[Note: The NOMADS group has moved from USC to UF to this webpage. A. Helmy's webpage also moved to this link.]

Current Students [Updated May '05]
  1. Shamim Begum (Ph.D.) [Stress testing for ad hoc MAC protocols]
  2. Ganesha Bhaskara (Ph.D.) [Stress methods for multicast-mobility and security, at ISI summer '05]
  3. Shirin Ebrahimi (Ph.D.) [TCP Stress analysis]
  4. Jabed Faruque (Ph.D., & our Lab Expert)
  5. Shao-Cheng Wang (Ph.D.) [802.11 performnce for multimedia and home networking, at Intel Summer/Fall '05.]
  6. Yongjin Kim (Ph.D.) [Trace back protocols for ad hoc networks]
  7. Sapon Tanachaiwiwat (Ph.D.) [Anomalies and security in sensor networks]
  8. Wei-jen Hsu (Ph.D.) [Trace-based mobility and related DTN protocols]
Former/Completed PhD Students:
  1. Karim Seada (Ph.D.) [Passed PhD defense May '05, topic: Robustness of Geographic Protocols in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks] [Now at Nokia Research Labs, TX]
  2. Fan Bai (Ph.D.) [Passed PhD defense June '05, topic: Characterizing Mobility and Anlyzing its Effect on Classes of Routing Protocols in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks (the IMPORTANT framework)] [Now at General Motors Research Labs]
  3. Narayanan Sadagopan (Ph.D., co-chair with Prof. Bhaskar Krishnamachari)) [Passed PhD defense May '05, topic: Mathematical Techniques for Optimizing Data Gathering in Sensor Networks. Worked on ACQUIRE and before that on mobility modeling and analysis.] [Now at Yahoo! search optimization division]
  4. Debojyoti Dutta (Ph.D., co-advisor with Prof. Ashish Goel and Prof. John Heidemann) [Graduated Summer '04, topic: Low-state Mechanisms to Protect the Network from Greedy and Malicious Agents] [Now a Post Doctoral Scholar at USC in computational biology]
  5. Kitae Nahm (Ph.D., co-advisor for ~18 months of defense, with Prof. C.-C. Jay Kuo) [Graduated Spring '05, topic: On the scale of probe traffic for transport protocols] [Now at Samsung, Irvine, CA]
Former MS Students (with Thesis):
  1. Vishal Sankhla (M.S., with thesis, Nov. '04, topic: Trust in Wireless Networks, now consultant on network security)
  2. Rohan Chitradurga (M.S., with thesis, Sept. '04, topic: Wired Short Cuts in Wireless Sensor Networks)
  3. Ganesha Bhaskara (M.S. with thesis, June '02, now PhD student in my group at USC)
Other Former MS Students and Research Assistants:
  1. Marco Zuniga (M.S., now Ph.D. student advised by Prof. Bhaskar Krishnamachari)
  2. Meeta Sharma (M.S., graduated Dec '00, Bell Labs then IBM, now PhD student at Harvard)
  3. Ojiakonobi Udezue (M.S., graudated May '01, now at Microsoft)
  4. Tarik Khan (M.S., graduated Aug '01, now PhD student)
  5. Prachi Jain (M.S., graduated Dec '01, now at QualComm)

For a more complete list of supervised students please check the C.V.