People

Director
Postdocs & Visitors
Ph.D. Students
Masters Students
Alumni

Director

Professor Sumi Helal, Ph.D.
Director and Principle Investigator
Mobile and Pervasive Computing Laboratory
Rooms E451-447, Computer Science & Eng. Bldg.
P.O. Box 116120
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida 32611-6120, USA
Office: (352) 392-6845
Fax: (352) 392-1220
Email: h----elal @ cise . ufl . edu

Postdocs & Visitors

Current Visitors

Dr. Hyun Kim, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
Visiting Scholar [2007-] yephee@ufl.edu 		Dr. Shinyoung Lim, Ph.D. Computer Science
Visiting Scholar [2006-]
lim@cise.ufl.edu

Past Visitors

Bessam Abdulrazak, Ph.D. Computer Science Postdoc [2005-2007]

Choonhwa Lee, Ph.D. Computer Science Postdoc [2003-2004]

Steve Moore, M.S. Computer Science Research Scientist [2002-2006]

Ph.D. Students

Hen-I Yang
Email:
hyang@cise.ufl.edu		 Raja Bose
Email:
rbose@cise.ufl.edu
Chao Chen
Email:
chaochen@ufl.edu		    

Masters Students

Rohin Sethi
Email:
rohin@ufl.edu		       Jeb Beich
Email:
jebbeich@gmail.com		      

Doctorate Alumni (University of Florida)

  1. Dr. Jeffery King (Graduated Spring 2007): Atlas - Service Oriented Device Architecture | Dissertation | Defense Presentation|Photo|
  2. Dr. Hisham Zabadani (Graduated Summer 2006): Self Sensing Spaces | Dissertation | Defense Presentation | Photo|
  3. Dr. Mohammad Al-Turkistany (Graduated Spring 2006): Adaptation Framework for Wireless Thin-Client Computing. Now Assistant professor at Umm Al-Qura University. | Dissertation| Defense Presentation| Photo|
  4. Dr. Ahmed Abukmail (Graduated Fall 2005): Pervasive Computing Approach to Energy Management. Now Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at the University of Southern Mississippi. |Dissertation| Defense Presentation |Photo|
  5. Dr. Jun (Kenneth) Tian (Graduated Fall 2005): Speed Adaptive Mobile IP Over Wireless LAN. Now with Motorola Corporation | Dissertation | Defense Presentation | Photo |
  6. Dr. Wenzheng Gu (Graduated Fall 2003): Ubiquitous Web Caching.
    Now with Citigroup| Dissertation | Defense Presentation | Photo |
  7. Dr. Choonhwa Lee (Graduated Spring 2003): Context-Aware Service Discovery Protocols for Pervasive Computing. Now Assistant Professor in Hanyang University | Dissertation | Defense Presentation | Photo |
  8. Dr. Edwin Hernandez (Graduated Summer 2002): Managing Rapid Mobility in 3G/4G Wireless Networks. Now with Motorola Corporation | Dissertation | Defense Presentation | Photo |
  9. Dr. Jinsuo Zhang (Graduated Spring 2002): The UbiData Mobile File System. Now with Yahoo Inc. | Dissertation | Defense Presentation | Photo |
  10. Dr. Jie Meng (Graduated Spring 2002): Adaptive and Dynamic Workflow Automation (Joint Advising with Professor Stanley Su). Now with Google | Dissertation | Defense Presentation | Photo |

Masters Alumni (University of Florida)

  1. Anil Moola (Graduated Fall 2007): Selectivity Estimation of Sensor Data in SENSABLE.
  2. Raja Bose (Graduated Spring 2007): PROMETHEUS: An Enhanced Software Architecture for the Atlas Platform. Now moved to the Ph.D. Program at University of Florida.
  3. Ahmad Al-Kouche (Graduated Fall 2006): Self Powered Wireless Sensors: Remotely Powered Wireless Sensors via Wireless Power Transfer.
  4. James Russo (Graduated Fall 2004): An OSGI Based Framework for an Intelligent Sensor Network. Now with Vario.
  5. Young Park (Graduated Fall 2004): Transaction Processing in the UbiData Mobile Database System. Now with Florida Center for Library Automation.
  6. Satish Kumar Veerapuneni (Graduated Summer 2004): Benchmarking Smart Homes. Now with Intel Wireless Group.
  7. Andi Sukujo (Graduated Spring 2004): SmartWave - Intelligent Meal Preparation System to Help Older People Live Independently. Now with Agilent
  8. Mihir Patel (Graduated Spring 2004): I Collaboration Groupware for Mobile Devices Using the Microsoft.NET Compact Framework. Now with CITRIX
  9. YingChun (Lisa) Ran (Graduated Spring 2003): Integrated Indoor/Outdoor Navigation System for the Blind. Now with Motorola, Inc.
  10. Baldeep Singh (Graduated Spring 2003): Security enhancement to Bluetooth. Now with General Electric .
  11. Corneliu Manescu (Graduated Fall 2002): Video and Voice Coding for Mobile Ad-Hoc Collaboration. Now with Microsoft.
  12. Pushkar Pradhan (Graduated Fall 2002): Maintaining Consistent Group Membership in Ad Hoc Networks.
  13. Peter Handel (Graduated Fall 2002): Multimedia Delivery in Wireless Environments. Now with Apple .
  14. Subramanian Arumugam (Graduated Fall 2002): aZIMa Mobile Agent System.
  15. Sapan Anand (Graduated Fall 2002): BlueSec - A Bluetooth Stack Extension for Secure Service Access. Now with Epic Systems.
  16. Sasidah Parvatham (Graduated Fall 2002): A Bluetooth LAN Access Profile Simulator
  17. Yanli Xia (Graduated Fall 2002): Currency based Dynamic Database Design and Reconfiguration. Now with Microsoft.
  18. Jingting Lu (Graduated Summer 2002): Web Service based User Centric Information Fusion. Now with Medacist .
  19. Ajay Kang (Graduated Summer 2002): Algorithms for Reduced Content Document Synchronization. Now with Microsoft Corporation.
  20. Bryon Winkler (Graduated Summer 2002): HIgh Precision Inddor Location/Positioning Tracking Systems. Now with Harris Corporation.
  21. Sree Charan Kuchibhotla (Graduated Summer 2002): An OSGi based infrastructure for the Smart Homes of the future. Now with Epic Systems Corporation.
  22. Dushiant Kochhar (Graduated Summer 2002): Proxy Gator - A Server-side Wireless Toolkit. Now with Microsoft Corporation.
  23. Steve Moore (Graduated Spring 2002): Drishti - Wireless and Mobile Navigation System for the Blind. Now the RERC Center at the University of Florida.
  24. Varun Verma (Graduated Spring 2002): KONARK - A ServiceDelivery Protocol for Ad-hoc Networks. Now with Citrix Systems Corporation.
  25. Madhav Chinta (Graduated Spring 2002): ILC-TCP: An Interlayer Collaboration Protocol for TCP Performance Improvement in Mobile and wireless Environments. Now with Citrix Systems Corporation.
  26. Nitin Desai (Graduated Spring 2002): KONARK - An Ad-Hoc Service Discovery Protocol. Now with Citrix Systems Corporation.
  27. Michael Procopio ( Graduated Spring 2002): YCab.NET: Ad-Hoc Groupware API and Framework for Mobile Collaboration. Now with Sandia National Labs.
  28. Kyung Joo Suh ( Graduated Fall 2001): CRYPTO-AD-HOC Network: An Ad hoc Network Protocol Embedded Cryptography. Now with Samsung, Korea.
  29. David Nordstedt (Graduated Fall 2001): uJini - A Service Discovery and Delivery Infrastructure for Pervasive Computing. Now with Phoneomena.
  30. Vidya Renganarayanan (Graduated Fall 2001): Web Agents Programming Model. Now with Brocade Communications Systems.
  31. Tapan Divekar (Graduated Summer 2001): PEMOCO –An Infrastructure for Personal M-Commerce using Java Enabled Smart Phones. Now with Citrix Systems Corporation.
  32. Kevin Birkett (Graduated Summer 2001): Implementation of a Mobile / Wireless Video Delivery System.
  33. Rajanikanth Kanyaboina (Graduated Summer 2001): e-Staurant: A Software Infrastructure for restaurant management . Now with General Electric Medical Systems
  34. Arun Jagatheesan (Graduated Summer 2001): Architecture and Protocols for Sangam Communities and Sangam E-Service Brokering. Now with San Diego Supercomputer Center
  35. Raja Krithivasan (Graduated Summer 2001): BIZBUILDER: An E-services Framework for Internet Workflow. Now with Verizon.
  36. Amar Nalla (Graduated Summer 2001): AZIMAS – Almost Zero Infrastructure Mobile Agents System. Now with Microsoft Corporation
  37. Subodh Shah (Graduated Spring 2001): CAD-HOC: A CAD Like Tool for Generating Mobility Benchmarks in Ad-Hoc Networks. Now with Cisco Systems
  38. Abhinav Khshraj (Graduated Spring 2001): IncCoda: Incremental Hoarding and Reintegration in Mobile Environments. Now with Citrix Systems Corporation
  39. Sam Coons (Graduated Spring 2001): Virtual Wireless Thin Client.
  40. Rick Loy (Graduated Spring 2001): Active Mode Power Management in Mobile Devices.
  41. Latha Sampath (Graduated, Fall 2000): Wireless and Mobile Video Delivery. Now with Microsoft.
  42. Cumhur Aksoy (Graduated, Spring 2000): Wireless Thin Client Optimization for Multimedia Applications. Now with Citrix Systems Corporation
  43. Dominik Buszko (Graduated, Summer 2000): Light Weight API for Ad-Hoc Mobile Collaboration. Now with Motorola, Inc
  44. Dan Lee (Graduated, Summer 2000) : Decentralized, Ad-Hoc Groupware API and Framework for Mobile Collaboration. Now with Motorola, Inc
  45. Siva Ramamurthy (Graduated Summer 2000): Optimizing Thin Clients for Wireless Computing via Localization of Keyboard Activities During High Network Latency. Now with Hewlett Packard
  46. Hua Li (Graduated, Fall 1999): Modernization of The Rainbow Distributed Database System. Now with Sarnoff Corporation
  47. Mei Wang (Graduated, Fall 1999): Service-Centric Brokering in Dynamic e-Business Communities. Now with Cendant.

Masters Alumni (University of Texas at Arlington)

  1. Santosh Balakrishnan (Graduated, Summer 1996): Location-Sensitive Naming Service for Mobile Computing nvironments
  2. Jamie Patterson (Graduated, Summer 1996): A Workflow-based Management of Data Warehouses
  3. Mike Pafford (Graduated, Fall 1995): Distributed Transaction Processing Standards and a Proposal for Mobile X/Open XA. Now with Camber Corporation.
  4. Ravi Badrachalam (Graduated, Fall 1995): Enterprise Modeling Using Distributed Interoperable Objects. Now with Accenture.
  5. Yuan (David) Yaowu (Graduated Spring 1995): Dynamic Data Allocation Strategies in Parallel Database Systems
  6. Bob Welch (Graduated Fall 1994): A Resilient Application-Level Failure Detection System for Distributed Computing Environments
  7. Judson Fortner (Graduated, Summer 1994): Scalability of Database Systems, A Performance Evaluation Approach
  8. Vinay Rao (Graduated, Spring 1994): Message Scheduling and Integrated Task-Message Scheduling in Distributed Real-Time Systems
  9. Tunghui Ku (Graduated, Spring 1993): Adaptive Concurrency Control and Transaction Scheduling.

Undergraduate Honor Thesis Graduates (University of Florida)

  1. Timothy Clark (Graduated Spring 2004): Mobile Menu: A Restaurant Menu Publishing Service for Mobile Devices.
  2. Hoze Botee (Graduated Fall 1999): Design and Development of a Virtual Collaboration Space for Classroom Interaction and Education. Now with Hyperion
  3. David Nordstedt (Graduated Fall 2000): Wireless Jini Projection Service. Now a graduate student at the University of Florida.
  4. Roberto Perez (Graduated Spring 2001): A 3-D Navigation System on Wireless Wearable Computers. Now with the University of Florida
  5. Thien Nguyen (Graduated Spring 2001): A 3-D Navigation System on the iPAQ using Citrix MetaFrame Thin CLient Architecture. Now with Harris Corporation