Biswanath Mukherjee -- Teaching

Undergraduate Teaching

Graduate Teaching

Graduate Student / Research Supervision

Past Service: Ph.D.

1. Dr. Subrata Banerjee, Optimally-structured high-speed metropolitan area networks with distributed control, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, December 1992.
   Present employment: Member of Technical Staff, Cisco Systems.
   Past employment: Assistant Professor, Deptt. of Electrical Engg. and Computer Sci., Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ; Member of Technical Staff, Phillips Research Labs., NY; Director of Software Architecture, Accordion Networks.

2. Dr. Feiling Jia, Architectures and Protocols for High-Speed Multichannel Networks, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, September 1993.
   Present employment: Member of Technical Staff, Zaffire, Inc.
   Past employment: Member of Technical Staff, Pacific Bell/SBC; Optivision, Inc.

3. Dr. Shao-Kong Kao, Multimedia Integration on High-Speed Fiber Optic Bus Networks, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Electrical and Computer Engg., University of California, Davis, June 1994.
   Present employment: Member of Technical Staff, Foundry Networks.
   Past employment: Member of Technical Staff, Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Alidian Networks.

4. Dr. Michael S. Borella, Scheduling and Multicasting in WDM Local Lightwave Networks, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, September 1995.
   Present employment: Member of Technical Staff, 3Com/US Robotics, IL.
   Past employment: Assistant Professor, Computer Science Dept., DePaul University.

5. Dr. Dhritiman Banerjee, Design and Analysis of Wavelength-Routed Optical Networks, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, September 1996.
   Present employment: Co-Founder and Vice President of Software, Internet Photonics, Inc.
   Past employment: Member of Technical Staff, Bell Labs/ Lucent Technologies; Member of Technical Staff, Hewlett-Packard.

6. Dr. Jason Iness, Efficient Use of Optical Components In WDM Networks, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, November 1997.
   Present employment: Member of Technical Staff, Intel Corp., Hillsboro OR.

7. Dr. Byrav Ramamurthy, Efficient Design of Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) Based Optical Networks, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, July 1998.
   Present employment: Associate Professor, University of Nebraska.

8. Dr. S. Ramamurthy, Optimal Design of WDM Network Architectures, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, Sept. 1998.
   Present employment: Cisco Systems.
   Past employment: Member of Technical Staff, Telcordia (Bellcore); CIENA; Senior Network Architect, Tellium.

9. Dr. Jason Jue, Design and Analysis of Architectures and Protocols for WDM Optical Networks, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Electrical and Computer Engg., University of California, Davis, June 1999.
   Present employment: Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Dallas.

10. Dr. Laxman Sahasrabuddhe, Multicasting and Fault Tolerance in WDM Optical Networks, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, November 1999.
    (Winner of the 1999-2000 College of Engineering ``Best Doctoral Dissertation Award''.)
    Present employment: Park Vaughan and Fleming.
    Past employment: Member of Technical Staff, Amber Networks; Summit Networks.

11. Dr. Nicholas J. Puketza, Approaches to Computer Security: Filtering, Testing, and Detection, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, Dec. 2000 (co-advisor: Professor Ron Olsson).
    Present employment: Lecturer, University of California, Davis.

12. Dr. Xiaoxin Wu, Supporting Quality of Service (QoS) in Overlaid Wireless Networks, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis, March 2001 (co-advisor: Professor Dipak Ghosal).
    Present employment: Postdoctoral Researcher, Purdue University.
    Past employment: Member of Technical Staff, Arraycom, Inc.

13. Dr. Wushao Wen, QoS-based Design of High-Speed Networks, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis, June 2001.
    Present employment: Member of Technical Staff, Network Associates.
    Past employment: Member of Technical Staff, Summit Networks, Mahi Networks, CIENA.

14. Dr. Hui Zang, Design and Analysis of WDM Network Architectures, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, June 2001.
    Present employment: Member of Technical Staff, Sprint Advanced Technology Laboratory.

15. Shun Yao, Design and Analysis of Optical Packet-Switched Networks, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis, Dec. 2001.
    Prior employment: Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Davis.
    Present status: UC Davis Law School.

16. Jian Wang, Design and analysis of optical WDM metropolitan and wide-area networks, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Applied Science, University of California, Davis, May 2002. (Co-advisor: Professor Rao Vemuri.)
    Present employment: Assistant Professor, Florida International University.

17. Dr. Aysegul Gencata, Topology and Bandwidth Adaptation in Optical WDM Backbone Networks with Dynamic Traffic, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, April 2003. (Complete research conducted under my supervision at UC Davis.)
    Present employment: Assistant Professor, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey.

18. Glen Kramer, Design of Next-Generation Subscriber Access Systems Based on Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (EPON), Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, June 2003.
    Present employment: Chief Scientist, Teknovus, Inc., Petaluma.

19. Keyao Zhu, Design and Analysis of Traffic-Groomable Optical WDM Networks, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, Aug. 2003.
    (Winner of the 2004 Zuhair A. Munir College of Engineering ``Best Doctoral Dissertation Award''.)
    Present employment: Member of Technical Staff, Alcatel Research, Shanghai, China

20. Canhui (Sam) Ou, Design and Analysis of Survivable Optical Networks, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, July 2004.
    Present employment: Member of Technical Staff, SBC, San Ramon, CA.

21. Dr. Narendra Singhal, Survivable Multicast Communications in Next-Generation High-Capacity Networks, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, September 2004.
    Present employment: Member of Technical Staff, Google. Prior employment: Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Corp.

22. Dr. Jing Zhang, Architecture and Algorithms for Fault Management in Optical WDM Networks, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, January 2005.
    Present employment: Member of Technical Staff, Sun Microsystems.

23. Dr. Hongyue Zhu, Optical WDM Networks: Traffic Grooming in Mesh Networks and Metro Networks using ROADMs, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, August 2005.
    Present employment: Member of Technical Staff, Nortel Networks.

24. Dr. Yurong (Grace) Huang, Design of Reliable Network Architectures and Algorithms, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis, Nov. 2005. (Co-advisor: Professor Jonathan P. Heritage.)
    Present employment: Member of Technical Staff, Nortel Networks.

25. Dr. Christoph Gauger, Novel Network Architecture for Optical Burst Switching, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Stuttgart, Germany, Aug. 2006. (Advisor: Professor Paul J. Kuhn; Co-advisor: myself.)
    Present employment: Member of Technical Staff, Boston Consulting Group.

26. Dr. Amitabha Banerjee, Improving Data Transport over High-Speed Networks, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, Feb. 2007. (Co-advisor: Professor Dipak Ghosal)
    Present employment: Member of Technical Staff, Sun Microsystems.

27. Dr. Vijoy Pandey, Resource Management in Next-Generation Cellular and Wireless Networks, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, Feb. 2007. (Co-advisor: Professor Dipak Ghosal)
    Present employment: Member of Technical Staff, Blade Networks.

28. Dr. Smita Rai, Methods and Algorithms for Efficient Provisioning in High-Capacity Transport Networks, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, May 2007.
    Present employment: Member of Technical Staff, Cisco.

29. Dr. Jennifer Yick, Wireless Sensor Network Architectures, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, May 2007. (Co-advisor: Professor Dipak Ghosal)
    Present employment: Member of Technical Staff, Qualcom.

30. Dr. Lei Song, Design and Analysis of Survivable Telecom Mesh Networks, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis, November 2007.
    Present employment: Member of Technical Staff, Yahoo, Inc.

Past Service: M.S.

1. Andrea Lantz, A study of two efficient access protocols for unidirectional broadcast bus networks, M.S. Thesis, Dept. of Elec. Engr. and Comp. Sci., University of California, Davis, June 1988.
   First (Present?) employment: Hewlett-Packard, Roseville Networks Division, Roseville, CA.

2. Conrad Kwok, Bridging techniques for CSMA/CD networks -- Design, analysis and implementation, M.S. Thesis, Division of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, Feb. 1989.
   First (Present?) employment: Systems Analyst, Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway.

3. Tamra Perez, Network management of bridge components, M.S. Thesis, Dept. of Elec. Engr. and Comp. Sci., University of California, Davis, May 1990.
   First (Present?) employment: Hewlett-Packard, Roseville Networks Division, Roseville, CA.

4. L. Todd Heberlein, Towards detecting intrusions in a networked environment, M.S. Thesis, Division of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, June 1991 (co-advisor: Professor Karl Levitt).
   Present employment: Founder, NetSquared.
   Past employment: Post Graduate Researcher, Computer Security Lab., UC Davis

5. Steve Snapp, Signature analysis and communication issues in a distributed intrusion detection system, M.S. Thesis, Division of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, August 1991.
   First employment: Member of Technical Staff, Haystack Labs., Inc. Austin, TX.

6. Justin Doak, Intrusion detection: The application of feature selection, a comparison of algorithms, and the application of a wide area network analyzer, M.S. Thesis, Division of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, August 1992.
   First (Present?) employment: Member of Technical Staff, Los Alamos National Lab, New Mexico.

7. Brad Wetmore, Intrusion detection: audit data analysis (?), M.S. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, 1993? (co-advisor: Professor Karl Levitt).
   Present employment: Member of Technical Staff, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

8. Kui Zhang, Design and Implementation of `Davis Loops' -- A Methodology for Testing Intrusion Detection Systems, M.S. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, May 1993.
   Present employment: Member of Technical Staff, Cisco Systems.

9. Biswaroop Guha, Vulnerability Analysis of the TCP/IP Suite, M.S. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, September 1995.
   Present employment: Member of Technical Staff, Hewlett-Packard.

10. Kirk Bradley, Detecting Disruptive Routers: A Distributed Network Monitoring Approach, M.S. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, September 1997 (co-advisor: Professor Ron Olsson).
    Present employment: Member of Technical Staff, SRI International.

11. Jayakrishna Kidambi, Dynamic Token Bucket (DTB): A Fair Bandwidth Allocation Algorithm for High-Speed Networks, M.S. Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis, June 1999 (co-advisor: Professor Dipak Ghosal).
    Present employment: Member of Technical Staff, Hewlett-Packard.

12. Scott Miller, Specification of Network Access Policy and Verification of Compliance Through Passive Monitoring, M.S. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, November 1999 (co-advisor: Professor Ron Olsson).
    Past employment: Member of Technical Staff, Marimba.
    Present employment: Unknown.

13. Sekhar Kunapuli, Multicast Network Architectures, M.S. Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis, December 1999.
    Present employment: Unknown.

14. Kanna Potharlanka, Implementation of Routing and Wavelength Assignment Algorithms for Wavelength-Convertible WDM Optical Networks in ARTHUR, M.S. Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis, Jan. 2002.
    Present employment: Member of Technical Staff, Sierra Electronics.

15. Toshit Antani, ARTHUR Simulation Tool Development, M.S. Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis, May 2003.
    Present employment: Unknown.

16. Archana Bharathidasan, Optimization of Placement of Beacons and Clusterheads in a Sensor Network, M.S. Thesis, Department of Computer Science University of California, Davis, March 2004. (Co-advisor: Professor Dipak Ghosal.)
    Present employment: Software Engineer, IPLocks, San Jose.

17. Vijay Ponduru, Coverage-Aware Multipath Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks, M.S. Thesis, Department of Computer Science University of California, Davis, March 2004. (Co-advisor: Professor Dipak Ghosal.)
    Present employment: Software Engineer, IPLocks, San Jose.

18. Scott Gieselman, Virtual-Topology Adaptation for WDM Mesh Networks Under Dynamic Traffic and Realistic Cost Conditions, M.S. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, September 2004.
    Present employment: unknown.

19. Vladimir Berman, Enhancing Data Security in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks via Multipath Routing and Directional Transmission, M.S. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, August 2005.
    Present employment: Software Engineer, Hewlett-Packard.

Present Service: Ph.D., Postdoc, and Visiting Scientists

1. Suman Sarkar, Ph.D. work on hybrid wireless/optical access networks.

2. Huan Song, Ph.D. work on optical access networks.

3. Fred Clarke, Ph.D. work on optical access networks.

4. Dragos Andrei, Ph.D. work on resource scheduling in Grid networks (co-advisor: Professor Dipak Ghosal).

5. Marwan Battayneh (ECE), Ph.D. work on carrier Ethernet.

6. Sheng Huang (ECE), Ph.D. work on next-generation SONET/SDH networks.

7. Marty Nicholes (ECE), Ph.D. work on network security.

8. Mohammad Albaijat (ECE), Ph.D. work on Light-trees: optical multicasting networks.

9. Joon-ho Choi (ECE), Ph.D. work on optical networks.

10. Yali (Tracy) Liu (ECE), Ph.D. work on IPTV, video coding, and security (Advisor: Professor Dipak Ghosal; co-advisor: myself).

11. Vishwanath Ramamurthi (ECE), Ph.D. work on wireless networks with MIMO technology (co-advisor: Professor Dipak Ghosal).

12. Ming Xia, Ph.D. work on robust optical networks. (co-advisor: Professor Chip Martel).

13. Rajesh Roy, Ph.D. work on IP-over-WDM optical networks.

14. Xiaoling Qiu, Ph.D. work on wireless networks (Advisor: Professor Dipak Ghosal; co-advisor: myself).

15. Abu Ahmed (Sayeem) Ahmed, Ph.D. work on hybrid optical-access networks (co-advisor: Professor Dipak Ghosal).

16. Eiman Alotaibi, Ph.D. work on hybrid optical-access networks.

17. Pulak Chowdhury, Ph.D. work on hybrid optical-access networks.

18. Lei Shi, Ph.D. work on broadband access networks.

19. Prantik Bhattacharyya, Ph.D. work on robust optical network architectures.

20. Avishek Nag, Ph.D. work on all-optical switching and networking.

21. Dr. Anpeng Huang, Post-doctoral researcher, optical WDM networks.

22. Dr. Massimo Tornatore, Post-doctoral researcher, optical WDM networks.

23. Cicek Cavdar, Visiting PhD Student from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, research on survivable optical networks, Dec. '05 to present.

24. Davide Cuda, Visiting PhD Student from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, research on broadband access networks, August '07 to present.

25. Elli Georgieva, Visiting Researcher from Technical University of Munich, Germany, research on multi-layer survivable hybrid optical-wireless broadband access networks, Dec. '08 onwards (co-sponsored by Nokia Siemens Networks).

26. Professor Myungsik Yoo, Visiting faculty from Soongsil University, Korea, research on optical network architectures, Aug. '06 to Feb. '08.

Present Service: M.S.

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Visiting Scientists in Networks Research Lab: Past & Present

1. Dr. Srini Tridandapani, post-doctoral researcher, research on optical network architectures, 9/94-7/95.
   Present employment: MD student, University of Michigan.
   Past employment: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engg. and Computer Science, Iowa State University.

2. Professor Jaafar H. M. Abu Bakar, Visiting Scientist, research on metropolitan-area networks, 2/94-4/94.
   Visiting From: Associate Professor, Deparment of Electronics & Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM).

3. Professor Debasish Datta, Visiting Professor, research on optical networks: physical layer modeling and impact on network architectures, 2/97-2/98; 5/99-7/99.
   Visiting From: Deparment of Electronics & Electrical Communications Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India (Professor and Chair, G. S. Sanyal School of Telecommunications).

4. Professor Young-Chon Kim, Visiting Professor, research on optical networks and wireless network architectures, 2/98-2/99.
   Visiting From: Professor of Computer and Telecommunication Engineering, Chonbuk National University, Republic of Korea.

5. Professor Wonhong Cho, Visiting Professor, research on optical network architectures, 1/99-1/03.
   Visiting From: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Kunsan National University, Republic of Korea.

6. Dr. Aysegul Gencata, Visiting Scientist, research on optical network architectures, 10/2000-present.
   Visiting From: Istanbul Technical University, Turkey (PhD Candidate), research on optical network architectures, 12/2000 - 6/02.
   Present employment: CS Department, Istanbul Technical University.

7. Dr. Youngseok Lee, Postdoctoral researcher, research on traffic engineering in IP-over-WDM networks, 10/02-7/03.
   Present employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Chungnam National University, Republic of Korea.

8. Dr. Youngbok Choi, Visiting Professor, research on optical packet networks, 3/03-8/03.
   Present employment: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Tomgmyong University of Information Technology, Republic of Korea.

9. Massimo Tornatore, Visiting Ph.D. student from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, research on time-domain optimization for traffic provisioning in optical WDM mesh networks, 5/04-12/04.

10. Christoph Gauger, Visiting Ph.D. student from University of Stuttgart, Germany, research on optical burst switching (OBS) networks, 9/04-12/04.

11. Sungchang Kim, Visiting Ph.D. student from Information and Communication University (ICU), Korea, research on optical burst switching (OBS) networks, 10/04-5/05.

12. Martin Herzog, Visiting Ph.D. student from Technical University Berlin, Germany, research on optical metro networks, 12/04-4/05.

13. Hyuk-Gyu Park, Visiting Ph.D. student from Chonbuk National University, Korea, research on optical WDM access networks, 8/04-8/05.

14. Professor Sung-Keun Lee, Visiting faculty from Suncheon National University, Korea, research on optical burst switching (OBS) networks, 8/04-8/05.

15. Ms. Sunhee Yang, Visiting Researcher from ETRI Korea, research on optical access networks and services, 12/04-12/05.

16. Professor Youngil Park, Visiting Professor from Suncheon National University, Korea, research on optical access networks, Feb. '05 to Feb. '06.

17. Irek Szczesniak, Visiting Ph.D. student from Polish Academy of Sciences, research on optical packet switching networks, Sept. '05 to June '06.

18. Hong-Hsu Yen, Visiting Professor from Shih-Hsin University, Taiwan, research on optimization problems in optical networks, March '06 to Sept. '06.

19. Dr. Chris Develder, Visiting Scientist from Ghent University, Belgium, research on Optical Grid Networks, July '07 to October '07.

Other Teaching Activities

• ``Optical Networks'': Full-Day Tutorial, presented at the IEEE Globecom '97 Conference, Phoenix, AZ (Nov. 10, 1997).
• ``Optical (WDM) Networks--Architectures, Protocols, and Algorithms'': Half-Day Tutorial, presented at the DIMACS Workshop on Multichannel Optical Networks: Theory and Practice, Rutgers University (March 16, 1998).
• ``High Performance WDM for High-Capacity Networks'': Full-Day Course, presented at the WDM Forum, London, England (June 26, 1998).
• ``Optical WDM Networks'': Full-Day Course, presented at the Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland (August 31, 1998).
• ``High Performance WDM for High-Capacity Networks'': Half-Day Course, presented at the IBC (D)WDM Forum, Phoenix, AZ (October 28, 1998).
• ``High Performance WDM for High-Capacity Networks'': Full-Day Course, presented at the IBC Conference on Optical Networking: Next Generation Network Planning, Amsterdam, Netherlands (May 21, 1999).
• Other Courses Taught
  • Microcomputer Architecture (at Southern Illinois University)
  • Digital Systems Design (at Southern Illinois University)
  • Basic Concepts of Computing (at UC Davis)
  • Optical Networks (at University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
• Short Courses Taught
  • Optical Networks (UTM, Malaysia; MICC'95)
  • Network Intrusion Detection (Globecom'92; UTM, Malaysia; IEEE Singapore Section)
  • DQDB Network and Related Issues (UTM, Malaysia)