Liudong Xing's Graduate Students

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News!

Dr. Xing and Ola Tannous submitted their first collaborated paper to the IEEE Transactions on Reliability. Ola is now in her first semester of Ph.D. study. Good job, Ola!
Starting Summer 2009, Dr. Xing accepts only Ph.D. students and M.S. Thesis students. If you are a M.S. student and want to work on a project, please talk with other faculty in the department.
Dr. Xing made the following research presentations in Summer 2009 in China:
- L. Xing, J. B. Dugan, and B. A. Morrissette, "An Efficient Approach to Handling Functional Dependence Loops," The 8th International Conference on Reliability, Maintainability and Safety, pp. 37-40, Chengdu, China, July 2009.
- A. Shrestha, L. Xing, and D. W. Coit, “Multistate Component Importance Analysis Using Multistate Multivalued Decision Diagrams,” The 8th International Conference on Reliability Maintainability and Safety, pp. 99-103, Chengdu, China, July 21-25, 2009.
- T. Jin, Y. Yu, and L. Xing, "Reliability Analysis of RAID Systems using Repairable k-out-of-n Modeling Techniques," The International Conference on the Interface between Statistics and Engineering, Beijing, China, July 13-15, 2009 (abstract)
Ruiping Ma presented our paper "A Data Transmission Mechanism for Survivable Sensor Networks” in The IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage, Zhang Jia Jie, China, July 9-11, 2009. The paper received the Best Paper Award. Congratulations, Ruiping!!
Brock A. Morrissette passed the oral defense for his M.S. project on May 11, 2009. Congratulations, Brock!!
Dr. Song, Brock, & Ruiping presented our research work in the 15th Annual UMassD Sigma-Xi Research Exhibition on April 28 & 29, 2009.
The paper "Reliability Modeling and Analysis of Wireless Sensor Networks", coauthored by Akhiles Shrestha, Dr. Xing and Dr Liu, won the second place in the 2006 IEEE Region 1 Graduate Student Paper Contest. Congratulations, Akhilesh!!
Prashanthi Boddu, Anirudh Kumar, Ankit P. Parikh, and Akhilesh Shrestha presented our research work in the 14th Annual UMassD Sigma-Xi Research Exhibition.

DCN Group Members

Current Visiting Professors/Scholars

Dr. Tailiang Song, Professor, Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) (January 2009 ~ January 2010)
Mr. Zhong Han, Ph.D. Candidate, Xi'an JiaoTong University (incoming)

Current Ph.D. Students

Ruiping Ma, topic: Survivability Design and Analysis for Wireless Sensor Networks
Ola Tannous, toipc: Efficient combinatorial analysis of dynamic models (priority AND, cold/warm spares)
Prashanthi Boddu

Current M.S. Students

Leo Acker (project), tentative topic: Reliability Analysis of Imperfect Coverage Systems with Functional Dependence and Cold Spares
Monkia Shrestha (thesis), tentative topic: An Algorithm for Generating Complete Order Sequence for the Reliability Analysis of Dynamic Systems
Keith Ferreira
Tarun Saxena (project)
Akshatha Kappa (project), tentative topic: WSN
Duarte Avelar (thesis), tentative topic: Open CL for Cloud Computing
Amit Chaudhary (project)

Former Ph.D. Students

Akhilesh Shrestha, topic: Dependability Modeling and Analysis of Mission Critical Systems
passed the defense on December 3, 2008; graduated in May 2009 (Graduate Commencement Speaker)
currently working at ARCON Corporation, Waltham, MA

Former Exchange Ph.D. Students

Salvatore Distefano, exchange Ph.D. student from the University of Messina, Italy (April ~ September 2005)
Project topic: Dynmamic Reliability Block Diagrams

Former M.S. Students

26. Brock A. Morrissette, M.S. (2009), CPE major
Project Title: A Combinatorial Method for Reliability Analysis of Imperfect Fault Coverage Systems subject to Functional Dependencies
passed the defense on May 11, 2009; urrently working at Lockheed Martin MS2, MA.
25. Sirisha Medisetti, M.S. (2009), CPE major
Project Title: Trust Based Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
passed the defense on January 23, 2009.
24. Karthik Padma, M.S. (2008), CPE major
Project Title: Trust Computing in Small World Networks
passed the defense on December 17, 2008.
23. Dileep Varma Bairraju, M.S. (2008), ELE major
Project Title: GUI Design and Implementation for Reliability Analysis of Multi-State Systems
passed the defense on December 17, 2008; currently working at AT&T, NJ.
22. Abhinav LNU, M.S. (2008), CPE major
Project Title: Applying RMST and TEA for Reliable and Secure Data Transfer in Wireless Sensor Networks
passed the defense on December 11, 2008.
21. Gunjan Gupta, M.S. (2008), CPE major
Project Title: K-Coverage Probability Evaluation for Reliability Analysis of Wireless Sensor Networks
passed the defense on December 10, 2008.
20. Prashanthi Boddu, M.S. (2008), CPE major
Thesis Title: Reliability Analysis of Complex Dynamic Systems
passed the defense on September 8, 2008; currently a Ph.D. student at UMass Dartmouth.
19. Vamshideep Devershetty, M.S. (2008), CPE major
Project Title: Fault Tolerant Memory Array
passed the defense on August 25, 2008.
18. Preetham Reddy Pingili, M.S. (2008), CPE major
Project Title: Reliability Analysis of Distributed Computer Systems
passed the defense on August 25, 2008.
17. Dipayan Dutta, M.S. (2008), ELE major
Project Title: Cost Optimization of Wireless Sensor Networks for Improving the Lifetime
passed the defense on March 25, 2008.
16. Parag Y. Bhavsar, M.S. (2008), ELE major
Project Title: Reliability of Data Transport Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks
passed the defense on March 6, 2008.
15. Ankit P. Parikh, M.S. (2008), ELE major
Project Title: Optimizing the Sensor Count in Wireless Sensor Networks
passed the defense on February 19, 2008
14. Pranav A. Damle, M.S. (2008), ELE major
Project Title: Comparison of Routing Protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
passed the defense on January 25, 2008
13. Anirudh Kumar, M.S. (2008), ELE major
Project Title: Preservation of Wireless Sensor Network Coverage by Energy Efficient Node Scheduling
passed the defense on January 25, 2008
12. Naveena Ajjugottu, M.S. (2007), ELE major
Project Title: Comparison of Variable Ordering Heuristics for Binary Decision Diagrams
passed the defense on December 19, 2007; currently working in the EMC Corporation.
11. Lakshmi Prabhakaramurthi, M.S. (2007), CPE major
Project Title: Reliability Analysis of Embedded Systems: Towards the Goal of Fault Tolerant Systems
passed the defense in November 2007; currently working in the EMC Corporation.
10. Alpesh Patel, M.S. (2007), ELE major
Project Title: Implementing Fault Tolerant Solution for Client-Server Applications
currently working at eClinicalWorks, MA
9. Bhoomi Vikram Dasari, M.S. (2007), ELE major
Project Title: Performance Comparison of Location-Based Routing Protocols for Ad-Hoc Networks
currently working at Mutex Systems Inc., NJ
8. Dilip Francis, M.S. (2007), CPE major
Project Title: Optimizing Network Security in Sensor Networks
currently working at IkaSystems, MA
7. Vinay Mohan Jonnakuti, M.S. (2007), ELE major
Project Title: Fault Diagnosis in Wireless Sensor Networks
currently working at EMC Corporation
6. Nirav D. Shah, M.S. (2007), CPE major
Project title: Modeling and Analyzing Reliability of Software
currently working in the EMC Corporation
5. Haoli Li, M.S. (2006), CPE major
Thesis title: Fault-Tolerance and Reliability in Networked Sensor Systems
currently working in the Victor Corporation
4. Sachin J. Parikh, M.S. (2006), ELE major
Project title: Policing of Mobile Nodes to Improve the Coverage Life of Wireless Sensor Networks
currently working in the Siemens VDO
3. Lakshmanan Chockalingam, M.S. (2006), CPE major
Thesis title: Development of An Efficient Algorithm for Multi-Link SRLG Failures in Optical Networks
currently working in the EMC Corporation
2. Akhilesh Shrestha, M.S. (2005), CPE major
Thesis title: Reliability Analysis of Distributed and Hierarchical Sensor Networks
currently working at ARCON Corporation, MA
1. Ranjini Suryanarayanan, M.S. (2004), CPE major
Thesis title: Reliability Evaluation Of DiffServ Nodal Performance
currently working in the Texas Tech Univerisity