PhD

Xing’s Ph.D. Advisees

• 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

• Ph.D. Graduates
  • • 12. Dr. 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 final dissertation defense on April 28, 2023; graduated in May 2023.
    • 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, Quincy University, IL, 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