FORMER PHD Students
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." -- Aristotle
1. Dr. Ilia Baldine (1998)
Manager, Networking Research and Infrastructure , RENCI, Chapel Hill, NC.
Dissertation: Dynamic Reconfiguration in Broadcast WDM Networks (pdf)
2. Dr. Claris Castillo (2008)
Research Staff Member, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Dissertation: On the Design of Efficient Resource Allocation Mechanisms for Grids (pdf)
Claris was named a finalist for the Google 2007 Anita Borg Scholarship for Women in Computer Science. She also received a 2006 Outstanding Teaching Assistant award at NC State. She was a co-op for Cisco Systems during the Fall 2007 semester, a research intern at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center during the summer of 2007, and a research intern for Intel in the summer of 2006.
3. Dr. Bensong Chen (2005)
Research Scientist, Google, Mountain View, CA.
Dissertation: Hierarchical Traffic Grooming in Large-Scale WDM Networks (pdf)
4. Dr. Rudra Dutta (2001)
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University.
Dissertation: Virtual Topology Design for Traffic Grooming in Optical WDM Networks (pdf)
5. Dr. Laura Jackson (2003)
Senior Research Statistician, SAS Institute, Cary, NC.
Dissertation: The Directional p-Median Problem with Applications to Traffic Quantization and Multiprocessor Scheduling (pdf)
Laura was a GAANN fellow (2000-2003), and she received the 2004 College of Engineering Nancy G. Pollock PhD Dissertation award.
6. Dr. M. William (Bill) McKinnon (1997)
Telecommunications Consultant, Atlanta, GA.
Dissertation: Performance Analysis of a Class of Photonic Interconnection Architectures (pdf)
7. Dr. Zeydy Ortiz-Laureano (1998)
Manager, IBM, RTP, NC.
Dissertation: Techniques to Support Multicast Traffic in Single-Hop WDM Optical Networks (pdf)
Zeydy was an NSA fellow (1994-1998)
8. Dr. Supriya Sharma (1997)
Research Scientist, Alcatel, Plano, TX.
Dissertation: Optimal Buffer Management for Shared Buffer ATM Switches
9. Dr. Jing Teng (2004)
Microsoft, Redmond, WA.
Dissertation: A Study of Optical Burst Switched Networks with the Jumpstart Just-In-Time Signaling Protocol (pdf)
10. Dr. Yufeng Xin (2002)
Principal Scientist, MCNC, RTP, NC.
Dissertation: Topology Design of Large-Scale Optical Networks (pdf)
11. Dr. Lisong Xu (2002)
Assistant Professor, CSE Department, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Dissertation: Performance Analysis of Optical Burst Switched Networks (pdf)
Lisong received a 2007 NSF CAREER award.
12. Dr. Li Yang (2006)
Scalable Networks, Los Angeles, CA.
Dissertation: Congestion Control and Quality of Service (QoS) Provisions for Optical Burst Switched Networks (pdf)
13. Dr. A. Halim Zaim (2001)
Associate Professor, ECE Department, Istanbul University, Turkey.
Dissertation: Congestion Control and Quality of Service (QoS) Provisions for Optica Burst Switched Networks (pdf)
14. Dr. Yuhong Zhu (1999)
Consultant, RTP, NC.
Dissertation: Computation of Blocking Probabilities in Wavelength Routing Networks (pdf)