Students

Current Students

(ABD = all-but-dissertation)

PhD Advisees

1. Jhon Botello
2. Lesley Frew
3. Himarsha Jayanetti (ABD)
4. Travis Reid (ABD)
5. Tarannum Zaki (ABD)

PhD Committee Member

1. Kehinde (Kenny) Ajayi (ABD) (advisor: Jian Wu)
2. Muntabir Choudhury (ABD) (advisor: Jian Wu)
3. Kimberley Cossey, Higher Education (advisor: David Ayers)
4. Kritika Garg (ABD) (advisor: Michael L. Nelson)
5. Xiaoqin Liang (ABD) (advisor: Shuai Hao)
6. Ivan Makohon (ABD) (advisor: Yaohang Li)
7. Bhanuka Mahanama (ABD) (advisor: Sampath Jayarathna)
8. Yash Prakash (ABD) (advisor: Vikas Ashok)
9. Mohan Krishna Sunkara (ABD) (advisor: Vikas Ashok)
10. Xin Wei (ABD) (advisor: Jian Wu)

Former Students

PhD

1. Corren McCoy
   • “A Relevance Model for Threat-Centric Ranking of Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities”, PhD thesis, Old Dominion University, December 2022.
   • Current Job: Vice President of Software Engineering and Chief Data Strategist, G2 Ops
2. Mohamed Aturban
   • “A Framework for Verifying the Fixity of Archived Web Resources,” PhD thesis, Old Dominion University, August 2020.
   • First Job: Assistant Professor, Columbia College
3. Mat Kelly
   • “Aggregating Private and Public Web Archives Using the Mementity Framework,” PhD thesis, Old Dominion University, August 2019.
   • First Job: Assistant Professor, Drexel University
4. Lulwah Alkwai
   • “Expanding the Usage of Web Archives by Recommending Archived Webpages Using Only the URI,” PhD thesis, Old Dominion University, May 2019.
   • First Job: Assistant Professor, University of Hail, Saudi Arabia
5. Hassan Hadi Latheeth AL-Maksousy
   • “Applying Machine Learning to Advance Cyber Security: Network Based Intrusion Detection Systems,” PhD thesis, Old Dominion University, December 2018, co-advised with Cong Wang
6. Shahram Mohrehkesh
   • “Energy Harvesting-Aware Design for Wireless Nanonetworks,” PhD thesis, Old Dominion University, August 2015.
   • First Job: Assistant Professor, Temple University
   • Current Job: Machine Learning Engineer, Intuit
7. Mohammad Almalag
   • “TDMA Slot Reservation in Cluster-Based VANETs,” PhD thesis, Old Dominion University, May 2013.
   • Current Job: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Christopher Newport University
8. Hadi Arbabi
   • “A Framework for Dynamic Traffic Monitoring using Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks,” PhD thesis, Old Dominion University, August 2011.
   • Current Job: Director of Engineering, Siemens Healthineers
9. Khaled Ibrahim
   • “Data Aggregation and Dissemination in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks,” PhD thesis, Old Dominion University, May 2011.
   • First Job: Software Engineer, Microsoft (Redmond, Washington)
10. Gongjun Yan
    • “Providing Location Security in Vehicular Networks,” PhD thesis, Old Dominion University, May 2010. , co-advised with Stephan Olariu
    • Current Job: Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Southern Indiana

MS Thesis

1. Lesley Frew
   • “Surfacing Text Changes in Archived Webpages,” Master’s thesis, Old Dominion University, August 2024.
2. Himarsha Jayanetti
   • “Supporting Account-Based Queries for Archived Instagram Posts,” Master’s thesis, Old Dominion University, May 2023.
3. John Berlin
   • “To Relive The Web: A Framework for the Transformation and Archival Replay of Web Pages,” Master’s thesis, Old Dominion University, May 2018.
4. Mat Kelly
   • “An Extensible Framework for Creating Personal Archives of Web Resources Requiring Authentication,” Master’s thesis, Old Dominion University, August 2012.
   • PhD, ODU, 2019
5. Kalpesh Padia
   • “Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-It,” Master’s thesis, Old Dominion University, August 2012.
   • PhD, NC State, 2019
6. Prashanth Adurthi
   • “Generating Tmix-Based TCP Application Workloads in ns-2 and GTNetS,” Master’s thesis, Clemson University, August 2006.
7. Pankaj Sharma
   • “Performance Analysis of High-Speed Transport Control Protocols,” Master’s thesis, Clemson University, August 2006.

PhD Committee Member

1. Abrar Alali , August 2024 (advisor: Stephan Olariu)
2. Gavindya Jayawardena , August 2024 (advisor: Sampath Jayarathna)
3. Ryan Florin , August 2021 (advisor: Stephan Olariu)
4. Shawn Jones , August 2021 (advisor: Michael L. Nelson)
5. Sawood Alam, December 2020 (advisor: Michael L. Nelson)
6. Aida Ghazizadeh, August 2020 (advisor: Stephan Olariu)
7. Alexander Nwala, August 2020 (advisor: Michael L. Nelson)
8. Maha Abdelrasoul, August 2018 (advisor: Yaohang Li)
9. Abdulla Alasaadi, December 2017 (advisor: Tamer Nadeem)
10. Yasmin AlNoamany, August 2016 (advisor: Michael L. Nelson)
11. Mostafa Uddin, August 2016 (advisor: Tamer Nadeem)
12. Xianping Wang, August 2016 (advisor: Stephan Olariu)
13. Justin Brunelle, May 2016 (advisor: Michael L. Nelson)
14. Hany SalahEldeen, August 2015 (advisor: Michael L. Nelson)
15. Chuck Cartledge, August 2014 (advisor: Michael L. Nelson)
16. Puya Ghazizadeh, August 2014 (advisor: Stephan Olariu)
17. Ahmed AlSum, May 2014 (advisor: Michael L. Nelson)
18. Samiur Arif, May 2014 (advisor: Stephan Olariu)
19. Samy El-Tawab, Aug 2012 (advisor: Stephan Olariu)
20. Mahmoud Abuelela, Aug 2011 (advisor: Stephan Olariu)
21. Martin Klein, Aug 2011 (advisor: Michael L. Nelson)
22. Filip Cuckov (ECE), Dec 2009 (advisor: Min Song)

MS Thesis Committee Member

1. Emily Escamilla , August 2023, (advisor: Michael L. Nelson)
2. Ahmed Nasr, August 2018 (advisor: Tamer Nadeem)
3. Aaron Walden, May 2016 (advisors: Desh Ranjan, Mohammad Zubair)
4. Juliette Pardue, Aug 2015 (advisor: Andrey Chernikov)
5. Shawn Jones, May 2015 (advisor: Michael L. Nelson)
6. Alexander Nwala, May 2014 (advisor: Stephan Olariu)
7. Sawood Alam, Aug 2013 (advisor: Michael L. Nelson)
8. Vikas Ashok, May 2011 (advisor: Stephan Olariu)
9. Rabia Haq, Dec 2008 (advisor: Michael L. Nelson)
10. Hadi Arbabi, Aug 2007 (advisor: Stephan Olariu)

MS Project

1. Abigail Mabe , May 2021, “A Chromium-based Memento-aware Web Browser” (arXiv)
2. Dhruv Patel , May 2021, “What Did It Look Like: A service for creating website timelapses using the Memento framework” (arXiv)
3. Maheedhar Gunnam , May 2018, “How I Changed Over Time: A webservice to summarize TimeMaps based on SimHashed HTML content” (arXiv)
4. Hung Do , May 2017, “Expanding the Archival Acid Test” (PDF)
5. Surbhi Shankar , May 2017, “Visualizing Thumbnails Of Archived Web Pages” (PDF)
6. Erika Siregar , May 2017, “Deploying the Memento Damage Service: A Comprehensive Tool for Measuring and Analyzing Damage on Web Archives” (PDF)
7. Prasanna Sajjan , May 2016, “Visualizing 10 Years (2005-2015) of Life in Hampton Roads”
8. Avinash Gosavi , Dec 2015, “Vistoria: Inspecting History Using Visualization”
9. Bradley Dupont , Dec 2011, “Improvements in VANET Simulator in ns-3” (PDF)
10. Spardha Jaiswal , May 2010, “Validation of IDM/MOBIL in ASH using Treiber’s MicroApplet” (PDF)
11. Madhukesh Wali , May 2009, “Dynamic Zonal Broadcasting for Effective Data Dissemination in VANETs” (PDF)
12. Rajat Singh , May 2009, “Visualizing VDOT Traffic Pattern Data” (PDF)
13. Sumanth Gelle , May 2008, “Performance of High-Speed TCP Protocols over NS-2 TCP Linux” (PDF)
14. Omkar Kasinadhuni , May 2008, “TCP Validation” (PDF)
15. Siva Tella , May 2008 , “Performance of Competing High Speed TCP Flows with Background Traffic” (PDF)
16. Gyanesh Choudhary , Dec 2007, “Providing VANET Security Through Active Position Detection” (PDF)

MS Research

1. Andrew Schaefer , May 2013
2. Chinmay Lokesh , May 2012

Undergraduates

1. Leah Prince , University of Maryland Baltimore County (Summer 2024 REU)
2. Rachel Zheng , William & Mary (Summer 2023 REU)
3. Haley Bragg , BS May 2023, Christopher Newport Univ (Summer 2022 REU)
4. Abigail Mabe , BS May 2020 (Spring 2019-Spring 2020) - MS 2021, ODU
5. Dhruv Patel , BS May 2020 (Spring 2019-Spring 2020) - MS 2021, ODU
6. Erik Jensen, BS M&S May 2016 (Fall 2015 REU)
7. John Berlin , BS Dec 2015 (Spring-Fall 2015 REU) - MS 2018, ODU
8. Ander Rogers , BS May 2015 (Spring 2015 REU)
9. Aaron Walden, BS August 2014 (Summer 2013-Spring 2014, REU) - PhD student, ODU
10. Thomas Kennedy, BS May 2012 (Summer 2011-Fall 2011, Summer 2011 REU) - MS 2014, ODU
11. Greg Maslov, BS May 2012 (Fall 2009-Fall 2010, Spring 2010-Spring 2011 REU)
12. Nickolas Betcher (Summer 2010 REU)
13. Lazarus Boone (Summer 2010 REU)
14. Nathan Brunelle, BS May 2011, UVa (Summer 2010 REU) - PhD 2017, UVa
15. Ian Iepson , BS Aug 2010 (Summer 2010) - MS 2012, George Mason Univ.
16. Colin Courtney , BS May 2010 (Summer 2008-Summer 2009)
17. Meredith Wilhelm, BS Dec 2008 (Summer 2008 REU)
18. Matt Crinklaw-Vogt , BS May 2008 (Fall 2007-Spring 2008)