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Areas of research

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. Recent themes in distributed computing and networking include the following.
Students advised

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's 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
  9. Anshuman Misra, ongoing.

Member of PhD committee for:

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

MS students graduated (1999-)

  1. Mukund Rangarajan, Summer 1999. Initial employment: QuantumLeap Inc.
  2. Kalpana Samant, Fall 1999. Initial employment: Cisco Systems
  3. Prashant Shah, Fall 1999. Initial employment: Motorola
  4. Neeraj Sanghani, Fall 1999. Initial employment: Motorola
  5. Pranav Gambhire, Spring 2000. Initial employment: Motorola
  6. Amit Bhadoria, Spring 2000. Initial employment: Cisco Systems
  7. Sanjay Shah, Spring 2000. Initial employment: Microsoft
  8. Amol Luktuke, Spring 2000. Initial employment: Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
  9. Riteesh Singh, Summer 2000. Initial employment: Cisco Systems
  10. Manjunath Chinya, Summer 2000. Initial employment: Cisco Systems
  11. Naveen Sundarajan, Summer 2000. Initial employment: Wall Street startup
  12. Jayabala Sundaram, Fall 2000. Initial employment: Microsoft
  13. Punit Chandra, Fall 2001. Initial placement: PhD student
  14. Sudarshan Raman, Summer 2002. Initial employment: UIC
  15. Mayank Rawat. Summer 2002. Initial employment: Scale Eight
  16. Pankaj Singal. Fall 2002. Initial employment: ZS Consulting
  17. Vivek Shikaripura. Fall 2002. Initial employment: Airtight Networks
  18. Saurabh Sood, Spring 2003. Initial employment: UIC
  19. Luigi Mancini, Fall 2003. Initial employment: Lucent
  20. Liujia Hu, Fall 2003. Initial employment: Cisco
  21. Kandarp Jani, Fall 2003. Initial employment: Reuters
  22. Vilaythong Southvilay, Spring 2004. Initial employment: University of Laos
  23. Anning Wu, Fall 2004. Initial employment: Northeastern Illinois Univ
  24. Luca Mottola, Spring 2005. Currently a PhD student at Polytechnic Milano
  25. Lorenzo Bellini, Spring 2005. Initial employment: stock exchange
  26. Ziyang Xiong, Fall 2006. Initial employment: TechExcel
  27. Sangchan Kim, Fall 2007. Initial employment: Hconn
  28. Alessandro Omassi, Spring 2008. Initial employment: TechEdge
  29. Simone Raba, Spring 2008. Initial employmnet: CSC Italia
  30. Kalyan Arey, Summer 2009. Initial employment: First Trust Portfolios LLC
  31. Luca Rinero, Spring 2010. Initial employment:
  32. Xiao Wang, Fall 2010. Initial employment: Rush Institute of Healthy Aging
  33. Yogi Vashisht, Spring 2011. Initial employment:
  34. Rahul Chaudhuri, Fall 2011. Initial employment: Logic Planet
  35. Imran Khan, Fall 2011. Initial employment: US Cellular
  36. Nakul Bhasin, Spring 2012. Initial employment: unknown
  37. Abhra Maiti, Spring 2016. Initial employment: unknown
  38. Tommaso Pozzetti, Fall 2019. Initial employment: Vail Systems, Inc.

Other student collaborators (1999-)

  1. Sandeep Lodha, 2000. Initial employment: Riverstone Networks
  2. Roshan Kamath, 2001. Initial employment: Motorola
  3. Bharath Sundararaman, 2004. Initial employment: Starthis %
  4. Zhiguo Zhang, 2007. Initial employment: Yahoo %
  5. Alex Li, 2010. Initial employment: Yahoo
  6. Sangyoon Lee, 2011.
  7. Mohamed Hefeida. Initial employment: University of Idaho
  8. Turkmen Canli.

BS students advised

  1. Danny Lungstrom, 2005. Graduate student at CMU
Note for grad students (current and prospective)

I am looking for 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, or other form of Assistantship from the campus.

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