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
Reducing Latency in Cloud Computing Systems

Sriram Ramabhadran
Durability in Replicated Systems

Cynthia Taylor
Architectures for Remote I/O: Networked Device Drivers

M. S. Candidates

Ankur Jain
Performance of Cloud Computing Systems

Undergraduates

Leilani Gilpin
Network Modeling and Algorithms

Katharine Walsh
Transformation Modules for Networked Device Drivers


Recent Graduates

Fallon Chen, M.S. 2010
Performance of Anonymous Communications
Software Engineer, Teradata

Taurin Tan-atichat, M.S. 2009
VNC in High-Latency Environments and Techniques for Improvement
Software Engineer, Google

Hakon Verespej , M.S. 2010
Modeling Lifetime of Erasure Code-based Replicated Systems
Software Engineer, Microsoft


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 Manager, IP Products Division, Brocade

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
Director, Wireless Networking, Alcatel-Lucent

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

Fallon Chen, M.S. 2010

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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