Ender Ayanoglu (Co-Director of the Networked Systems Program)

[Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science] Ph.D. 1986 Stanford University. Next generation wireless, broadband, and optical communications. Design, analysis and optimization of communication systems, algorithms and chips for broadband ubiquitous communications.

Carter Butts

[Department of Sociology] Ph.D. 2002 Carnegie Mellon University. Development and application of mathematical, computational, and statistical techniques to theoretical and methodological problems. Structure of spatially embedded large-scale interpersonal networks; theory and applications of discrete exponential family models for cross-sectional and dynamic relational data; Bayesian methods for network inference, model integration, and properties of biophysical systems; relational event models; machine learning techniques for analysis of high-dimensional trajectory data; and prediction of protein structure and function.

Qi Alfred Chen

[Department of Computer Science] Ph.D. 2018 University of Michigan. Network and systems security. Security problems in smart systems and IoT, e.g., smart home systems, smart transportation systems, and autonomous vehicle systems.

Magda El Zarki 

[Department of Computer Science] Ph.D. 1988 Columbia University. Network architectures and protocols, multimedia services, performance analysis, wireless systems.

Hamid Jafarkhani 

[Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science] Ph.D. 1997 University of Maryland at College Park. Communication theory and signal processing with emphases on coding, wireless communications, image processing, machine learning, and wireless networks.

Scott Jordan 

[Department of Computer Science] Ph.D. 1990 University of California, Berkeley. Internet policy issues, including net neutrality, privacy, interconnection, data caps, zero rating, and device attachment.

Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi

[Department of Computer Science] Ph.D. 2019 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Networking and systems. Machine learning systems, software defined networking, data center networks, automated cloud resource management, edge computing.

Fadi Kurdahi

[Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science] Ph.D. 1987 University of Southern California. Hardware/software co-design of embedded systems; mobile and portable wireless and multimedia systems; reconfigurable computing; software-defined radios.

Marco Levorato (Director of the Networked Systems Program)

[Department of Computer Science] Ph.D. 2009 University of Padova. Software defined and cognitive networks. Distributed learning and processing for efficient data acquisition, transportation and analysis. Autonomous Systems - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. (Urban) IoT architectures and signal processing for mobile health care. Modeling and control of Smart Energy Systems.

Zhou Li

[Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science] Ph.D. 2014 Indiana University. Data-driven security analytics, Internet measurement, side-channel analysis, IoT security.

Athina Markopoulou

[Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science] Ph.D. 2003 Stanford University. Mobile systems and mobile data analytics, privacy and IoT devices, network measurement.

Ardalan Amiri Sani
[Department of Computer Science] Ph.D. 2015 Rice University. Building trustworthy systems at the intersection of mobile computing, security, and operating systems.

Yanning Shen
[Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science] Ph.D. 2019 University of Minnesota. Machine learning, data science, network science, optimization and statistical signal processing.

Gene Tsudik

[Department of Computer Science] Ph.D. 1991 University of Southern California. Privacy, computer and network security, applied cryptography.

Nalini Venkatasubramanian 

[Department of Computer Science] Ph.D. 1998 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Enabling effective management and utilization of resources in the evolving global information infrastructure. Concurrent/distributed systems, reflective and adaptive middleware, Internet-of-things, cyberphysical systems, smart resilient communities, middleware for pervasive and mobile computing environments, multimedia systems and applications, formal reasoning of distributed systems.

Mohammad Al Faruque

[Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science] Ph.D. 2009 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. System-level design of embedded systems and Cyber-Physical-Systems with special interests on CPS design automation, model-based design, multi-core systems, and CPS security.

Stanislaw Jarecki

[Department of Computer Science] Ph.D. 2001 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cryptography, security, fault-tolerant distributed computing.

Wenlong Jin 

[Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering] Ph.D. 2003 University of California, Davis. Network traffic flow theories.

Zhiying Wang

[Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science] Ph.D. 2013 California Institute of Technology. Information theory and coding theory for data storage, computation, privacy, and security. Compression for genomic information and log analytics. Age of information for wireless networks.