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Students

Current Postdoc and Ph.D Students

  1. Dr. Cheng Xin (Postdoc since Oct 2023)
  2. Chengyuan Deng (2021 till now)
  3. Prathamesh Dharangutte (2021 till now)
  4. Vikrant Ashvinkumar (2021 till now)
  5. Kevin Lu (2022 till now), in math PhD program, co-advised with Feng Luo

Past Postdoc and Ph.D Students

  1. Haotian Wang (December 2021). Dissertation: Learning of Network Dynamics: Mobility, Diffusion and Evolution. First job at jd.com.
  2. Aria Rezaei (December 2020). Dissertation: On Challenges in Privacy Protection for Social and Correlated Data. First job at Twitter.
  3. Hao-Tsung Yang (December 2020). Dissertation: Scheduling Algorithms for Mobility and Coverage in Adversarial Settings, co-advised with Prof. Shan Lin. Postdoc at Edinburgh, followed by a tenure-track faculty position at National Central University, Taiwan.
  4. Kin Sum Liu (December 2019). Dissertation: Graph Analysis: Representation, Learning and Optimization, co-advised with Prof. Shan Lin. First job at Twitter.
  5. Jiaxin Ding (December 2018). Dissertation: Geometric Algorithms for Spatio-Temporal Data Sensing, Mining and Privacy Protection. Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University in 2019.
  6. Bo Li (Postdoc from 2016-2017), co-advised with Prof. Grant Schoenebeck. Tenure-track Assistant Professor at UIUC.
  7. Chien-Chun Ni (August 2017). Dissertation: Network Algorithms for Routing and Sensing Using Area Preserving Maps, Homology and Curvature. Received the 2016 Catacosinos Computer Science Award. First job at Yahoo Research Labs.
  8. Golnaz Ghasemiesfeh (August 2017), Dissertation: Contagions in Social Networks. Finalist of Facebook Graduate Student Fellowship 2013. First job at Accenture Research.
  9. Siming Li (May 2017), Dissertation: Mobility and Traffic-Adaptive Routing Algorithms for Wireless and Optical Networks. First job at eBay.
  10. Jiemin Zeng (August 2016), Dissertation: Integrating Mobile Agents and Distributed Sensors in Wireless Sensor Networks. First job at Google.
  11. Akshay Patil (August 2013). Dissertation: Analyzing Dynamics in Online Social Networks. First job at Quantcast. Received the Outstanding Dissertation Progress Award by the American Sociological Association for contributions in computational sociology analysis.
  12. Xiaomeng Ban (December 2012). Dissertation: Exploring Advanced Communication Primitives Using Greedy Routing in Sensor Networks. First job at Google.
  13. Dengpan Zhou (May 2012). Dissertation: Distributed Algorithms for Online Coordination in Wireless Sensor Networks. First job at Nine Chapters Capital Management, LLC.
  14. Rupa Krishnan (August 2010). Dissertation: Improving Network Performance through Measurement Based Analysis. First job at Google.
  15. Rik Sarkar (May 2010). Dissertation: Geometric Abstractions for Information Processing in Sensor Networks. Assistant Professor at University of Edinburgh.
  16. Sol Lederer (December 2009). Dissertation: Localization and Location Certification in Sensor Networks. First job at Morgan Stanley.
  17. Yue Wang (May 2009), co-advised with Prof. Joseph Mitchell. Dissertation: Geometry Discovery With Connectivity Information And Applications In Sensor Networks. First job at Microsoft.
  18. Xianjin Zhu (August 2008), co-advised with Prof. Himanshu Gupta. Dissertation: Collaborative Information Processing and Query Evaluation in Wireless Sensor Networks. First job at Microsoft.