Students

Joseph Pasquale

The best part of being a professor is working with students. If I have been at all successful, it is to a large degree because of them.

Current Students

Ph.D. Candidates

Rossana Motta

Distributed and Peer-to-Peer Systems

Sriram Ramabhadran

Engineering Durability in Replicated Systems

Cynthia Taylor

Thin-client Computing System Architectures

M. S. Candidates

Fallon Chen

Performance of Anonymous Communications

Taurin Tan-atichat

Thin-client Computing

Hakon Verespej

Modeling Lifetime of Erasure Code-based Replicated Systems

Past Ph.D. Students

Eric Anderson, Ph.D. 1995 (also M.S. 1991): Container Shipping: A Uniform Interface for Fast, Efficient, High-Bandwidth I/O
Chief Architect of FireWire for MacOS (Emmy award winner), Apple Computer
Edward Billard, Ph.D. 1992 (also M.S. 1990): Delayed Communication and Dynamic Group Formation in Distributed Systems
Professor, Cal State East Bay (Hayward)
Paul Blair, Ph.D. 2001 - co-advised with G. Polyzos: Media Access Control Protocols for Wireless Communication systems
Project Scientist, Cal-IT2, UCSD
Kevin Fall, Ph.D. 1994 (also M.S. 1991): A Peer-to-Peer I/O System in Support of I/O Intensive Workloads
Research Computer Scientist, Intel Research Laboratory at Berkeley
Norival Figueira, Ph.D. 1995 (also M.S. 1993): A New Approach to the Control of Real-Time Traffic in Packet-Switching Data Networks
Senior Architect, Nortel Networks
Alexander Glockner, Ph.D. 1991: Coadaptive Decision-Making in Distributed Computing Systems
Eugene Hung, Ph.D. 2006: Behavior-based Remote Executing Agents
Software Engineer, IBM Silicon Valley Labs
Jonathan Kay, Ph.D. 1995: PathIDs: Reducing Latency in Network Software
Vachaspathi Kompella, Ph.D. 1993 (also M.S. 1990) - co-advised with G. Polyzos: Multicast Routing Algorithms for Multimedia Traffic
Principal Engineer at Alcatel North America, IP Division
Margaritis Margaritidis, Ph.D. 2003 - co-advised with G. Polyzos: Enhancing the Quality of Multimedia Data Transmission over Wireless Links
P. Keith Muller, Ph.D. 1990: Multi-Structured File System Design for High Performance Computing
Chief Technology Officer, Teradata-NCR

Jesse Steinberg, Ph.D. 2004 (also M.S. 1999)

The Web Stream Customizer Architecture: Improving Performance, Reliability and Security for Wireless Web Access
Systems Engineer, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems

Past M.S. Students

Eric Anderson, M.S. 1991

Stephane Belmon, M.S. 1999

Sylvie Bessette, M.S. 1989
Ted Billard, M.S. 1990
Barry Brown, M.S. 1997
Mark Bubien, M.S. 1991
Fred Chong, M.S. 1996
Jack Dietz, M.S. 1997
John Ehrhard, M.S. 2005
Kevin Fall, M.S. 1991
Norival Figueira, M.S. 1993
Vach Kompella, M.S. 1990
Daniel Kraiman, M.S. 1991
Scott McMullan, M.S. 1993
Travis Newhouse, M.S. 2001
Tom Nguyen, M.S. 1994
Max Okumoto, M.S. 1999
Josh Opos, M.S. 2005
Vishesh Parikh, M.S. 1990
Dipti Ranganathan, M.S. 1992
Keith Swensen, M.S. 1989
Anthony Tang, M.S. 1999
Robert Terek, M.S. 1991
Andrew Terry, M.S. 2006
Inge Winkler, M.S. 1990

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