Gustavo de Veciana

Current Research Group

Our group is interested in summer, part-time, permanent and consulting work in applied research and development. Members of this group are working or have worked at Apple, CISCO, Dropbox, Intel, Google, Samsung, Qualcomm. Do not hesitate to contact us.

Ph.D.	M.S.
Jianhan Song (co-supervised) Geetha Chandrasekaran Hasan Beytur Parikshit Hegde Heasung Kim (co-supervised)	Agrim Bari Aniruddh Venkatakrishnan Alejandro Gomez Leos (co-supervised)

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Visiting Professors

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Past Visiting Researchers

Prof. Ayman Elezabi ECNG Department, American University in Cairo, New Cairo, Egypt
Prof. Albert Banchs Universidad Carlos III and IMDEA Networks, Madrid Spain
Jacek Kibilda Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Prof. Seung Jun Baek, Korea University
Huanle Xu, , Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Andres Garcia Saavedra , Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Prof. Sang Kyun Yun , from Dept. of Comp. and Telecom. Eng., Yonsei University, Korea
Prof. Chong Song , from the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Kyunghan Lee, Ph.D. Student at KAIST
Kyuho Son Ph.D. Student at KAIST

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Texas Exes....

Photo album with assorted pictures since 1993.

• Jean Abou Rahal   (Ph.D. August 2023) [Web]
  Qualcomm, San Diego.
  Thesis: Timely Information Sharing in Communication Constrained Systems
• Saadallah Kassir  (Ph.D. May 2022) [Web]
  Qualcomm, San Diego.
  Thesis: Modeling, Analysis, and Design of Collaborative Services in Vehicular and Cloud/Edge Networks
• Michael Stecklein   (M.S. May 2020) [ Web]
  Apple, CA.
• Pranav Madadi   (Ph.D. August 2019, co-supervised F. Baccelli) [ Web]
  Samsung, Mountain View
  Thesis: Performance Analysis of Mobile Users in Poisson Wireless Networks
• Jiaxiao Zheng   (Ph.D. May 2019) [ Web]
  Google, Seattle, WA
  Thesis: Resource Sharing in Network Slicing and Human-Machine Interactions
• Pablo Caballero Garces   (Ph.D. August 2018 - co-supervised Albert Banchs) [ Web]
  Apple, CA .
  Thesis: Design and Performance of Resource Allocation Mechanisms for Network Slicing
• Arjun Anand   (Ph.D. May 2018) [Web]
  INTEL Oregon.
  Thesis: Schedulers for Next Generation Wireless Networks: Realizing QoE Tradeoffs for Heterogeneous Traffic Mixes
• Yicong Wang   (Ph.D. December 2017) [ Web]
  Google, CA.
  Thesis: Impact of Blockage and Mobility on Collaborative Sensing and Millimeter Wave Based Communication
• Yuhuan Du   (Ph.D. December 2015) [ Web]
  Dropbox, CA.
  Thesis: Analysis and Design of Resource Allocation Policies for Cloud-based Computing Systems Supporting Soft Real-Time Applications
• Virag Shah  (Ph.D. August 2015) [ Web]
  postdoc Stanford University.
  Thesis: Centralized Content Delivery Infrastructure Exploiting Resource Pools: Performance Models and Asymptotics
• Zheng Lu   (Ph.D. August 2015) [ Web]
  Netflix, CA,
  Thesis: Scheduling Wireless Transmissions Exploting Application Awareness and Knowledge of the Future
• Vinay Joseph   (Ph.D. August 2013) [Web]
  Assistant Professor, National Institute of Technology Calicut, India.
  Thesis: Mean-Variability-Fairness Tradeoffs in Resource Allocation with Applications to Video Delivery
• Yuchul Kim   (Ph.D. May 2011) [Web]
  Currently at Qualcomm, San Diego.
  Thesis: Spatial Spectrum Reuse in Wireless Networks: Design and Performance
• Ayis Ziotopoulos   (Ph.D. May 2011) [ Web]
  Google, CA
  Thesis: Design of Platforms for Computing Context with Spatio-Temporal Locality
• Bilal Sadiq  (Ph.D. August 2010) [Web ]
  New Jersey Research Center, Qualcomm
  Thesis: Optimality and Robustness in Opportunistic Scheduler Design for Wireless Networks
• Andrey Zykov   (Ph.D. December 2009) [Web]
  Cadence, CA.
  Thesis: Exploring Scaling Limits and Computational Paradigms for Next Generation Embedded Systems
• Hongseok Kim   (Ph.D. December 2009) [Web]
  Assistant Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering, Sogang University Korea.
  Previously, Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent.
  Thesis: Exploring Tradeoffs in Wireless Networks under Flow-Level Traffic: Energy, Capacity and QoS
• Balaji Rengarajan   (Ph.D. August 2009)
  Celect Boston.
  Thesis: Self Organizing Networks: Buildling Traffic and Environment Aware Wireless Systems
• Jeremy Chen  (Ph.D. May 2007, co-supervised)
  Google, New York.
  Thesis: Frequency Allocation, Transmit Power Control, and Load Balancing with Site Specific Knowledge for Optimizing Wireless Network Performance
• Seung Jun Baek   (Ph.D. December 2006)
  Associate Professor, Korea University, Korea.
  Thesis: Spatial Modelling and Analysis of Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks: An Energy Perspective
• Shailesh Patil  (Ph.D. May 2006)
  Qualcomm
  Thesis:Opportunistic Scheduling and Resource Allocation Among Heterogenous Users in Wireless Networks
• Xiangying Yang   (Ph.D. August 2005)
  Apple, CA.
  Thesis: CDMA Ad Hoc Networks: Design and Performance Tradeoffs
• Alex Zemlianov   (Ph.D. August 2005)
  Director Quantative Analytics, Barclays Capital NY
  Thesis: Analysis and Design of Wireless Systems with Interface and Provider Diversity: Competition and Cooperation
• Dogu Arifler  (Ph.D. May 2004, co-supervised) [Web]
  Associate Professor, Dept. Computer Engineerng, Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus
  Thesis: Network Tomography Based on Flow Level Measurements
• Jangwon Lee   (Ph.D. August 2003) [Email] [Web]
  Apple, CA.
  Thesis: Cooperative Resource Discovery and Sharing in Group Communications
• Steven Weber   (Ph.D. May 2003) [Email] [Web]
  Professor and Department Head, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Drexel University.
  Thesis: Supporting Rate Adaptive Multimedia Streams on the Internet
• Carlos Caicedo   (M.S. May 2003) [Email] [Web]
  Associate Professor, Syracuse University.
  Masters Report: Pricing and Billing of Data Services
• Xun Su   (Ph.D. December 2002) [Email]
  Caltech researcher, Fulcrum, currently at A10 Networks
  Thesis: Flow based dynamic routing in uncertain network environments
• Sankyu Park   (Ph.D. December 2002) [Email]
  Senior Engineer, Broadband Access System Architecture Design Lab, Samsung Electronics Co., Korea
  Thesis: Traffic Engineering in Multi-service Networks: Routing, Flow Control and Provisioning Perpectives
• Ram Rajagopal   (M.S. December 2002) [Email]
  Assistant Professor, Stanford University.
  Ph.D. at U.C. Berkeley.
  Thesis: Efficient Sampling of Abstract Surfaces
• Jay. S. Yang   (Ph.D. December 2001) [Email] [ Web ]
  Department Head of Computer Engineering, Associate Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, New Jersey.
  Thesis: Enhancing System and User Perceived Performance for Networks Supporting Best Effort Traffic
• John Stine   (Ph.D. August 2001) [Email]
  Mitre, VA.
  Thesis: Energy Conserving Protocols for Wireless Data Networks
• Philippe Girolami (M.S. 2000) [Email| [Web Page ]
  Last at Digiplug France.
• Tae-Jin Lee   (Ph.D. May 1999) [ Email ] [ Web]
  Professor, School of Information and Communication Engineering Sungkyunkwan University 300 Cheoncheon-Dong, Jangan-Gu Suwon 440-746, KOREA.
  Thesis: Traffic management and design of multiservice networks: The Internet and ATM Networks
• Michael Montgomery     (Ph.D. 1998) [Email | Web page ]
  Currently doing missionary work in South America.
  Thesis: Managing complexity in large-scale networks via flow and network aggregation 
• Ching-Fong Su (Ph.D. 1998)
  Quora
  Thesis: Efficient traffic management based on determinstically constrained flows 
• Trevor Sosebee   (M.S. 1998)
• Jian-Huei Guo   (M.S. 1998) Masters Report: Measurement and analysis of network dynamics
• Wei-Lin Yang (M.S. 1997 ) Masters Report:  Estimation and abstraction of available capacity in large scale networks

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