Research Visitors and Graduate Students

Current PhD students and Research Assistants at GT:

· Binh Han

· Kisung Lee

· Balaji Palanisamy

· Kaeser Md Sabrin

· Yuzhe Tang

· Matthew Weber

· Qi Zhang

· Yang Zhou

· Kipp Jones (on leave)

· Anand Murugappan (on leave)

Advices to Graduate Students

· Be persistent, hard working, and creative. Be happy, confident, and honest.

· Read all the relevant papers from major journals and conferences on any subject you choose to work on. Reading is an important part of your learning.

· Thinking is more important than reading. Reading with a specific problem in mind is a good way of thinking.

· Articles I recommend you to read:

o Useful Things to Know About Ph. D. Thesis Research by Professor H.T. Kung, Harvard.

o Follow your heart by Andrew Mattews.

PhD Students Graduated from GT

• Dr. Peter Pesti

• Dissertation: Novel Spatial Query Processing Techniques for Scaling Location Based Services
• Graduated Sept. 2012
• Currently with Google, USA

• Dr. Shicong Meng

• Dissertation: Monitoring-as-a-Service in the Cloud
• Graduated March 2012, Received SPEC 2012 PhD Dissertation Award
• Currently with IBM T.J. Watson, USA

• Dr. Myungcheol Doo

• Dissertation: Spatial and Social Diffusion of Information and Influence: Models and Algorithms
• Graduated April 2012
• Currently with Motorola, Chicago, USA

• Dr. Sankaran Sivathanu

• Dissertation: Enhancing Storage Performance in Virtualized Environments: A Pro-active Approach
• Graduated March 2011
• Currently with VMWare, USA

• Dr. Gong Zhang

• Dissertation: Data and Application Migration in Cloud based Data Centers: Architectures and techniques
• Graduated May 2011
• Currently with Oracel, USA

• Dr. Ting Wang

• Dissertation: Data Analytics for Networked and Possibly Private Data Sources
• Graduated April 2011
• Currently with IBM TJ Watson, USA

• Dr. Bhuvan Bamba

• Dissertation: Scaling Location-based Services with Location Privacy Constraints: Architecture and Algorithms
• Graduated June 2010
• Currently with Oracle, USA

• Dr. Sangeetha Seshadri

• Dissertation: Enhancing Availability in Large Scale Storage Systems and Services: Architectures and Techniques
• Graduated March 2009
• Currently with IBM Almaden

• Prof. Dr. James Buchanan Caverlee

• Dissertation: Tamper-Resilient Methods for Intelligent Information Systems
• Graduated June 2007
• Currently a tenure-track assistant professor in the department of computer science, Texas A&M.

• Dr. Aameek Singh

• Dissertation: Secure Management of Networked Storage Services: Models and Techniques
• Graduated April 2007
• Currently with IBM Almaden, as a manager and research staff member.

• Dr. Mudhakar Srivatsa

• Dissertation: Security Architectures and Protocols for Overlay Network Services
• Graduated April 2007
• Currently with IBM T. J. Watson, as a research staff member.

• Prof. Dr. Bugra Gedik

• Dissertation: Scaling Continuous Query Services for Future Computing Platforms and Applications.
• Graduated August 2006
• Currently on faculty at Bilkent (since 2012) and was with IBM TJ Watson.

• Prof. Dr. Keke Chen

• Dissertation: Geometric Methods for Mining Large and Possibly Private Datasets.
• Graduated August 2006
• Currently with Wright State University as a tenure track assistant professor.

• Dr. Jianjun Zhang

• Dissertation: Efficient Information Dissemination in Wide Area Overlay Networks.
• Graduated August 2006
• Currently strategic planning director at Iron Mountain.

• Prof. Dr. Lakshmish Macheeri Ramaswamy

• Dissertation: Towards Efficient Delivery of Dynamic Web Content
• Graduated August 2005
• Currently with University of Georgia, as an associate professor in the CS department.

• Prof. Dr. Li Xiong

• Dissertation: Resilient Reputation and Trust Management: Models and Techniques
• Graduated August 2005
• Currently with Emory University, as a Associate Professor in the CS&MathDepartment.

• Prof. Dr. Lonnie Harvel

• Dissertation: Using Student Generated Notes as an Interface to a Digital Repository
• Graduated Oct. 2005
• Currently Vice President of Educational Technology for Georgia Gwinnett College.

• Prof. Dr. Daniel Rocco

• Dissertation: Discovering and Tracking Interesting Web Services
• Graduated Oct. 2004
• Currently Associate Professor at the State University of West Georgia.

• Dr. David Buttler

• Dissertation: Building Blocks for Composable Web Services
• Graduated August 2003
• Currently a manager and research staff at LLNL, CA.

• Dr. Wei Han

• Dissertation: Wrapper Application Generation for the Semantic Web
• Graduated Oct. 2003
• Currently with IBM Almaden.

• Dr. Henrique Paques

• Dissertation: The Ginda Approach to Adaptive Query Processing in Large Distributed Systems
• Graduated Oct. 2003
• Currently with IBM Brazil.

• Dr. Wei Tang

• Dissertation: Internet-Scale Information Monitoring: A Continual Query Approach
• Graduated Nov. 2003
• Currently a manager at Teradata.com, CA (wei.dr.tang at ncr dot com, 310-524-6072 (O) 404-7341643 (C).

External PhD Students Co-Advised.

· Prof. Dr. Renato Fileto

· Dissertation: A POESIA Approach for Data and Service Integration in the Semantic Web

· Graduated December 2003

· Currently with Federal University of Santa Catarina.

Current and Past Visiting PhD Students

· Xinxin Fan

· Qinyuan Feng

· Renato Fileto

· Hui Li

· Yiduo Mei

· Zhiyuan Su

· Pu Xing

· Hua Yan

· Yuehua Wang

· Rui Zhang

Current and Past Faculty Visitors

· Prof. Dr. Joonsoo Bae (Chonbuk National Univ., South Korea)

· Prof. Haopeng Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

· Prof. Dr. Wonik Choi (Inha University, Incheon, Korea)

· Prof. Dr. Yon Dohn Chung (Korea University, Soul, Korea)

· Prof. Dr. Zhengtao Jiang (Communication University, Peking, China)

· Dr. Yun Li (ShangHai Jiaotong University)

· Prof. Dr. Yinglong Ma (North China Electric Power University, Beijing, P.R.China)

· Dr. Eladio Martin (Spain)

· Prof. Dr. Evaggelia Pitoura (University of Ioannina)

· Prof. Dr. Yi Ren (NUDT, China)

· Prof. Dr. Xiaofeng Rong (Xi'an Technological University)

· Prof. Dr. Duncan Ruiz (The Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Brazil)

· Prof. Dr. Jun Shen (University of Wollongong, Australia)

· Prof. Dr. Jenq-Foung (J.F.) Yao (Georgia College and State Univ.)

· Dr. Chiemi Watanabe (Ochanomizu University, Japan).

· Prof. Dr. Kaidong Wang (Xidian University, China).

· Prof. Dr. Pingpeng Yuan (Huazhong University of Science & Technology, P.R. China)

· Prof. Dr. Pingpeng Yuan (Huazhong University of Science & Technology, P.R. China)

Current and Past Postdocs

· Dr. Cui Bin

PhD Students at OGI

· Tong Zhou, Currently with Oracle. (co-supervised with Calton Pu)

Past PhD Graduate students:

· Garry Froehlich (co-supervised (during 1995-1997) with Paul Sorenson and Jim Hoover)

o Topic: Hooks: An Aid to the Use of Object-Oriented Frameworks

o Graduated August 2000

· LingLing Yan (co-supervised (during 1994-1997) with Tamer Ozsu)

o Topic: AURORA

o Graduated Jan. 2000

o Currently with IBM Almaden.

Past Msc students at University of Alberta:

· Scott Fortin (co-supervised with Randy Goebel)

o Topic: Data Minig in Bio-engineering applications.

o Currently the president and CEO of Biotools Incorporated (biotool.com).

· Dheeraj Madadi

o Topic: A Performance Study of Internet Search Engines.

o Graduated April 1998

o Currently with a Software Company at Texas.

· Wei Tang

o Topic: A Personalized Update Monitoring Toolkit Using Continual Queries.

o Graduated June 1998

· Kirill Richine

o Topic: Distributed Query Scheduling in the Context of DIOM.

o Graduated April 1997

o Currently with RADDS technologies, Calgary.

· Henry Yuk-Kuen Chan.

o Topic: Extended Transaction Models in Non-traditional database systems.

o Graduated Jan 1996

o Currently with IBM Canada -- DB2 group

· Yooshin Lee

o Topic: A Prototype of the DIOM Query Mediation Methodology.

o Graduated July 1996

o currently with IBM Canada -- Internet Service Group

· Balwinder Purewal.

o Topic: Security and Authorization in OODB Systems.

o Graduated July 1996

o Currently with a software company in Edmonton

· Alice Tong.

o Topic: Index Techniques for OODBs.

o Graduated April 1997

o Currently with a software company in HK

· James Cheung Lam.

o Topic: Content-based Indexing Techniques for Image Databases

o Graduated April 1997

o Currently with Nortel, Ottawa

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Last updated MAR. 20, 2009 . Ling Liu (lingliu at cc dot gatech dot edu)