Research Group Members

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• Joseph Akinwumi, Ph.D. student
  Areas: Content delivery, P2P.
  
  
• Georgios Smaragdakis, Ph.D. student (advised by Azer Bestavros)
  Areas: Network dynamics and equilibria. Design and implementation of strategic network applications.
  
  
• Chong Wang, Ph.D. student
  Areas: Network topology modeling, combinatorial optimization.
  
  

Research Group Alumni

• Paul Barford, Ph.D., now on the Computer Science faculty at U. Wisconsin, Madison (advisor was Mark Crovella).
  
  
• Boulat Bash, Ph.D., now a Ph.D. student at U. Mass, Amherst.
  
  
• Jeffrey Considine, Ph.D., was one of our earliest hires at Adverplex, Inc.
  
  
• Khaled Harfoush, Ph.D., now on the Computer Science faculty at N.C. State University (co-advised by Azer Bestavros).
  
  
• Gu-In Kwon, Ph.D., now on the Computer Science faculty at Inha University, Korea.
  
  
• Anukool Lakhina, Ph.D., went on to found Guavus, a network anomaly detection start-up (advisor was Mark Crovella).
  
  
• Nikos Laoutaris, (PhD 2004, University of Athens), Marie Curie Postdoctoral Scholar while at BU, is now at Telefonica Research in Barcelona.
  
  
• Alberto Medina, Ph.D., is a research scientist at BBN Technologies (advisor was Ibrahim Matta).
  
  
• Stan Rost, BA/MA, now a Ph.D. student at MIT.
  
  
• Manish Sharma, MS, now at Oracle.