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 received the 2008 College of Engineering Nancy G. Pollock PhD Dissertation award, and her dissertation was also selected as the NCSU nominee to the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) Dissertation award. 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)