Roger Zimmermann

• Research Assistant Professor at the USC Computer Science Department
• Research Area Director with IMSC
• Email:
• Phone: (213) 740-7654

Beomjoo Seo

• Beomjoo passed his qualification exam on November 28, 2005. Congratulations!
• Research Assistant
• Teaching Assistant for CSci558 "Internetworking and Distributed Systems Laboratory," Spring 2006
• Summer Internship with Hewlett-Packard in the Streaming Media Systems Group of the Multimedia Communications and Networking Department, 2004
• IMSC Industry Award for Excellence in Technology Demonstrations, 2003
• Email:
• Phone: (213) 740-4177

Leslie S. Liu

• Leslie passed his PhD defense exam on May 7, 2007. Congratulations!
• Leslie passed his qualification exam on December 5, 2005. Congratulations!
• Research Assistant
• Selected as one of only 8 students to participate in the 2006 Watson Emerging Leaders in Multimedia Workshop organized by the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, NY, held on October 16-17, 2006.
• Presentation of PartyPeer at The 2006 Technology Expo organized by the Graduate Technology Alliance, September 5, 2006
• Summer Internship with Microsoft, 2006
• Imagine Cup 2006 US Finalist
• Participant in Rice University's Business Plan Competition, 2006
• Vice President, CSSA (Chinese Student and Scholars Association), 2005
• Presentation of AudioPeer at The 2005 Technology Expo organized by the Graduate Technology Alliance, August 30, 2005
• Finance Vice President, USC Computer Science Graduate Organization, 2004-2005
• IMSC Industry Award for Excellence in Technology Demonstrations, 2003
• Email:
• Phone: (213) 740-4177

Jeff Wei-Shinn Ku

• Wei-shinn is now an Assistant Professor at the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering at Auburn University, Alabama. Congratulations!
• Wei-shinn passed his PhD defense exam on January 30, 2007. Congratulations!
• Internship with the National University of Singapore, 2007
• Wei-shinn passed his qualification exam on May 3, 2006. Congratulations!
• Research Assistant
• Certificate for Outstanding Service to the Viterbi School of Engineering, 2006
• Chief Financial Officer, USC IMSC Student Council, 2005-2006
• Certificate for Outstanding Service to the Viterbi School of Engineering, 2005
• Teaching Assistant for CSci410 "Translation of Programming Languages," Fall 2005
• Teaching Assistant for CSci585 "Database Systems," Fall 2003, 2004 and 2006
• Director of Conferences, USC IMSC Student Council, 2004-2005
• Academic Achievement Award from the USC Office of International Services, Spring 2004 semester
• Outstanding Leadership Award from the USC Office of International Services, Spring 2004 semester
• Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award of USC's Computer Science Department for the Fall 2003 semester
• Finance Vice President, USC Computer Science Graduate Organization, 2003-2004
• Email:
• Phone: (213) 740-4177

Hong Zhu

• Research Assistant
• Email:
• Phone: (213) 740-4177

Leo Haojun Wang

• Leo passed his qualification exam on May 7, 2007. Congratulations!
• Internship with IBM Silicon Valley Lab, San Jose, 2007
• Internship with the National University of Singapore, 2007
• Research Assistant
• Teaching Assistant for CSci561 "Foundations of Artificial Intelligence," Fall 2005 and 2006
• Teaching Assistant for CSci585 "Database Systems," Fall 2004
• Email:
• Phone: (213) 740-4177

Yuling Hsueh

• Internship with the National University of Singapore, 2007
• Recipient of two WiSE travel grants
• Research Assistant
• Lab Assistant for ITP 104x "Internet Publishing Technologies," Spring 2006
• Teaching Assistant for CSci351 "Programming the World Wide Web," Fall 2005
• Summer 2002 Internship, Natural Language Processing at USC/Information Sciences Institute
• Email:
• Phone: (213) 740-4177

Sakire Arslan

• Research Assistant
• Presentation of HYDRA at The 2006 Technology Expo organized by the Graduate Technology Alliance, September 5, 2006
• Teaching Assistant for CSci570 "Analysis of Algorithms," Fall 2005
• Academic Achievement Award from the USC Office of International Services, Spring 2005 semester
• Email:
• Phone: (213) 740-4177

Min Qin

• Min passed his PhD defense exam on May 8, 2007. Congratulations!
• Internship with Microsoft, 2007
• Min passed his qualification exam on August 30, 2006. Congratulations!
• Research Assistant
• Academic Achievement Award from the USC Office of International Services, Spring 2006 semester
• Imagine Cup 2006 US Finalist
• Teaching Assistant for CSci402 "Operating Systems," Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Spring 2006 and Fall 2006
• Recipient of three Intel scholarships
• Email:
• Phone: (213) 740-4177

Amer Muhammad

• Research Assistant
• Email:
• Phone: (213) 740-4177

Reza Zamanipour

• Directed Research, GeoTech project
• Phone: (213) 740-4177

Parthiban Balasubramanian

• Volunteer Research, HYDRA project
• Phone: (213) 740-4177

Sushama Shroff

• Directed Research, GeoTech project
• Phone: (213) 740-4177

Ramya Chandrasekaran

• Directed Research, P2P Streaming project
• Phone: (213) 740-4177

Vikram Singh Gill

• Directed Research, HYDRA project
• Phone: (213) 740-4177

Jiajing Anthony Liu

• Directed Research, GeoTech project
• Phone: (213) 740-4177

Tang Lei

• Directed Research, P2P Streaming project
• Phone: (213) 740-4177

Youqi Li

• Directed Research, P2P Streaming project
• Phone: (213) 740-4177

Chung-Dau Wang

• Directed Research, GeoTech project
• Phone: (213) 740-4177

Chih-Tung Andrew Chang

• Volunteer, GeoTech project
• Phone: (213) 740-4177

Chi-ying Jane Chen

• Volunteer, GeoTech project
• Phone: (213) 740-4177

Man-ni Monica Chiou

• Volunteer, GeoTech project
• Phone: (213) 740-4177

Sabanand Anandan

• Directed Research and CPT with ABB, Summer 2006.
• Email: @usc.edu

Sonal Mane

• Directed Research and CPT with Microsoft, Spring 2006.
• Email: @usc.edu

Aniket Gopal Daptari

• Directed Research and CPT with Force10 Networks, Fall 2005.
• Email: @usc.edu

Devraj Gupta

• Directed Research and CPT with Qualcomm, Fall 2005.
• Email: @usc.edu

Dedian Guo

• Directed Research and CPT with SAGA Technologies, Summer 2005.
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Shankarr Kalyanaraaman

• Directed Research and CPT with Imperial Captial Bank, Spring 2005.
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Sanjoy Pinto

• Directed Research and CPT with Avacom, Inc., Summer and Fall 2004, Spring 2005.
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Rahul Shivakumar Hampole

• Directed Research and CPT with BizRate.com, Fall 2004.
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Cheng Kevin Zhu

• Directed Research and CPT with IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory, Fall 2004.
• Email:

Jon Christen

• Phone: (213) 740-4177

Hasan Tahsin Bilgic

• Email:
• Phone: (213) 740-4177

Mehmet Akif Eker

• Email:
• Phone: (213) 740-4177

Brent Nash

• 2005 Salutatorian and Renaissance Scholar
• IMSC UG Program and Presidential Scholarship Recipient
• Now working at JPL
• Email:
• Phone: (213) 740-4177

• Mishari Almishari: pursuing his PhD at UC Irvine
• Milton Meng-Han Yang: pursuing his PhD at National Taiwan University
• Walter Baoxuan Xiao: RA with another USC research group
• Trung Nguyen
• Akshay A. Singhal
• Rasika Zope
• Kun Fu
  • Kun passed his Ph.D. defense on August 15, 2005. Congratulations!
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  • Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award of USC's Computer Science Department for the Fall 2004 semester
  • Ph.D. Candidate; passed qualifying exam on May 17, 2004
  • Teaching Assistant for CSci585 "Database Systems," Fall 2003 and 2004
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• Prutha Parikh
• Sailakshmi Raja Ram Mohan
• Purva Upasak
• Rebecca Han-Nung Lin
• Sampada Chavan
• Lei Li: RA with another USC research group
• Dedian Guo
• Vivek R. Patel
• Domnic Poravanthattil
• Li Zheng
• Poulami Majumder
• Vinay Kumar Narayanan
• Shankarr Kalyanaraaman: Microsoft
• Kemal Oral Cansizlar: Amazon
• Muralidharan Murugan: Yahoo
• Sonal Mane: Microsoft
• Kambiz Ghahremani Sarighieh
• Cheng Kevin Zhu: IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory
• Sanjoy Pinto: Avacom Inc.
• Moses Pawar: Akamai
• Amit Pande: Microsoft
• Rahul Shivakumar Hampole: BizRate.com
• Dwipal A. Desai: YouTube
• Vinay Kini: Intuit
• Kanika Malhotra
• Sachin Khade
• Eddie Wei-cheng Chu
• Romit Gulati: Symantec Corp.
• Frank Liao: Franki.com
• Sumit Baid
• Jerry Chih-Yuan Sun: USC Andrus Gerontology Center
• Preetham Chandrasekhar
• Didi Shu-Yuen Yao: Intel Research, Oregon
• Chirag Trivedi: www.nexplicit.com
• Manan Shah
• Mehrdad Jahangiri: Infolab
• Nitin Nahata: Savantech
• Xiaohui He: Expert Computer Int'l Inc.
• Sahitya Gupta: AT&T
• Vasan R. Sundar
• Atousa Golpayegani
• Guanghua Gary Zeng

• Farnoush Banaei-Kashani: Infolab
• Rishi Sinha: Computer Networks and Distributed Systems Laboratory

Maintained by Roger Zimmermann
Last updated: Monday September 3, 2007.
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