Current Students

• Pitch Patarasuk (PHD, Research Assistant)
  • Journal papers: JPDC09, JPDC08, IJPP07a, IJPP07, TPDS07
  • Conference papers: IPDPS08, ICS07, HIPS07, IPDPS06, CLUSTER05
  • Honors:
    • Winner, FSU CSD Graduate Student Research Conference, 2007
• Wickus Nienaber (PHD, Research Assistant)
  • Journal papers: TON09, TPDS08
  • Conference papers: ANCS07, SIGMETRICS07
  • Honors:
    • Student traval grant to ACM ANCS 2007
• Chi Zhang (PHD, Research Assistant)
• Matthew Small (PHD, GAANN Fellow)
  • Journal papers:
  • Conference papers: ICS09
• Joshua Lawrence (MS/PHD)
  • Journal papers:
  • Conference papers: SMTPS08

Former PhD Students

• Ahmad Faraj, PHD, Fall 2006.
  • Dissertation: "Empirical Techniques for Developing Efficient MPI Collective Communication Routines"
  • First Employment: IBM
  • Journal papers: JPDC08, IJPP07a, IJPP07, TPDS07
  • Conference papers: ICS07, ICS06, IPDPS06, CLUSTER05, ICS05, ICPP05, IPDPS05, PDCS02, CSI02
  • Honors:
    • Student travel grant to ACM SC 2006
    • Student travel grant to ACM ICS 2006

Former MS Students

• Wickus Nienaber, MS, Spring 2007
  • Thesis: "On LID Assignment in Infiniband Networks"
  • First Employment: PhD student, FSU
• Joshua Lawrence, BS, Spring 2007
  • Honor thesis: "An MPI Tool for Discovering the Switch Level Topology in Ethernet Switched Clusters"
  • First Employment: Graduate Student, FSU
• Kannan Sankaran, MS, Summer 2005
  • Topic: "Bypass-Based Optical Routing and Its Evaluation"
  • First Employment: Florida State Government
• Ansari Almas, MS, Summer 2004
  • Topic: "Topology Aggregation for Networks with Multiple Performance Metrics".
  • First Employment: unknown
• Shiling Ding, MS, Summer 2003
  • Topic: "Implementing MPI_Bcast over IP multicast".
  • First Employment: FSU, College of Engineering
• Amit Karwande, MS, Spring 2003
  • Topic: "CC-MPI: A Compiled Communication Capable MPI Prototype for Ethernet Switched Clusters." (paper version published in PPoPP'03 and JPDC)
  • First Employment: Amazon.com
• Kavitha Bangalore, MS, Fall 2002
  • Topic: "A Minimum Interference Hybrid Algorithm for MPLS Networks".
  • First Employment: unknown
• Amhad Faraj, MS, Fall 2002
  • Topic: "Communication Characteristics in the NAS Parallel Benchmarks" (The paper version published in PDCS 2002).
  • First Employment: PHD student, FSU.
• Guang Yang, MS, Fall 2002
  • Topic: "Empirical Probability Based QoS Routing".
  • First Employment: Florida State Government, currently amazon.com
• Xingming Liu, MS, Spring 2002
  • Topic: "Algorithms for Multi-Constrained Quality of Service Routing" (The paper version published in IEEE INFOCOM, 2001).
  • First Employment: unknown
• Jun Zhou, MS, Spring 2002
  • Topic: "Dynamic Routing and Wavelength Assignment with Imprecise State Information" (The paper version published in ICPP Workshop on Optical Networks, 2002)
  • First Employment: Florida state government
• Amit Fulay, MS, Fall 2001
  • Topic: "A Wavelength Assignment Algorithm to Minimize SONET ADMs" (A preliminary report published in 2001 ICPP Workshop on Optical Networks. The paper version for the final report is published in IEEE ICC2002)
  • First Employment: Microsoft, Redmond.
• Wei Zheng, MS, Summer 2001
  • Topic: "A Comparative Study of Quality of Service Routing Schemes That Tolerate Imprecise State Information" (The paper version published in IEEE IC3N 2002)
  • First Employment: Convergys Co., Orlando
• Arif Saifee, MS, Summer 2001
  • Topic: "Path Selection Methods for Localized Quality of Service Routing" (paper version published in IEEE IC3N 2001)
  • First Employment: Microsoft, Redmond.
• Nitin Agrawal, MS, Summer 2001
  • Topic: "A Study of Application Layer Adaptation Techniques to Improve Web Performance"
  • First Employment: Microsoft, Redmond.
• Jie Zhang, MS, Spring 2001
  • Topic: "Backward Resource Reservation for Multi-path QoS Routing" (paper version published in IEEE IC3N 2000)
  • First Employment: DataMax Inc., Tallahassee.
• Ryan Lane, MS, Fall 2000
  • Topic: "A Comprehensive Evaluation of Reliable Multicast Protocols over Ethernet-Connected Networks" (paper version published in ICPP 2001)
  • First Employment: Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting), Atlanta.
• Hui Ding, MS, Summer 2000
  • Topic: "A Hybrid Resource Reservation Scheme for the Ticket-Based QoS Routing Algorithm" (paper version published in IEEE ICCCN 2000)
  • First Employment: CISCO system, San Jose.
• Yuan Zhong, MS, Fall 1999
  • Topic: "Impact of Resource Reservation on Distributed QoS Routing Algorithms"(paper version published in IwQoS2000)
  • First Employment: Fedex, Information Technology Division, Orlando.
• Paul Shelton, MS, Summer 1999
  • Topic: "An Automatic Account Generator".
  • First Employment: SEI Investment, Philadelphia.