Students

Current Students

(ABD = all-but-dissertation)

PhD Advisees

• Jhon Botello
• Lesley Frew
• Himarsha Jayanetti (ABD)
• Travis Reid (ABD)
• Tarannum Zaki

PhD Committee Member

• Muntabir Choudhury (ABD) (advisor: Jian Wu)
• Kimberley Cossey, Higher Education (advisor: David Ayers)
• Kritika Garg (ABD) (advisor: Michael L. Nelson)
• Xiaoqin Liang (ABD) (advisor: Shuai Hao)
• Ivan Makohon (ABD) (advisor: Yaohang Li)
• Bhanuka Mahanama (ABD) (advisor: Sampath Jayarathna)
• 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

• Abrar Alali , August 2024 (advisor: Stephan Olariu)
• Gavindya Jayawardena , August 2024 (advisor: Sampath Jayarathna)
• Ryan Florin , August 2021 (advisor: Stephan Olariu)
• Shawn Jones , August 2021 (advisor: Michael L. Nelson)
• Sawood Alam, December 2020 (advisor: Michael L. Nelson)
• Aida Ghazizadeh, August 2020 (advisor: Stephan Olariu)
• Alexander Nwala, August 2020 (advisor: Michael L. Nelson)
• Maha Abdelrasoul, August 2018 (advisor: Yaohang Li)
• Abdulla Alasaadi, December 2017 (advisor: Tamer Nadeem)
• Yasmin AlNoamany, August 2016 (advisor: Michael L. Nelson)
• Mostafa Uddin, August 2016 (advisor: Tamer Nadeem)
• Xianping Wang, August 2016 (advisor: Stephan Olariu)
• Justin Brunelle, May 2016 (advisor: Michael L. Nelson)
• Hany SalahEldeen, August 2015 (advisor: Michael L. Nelson)
• Chuck Cartledge, August 2014 (advisor: Michael L. Nelson)
• Puya Ghazizadeh, August 2014 (advisor: Stephan Olariu)
• Ahmed AlSum, May 2014 (advisor: Michael L. Nelson)
• Samiur Arif, May 2014 (advisor: Stephan Olariu)
• Samy El-Tawab, Aug 2012 (advisor: Stephan Olariu)
• Mahmoud Abuelela, Aug 2011 (advisor: Stephan Olariu)
• Martin Klein, Aug 2011 (advisor: Michael L. Nelson)
• Filip Cuckov (ECE), Dec 2009 (advisor: Min Song)

MS Thesis Committee Member

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

MS Project

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

MS Research

• Andrew Schaefer , May 2013
• Chinmay Lokesh , May 2012

Undergraduates

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