Doctoral Students
Honglei Zhang
Honglei defended his Doctor of Engineering dissertation in May 2014. Dissertation title: “Byzantine fault tolerance distributed computing”
Current job: Agilysis, Inc.
Hua Chai
Hua defended her Doctor of Engineering dissertation in December 2014. Dissertation title: “Application-Aware Byzantine fault tolerance”
Winner of Outstanding Dissertation Award 2014, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cleveland State University
Winner of the CSU Outstanding Dissertation Award. See link1 and link2
Current job: Hyland Software, Inc.
Brian Krupp
Brian defended his dissertation in May 2015. Brian is co-advised with Dr. Nigamanth Sridhar.
Dissertation title: “Enhancing Security and Privacy for Mobile Systems”
Current job: Assistant Professor at Baldwin Wallace College
Mamdouh Babi
Mamdouh Babi has been working on his dissertation research since 8/2011. He successfully defended his dissertation on April 30, 2017.
Dissertation title: “Byzantine Fault Tolerant Collaborative Editing”
Roanna Lun
Roanna has been working on her dissertation research since 8/2012. She successfully defended her dissertation April 9, 2018.
Dissertation title: “Human Activity Tracking and Recognition Using Kinect Sensor”
Jonathan Gurary
Jonathan successfully defended his dissertation in Feb 2018.
Dissertation title: Improving the Security of Mobile Devices Through Multi-Dimensional and Analog Authentication
Masters Students
Deepa Adinarayanan
Deepa defended her MSEE thesis on August 10, 2018.
Thesis title: “Real-Time Assessment and Visual Feedback to Rehabilitation Patients with Inertial Sensors”
Elham Akbari
Elham defended her MSSE thesis on August 10, 2018.
Thesis title: “Blockchain for Voting: A Quantitative Study”
Akshat Hans
Akshat defended his MSEE thesis on June 21, 2018.
Thesis title: “Continuous Human Activitiy Tracking over a Large Area with Multiple Kinect Sensors”
Sachin Hiriyanna
Sachin defended his MSSE thesis pm May 7, 2018.
Thesis title: “Drughelp.care – A Web Application for the Discovery of Drug Addiction Treatment Facilities”
Hua Chai
Hua defended her MSEE thesis in December 2009.
Thesis title: “Performance Engineering of Fault Tolerance Systems”
Winner of Outstanding Thesis Award 2010, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cleveland State University
Current job: Hyland Software, Inc.
Honglei Zhang
Honglei defended his MSEE thesis in December 2007
Thesis title: “Byzantine Fault Tolerant Coordination for Web Services Atomic Transactions”
Hai Feng
Hai defended his MSEE thesis in May 2015
Thesis title: “A Kinect-Based Rehabilitation Exercise Monitoring System”
Bo Chen
Bo defended his MSEE thesis in December 2008.
Thesis title: “Byzantine fault tolerance for nondeterministic applications”
Maulik Bhatt
Maulik defended his MSEE thesis in June 2006.
Thesis title: “Reliable multicasting and ordering for wireless networks”
