Current Ph.D. Students

• Joseph Kamto
• started fall 2010, passed Ph.D. preliminary exam
• Dissertation topic: “Cybersecurity in Smart Grid”.


• Nan Zou
• started fall 2010, passed Ph.D. preliminary exam
• Dissertation topic: “Control and Optimization of Microgrid with Distributed Renewable Energy Sources”.


• Ojemba Babatundi
• started fall 2010, passed Ph.D. preliminary exam
• Dissertation topic: “Privacy and Traceability Tradeoff in Advanced Metering Infrastructure”.


• Nnaemeka Ben Okafor
• Started fall 2012

Current Master Students

• Nicholas Steward
  • Thesis topic: “Performance Analysis of WiMax in Power Distribution Systems”.
  
  
• Oluwaseyi Omotere
  • Started fall 2012
  
  
• Wasiu Opeyemi Oduola
  • Started fall 2012

 

Ph.D. Graduates supervised

• Ning Song (the 1st Ph.D. graduate from the Department of ECE at PVAMU)

• Dissertation title: “Secure and Energy Efficient Routing Algorithms in Cluster Based Ad Hoc Networks”.Ph.D. awarded in August 2007.

• Currently he is a senior engineer at Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. San Jose, CA.
  

• Haixin Wang (“2008 Outstanding PhD Student” award, College of Engineering, PVAMU)

• Dissertation title: “Inference of Gene Regulatory Networks using Advanced Stochastic Signal Processing”.Ph.D. awarded in August 2008.

• Currently he is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Fort Valley State University, GA 31030.

• Song Gao

  • Dissertation title: “Energy Constrained Spectrum Access in Wireless Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks”.Ph.D. awarded in December 2009.

  • Currently he is with Bloomberg, New York, NY.
    

• Paul Potier (2012 “Outstanding PhD Student” award, Roy G. Perry College of Engineering, PVAMU; NSF Graduate Research Fellowship award, the first student received such award at PVAMU)

• Dissertation title: “A Framework for Cognitive Radio Network Management and Performance Analysis”.Ph.D. awarded in August 2012.

• Currently he is an Associate Professor at Austin Community College (ACC).
  

• CaLynna Sorrells (the 1st female Ph.D. graduate from the Department of ECE at PVAMU)

• Dissertation title: “Detection and Mitigation of Security Attacks in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks”. Ph.D. awarded in August 2012.

• Currently she is with Intel, Portland, OR.

 

M.S. Graduates supervised

• Ebal Onyiego

  • Thesis topic: “Energy Efficient Design of Wireless Sensor Networks”.

  • M.S. awarded in August 2008. Currently he is an engineer at Lockheed Martin, Moorestown, NJ.

• Joseph Kamto

  • Thesis topic: “Secure Anonymous Routing in Wireless Mesh Network”.

  • M.S. awarded in August 2008. Currently he is pursuing Ph.D. degree under my supervision.

 

Ph.D. Graduates served as committee member

• Jia (Jasmine) Meng, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77004, USA

  • Dissertation title: “Compressive Sensing Application to Wireless Communications”.

  • Ph.D. awarded in Dec 2010.

• Senthamilselvi, M., Faculty of Information and Communication Engineering, Anna University, Chennai 600025, India

  • Dissertation title: “Energy Efficient Distributed Coverage Algorithm for Target Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks”.

  • Ph.D. awarded in Dec 2011.

• Zhou Yuan, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77004, USA

  • Dissertation title: “A Framework of Belief Propagation and Game Theory for Cognitive Radio Security and Routing”.

  • Ph.D. awarded in Aug 2012.

 

M.S. Graduates served as committee member

• Jing Lu

  • Thesis topic: “Improving the Efficiency of Wireless Networks via Multiresolution Modulations”.

  • M.S. awarded in May 2008.

• Tingting Li

  • Thesis topic: “Quality of Service Assured Voice Over IP System Design and Implementations”.

  • M.S. awarded in Dec 2007.

• Ashwin Ashok

  • Thesis topic: “A Distributed Method for Synchronization in a TD/CDMA Based Mobile Ad-Hoc Network”.

  • M.S. awarded in August 2008.

• Kuntal Ray, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77004, USA

  • Thesis topic: “Distributed Cross-Layer Wireless Spectrum Analyzer”.

  • M.S. awarded in Dec 2010.

 

Undergraduate Students (senior design projects supervisor, 40 students)

1. The Design of an Intelligent Fire Sprinkler System (Sep. 2004 – May 2005)

2. Environment Monitoring using an Ultra Low Power Distributed Wireless Sensor Network (Sep. 2005 – May 2006)

3.  Energy Efficient Distributed Tracking in an Ultra Low Power Wireless Sensor Network (Jan. 2006 – Jan. 2007)

4. Energy Efficient Tracking of Moving Targets using an Ultra Low Power Distributed Wireless Sensor Network (Sep. 2006 – May 2007)

5. Wireless Border: US-Mexico Border Monitoring using a Low Power Distributed Wireless Sensor Network (Jan. 2007 – Jan. 2008)

6. Accurate Target Tracking by a Low Power Distributed Wireless Sensor Network using Kalman Filtering (Sep. 2007 – May 2008)

7. Covert In-building Reconnaissance (Sep. 2008 – May 2009)

8. Cognitive Radio for Spectrum Monitoring (Sep. 2010 – May 2011)

9. Spectrum Surveillance System Designed for Interference Avoidance (Sep. 2011 – May 2012)

 

Visiting Students

• Jari Nieminen, Department of Communications and Networking, Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University), Finland