1. Xukai Zou, Ph.D. (CS), Fall 2000

Area of Expertise: Secure Group Communications and Hierarchical Access Control

2. Yi Yang, Ph.D. (CS), Summer 2004

Area of Expertise: Efficient Design and Operation of Translucent Optical WDM Networks

3. Wang Yao, Ph.D. (CS), Summer 2005

Area of Expertise: Traffic Grooming in Next-Generation Optical WDM Mesh Networks

4. Mengke Li, Ph.D. (CS), December 2005

Area of Expertise: Cost-Efficient Design of Waveband Switching in Optical Wavelength Division Multiplexed Networks

5. Lu Shen, Ph.D. (CS), May 2006

Area of Expertise: Resource Allocation in Wavelength-Routed WDM Mesh Networks

6. Ajay Kumar Todimala, Ph.D. (CS), December 2006

Area of Expertise: Fault-tolerance using Shared Path Protection in Wavelength Division Multiplexing Optical Transport Networks

7. Yong Wang, Ph.D. (CS), December 2007

Area of Expertise: Key Management Protocols for Hybrid Wireless Sensor Networks

8. Yuyuan Xue, Ph.D. (CE), Spring 2010 (Co-advised with Prof. M. Can Vuran)

Area of Expertise: Service-Differentiated and Reliable Communication in Event-Based Wireless Sensor Networks

9. Miao Wang, Ph.D. (CS), Spring 2011 (Co-advised with Prof. Lisong Xu)

Area of Expertise: Multi-Channel Peer-to-Peer Streaming Systems as Resource Allocation Problems

10. Zhipeng Ouyang, Ph.D. (CS), Summer 2012 (Co-advised with Prof. Lisong Xu)

Area of Expertise: On Heterogeneous User Demands in Peer-to-Peer Video Streaming Systems

11. Adrian Lara, Ph.D. (CS), Fall 2015

Area of Expertise: Using Software-Defined Networking to Improve Campus, Transport, and Future Internet Architectures

12. Sara El Alaoui, Ph.D. (CS), Fall 2020

Area of Expertise: Routing Optimization in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks for Space and Mission-Driven Internet of Things (IoT) Environments

13. Deepak Nadig Anantha, Ph.D. (CS), Summer 2021

Position: Assistant Professor at Purdue University

Area of Expertise: Application-awareness in Softwarized Networks: Building Intelligent Networks through Application and Network-layer Collaboration

14. Shideh Yavary Mehr, Ph.D. (CE), 2022

15. Venkat Sai Suman Lamba Karanam, Ph.D. (CS), Summer 2025

Position: Assistant Professor at Bowling Green State University

Area of Expertise: Mathematical Modeling, Large-Scale Data Analysis, ML/AI, and Parsimonious Learning

Thesis: Non-blackbox Robust Design of Machine Learning in Networks

16. Boyang Hu, Ph.D. (CE), Summer 2025

Company: Bgin Blockchain Limited

Area of Expertise: Network Security & Telecommunications, Optical and Wireless Networks, SDN, Machine Learning & AI

Thesis: Intelligent Multi-layer Optical Network Design and Network Softwarization