Rubinet Group

Current and Past Visitors

Professor Kai-Ten Feng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan (2009-2010)

Professor Jinoo Joung, Sangmyung University, Korea (2011-2013)

Professor Xiong Wang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China (2013-14)

Professor Sen-Ching Samson Cheung, University of Kentucky (2017-)

Alumni

Postdoc

Dr. Soshant Bali (2009)
First position: Principal Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Labs

Dr. Jinyoung Han (2014-17)
Current position: Assistant Associate Professor, Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea

Dr. Chao Wang (2020-21)
First position: Assistant Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology, China

Dr. Debraj Basu (2019-21)
First position: Data Scientist, Dascena

Dr. Syed Hafiz (2021-23)
First position: Staff Security Research Engineer, LG Silicon Valley Lab, CA

Dr. Joohi Chauhan (2022-23)
First position: Assistant Professor, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT) Allahabad, India

Doctoral Students

Ram Keralapura (PhD, 2007)
Dissertation title: Characterizing Internet Routing Dynamics for Enhanced Network Management
First appointment: Narus, Inc., CA

Danjue Li (PhD, 2007)
(co-advised with Prof. Yoo)
Dissertation title: Hybrid Infrastructure/P2P Approach to Optimize the Performance of Multimedia Streaming over Heterogeneous Networks
First appointment: Cisco Systems, CA

Jason LeBrun (PhD, 2008)
Dissertation title: Opportunistic Networking:
Measurement and Implementation
First appointment: Sentilla, CA

Lihua Yuan (PhD, 2008)
(co-advised with Prof. Mohapatra)
Dissertation title: Towards Network Verification and Introspection
First appointment, Microsoft, WA

Jianning Mai (PhD, 2008)
Dissertation title: Sampling Network Traffic for Anomaly Detection
First appointment: Fenwick & West LLP, CA

Behrooz Khorashadi (PhD, 2009)
(co-advised with Prof. Ghosal and Prof. Zhang)
Dissertation title: Enabling Traffic Control and Data Dissemination Applications with VGrid - A Vehicular Ad Hoc Distributed Computing Framework
First appointment: Qualcomm, Inc., CA

(Leo) Xin Liu (PhD, 2010)
Dissertation title: Multimedia Delivery in Cooperative Multi-homed Wireless Networks
First appointment: Cisco Systems, CA

Haiping Liu (PhD, 2010)
(co-advised with Prof. Ghosal and Prof. Liu)
Dissertation title: Efficient Resource Allocation and Network Design in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
First appointment: China Mobile, China

Dhruv Gupta (PhD, 2010)
(co-advised with Prof. Mohapatra)
Dissertation title: Managing 802.11s Wireless Mesh Networks: A Measurement-based Approach
First appointment: Senior Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Labs, CA

Saqib Raza (PhD, 2010)
Dissertation Title: Synergistic Network Operations
First appointment: Cisco Systems, CA

(Fred) Bojin Liu (PhD, 2011)
(co-advised with Prof. Ghosal and Prof. Zhang)
Dissertation Title: Next Generation Vehicular Traffic Management Enabled by Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks and Cellular Mobile Devices
First appointment: Qualcomm, Inc., CA

Guanyao Huang (PhD, 2012)
Dissertation Title: Scalable and Flexible Network-wide Traffic Measurement
First appointment: Cisco Systems, CA

Atif Nazir (PhD, 2012)
Dissertation Title: Measuring and Modeling User Activities on Online Social Network-based Applications
First appointment: CEO, Block.IO, Inc.

Faisal Khan (PhD, 2012)
(co-advised with Prof. Ghiasi)
Dissertation Title: Programmable and Closed-Loop Traffic Measurements for Better Accountability and Security in Future Networks
First appointment: Altera Corporation, CA

Han Liu (PhD, 2014)
Dissertation Title: Measuring and Modeling the Cascades/Diffusions through Online Social Networks
First appointment: Hewlett Packard, CA

George Chao-Chi Chen (PhD, 2014)
Dissertation Title: Practical Management as a Service (MaaS) Substrate for Data Center Network
First appointment: Microsoft, WA

Mohammad Rezaur Rahman (PhD, 2015)
Dissertation Title: Characterizing and Predicting Information Diffusion through Social Interactions
First appointment: Cisco Systems, CA

Mehdi Malboubi (PhD, 2015)
Dissertation Title: Software Defined Network Measurement and Inference under Hard Resource COntraints
First appointment: AT&T, CA

Arun Raghuramu (PhD, 2017)
Dissertation Title: In-Network Security Analytics and Compliance Monitoring
First appointment: Forescout, CA

Mani Amoozadeh (PhD, 2018)
(co-supervised with Prof. Zhang)
Dissertation Title: Towards Robust and Secure Collaborative Driving and Interactive Traffic Intersections
First appointment: RedPineSignals, CA

Aveek Das (PhD, 2018)
(co-supervised with Prof. Mohapatra)
Dissertation Title: Context-aware Information Mining for Wireless Networks
First appointment: Forescout, CA

Chang Liu (PhD, 2019)
Dissertation Title: Network Monitoring and Security Enhancement in Software-Defined Networking
First appointment: Google, CA

Gregory Rehm (PhD, 2021)
Dissertation Title: A Computational System for Detecting the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Using Physiologic Waveform Data from Mechanical Ventilators
First appointment: Resmed, Inc., CA

Ali Khodadadi (PhD, 2022)
Dissertation Title: Learning-based Vehicle Diagnostic and Prognostic System Utilizing Natural Language Processing
First appointment: Cruise, CA

Jeff Zhengfeng Lai (PhD, 2023)
Dissertation Title: Robust Machine Learning Directed Toward Pathology Imaging Applications with Limited Labeled Data
First appointment: Apple, CA

Ammar Haydari (PhD, 2024)
Dissertation Title: Towards Efficient and Secure Intelligent Transportation Services: AI-driven Traffic Light Controller and Privacy-Preserving Mobility Data Generation
First appointment: Sandbox AQ

Dongjie Chen(PhD, 2024)
Privacy-Aware Synthetic Data Generation and Knowledge Transfer for Machine Learning
First appointment: Dropbox

Mehrnaz Sharifian(PhD, 2025)
Offloading System Architecture for Network Telemetry and Applications
First appointment: Hewlett Packard Enterprise

MS Plan I (Thesis) Students

Christopher Carde (MS, 2004), Google Germany

Peng Cheng (MS, 2004), Cisco Systems, CA

Howard Chang (MS, 2004), Fresco Logic, CA
(co-advised with Prof. Ghosal)

Chris Dana (MS, 2005), Boeing, CA

Andrew Chen (MS, 2007), Intel-Folsom, CA

Ferhat Dikbiyik (MS, 2009), Assistant Professor at Sakarya University, Turkey

Collin Smith (MS, 2009), Sierra Nevada Corporation, CA

Brian Estrada (MS, 2010)

Ali Shahrokhi (MS, 2012), SmartBites, CA

Kristen Kennedy (MS, 2013)

Liyuan Wang (MS, 2013), IBM, CA

Kashyap Thimmaraju (MS, 2015), TU Berlin, Germany

Theo Pan (MS, 2015), Microsoft, WA

Ali Emara (MS, 2016), Adobe

Gregory Rehm (MS, 2017), PhD student at UC Davis

Zachary Haris (MS, 2019), Apple

Devashish Kashikar (MS, 2019)

Samir Townsley(MS, 2020), Epic

Fatemeh Radaei(MS, 2020), Facebook

Vishal Illangovan Bhuvaneswari (MS, 2021), Paypal

Rahul Krishnamoorthy (MS, 2021)

MS Plan II (Project) Students

Jonathan Wagoner (MS, 2008), Enphase Energy, CA

Yuanbo Zhu (MS, 2010), Google, CA

Shu Ming Peng (MS, 2015), Verizon, CA

Yiwei (Sally) Sun (MS, 2015), Cisco Systems, CA

Lingxuan Li (MS, 2015)

Zejun Huang (MS, 2015), Adobe, CA

Jingyu Zhang (MS, 2016), Amazon, WA

Santhosh Chandrasekar (MS, 2016), Apple, CA

Aditi Garg (MS, 2017), Trulia, CA

Janis Fredrick (MS, 2017)

Devika Joshi (MS, 2017), Moodys Analytics, CA

Chaitrali Joshi (MS, 2016), Intel, CA

Zhongyi Lin (MS, 2017), PhD student at UC Davis

Yue Xia (MS, 2018)

Deepika Chandrasekaran (MS, 2018)

Kevin Manuel (MS, 2018)

Tina Mashhour (MS, 2018), General Electric Health Care, CA

Adithya Premkumar (MS, 2019), Intel, CA

Ishita Sharma (MS, 2019), Microsoft, CA

Bryan Ching (MS, 2019), Defense Contractor, AZ

Huian Wang (MS, 2019), Microsoft

Kavish Doshi (MS, 2020), Amazon

Bhargav Sundararajan (MS, 2020), Amazon

Yuqi Yang (MS, 2021), Oracle

Muhammad Sarmad Saeed (MS, 2021), Cepton, Inc.

Prashanth R. Duggirala (MS, 2021)

Yu-Hsuan Tseng (MS, 2022)

Warren Wnuck (MS, 2022)

Brijesh Vora(MS, 2023), SailPoint

Visiting Graduate Students

Taichi Okunishi, Keio University (2024-25)

Undergraduate Students

Summer 03: Patrick Satarzadeh, Tuan Nguyen
Summer 04: Adam Moerschell, Kevin Widjaja
Winter 05: Barkev Iskikian, Michael Pignati, Sina Wilson
Spring 06: Andrew Stromberg, Michael Siegenthaler
Spring 07: George Chen
Spring 08: Sean Lee
Summer 10: Yachao Dong and Juchuan Ma (UC Davis GREAT Program)
Spring 12: Cuong Vu
Summer 12: Chuankai An (UC Davis GREAT Program)
Winter 13 - Fall 14: Joshua Garrison
Spring 13: Shawn Shojaie
Summer 13: Yumo Rong and Shiliang Tang (UC Davis GREAT Program)
Fall 13 - Spring 14: Joshua Vaughen
Spring 14: Ryan Marquiss
Summer 14: Lidan Mu
Summer-Fall 14: Qijia Cao, Chingyeung Fang
Spring 15: Jiaming Xie
Spring 16: Hasith Rajakarunanay
Winter 17-Spring 18: Zhening Zhang
Winter 17-Winter 19: Adam Jones
Fall 18-Winter 19: Minh (Sam) Truong, Tony Woo
Summer 19-Summer 20: Kolin Guo, Wenda Xu
Fall 20-Winter 21: Samuel Demissie, Abraham Hadaf
Spring/Summer/Fall 21: Wenbo Geng
Fall 21: Jessica Wu
Spring/Summer 22: Matias Smith, Yiqing Xiao
2022-23: Zhuoheng (Andy) Li, Manqi Kuang
Winter & Spring 23: Hongtao Zhong
Spring & Fall 23: Felicia Feng
Fall 23: Pranav Kode

Robust and Ubiquitous Networking