1. Jong-Tae Lee, Spring 1999

Area of Expertise: Wavelength Converter Placement in Optical Networks

2. Ashok Ramakrishnan, Spring 2000

Area of Expertise: Virtual Topology Reconfiguration in Optical Networks

3. Srinath Yaragorla, Summer 2000

Area of Expertise: Sparse Regeneration in a Translucent Network

4. Ling Zhong, Spring 2000

Area of Expertise: Optimizing of Amplifier Placements in Switched Optical Networks

5. Shu Zhang, Spring 2001

Area of Expertise: Dynamic Traffic Grooming for Reconfigurable WDM Networks

6. Lu Shen, Spring 2002

Area of Expertise: Signaling Schemes for GMPLS-based WDM Mesh Networks

7. Kalpana Ganesan, Spring 2003

Area of Expertise: P-Lambda Scheduler for WDM Optical Packet Switching

8. Ajay Kumar Todimala, Spring 2003

Area of Expertise: Fault-Tolerance in Optical WDM Mesh Networks

9. Siva Sunkavalli, Summer 2003

Area of Expertise: Scatternet Formation in Bluetooth Networks

10. Ravi Balachandran, Fall 2004

Area of Expertise: Secure Group Communication over Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

11. Garhan Attebury, Summer 2006

Area of Expertise: Federated Network Management through Attribute Access Control

12. Pratheeswaran Angu, Summer 2011

Area of Expertise: Offline Optimization of Advance Reservation over Dynamic Networks

13. Lin Liu, Fall 2011

Area of Expertise: Distributed Algorithms for Energy Savings in the Core Network

14. Joeyeta Mukherjee, Summer 2012

Area of Expertise: Routing Over The Interplanetary Internet

15. Santiago Gimenez Ocano, Spring 2015

Area of Expertise: Remote Mobile Screen (RMS): An Approach for Secure BYOD Environments

16. Sara El Alaoui, Fall 2015

Area of Expertise: Routing Optimization in Interplanetary Networks

17. Lalita Kumawat, Fall 2021

18. Sowmya Bandari, MS. (CS), Spring 2025

Position: Software Test Engineer III at Boston Scientific

Area of Expertise: Cyber Security, SDN, Machine Learning & AI

Thesis: A Machine Learning Framework for Packet Anomaly Detection in Smartgrid Substation Networks

19. M A U Shariff, MS. (CS), Summer 2025

Position: PhD in CS at University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Area of Expertise:

  • Artificial Intelligence & Foundation Models
  • Generative AI & Neuro-Symbolic Systems
  • Network Traffic Forecasting & Anomaly Detection
  • Self-Supervised Learning
  • Agentic Workflows & AIOps
  • AI for Research & Education Networks (RENs)

Thesis: Traffic Prediction for Research and Education Networks: Anomaly-aware Deep Learning and Benchmarking