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Xing’s Research Group Members

Current Ph.D. Students
- - Mr. Guixiang Lv (September 2020 ~ ), topic area: Reliability and Resilience Modeling and Enhancement for Storage Area Networks
    status: passed the research component of PhD qualifier exam (ECE602) on May 27, 2021, passed oral proposal defense (ECE603) on January 5, 2023

Current M.S. Students
- - Mr. Junxing Ren (January 2024 ~)
  - Mr. Hieu Ho (Sept. 2023 ~)
  - Ms. Alisha A Shah (January 2023 ~)
  - Ms. Marjan Akhi (Sept. 2022 ~ )
  - Mr. VikramGnanaraj Vijayakumar (Sept. 2022 ~ )
  - Mr. Leonardo Asseph (co-advisor: Dr. Paul Fortier; Spring 2023 ~ )
  - Mr. Duarte Avelar (on leave)

Former Research Associate (PostDoc)
- - Dr. Chaonan Wang (Sept 2014 ~ August 2015)
    Current position: Full Professor at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Former Ph.D. Students
- - 12. Dr./Prof. Chencheng Zhou (January 2019 ~ May 2023), topic: Dependability Modeling and Analysis of Blockchain-Based Systems
    status: passed oral proposal defense (ECE603) on January 7, 2021, and the final PhD dissertation defense on April 28, 2023; graduated in May 2023. Current position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Hartford, CT, USA
  - 11. Dr./Prof. Guilin Zhao (September 2016 ~ May 2021), topic: Competing Failure Analysis in Dynamic Internet of Things Systems Considering Random Propagation and Isolation time
    status: passed oral proposal defense (ECE603) on August 31, 2018 and final dissertation defense on April 23, 2021; graduated in May 2021.
    Current position: Assistant Professor, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
  - 10. Dr./Prof. Qisi Liu (September 2015 ~ January 2021), topic: Probabilistic Reliability and Security Risk Assessment
    (Highlighted in European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA) Newsletter, December 2020)
    status: passed oral proposal defense on September 11, 2017 and final dissertation defense on December 7, 2020; graduated in January 2021.
    Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Hartford, CT, USA
  - 9. Dr./Prof. Lavanya Mandava (September 2016 ~ August 2019), topic: Reliability Modeling and Optimization of Cloud-RAID Storage Systems with Imperfect Fault Coverage
    (Highlighted in ESRA Newsletter, June 2019)
    status: passed oral proposal defense on January 11, 2018, and final dissertation defense on June 10,2019; graduated in August 2019.
    Current position: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Bradley University, USA
  - 8. Dr./Prof. Yujie Wang (Linkedin; co-advisor: Dr. Honggang Wang), topic: Reliability Modeling of Probabilistic Competing Failures
    (Highlighted in ESRA Newsletter, December 2019 )
    status: passed oral proposal defense on December 1, 2014, and final dissertation defense on April 29,2016; graduated in May 2016.
    Current position: Assistant Professor, School of Economics and Management, University of Science and Technology Beijing
  - 7. Dr. Amir Ehsani Zonouz (Linkedin; co-advisor: Dr. Viond M. Vokkarane), topic: Application Communication Reliability in Wireless Sensor Networks
    status: passed oral proposal defense on February 22, 2013, and final dissertation defense on June 18, 2015; graduated in August 2015.
    Current position: Senior Analyst, Emerging technologies/ IoT and AI, Accenture, USA (picture)
    Amir’s project idea “Smart Parking Lot Using Quadcopter Network” won the first place in the Siemens Mobility IDEA contest (among the 190 ideas of Solving Traffic Challenges of Tomorrow challenge)
  - 6. Dr./Prof. Chaonan Wang (Linkedin), topic: Reliability and Sensitivity Analysis of Complex Systems and Networks
    (Highlighted in Ph.D. Theses, Inside Signal Processing eNewsletter, June 2014)
    Status: passed oral proposal defense on February 9, 2012, and final dissertation defense on February 7,2014;graduated in May 2014. She was Research Associate at UMass Dartmouth from September 2014 to August 2015.
    Current position: Full Professor at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China (picture)
  - 5. Dr. Ruiping Ma (Linkedin), topic: Survivability Design and Analysis for Wireless Sensor Networks
    passed oral proposal defense on March 29, 2011 and final dissertation defense on August 20,2012; graduated in January 2013.
    Current position: Software Engineer, Rowe Technologies Inc, CA, USA
  - 4. Dr. Prashanthi Boddu (Linkedin), topic: Reliability Optimization of Complex Series-Parallel Systems with k-out-of-n: G Subsystem Redundancy
    passed oral proposal defense on April 14, 2011 and final dissertation defense on July 16, 2012; graduated in September 2012.
    Current position: Senior Associate, Global Prior Art Inc, Boston, MA
  - 3. Dr. Ola Tannous (Linkedin), toipc: Combinatorial Reliability Evaluation and Optimization for Dynamic Standby Sparing Systems
    passed the defense on May 4, 2012; graduated in May 2012
    Current position: Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
  - 2. Dr./Prof. Bichuan Shen (Linkedin; co-advisor: Dr. Chi-Hau Chen, IEEE Life Fellow), topic: Modeling and Learning for Fish Identification and Vehicle and Pattern Detection
    passed the defense on May 6, 2011.
    Current position: Associate Professor at Chongqing University of Technology, China
  - 1. Dr. Akhilesh Shrestha (Linkedin), topic: Dependability Modeling and Analysis of Mission Critical Systems
    passed the defense on December 3, 2008; graduated in May 2009 (Graduate Commencement Speaker)
    Current position: Algorithm Engineer, Veoneer, USA

Former Visiting Professors/Ph.D. Students
- - Dr. Salvatore Distefano (April ~ September 2005)
  - Dr. Tailiang Song (January 2009 ~ July 2010)
  - Dr. Zhong Han (November 2009 ~ May 2010)
  - Dr. Yuchang Mo (September 2012 ~ August 2013)
  - Dr. Shumin Li (September 2012 ~ December 2012)
  - Dr. Huanwei Xu (March 2013 ~ February 2014)
  - Dr. Xiaohong Shi (February 2014 ~ February 2015)
  - Dr. Zhusheng Pan (October 2015 ~ October 2016)
  - Dr. Jun Guo (January 2016 ~ January 2017)
  - Dr. Liwei Chen (February 2016 ~ March 2017)
  - Dr. Xujie Jia (October 2016 ~ October 2017)
  - Dr. Zhiguo Ding (June 2017 ~ June 2018)
  - Dr. Li Zhang (November 2017 ~ November 2018)
  - Dr. Ruijun Cheng (February 2018 ~ February 2019)
  - Dr. Haining Meng (October 2018 ~ November 2019)

Former M.S. Students
- - 54. David Lewis, M.S. (May 2022), CPE major
  - 53. Sanjay Sathiraju, M.S. (May 2021), CPE major
    Project Title: A Smart ID Management System for Secure Voting
  - 52. Charles E. Montes, M.S. (August 2020), CPE major
    Thesis Topic: Reliability Allocation Problem for Complex Dynamic Systems
    passed defense on August 12, 2020
  - 51. Jean E. Pierre, M.S. (May 2020), CPE major
    Thesis Topic: A Monte Carlo Simulation Framework for Reliability Analysis of Dynamic Standby Sparing systems
    passed defense on January 13, 2020
  - 50. Shuti Wu, M.S. (May 2018), CPE major
    Project Title: Reliability Model for Smart Home Systems Considering Dynamic Standby Sparing
  - 49. Sneha Kolapalli, M.S. (Jan. 2018), ELE major
    Project Title: Reliability of End to End Path Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks
    passed defense on January 16, 2018
  - 48. Parthasarathy Thattangudi Sampath Kumar, M.S. (Jan. 2018), CPE major
    Project Title: Implementation of Secure and Fault-Tolerant Data Sharing and Searching at Cloud-Assisted Internet of Things using Things Board and AWS IoT Platforms
  - 47. Kartik Subramaniam, M.S. (Jan. 2018), CPE major
    Project Title: Security in cloud using ECC and LSB algorithms
    passed defense on December 18, 2017
  - 46. Yanhao Zeng, M.S. (Aug. 2017), CPE major
    Thesis Title: Reliability Modeling and Analysis for Hardware-Software Co-design Systems with Warm Standby Sparing
    passed defense on June 2, 2017
  - 45. Nihanth Kolli, M. S. (Jan. 2017), CPE major
    Project Title: Real-Time Predictive Maintenance Using Internet of Things
    passed defense on January 10, 2017
  - 44. Shreelekha Kakkerla, M. S. (Aug. 2016), CIS major
    Project Title: Performance Analysis of CoAP (Constrained Application Protocol) Under Different Addressing Models
    passed defense on August 30, 2016
  - 43. Vipul Kumar Sharma, M. S. (Aug. 2016), CPE major
    Project Title: Performance Analysis of Communication Protocol MQTT-SN in Internet of Things
    passed defense on May 23, 2016
  - 42. Lavanya Mandava, M. S. (Aug. 2016), CPE major
    Thesis Title: Imperfect Coverage Analysis for Cloud-RAID Systems
    passed the defense on May 19, 2016
  - 41. Guilin Zhao, M. S. (Aug. 2016), ELE major
    Thesis Title: System Reliability Considering Probabilistic Failure Isolation and Random Propagation Time
    passed the defense on May 19, 2016
  - 40. Abigail E O’Brien, M.S. (May 2016), CPE major
    Project Title: Quantifying System Security through Markov Chains and Related Stochastic Models for Reliability
    passed the defense on April 26, 2016.
  - 39. Navya Mandava, M.S. (Jan. 2016), CPE major
    Project Title: Trust Sensitivity Analysis for Online Social Networks using Monte-Carlo Simulations
    passed the defense on December 4, 2015.
  - 38. Harika Vankayalapati, M.S. (Jan. 2016), CPE major
    Project Title: Correlated Probabilistic Competing Failure Analysis using Monte Carlo Simulation
    passed the defense on November 25, 2015.
  - 37. Purna Satya Subrahmanyam Andra, M.S. (Jan. 2016), CPE major
    Project Title: Reliability Analysis of Standby Systems with Backups and Replacements Using Monte Carlo Simulations
    passed the defense on September 29, 2015.
  - 36. Qisi Liu, M.S. (Jan. 2016), CPE major
    Thesis Title: Reliability of Cloud-RAID Storage System
    passed the defense on September 4, 2015.
  - 35. Massarrah N. Tannous, M.S. (2015), CPE major
    Thesis Title: Reliability Modeling and Evaluation of Mesh Topology in Storage Area Networks
    passed the defense on June 9, 2015.
  - 34. Leo Acker, M.S. (2014), CPE major
    Project Title: Reliability Analysis of Imperfect Coverage Systems with Functional Dependence and Cold Spares
    passed the defense on February 27, 2014.
  - 33. Santhosh N. Murthy, M.S. (2013), CPE major
    Project Title: “Performance Analysis of Cloud Computing Systems”
    passed the defense on May 23, 2013.
  - 32. Shantanu D. Ghumare, M.S. (2012), CPE major
    Project Title: “Performance Comparison of Different Methods for Scability of Cloud Computing”
    passed the defense on January 27, 2012.
  - 31. Tarun Saxena, M.S. (2011), CPE major
    Project Title: “Reliability Evaluation of iSCSI-based Fault Tolerant Storage Systems using Fuzzy Logic”
    passed the defense on October 26, 2011.
  - 30. Sandeep Jangra, M.S. (2011), CPE major
    Thesis Title: “Performance Analysis of VMware ESX Server”
    passed the defense on April 26, 2011.
  - 29. Monkia Shrestha, M.S. (2011), CPE major
    Thesis Title: “Algorithm and Specification for Reliability Analysis of Systems with Dependent Failures”
    passed the defense on April 15, 2011.
  - 28. Akshatha Kappa, M.S. (2010), CPE major
    Project Title: A Reliable Data Transmission Mechanism for WSN in Health Care Systems
    passed the defense on November 12, 2010.
  - 27. Amit Chaudhary, M.S. (2010), ELE major
    Project Title: ï¿½Improving Respsonse Time of Mainframe Storage Subsystemsï¿½
    passed the defense on June 16, 2010; currently working at EMC, MA.
  - 26. Brock A. Morrissette, M.S. (2009), CPE major
    Project Title: A Combinatorial Method for Reliability Analysis of Imperfect Fault Coverage Systems subject to Functional Dependencies
    passed the defense on May 11, 2009; currently working at Lockheed Martin MS2, MA.
  - 25. Sirisha Medisetti, M.S. (2009), CPE major
    Project Title: Trust Based Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
    passed the defense on January 23, 2009.
  - 24. Karthik Padma, M.S. (2008), CPE major
    Project Title: Trust Computing in Small World Networks
    passed the defense on December 17, 2008.
  - 23. Dileep Varma Bairraju, M.S. (2008), ELE major
    Project Title: GUI Design and Implementation for Reliability Analysis of Multi-State Systems
    passed the defense on December 17, 2008; currently working at AT&T, NJ.
  - 22. Abhinav LNU, M.S. (2008), CPE major
    Project Title: Applying RMST and TEA for Reliable and Secure Data Transfer in Wireless Sensor Networks
    passed the defense on December 11, 2008.
  - 21. Gunjan Gupta, M.S. (2008), CPE major
    Project Title: K-Coverage Probability Evaluation for Reliability Analysis of Wireless Sensor Networks
    passed the defense on December 10, 2008.
  - 20. Prashanthi Boddu, M.S. (2008), CPE major
    Thesis Title: Reliability Analysis of Complex Dynamic Systems
    passed the defense on September 8, 2008; currently a Ph.D. student at UMass Dartmouth.
  - 19. Vamshideep Devershetty, M.S. (2008), CPE major
    Project Title: Fault Tolerant Memory Array
    passed the defense on August 25, 2008.
  - 18. Preetham Reddy Pingili, M.S. (2008), CPE major
    Project Title: Reliability Analysis of Distributed Computer Systems
    passed the defense on August 25, 2008.
  - 17. Dipayan Dutta, M.S. (2008), ELE major
    Project Title: Cost Optimization of Wireless Sensor Networks for Improving the Lifetime
    passed the defense on March 25, 2008.
  - 16. Parag Y. Bhavsar, M.S. (2008), ELE major
    Project Title: Reliability of Data Transport Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks
    passed the defense on March 6, 2008.
  - 15. Ankit P. Parikh, M.S. (2008), ELE major
    Project Title: Optimizing the Sensor Count in Wireless Sensor Networks
    passed the defense on February 19, 2008
  - 14. Pranav A. Damle, M.S. (2008), ELE major
    Project Title: Comparison of Routing Protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
    passed the defense on January 25, 2008
  - 13. Anirudh Kumar, M.S. (2008), ELE major
    Project Title: Preservation of Wireless Sensor Network Coverage by Energy Efficient Node Scheduling
    passed the defense on January 25, 2008
  - 12. Naveena Ajjugottu, M.S. (2007), ELE major
    Project Title: Comparison of Variable Ordering Heuristics for Binary Decision Diagrams
    passed the defense on December 19, 2007; currently working in the EMC Corporation.
  - 11. Lakshmi Prabhakaramurthi, M.S. (2007), CPE major
    Project Title: Reliability Analysis of Embedded Systems: Towards the Goal of Fault Tolerant Systems
    passed the defense in November 2007; currently working in the EMC Corporation.
  - 10. Alpesh Patel, M.S. (2007), ELE major
    Project Title: Implementing Fault Tolerant Solution for Client-Server Applications
    currently working at eClinicalWorks, MA
  - 9. Bhoomi Vikram Dasari, M.S. (2007), ELE major
    Project Title: Performance Comparison of Location-Based Routing Protocols for Ad-Hoc Networks
    currently working at Mutex Systems Inc., NJ
  - 8. Dilip Francis, M.S. (2007), CPE major
    Project Title: Optimizing Network Security in Sensor Networks
    currently working at IkaSystems, MA
  - 7. Vinay Mohan Jonnakuti, M.S. (2007), ELE major
    Project Title: Fault Diagnosis in Wireless Sensor Networks
    currently working at EMC Corporation
  - 6. Nirav D. Shah, M.S. (2007), CPE major
    Project title: Modeling and Analyzing Reliability of Software
    currently working in the EMC Corporation
  - 5. Haoli Li, M.S. (2006), CPE major
    Thesis title: Fault-Tolerance and Reliability in Networked Sensor Systems
    currently working in the Victor Corporation
  - 4. Sachin J. Parikh, M.S. (2006), ELE major
    Project title: Policing of Mobile Nodes to Improve the Coverage Life of Wireless Sensor Networks
    currently working in the Siemens VDO
  - 3. Lakshmanan Chockalingam, M.S. (2006), CPE major
    Thesis title: Development of An Efficient Algorithm for Multi-Link SRLG Failures in Optical Networks
    currently working in the EMC Corporation
  - 2. Akhilesh Shrestha, M.S. (2005), CPE major
    Thesis title: Reliability Analysis of Distributed and Hierarchical Sensor Networks
    currently working at ARCON Corporation, MA
  - 1. Ranjini Suryanarayanan, M.S. (2004), CPE major
    Thesis title: Reliability Evaluation Of DiffServ Nodal Performance
    currently working in the Texas Tech Univerisity

Best wishes to everyone! Please keep in touch!!