Students Supervised

Current Doctoral Students

  1. Fatme Mohammed El-Moukaddem, expected graduation May 2009, algorithmic issues in wireless networks.
  2. Chad Meiners, expected graduation May 2008, network-motivated scheduling problems.
  3. Jignesh Patel, expected graduation May 2008, scheduling problems.
  4. Matthew Rupp, expected graduation May 2009, digital life and evolution of complex features.

Graduated Doctoral Students

  1. Barbara Bircher Gannod (co-advised with Abdol Esfahanian), August 1997, Toward a General Theory of Multicast Communication, currently at Arizona State University.
  2. Dehua Hang, December 2005, Evaluation of Phylogeny Reconstruction Algorithms, currently a Postdoctoral Associate in Gaetano Montelione's CABM Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory at Rutgers.
  3. Patchrawat Uthaisombut, August 2000, New Directions in Machine Scheduling, currently an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
  4. Stephen Wagner, Summer 2001, Restricted Cache Scheduling.

Current Masters Students with Projects/Theses

  1. Carl Bussema, expected graduation August 2007, scheduling problems.
  2. Martin Porcelli, expected graduation August 2007, typed k-server and caching problems.

Graduated Masters Students with Projects/Theses

  1. Jason Brotherton, May 1996, Victim Caching with Better Block Replacement, currently a professor at Ball State University
  2. Houman Alborzi, May 1997, Permuted Substring Matching, with Applications to Computational Biology, currently a PhD student at Maryland
  3. Bing Li, December 1999, Incremental Update of Phylogenetic Trees Using Hierarchical Update, currently working at ??? in Portland
  4. Jignesh Patel, 2004, Restricted k-Server Problem, currently a PhD student at Michigan State University
  5. James Vanderhyde, May 2001, Effects of Natural Selection on Phylogeny Reconstruction Algorithms, currently a PhD student at Georgia Tech

Professorial Assistants/Undergraduate Research Assistants

  1. Christopher Bowron, 1997-2000
  2. Jonathan Brown, 2002-2003
  3. Todd Gormley, 1997-1998, co-author on a publication in ACM-SIAM SODA 2000
  4. Jason McCullough, 1999-2003, co-author on a publication in ACM-SIAM SODA 2004
  5. Christopher J Osborn, 2005-2006, co-author on a publication in Journal of Scheduling
  6. Martin Porcelli, 2002
  7. Matthew Rupp, 2001-2004
  8. Paul Saxman, 1997