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North Carolina State University

Professor Munindar P Singh
Dr. Munindar P. Singh  is a full professor in the department of computer science at North Carolina State University. From 1989 through 1995, he was with the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC). Munindar's research interests include multiagent systems and service-oriented computing, wherein he addresses the challenges of trust, service discovery, and business processes and protocols in large-scale open environments.

Injong Rhee is Professor of Computer Science at North Carolina State University and runs Networking Research Lab (NRL). He works primarily on network protocols for the Internet. His major contributions in the field include the development of congestion control protocols, called BIC and CUBIC. His recent research topics include mobile ad hoc networks, delay/disruption tolerant networks, and P2P systems.


Dr. Kyunghan Lee
Dr. Kyunghan Lee is a post-doctoral Fellow in the NCSU Networking Research Lab.  His research interests include mobility models of humans and vehicles, context-aware network service based on mobility and social interaction, protocol design and analysis for delay tolerant networks, protocol design and implementation for wireless mesh networks, and cross layer optimization in wireless multi-hop networks 


Pradeep Kumar Murukannaiah
Pradeep Kumar Murukannaiah is a graduate student in the Computer Science Department at North Carolina State University.







University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Professor Tim Finin
Tim Finin is a Professor in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department at UMBC, the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Finin is a member of the UMBC ebiquity group where he is working on projects involving social media, the semantic web, intelligent agents, and pervasive computing. He has over 30 years of experience in the applications of AI to information systems and intelligent interfaces and is currently working on social media, the semantic web, intelligent agents and mobile computing.

Professor Anupam Joshi
Anupam Joshi is a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at UMBC. Earlier, he was an Assistant Professor in the CECS department at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He obtained a B. Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi in 1989, and a Masters and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1991 and 1993 respectively. His research interests are in the broad area of networked computing and intelligent systems. His primary focus has been on data management for mobile computing systems in general, and most recently on data management and security in pervasive computing and sensor environments.

Dr. Laura Zavala
Laura Zavala is a postdoctoral fellow in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department at UMBC, the University of Maryland Baltimore County. She  has a B.S. degree in Computer Science and a M.S. degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Veracruz, Mexico. She has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of South Carolina, where she conducted research on the application of AI techniques into the practice of software engineering, multiagent systems, ontology integration, and matchmaking of Web services.

Amit Mahale
Amit Mahale is a graduate student in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.




Radhika Dharurkar
Radhika Dharukar is a graduate student in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.





Pramod Jagtap

Pramod Jagtap is a graduate student in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.




Duke University
Romit Roy Choudhury is an Assistant Professor of ECE and CS at Duke University. He joined Duke in Fall 2006,
after completing his PhD from UIUC. His research interests are in wireless protocol design mainly at the
PHY/MAC layer, and in distributed mobile computing at the application layer. He received the NSF CAREER
Award in January 2008. Find out more from Romit's Systems Networking Research Group (SyNRG) at Duke.