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Potential future students: see note below!

Current PhD Students

  • Ioanna Dionysiou (CS),  Dynamic and Composable Trust Management for Publish-Subscribe systems
  • Kjell “Harald” Gjermundrød (CS), GridStat middleware mechanisms
  • Jim Kusznir, GridStat topic TBD

Current MS Students

  • Rick Grandy, probabilistic multicast for simulation communications
  • Erlend Viddal, GridStat topic TBD
  • Stian Abelsen, GridStat topic TBD

Former Graduate Students

  • Chris Jones, MS, 2000, voting in middleware, now at BBN
  • Limin Gu, MS, 2000, group communication and bandwidth reservation, now at Silicon Graphics
  • Solve Stokkan, MS, 2001, adaptive attribute-based security for CORBA, now at TriGeo Network Security
  • Sripriya Vasudevan, MS, 2001, ad hoc mobile protocols, now at Microsoft
  • Zhiyuan (“Troy”) Zhan, MS, 2001, Voting Virtual Machine, now at Georgia Tech
  • Olav Haugan, MS 2001, MicroQoSCORBA Toolkit, now working for Hynomics.
  • Marius Sundbakken, MS 2001, now working with Seagull Scientific.
  • Radek Mista MS, 2002, Mr. Fusion middleware (Fusion Status Service).  Now working for Silicon Defense, an intrusion detection system and security consulting company.
  • Tarana Damania MS (EE), 2002, Unreliable Transport Mechanisms for MicroQoSCORBA.  Now pursuing an MBA at WSU and working as my research administrator.
  • Kevin Dorow (CS), MS, 2002, MicroQoSCORBA fault tolerance.  Now working for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
  • A. David McKinnon (CS), MicroQoSCORBA architecture, profiling, security mechanisms
  • Wes Lawrence (CS), MicroQoSCORBA realtime mechanisms/profiling.  Now working for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
  • Eivind Næss (CS), MS 2004, MicroQoSCORBA: configurable middleware-layer embedded intrusion detection subsystem.
  • Thor Egil Skaug (CS), MS 2004,  MicroQOSCORBA: wireless middleware adaptation mechanisms in Bluetooth, beginning PhD studies.

A Note to Potential Future Students

Like a lot of professors in popular applied research areas, I get a huge amount of email from students hoping to do a MS or PhD under my direction, mostly from outside the US.  Further, as a rule I do not agree to be an advisor until a student has taken a course from me and shown that he or she can think “on their feet”, show good insight into distributed systems, show that they can communicate and program very well (a weakness with almost all overseas applications, and one difficult to ascertain from a resume, even with an internship or two).  Finally, I do not have time to read these email messages and just delete them.

So do not email me about graduate studies here, asking me to put in a good word for you with the admissions committee or asking me if you can be my RA your first semester here.  While for now I delete such messages, in the future I may (with no warning) forward these onto the committee asking that this person’s bad judgement in emailing me be a negative factor placed in his or her application file.  So don’t email me and risk this, please!

(The above does not apply to students recommended to me by a colleague I know personally.)

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