeh, Ph.D. (2024), University of Delaware, CIS, advisor: Dr. Guangmo (Amo) Tong
    • Yukun Dong, Ph.D. (2023), University of Delaware, CIS, advisor: Dr. Rui Zhang
    • Kasra Nezamabadi, Ph.D. (2023), University of Delaware, CIS, advisor: Dr. Hagit Shatkay
    • Laleh Ghalami, Ph.D. (2022), Wayne State University, CS, advisor: Dr. Daniel Grosu
    • Yidan Hu, Ph.D. (2021), University of Delaware, CIS, advisor: Dr. Rui Zhang
    • Tayebeh Bahreini, Ph.D. (2021), Wayne State University, CS, advisor: Dr. Daniel Grosu
    • Fateme Sadat Hosseini, Ph.D. (2021), University of Delaware, ECE, advisor: Dr. Chengmo Yang
    • Haoran Wei, Ph.D. (2020), University of Delaware, CIS, advisor: Dr. Keith Decker
    • Seyedmohammad Salehi, Ph.D. (2020), University of Delaware, CIS, advisor: Dr. Chien-Chung Shen
    • Ayush Dusia, Ph.D. (2019), University of Delaware, CIS, advisor: Dr. Adarsh Sethi
    • Hoda Aghaei Khouzani, Ph.D. (2018), University of Delaware, ECE, advisor: Dr. Chengmo Yang