George Mason University

Networks Laboratory

Networks Laboratory

People

Current Research Members

Research Faculty:

  • Brian L. Mark, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Contact: bmark AT gmu DOT edu

Ph.D. Students:

  • Mohammadreza Fasihi, Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

  • Angel De Jesus Martinez Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Alumni

Visiting Scholars/Postdoctoral Research Fellows:

  • Hyuck Kwon, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Wichita State University, sabbatical leaves: Sep. - Dec. 2017 and Sep. - Dec. 2024.

  • Yijun Wang, Associate Professor, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, Jilin, China, Nov. 2019 - Oct. 2020.

  • Anaïs Vergne, Visiting scholar: July/2013.
    Currently: Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Networks, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France.

  • Shensheng Tang, Postdoctoral research fellow: Dec/2006 - Aug/2009.
    Currently: Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota, U.S.A.

  • Yi Xie, Visiting scholar: Sept/2007 - Sept/2008.
    Currently: Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Communication Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.

Ph.D. Graduates:

  • Omar Alotaibi, "Incorporating Bayesian Transfer Learning into Nonlinear Filters for Multi-Sensor Object Tracking," Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Thesis Defense: November 10, 2025.

  • Jared Everett, "Design and Optimization of Multi-User Millimeter-Wave Rate-Splitting Multiple Access Wireless Communication Systems," Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Thesis Defense: July 24, 2025.
    Currently with Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

  • Omid Nia, "Models for Frequency Doppler Shift Prediction and Compensation for LEO Satellites at L-Band," Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Thesis Defense: April 15, 2024.
    Currently with Iridium Communications Inc.

  • Joshua Coblenz, "Poisson Mixture Network Tomography," Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Thesis Defense: April 28, 2023.
    Co-advised with Prof. Yariv Ephraim (main thesis advisor)
    Currently with Aerostar International.

  • Massieh Kordi Boroujeny, "Resource Allocation and Performance Guarantees in Communication Networks," Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Thesis Defense: Aug. 18, 2022. Currently a postdoctoral fellow in the ECE Dept. working with Professors Kai Zeng and Brian L. Mark.

  • Zheng Wang, "Resource Allocation for Cognitive Radio Networks with Cooperative Relaying," Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Thesis Defense: Dec. 2, 2020.
    Currently a postdoctoral fellow at in the ECE Dept. at Virginia Tech working with Prof. Lingjia Liu.

  • Hanke Cheng, "Efficient Wideband Temporal Spectrum Sensing from Noisy Measurements," Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Thesis Defense: Aug. 12, 2020. Co-advised with Prof. Yariv Ephraim (ECE Dept.)
    Currently with a company in China working on spectrum monitoring and management.

  • Frank E. Skirlo, "Improving Bandwidth Efficiency and Performance for Unmanned Aerial Systems Conducting Target Detection," Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Thesis Defense: Apr. 20, 2018. Co-advised with Dr. Melvin Friedman (U.S. Army CERDEC Night Vision and Electronics Sensors Directorate, Fort Belvoir, VA)
    Currently with CACI International.

  • Joseph M. Bruno, "Wideband and Multiband Temporal Sensing for Opportunistic Spectrum Access," Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Thesis Defense: Mar. 28, 2017. Co-advised with Prof. Yariv Ephraim (ECE Dept.)
    Currently with CACI International.

  • Neshat Etemadi Rad, "Delay and Traffic Rate Estimation in Network Tomography," Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Thesis Defense: Nov. 6, 2015. Co-advised with Prof. Yariv Ephraim (ECE Dept.)
    Currently with Capital One Labs, Arlington, VA.

  • Yuandao Sun, "Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio Networks," Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Thesis Defense: Sep. 4, 2015. Co-advised with Prof. Yariv Ephraim (ECE Dept.)
    Currently with Deloitte, Tysons Corner, VA.

  • Thao Nguyen, "Hidden Markov Model Based Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio," Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Thesis Defense: Apr. 26, 2013. Co-advised with Prof. Yariv Ephraim (ECE Dept.)
    Currently with National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD.

  • Inja Youn, "Delay-Based Methods for Robust Geolocation of Internet Hosts," Ph.D. in Information Technology, Thesis Defense: Jan. 22, 2013. Co-advised with Prof. Dana Richards (Dept. of Computer Science).

  • Tuan Do, "Joint Spatial-Temporal Spectrum Sensing and Cooperative Relaying in Cognitive Radio Networks," Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Thesis Defense: December 15, 2010.
    Currently Director of Software Engineering at Amwell , Arlington, VA.

  • Soonyong Sohn, "Multipath and Explicit Rate Congestion Control for Data Networks," Ph.D. in Information Technology. Thesis Defense: May 12, 2010.
    Currently IT Specialist with U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

  • Ahmed Nasif, "Opportunistic Spectrum Access Using Localization Techniques." Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Thesis Defense: Apr. 20, 2009.
    Currently an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Engineering and Engineering Technology at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI, U.S.A.

  • Youming Chen,"High Performance Fiber-based Optical Coherent Detection." Ph.D. in Information Technology, Thesis Defense: Nov. 20, 2008.
    Currently with Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD.

  • Charikleia Zouridaki, "Trust Establishment for Reliable Data Packet Delivery in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks." Ph.D. in Information Technology, Thesis Defense: April 11, 2007.
    Currently with T-Mobile, Reston, VA.

  • Marek Hejmo "Denial-of-Service Resistant Quality-of-Service Signaling for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks." Ph.D. in Information Technology, Thesis Defense: July 31, 2006.
    Currently with Cvent, Inc., McLean, VA.

  • Zainab R. Zaidi, "Mobility Modeling and Management in Wireless Networks," Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Thesis Defense: Feb. 5, 2004.
    Currently with National ICT Australia, Sydney, Australia.

  • Alexe E. Leu, "Design and Analysis of Handoff Algorithms for Mobile Networks," Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Thesis Defense: Nov. 14, 2003.
    Currently with Booz Allen Hamilton.

  • Xiaomin Lu, "Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Broadband Switch Architectures," Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Thesis Defense: Dec. 13, 2002.
    • Currently with AMD Research, Austin, TX.

M.S. Thesis Graduates:

  • Joshua Weitz, "Security Through Frequency Diversity in The 5G NR Standard," M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Thesis Defense: August 17, 2022. Co-advised with Prof. Kai Zeng.

  • Thomas Crowley, "A Framework for Testing and Evaluating Secure and Verifiable Computational Offloading in Edge Computing," M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Thesis Defense: April 20, 2022. Co-advised with Prof. Kai Zeng (thesis advisor).

  • Hanan Alqarni , "Implementation of Log-Domain FFT Based LDPC Decoder on a GPU," M.S. Computer Engineering, Thesis Defense: April 25, 2019.

  • David Stoner, "Performance Evaluation of Internal Delay Inference in Queuing Networks," M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Thesis Defense: April 25, 2016. Currently with Boeing, Fairfax, VA.

  • Abinash Vasudevan, "An Empirical Study of an Anonymity Metric for Data Networks," M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Thesis Defense: August 23, 2012.

  • Lianjie Cao, "Explicit Rate Congestion Control Overlay Network," M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Thesis Defense: July 30, 2011.
    Currently with Hewlett Packard Labs, San Francisco Bay Area.

  • Krishna Pradeep Addada, "Software Adaptive Flow Intelligent Router," M.S. in Computer Engineering, Thesis Defense: April 19, 2010.
    Currently with Verisign, New Castle, DE.

  • Tugba Erpek, "Location-Based Propagation Modeling for Opportunistic Spectrum Access in Wireless Networks," M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Thesis Defense: December 4, 2007.
    Currently with Intelligent Automation, Inc., Rockville, MD.

  • Shidong Zhang, "Adaptive Explicit Rate Flow Routing Overlay System," M.S. in Computer Engineering, Thesis Defense: August 1, 2007.
    Currently with Google, Mountain View, CA.

  • Varnit Suri, "Mobility-aware Routing for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Thesis Defense: Nov. 29, 2006.
    Currently with The Boston Consulting Group, Boston, MA.

  • Abdul Aziz Mohammed, "High Speed Network Security: Defense of DDoS Attacks," M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Thesis Defense: Dec. 11, 2002.
    Currently with AMD, Markham, Ontario, Canada.

Undergraduate Reseachers and Student Interns:

  • Kenneth Johnson, B.S. student in Computer Engineering. Summer 2023.

  • German Kuznetsov, B.S. student in Computer Engineering. Spring 2023 and Summer 2023.

  • Shruti Sekar, B.S. student in Computer Science. Spring 2023.

  • Mark Chitre Rising senior at Chantilly High School. ASSIP Summer Intern, Summer 2018.

  • Yiwei Fang, B.S. student in Computer Engineering. Spring 2016 and Summer 2017.

  • Anatoliy Zinovyev, B.S. student in Mathematics and Computer Science. Fall 2016 and Spring 2016 URSP Scholar.

  • Qing Chen, B.S. student in Electrical Engineering. Summer 2015.

  • Yian Hu, B.S. student in Electrical Engineering. Summer 2015.

  • Liban Hassan, B.S. student in Computer Engineering.
    NSF LSAMP Scholars Program (PI: Prof. Alok Berry) , Summer 2013.

  • Bridget Lane, B.S. student in Computer Science. Fall 2012/Spring 2013.

  • Rafael Reynoso, B.S. student in Computer Engineering.
    Scholars Program, Summer 2009.
Last updated: November 20, 2025.