Ph.D. Students

  • Anthony Clark, Coevolution of Morphology and Control for Robots, current student.
  • Chad Byers (co-advised with B. Cheng), Evolution of Robot Controllers, current student.
  • Daniel Couvertier, Selective Pressure and the Evolution of Cooperation, current student.
  • Brian Connelly, Ecological Effects on the Evolution of Cooperative Behavior, current student.
  • David Knoester, Evolution of Cooperative Behavior in Distributed Systems, current student.
  • Benjamin Beckmann, Evolving Cooperative, Energy-Conserving Agent-Based Systems, Ph.D., May 2010. Currently a research scientist at General Electric Research.
  • Eric Kasten, An Integrated Approach to Autonomous Computation in Data Streaming Applications, Ph.D., May 2007. Currently a research scientist with the Remote Environmental Assessment Laboratory at MSU.
  • Farshad Samimi, Service Clouds: Overlay-Based Infrastructure for Autonomic Communication Services, Ph.D., December 2007. Currently with GoldSpot Media Corporation.
  • Zhinan Zhou, Design and Evaluation of Adaptive Software for Mobile Computing Systems, Ph.D., August 2006. Currently with Samsung Corporation.
  • Chiping Tang, Underlay-Aware Overlay Networks, Ph.D., August 2005. Currently with Microsoft Corporation.
  • Peng Ge, Interactive Video Multicast in Wireless LANs, Ph.D., December 2004. Currently with Intel Corporation.
  • Masoud Sadjadi, Transparent Shaping Support for Adaptability in Pervasive and Autonomic Computing, Ph.D., August 2004. Currently position: Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science, Florida International University.
  • Yih Huang, Group Communication under Link-State Routing, Ph.D., May 1998. Position on graduation: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, George Mason University.
  • Yih-jia Tsai, Modeling Collective Communication: Design and Performance Evaluation, Ph.D., May 1997. Position on graduation: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Tamkang University, Taiwan.
  • David F. Robinson, Scalable Multicast Communication in Massively Parallel Computers, Ph.D., 1994 (co-advised with B. Cheng). Current position: Professor of Computer Science, Quincy University.
  • Christian Trefftz, Effects of Collective Communications in Parallel Numerical Algorithms, Ph.D., 1994. Current position: Associate professor, Department of Computer Science, Grand Valley State University.
  • M.S. Students

    Undergraduate Researchers

  • Malcolm Doering, Evolution of Collective Communication in Robots, 2010-present.
  • Anthony Curley, Digital Evolution of Collective Behavior and Evolutionary Robotics, 2008-present.
  • Joseph Meleca, Applying Digital Evolution to the Study of Antibiotic Resistance, 2006-2007.
  • Alex Kuhn, Extensions to the Avrora Sensor Network Simulator, 2006-2007.
  • Paul Labadie, Design of an Object-Oriented Multicast Video Server, 1995-1996.
  • Scott Hetrick, Java-based Applications on World-Wide Web, 1995-1996.
  • Joseph D. Budzyn, Design and Performance of a Video Server, Summer 1995.
  • Wendy S. Weiss, MultiSim++: An Object-Oriented Simulator of Parallel Computer Architectures, 1993-1994.
  • C. Jeremy Uniacke, Parallel Numerical Algorithms on Workstation Clusters, Summer 1993.
  • William J. Ryan, Load Balancing in a Scalable Eigenvalue Solver, Summer 1992.