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Research areas are distributed computing, distributed algorithms, computer networks, and concurrent systems. Check Brief biography and selected publications or check Link to the DBLP database or the Profile in Google Scholar to get a flavor of the work.

I am looking for motivated PhD students to work with. If any of the above interests and motivates you, feel free to contact me. There are currently no open Research Assistantship positions. However, you may qualify for a Teaching Assistantship awarded by the CS Department. I may not be able to respond to all queries as I receive a large number of emails from propsective students.

PhD students graduated (1999-)

  1. Punit Chandra, Fall 2005.
    Dissertation: Run-time Predicate Monitoring in Distributed Systems
    Selected as the Computer Science Department nominee for the UIC Annual Outstanding Dissertation Award (2006)
    Initial employment: Siemens
  2. Bartlomiej Sieka, Summer 2006.
    Dissertation: Security and Monitoring in Ad-hoc and Peer-to-Peer Networks
    Initial venture: SemiHalf (startup)
  3. Bin Wu, Fall 2006.
    Dissertation: Search and Prefetching Mechanisms in the Web and Peer-to-Peer Networks
    Recipient of the UIC Provost Award for Graduate research (2005)
    Initial employment: Instep Solutions.
  4. Zhiguo Zhang, 2007. (coadvisor; with Prof Shatz primary advisor)
    Dissertation: Energy-Efficient Query-Informed Routing for Query Processing in Sensor Networks
    Initial employment: Yahoo!
  5. Juzheng Li, 2010. (coadvisor; with Prof Shatz primary advisor)
    Dissertation: Local Sampling and Remote Sensing of Sensor Fields Data Using Mobile Devices
    Initial employment: Yahoo!
  6. Min Shen, Summer 2014.
    Dissertation: Locality-Driven Predicate Detection in Large-Scale Networks
    Initial employment: LinkedIn.
  7. Abdullah Alourani, Spring 2020.
    Dissertation: Economically Deploying Applications in Elastic Clouds
    Initial employment: Majmaah University (Saudi Arabia).
  8. Ta-Yuan Hsu, Spring 2021.
    Dissertation: Cost-Effective Protocols for Enforcing Causal Consistency in Geo-Replicated Data Store Systems
    Initial employment: The Beacon Resource Center.
  9. Anshuman Misra, Summer 2024.
    Dissertation: Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Causal Ordering and Causality Detection in Distributed Systems
    Recipient of the UIC College of Engineering Exceptional Research Promise award (2024)
    Recipient of the UIC Graduate College Outstanding Dissertation award (2024-2025)
    Initial employment: Purdue University Fort Wayne.

Member of PhD committee for:

  1. Chen Chen, 2025.
  2. Mojtaba Malekpourshahraki, 2024.
  3. Trung Le, 2023.
  4. Nilanjana Basu, 2022.
  5. Sanket Gaurav, 2021.
  6. Mohammad Taha Khan, 2020.
  7. Eman Aldakheel, 2019.
  8. Bahareh Pourshirazi, 2019.
  9. Vahid Noroozi, 2019.
  10. Sepideh Roghanchi, 2019.
  11. Kaiser Asif, 2019.
  12. Mahdi Salarian, 2018.
  13. Michael Lewis, 2018.
  14. Tim Merrifield, 2018.
  15. Muhammad Lodhi, 2017.
  16. Wenyuan Fei, 2016.
  17. Marco Maggioni, 2015.
  18. Xi Xu, 2015.
  19. Wen Jiang, 2014.
  20. Mohamed Mohamed, 2014.
  21. Guoguang Chen, 2014.
  22. Kun Fang, 2013.
  23. Mohamed Hefeida, 2013.
  24. Fadi Almasalha, 2011.
  25. Dianhu Xu, 2011.
  26. Sajjad Rahaman, 2010.
  27. Daniela Radakovic, 2010.
  28. Alex Li, 2010.
  29. Turkmen Canli, 2010.
  30. Ilie Luican, 2010.
  31. Fahad Saeed, 2010.
  32. Lin Xiao, 2009.
  33. Ramakrishna Yellapantula, 2009.
  34. Tian Shourui, 2008.
  35. Xiaobo Zhang, 2008.
  36. Huan Xu, 2008.
  37. Emir Saric, 2008.
  38. Zhiguo Zhang, 2007.
  39. Waseem Ahmed, 2007.
  40. Zhenwei Yu, 2007.
  41. Anfei Li, 2007.
  42. Huiyong Xiao, 2006.
  43. Hu Cao, 2006.
  44. Yanhong Zhai, 2006.
  45. Yuan Cao, 2006.
  46. Hafiz Malik, 2006.
  47. Shashank Khanvilkar, 2006.
  48. Lan Li, 2006.
  49. Lucia Valbonesi, 2005.
  50. Zhihui Chen, 2005.
  51. Tribhuvana Murthy, 2003.
  52. Lie Cai, 2002.
  53. Hui Zhao, 2002.
  54. Seongwoon Kim, 2000.
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