Students

Current

Masters

• Dimcho Karakashev (UW)
• Amelia Holcombe (UW)
• David Adeboye (Cambridge)

Undergraduate thesis

Jan Deller (Cambridge)

UROP (Cam)

• Yu He
• Alan Marko
• David Wesby

URA (UW)

• Bill Tong
• Yijie Wang
• Brad Huang

Past

Post-doc

Ju Wang, Ph.D. from Northwestern University, China. RFID sensors. [2018-2019]

Liqiong Chang, Ph.D. from Northwestern University, China. RFID sensors. [2018-2019]

Ansis Rosmanis, Ph.D. from University of Waterloo. Smart lighting. [2016]

Rachel Kalaimani, Ph.D. from IIT Bombay. Energy-efficient HVAC operation. [2015-2016]

Yashar Ghiassi-Farrokhfal, Ph.D. from University of Toronto. Solar and Storage management. (2012-2015)

Kirill Kogan, Ph.D. from Ben Gurion University. Multi-connected microgrids. (2012-2013)

Weihong Wang, Ph.D. from U. Toronto. EV scheduling. (2010-2011)

Andre Allavena, Ph.D. from Cornell University. Leaf-only trees for massively parallel computing. (2005-2006)

Ph.D.

Christian Gorenflo: 2015-2020, Waterloo. Thesis: Towards a New Generation of Permissioned Blockchain Systems

Fiodar Kazhamiaka: 2014-2019, Waterloo. Thesis: Modelling, Design, and Control of Energy Systems: A Data-Driven Approach (Postdoc at Stanford)

Adedamola Adepetu: 2012-2016, Waterloo. Thesis: An Agent-Based Modeling Framework for Energy Policies (CIBC Bank --> Loblaws)

Rayman Preet Singh: 2011-2015, Waterloo. Thesis: Personal Data Management in the Internet of Things (Samsung Research --> Amazon --> LinkedIn)

Omid Ardakanian: 2009-2015, Waterloo. Thesis: On the Control of Active End-nodes in the Smart Grid (Postdoc UC Berkeley --> Postdoc UBC --> Faculty member at U. Alberta)

Tommy Carpenter: 2010-2015, Waterloo. Thesis: Measuring & Mitigating Electric Vehicle Adoption Barriers (AT&T Research)

Earl Oliver: 2006-2012, Waterloo. Thesis: Censorship Tolerant Networking (Brio Mobile)

Andy Curtis: 2008-2012, Waterloo. Thesis: Reducing the cost of Operating a Datacenter Network (Nicera --> VmWare --> Avi Networks)

Nabeel Ahmed: 2004-2009, Waterloo. Thesis: Interference Management in Dense 802.11 Networks (post-doc at MIT --> Ruckus Wireless --> Facebook)

Aaditeshwar Seth: 2004-2008, Waterloo, Co-supervised by Prof. R. Cohen. Thesis: Design of a Recommender System for Participatory Media Built on a Tetherless Communication Infrastructure (IBM Research, India --> Assistant Professor at IIT Delhi --> Associate Professor at IIT Delhi)

Majid Ghaderi: 2004-2006, Waterloo, Co-supervised by Prof. R. Boutaba. Thesis: Resource management in heterogeneous wireless networks (PostDoc at U. Mass. Amherst --> Associate Professor at U. Calgary)

Cristian Estan(2): 1998-99, Cornell. (U. Wisconsin --> Architect at NetLogic Microsystems)

Yin Zhang(1): 1997-99, Cornell. (AT&T Labs --> Associate Professor at UT Austin)

Lili Qiu(1): 1997-99, Cornell. (Microsoft Research --> Associate Professor at UT Austin --> Professor at UT Austin)

Jia Wang(1): 1997-99, Cornell. (Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Labs)

Snorri Gylfason(3): 1997-99, Cornell. (Ensim --> VmWare --> Facebook)

Rosen Sharma: 1996-99, Cornell. Thesis: 'Internet TV', formerly CEO at Solidcore. (Ensim --> SolidCore --> CTO of the Systems and Virtualization Business at McAfee --> CEO BlueStacks)

(1) Completed Ph.D. with Dr. Robbert van Renesse at Cornell

(2) Completed Ph.D. with Prof. George Varghese at UC San Diego

(3) Left the Ph.D. program to join Ensim Corp.

M.S./MMath

2019: Y. Aussat

2016: A. Rabbani, M. Doroshenko, A. Pat

2015: I. Rios

2014: E. Rezaei, X. Gao

2013: P.X. Gao, S. Singla

2012: B. Hu, R. Case

2011: O. Ardakanian

2009: U. Ismail

2008: H. Falaki, S. Ur Rahman, D. Hadaller

2007: S. Guo, O. Beg, E. Oliver

2005: N. Ahmed

1999: Y. Xu, N. Sastry, J. Wann, P. Singh, A. Singh, M. Ranjan, W. Ng, J. Howes

1998: K. Lee, R. Schwager, R. Siamwalla

1997: D. Balakrishna, K. Chan, B. Nicks, J. Teo, M. Wu, L. Wu, H. Jamjoom

1995: M. Grossglauser

B.Tech Thesis advisees

2003: A. Jain (now at Google) and G. Kwatra, IIT Delhi

1993: A. Sahay, IIT Delhi

One-year research interns at Bell Labs

1995-1996: A. Jain

1994-1995: M. Grossglauser, now Assistant Professor at EPFL

1994-1995: R. Ahuja

Undergraduate Research Assistants

2020: Ivy Liu (--> Columbia), Brad Huang, Bill Tong, Yijie Wang

2019: Samuel Lu (--> UC Berkeley), Yingjie (Jenny) Chen, Runbiao Zhang, Ashwin Sekhari, Bhargav Das, Tingyin Liu, Shela Qiu, Jia Ying Lin

2018: Sasha Doubov, Ankai Jie

2017: Ankai Jie

2015: Kewei Charlie Shi

2008: C. Tang, A. Leong, C. Ho, D. Yim, A. Narayan (DEI, Agra, India)

2007: M. Zaharia (--> UC Berkeley-->MIT-->Stanford), R. Sethi (IIT KGP), S. Dube (IITK), U. Ismail (LUMS), S. Mustaq (LUMS)

2006: Y. Xu, M. Zaharia, G. Wang, G. Goel (IITD), Z. Koradia (IITK)

2005: M. Liang, G. Salmon, H. Pan, M. Zaharia, S. Fung, M. Thomas (IIT KGP), H. Chopra (IIT B), G. Singh(IIT D), R. Garg (IIT K), R. Jain (IIT B), A. Agarwal (IIT D), Y. Yin, G. Wang

2004: H. Pan, M. Zaharia, P. Darragh, J. Hilliker, G. Salmon, B. Redman, M. Thomas, A. Lifchits, S. Fung, N. Arora

2003: P. Darragh, S. Fung, M. Tariq

1999: W. Chang, H. Chan, D. Guitirrez, L. Ku

1998: A. Landrum, J. Lin

1997: A. Narasimhan