Current students

• Mostafa Abdolahi (PhD)
• Fatima Amri (MSc)
• Mahfuza Begum (MSc): edge computing
• Yijun Chen (CSC-UVic PhD, together with Dr Jun Peng at Central South University)
• Zhiming Huang (PhD): machine learning in communication networks
• Daoping Li (MSc)
• Rui Liu (MSc-PhD): network security
• Yifeng (Flynn) Liu (PhD)
• Yongjie Liu (CSC-UVic PhD, together with Dr Zhiwu Huang at Central South University)
• Amir Sepahi (PhD, together with Dr Lin Cai of ECE)
• Shirley Shu (MSc)
• Genghua Yu (CSC-UVic PhD, together with Dr Zhigang Chen at Central South University)
• Clark Zhao (MSc)

Current associates

• Dr Kaiyang Liu (Postdoc)

Former associates and visitors

• Dr Le Chang (Visiting Professor from Guangdong University of Technology)
• Dr Gang Chuai (Visiting Professor from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications): ultra-dense networks
• Dr Zhuofan Liao (Visiting Professor from Changsha University of Science and Technology): cloud computing
• Dr Ming Ling (Visiting Professor from Southeast University): computer architecture
• Dr Jinguo You (Visiting Professor from Kunming Univ of Science and Technology, together with Dr Alex Thomo): big data
• Dr Jun Peng (Visiting Professor from Central South Univeristy, 2017)
• Dr Aqun Zhao (Visiting Professor from Beijing Jiaotong University, 2016--2017): data-center networks
• Dr Jiagao Wu (Visiting Professor from Nanjing Univ of Posts and Telecommunications, 2015--2016): delay-tolerant networks
• Dr Zhufang Kuang (Visiting Professor from Central South University of Forestry and Technology, 2015--2016): energy efficiency
• Dr Jinsong Gui (Visiting Professor from Central South Univ, 2014--2015): topology control
• Dr Minming Ni (Postdoc from Beijing Jiaotong University, 2013--2014): topology control (then faculty member at BJTU)
• Dr Jun Tao (Visiting Professor from Southeast University, Nanjing, 2011--2012): wireless sensor networks
• Dr Md Humayun Kabir (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Fall 2009 and 2011)
• Dr Jun Song (Visiting Professor from China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 2010--2011): network security
• Dr Jingdong Xu (Visiting Professor from Nankai University, Tianjin, 2010): VANET
• Maryam Daneshi (RA'10): CFI testbed (then PhD student at Stanford with a full Fellowship)

Former students

• Yixin He (CSC-UVic PhD'23, together with Dr Ruonan Zhang at Northwestern Polytechnical University): UAV/HAP networks
• Navid Anwar (MSc'22): EV charging station (then hired by BCIT)
• Ophelia Doan (BSc'22): 2D lattice networks (then hired by Google)
• Gordon Chiang (BSc'22): HL7v2 over QUIC (then hired by MDA)
• Jamie Kirkwin (BSc'21): DASH over QUIC (then hired by Amazon)
• Vivek Mehta (BTech, MITACS Intern'21 from Vellore Institute of Technology)
• Ansh Puvvada (BTech, MITACS Intern'21 from International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad)
• Bingshan Hu (PhD, together with Dr Nishant Mehta): machine learning theory and application in communication networks (then with Dr Mehta on machine learning theory, PhD'21, and postdoc at AMII)
• Yifan Xu (CSC-UVic PhD'21 dissertation, together with Dr Jun Tao at Southeast University): crowd sourcing systems (then "Perfection" postdoc at SEU)
• Shirley Shu (BSc'21, JCURA): multi-path QUIC
• Lin Guo (CSC-UVic PhD'20 dissertation, together with Dr Zhigang Chen at Central South University): body sensor networks (then postdoc at CSU)
• Zhiming Huang (MSc'20 thesis): Thompson sampling (then PhD student at UVic)
• Qian Liu (CSC-UVic PhD'20, together with Dr Gang Chuai at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications): ultra-dense networks (then faculty member at Chongqing Univ of Posts and Telecommunications, CQUPT)
• Qipeng Wang (BSc'20, MITACS Intern'19 from Harbin Institute of Technology): machine learning applications (then graduate student at Hong Kong Polytech U)
• Zehui Zheng (MSc'20 thesis, together with Dr Valerie King): distributed consensus (then co-founded Pigeon Comm)
• Jingrong Wang (MSc'19 thesis, awarded Lieutenant Governor's Silver Medal for the Best Master's Thesis at UVic): mobile edge computing (then PhD student at U of Toronto)
• Guanghui Wang (CSC-UVic PhD'19 dissertation, together with Dr Subin Shen at Nanjing Univ of Posts and Telecommunications): pervasive computing (then faculty member at Henan Univ, HeNU)
• Kaiyang Liu (CSC-UVic PhD'19 dissertation, awarded Best Thesis of Central South University, together with Dr Jun Peng at Central South University): cloud computing (then joint postdoc at UVic and CSU)
• Maryam Tanha (PhD'18 dissertation with Mitacs Accelerate graduate internship at 1qbit): software-defined networking (then faculty at British Columbia Institute of Technology, BCIT)
• Yunjin Chen (BSc'19, exchange student from Beihang University): wireless caching (then graduate student at UCSD)
• Dawood Sajjadi (PhD'18 dissertation with Co-Op option at Fortinet): software-defined radio (then hired by Fortinet: Principal Data Center IT Engineer)
• Boyang Xu (MSc'19, together with Dr Ming Ling at Southeast University): cloud simulation (then hired by Spreadtrum, now UniSoC)
• Heng Li (CSC-UVic PhD'17 dissertation, awarded Best Thesis of Hunan Province, together with Dr Jun Peng at Central South University): distributed charging systems (then faculty member at CSU)
• Zhiming Huang (BSc'18, MITACS Intern'17 from Northwestern Polytech, Xi'an): channel modeling (then joined UVic for grad study)
• Ross Pure (BS, together with Dr Salman Durrani at Australian National Univ): distance distributions (awarded ANU University Medal)
• Fei Tong (PhD'16 dissertation with Mitacs Globalink Research Internship at NWPU): wireless ad hoc networks (then postdoc at ZJU and then faculty member at SEU)
• Boyang Yu (PhD'16 dissertation with Co-Op option at Ericsson): cloud computing and networking (then hired by Arista Networks)
• Feng Liu (Visiting PhD student from Central South University): opportunistic networks (faculty member at Jinan University)
• Sam Wang (MSc'16 project): web security (then hired by GE Digital)
• Sayantan Chowdhury (BTech, MITACS Intern'16 from Jadavpur University, India): cognitive radio networks (then joined U of Toronto for grad study)
• Maryam Ahmadi (PhD dissertation with Co-Op option at Alcatel-Lucent): cognitive radio networks (hired by Alcatel-Lucent and then acquired by Nokia)
• Shahed Anwar (MSc thesis, together with Dr Wu, Co-Op option at PHSA): random walk (then hired by PHSA and then Product Manager at CWT)
• Ying Wan (BSc'16, MITACS Intern'15 from Northwestern Polytech, Xi'an): distance distributions (then PhD student at Tsinghua University)
• Ish Kumar Jain (BTech'16, MITACS Intern'15 from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur): cognitive radio networks (then graduate student at NYU with a Morse fellowship and then PhD student at UCSD)
• Xinghang Ye (BSc'15, awarded UVic JCURA): DNS security (then graduate student at UWaterloo and then Associate at Rongcan)
• Xia Deng (PhD'15 dissertation@CSU, Visiting PhD student from Central South Univ, 2012--2013): delay-tolerant networks (faculty member at Guangzhou University)
• Tianming Wei: information-centric networks
• Lei Zhang (MSc+PhD'15 dissertation with MITACS grad internship): vehicular networks and security (then hired by IBM Toronto Lab: Tech Lead and Staff Engineer)
• Sarshad Abubaker (PhD, together with Dr Wu): on leave at Latitude Geographics
• Richard Hsu (BSc'15): cloud storage (then ECNU, Shanghai and then JEA Pension Administration)
• Le Chang (PhD'13 dissertation): P2P VoD systems (then hired by Huawei Research and then faculty member at Guangdong Univ of Technology, GDUT)
• Soumya Basu (BTech'13, combined MTech'14, MITACS Intern'13 from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur): cognitive LTE (then PhD student at UT Austin with full funding and then hired by Google)
• Hongyang Li (BSc'14, MITACS Intern'12 from Dalian University of Technology, China): HDCast (then PhD student at CUHK, Hong Kong and then Research Scientist at SenseTime)
• Tushar Mandar (BTech'13, MITACS Intern'12 from BITS Pilani, India): HDCast (then working at Flipkart and PhonePe)
• Arian Khosravi (MSc'12 thesis, Co-Op option at SAP/BO): mobile social networks (then working at liquidpub and then Denim&Steel as Digital Project Manager and then Clio as Senior Software Developer)
• Yanyan Zhuang (PhD'12 dissertation): wireless networks (then postdoc with Dr Coady at UVic and then NSERC PDF at UBC/NYU and then faculty member at UCCS)
• Liang (Leon) He (CSC-UVic PhD'11 dissertation, together with Dr Jingdong Xu at Nankai Univ): mobile sensor networks (then postdoc at SUTD, Singapore and then research scientist at iTrust Labs and then research fellow at UMich Ann Arbor and then faculty member at UC Denver)
• Zhonghua Wei (MSc'11 thesis with grad co-op at Broadcom): P2P video streaming (then hired by Ericsson and then Amazon as SD Manager)
• Aidin Faghfouri (MSc'11 thesis with MITACS grad internship at Disternet): P2P information retrieval (then hired by Disternet and then Fortinet and then OpenDNS/Cisco as Technical Lead)
• Dian Yu (BSc'12, MITACS Intern'11 from Wuhan Univ, China): discrete random distances (then graduate student at Eurocom, France, and then COMAC and Synopsys)
• Lovereen Kaur (BTech'12, MITACS Intern'11 from Anna Univ, India): VANET trace analysis (then hired by SAP and then graduate student at Duke and then hired by Deloitte and Google Cloud as Technical Program Manager)
• Vidhoon Viswanathan (BTech'11, MITACS Intern'10 from Anna Univ, India): VANET simulation (then hired by TI R&D, Bangalore and then MSc'15 thesis at UT Austin and then hired by Microsoft and Facebook)
• Yangyang Liu (MSc'10 thesis, Co-Op option at RIM and IBM): NAT and overlay networks (then hired by IBM Toronto Lab and then Amazon and Google)
• Anthony Theocharis (BSc'10, NSERC USRA): P2P music retrieval (then MSc student at UVic and then Senior Director at Workday)
• Maryam Daneshi (MSc'09 thesis, together with Dr Sudhakar Ganti): distributed reservation protocols (then Stanford for PhD and then HighFive, Snapchat and Facebook)
• Rukhsana Ruby (MSc'09 thesis): media access control protocols (then PhD student at UBC and then postdoc and research professor at SZU)
• Chris Penev (BSc'09, Honors, together with Dr Jens Webber): firewire security (then MSc student at UVic and then hired by Incognito and Arista)
• Ming Lu (together with Dr Hoffman, Co-Op option at SAP/BO): then with Dr Hoffman on software testing (MSc'09, ACD, Istuary, Visier and Fortinet)
• Deer Li (MSc'08 thesis): multi-hop wireless local area networks (then co-founder of Faridat Advanced Information Security, Inc. and then hired by Plurilock and then Istuary as Lead Architect)
• Yasser Hajivalizadeh (BSc'08): network support for online games (then MSc'13 student at UVic)
• Hong-Yi Wang: then with Dr Hoffman on software testing (MSc'08, PhD'12, Wurldtech, Vivid and CGI)
• Ryan Chen (BSc'07, Honors): live and on-demand video streaming (then worked at Selkirk Systems and then MSc student at UVic and then Dev Architect and Principal Engineer at SAP)
• Dandan Huang (2006--07, together with Dr Kui Wu): then with Dr Melanie Tory on information visualization (MSc'09, HSBC, Isar and PhD'16)
• Hong-Yi Wang (BSc'07): network address translation emulation (then MSc student at UVic)
• Yugab Chang (2006, together with Dr Dan Hoffman): unspecified (left due to family tragedy)
• Haoran (Dan) Song (BSc'06): network address translation traversal (then MSc'08 thesis at UBC and then hired by RIM, Atimi, Ventyx/ABB and CA acquired by Broadcom, and founder and CEO of Madoor)

Honors and awards to students

• 2021: Mitacs Globalink Internship (Ansh Puvvada, Vivek Mehta); UVic CSC nomination for Lieutenant Governor's Silver Medal (Zhiming Huang); CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women Invitee (Mahfuza Begum, Rui Liu); UVic CSc Graduate Entrance Award (Shirley Shu); UVic CSc Graduate Award (Rui Liu, Zhiming Huang, Mahfuza Begum, Shirley Shu); UVic nomination for WAGS/ProQuest Distinguished Masteri's Thesis Award in STEM Disciplines (Zhiming Huang); IEEE ICDCS 2021 Student Registration Award (Zhiming Huang); IEEE ICDCS 2021 Best Poster Award (Zhiming Huang); Iranian Student Graduate Memorial Scholarship (Fatima Amri)
• 2020: Mitacs Globalink Internship (Syomantak Chaudhuri, trip canceled due to CoViD-19); Lieutenant Governor's Silver Medal for the Best Master's Thesis at UVic (Jingrong Wang); CRA-W Grad Cohort Invitee (Mahfuza Begum, event canceled due to CoViD-19); UVic CSc Graduate Award (Bingshan Hu, Zhiming Huang, Rui Liu); Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award (Shirley Shu); Howard E. Petch Research Scholarships (Zhiming Huang); John and Myrtle Tilley Graduate Scholarship (Zhiming Huang); Robert W. Ford Graduate Scholarships (Zhiming Huang); Cassels Shaw Graduate Fellowship (Mahfuza Begum); IEEE TCCLD Outstanding PhD Thesis Award (Kaiyang Liu); UVic nomination for Vanier CGS (Zhiming Huang)
• 2019: Mitacs Globalink Internship (Qipeng Wang); CRA-W Grad Cohort Invitee (Mahfuza Begum); UVic CSc Graduate Award (Bingshan Hu, Jingrong Wang, Zehui Zheng, Zhiming Huang, Rui Liu); IEEE ICDCS Travel Grant (Bingshan Hu, Zhiming Huang); ACM SIGCOMM N2Women Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan Travel Grant (Jingrong Wang); IEEE Pacific Rim Wu-Sheng Lu Graduate Scholarship (Zhiming Huang); UVic EE/CS Networks Leadership Award (Zhiming Huang)
• 2018: CRA-W Grad Cohort Invitee (Mahfuza Begum); UVic CSc nomination for Andy Farquharson Teaching Award (Dawood Sajjadi); UVic CSc Graduate Award (Maryam Tanha, Dawood Sajjadi, Jingrong Wang, Zehui Zheng, Bingshan Hu); UVic Outstanding Graduate Entrance Award (Zehui Zheng); Mitacs Globalink Graduate Fellowship (Zhiming Huang); Grace Hopper Celebration Invitee (Mahfuza Begum); IEEE LCN 2018 Best Paper Award candidate (Kaiyang Liu, Jingrong Wang, Boyang Yu); N2Women Meeting Fellowship (Jingrong Wang); Charles S. Humphrey Graduate Student Award (Maryam Tanha); IEEE Pacific Rim Wu-Sheng Lu Graduate Scholarship (Jingrong Wang); The Martlet Chapter IODE Graduate Scholarship for Women (Jingrong Wang); IEEE Student Travel Grant (Jingrong Wang); UVic EE/CS Networks Leadership Award (Jingrong Wang)
• 2017: MITACS Globalink Internship (Zhiming Huang); CRA-W Grad Cohort Invitee (Bingshan Hu); UVic CSc nomination for Governor General's Gold Medal (Fei Tong); UVic CSc nomination for the CAGS/ProQuest-UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award (Fei Tong); UVic nomination for the WAGS/ProQuest Innovation in Technology Award (Fei Tong); UVic CSc Grad Award (Maryam Tanha, Dawood Sajjadi, Bingshan Hu); IEEE Pacific Rim Wu-Sheng Lu Graduate Scholarship (Dawood Sajjadi); Charles S. Humphrey Graduate Student Award (Dawood Sajjadi); UVic EE/CS Networks Leadership Award (Dawood Sajjadi)
• 2016: MITACS Globalink Internship---India (Sayantan Chowdhury); IEEE Student Travel Grant (Boyang Yu); CRA-W Grad Cohort Invitee (Maryam Tanha); Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students (without Chinese Government Scholarship) Abroad (Boyang Yu, 2015); UVic CSc Grad Award (Maryam Tanha, Fei Tong, Dawood Sajjadi, Boyang Yu); N2Women Meeting Fellowship (Maryam Tanha); Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students (without Chinese Government Scholarship) Abroad (Fei Tong, 2016); UVic EE/CS Networks Leadership Award (Fei Tong)
• 2015: MITACS Globalink Internship---India (Ish Kumar Jain); MITACS Globalink Internship---China (Ying Wan); IEEE Student Travel Grant (Boyang Yu); Heidelberg Laureate Forum Invitee (Fei Tong); HLFF Student Travel Grant (Fei Tong); Best Technical Presentation (Dawood Sajjadi); Howard E. Petch Research Scholarship (Dawood Sajjadi); Charles S. Humphrey Graduate Student Award (Boyang Yu); UVic EE/CS Networks Leadership Award (Dawood Sajjadi); UVic nomination for Vanier CGS (Dawood Sajjadi)
• 2014: MITACS Accelerate Graduate Internship (Lei Zhang); IEEE ComSoc/Cisco Student Travel Grant (Lei Zhang); MITACS Globalink Research Award (Fei Tong); Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award (Xinghang Ye); ACM Student Research Competition Travel Grant (Fei Tong); Future Ubiquitous Networks Workshop Best Poster Award (Maryam Tanha); N2Women Travel Grant (Maryam Ahmadi); UVic EE/CS Networks Leadership Award (Maryam Ahmadi)
• 2013: Frank Roberts Teaching Assistant Award (Yanyan Zhuang); MITACS Globalink Internship---India (Soumya Basu); UVic CSc nomination for the CAGS/ProQuest-UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award (Yanyan Zhuang); Province of British Columbia Graduate Fellowship (Maryam Ahmadi); IEEE ICC 2013 Best Paper Award (Xia Deng, Le Chang); UVic EE/CS Networks Leadership Award (Fei Tong); UVic nomination for Vanier CGS (Fei Tong)
• 2012: IEEE Student Travel Grant (Yanyan Zhuang); N2Women Travel Grant (Yanyan Zhuang); N2Women Meeting Fellowship (Yanyan Zhuang); MITACS Globalink Internship---India (Tushar Mandar); IEEE Student Travel Grant (Maryam Ahmadi); MITACS Globalink Internship---China (Hongyang Li); Alexander and Helen Stafford MacCarthy Muir Graduate Scholarship (Maryam Ahmadi); Jarmila Vlasta Von Drak Thouvenelle Graduate Scholarship (Maryam Ahmadi)
• 2011: MITACS Accelerate Graduate Internship (Aidin Faghfouri); Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students (without Chinese Government Scholarship) Abroad (Yanyan Zhuang); MITACS Globalink Internship---India (Lovereen Kaur); MITACS Globalink Internship---China (Dian Yu); Fields-MITACS Student Travel Grant (Liang He, Yanyan Zhuang); Heritage Office Furnishings Victoria Ltd Scholarship (Maryam Ahmadi); WCSP 2011 Best Paper Award (Liang He); IEEE Globecom 2011 Best Paper Award (Liang He)
• 2010: CRA-W Scholarship to attend N2Women and MobiCom/Hoc (Yanyan Zhuang); Google Anita Borg Scholarship Finalist (Yanyan Zhuang); MITACS Globalink Internship (Vidhoon Viswanathan); BCNET Broadband Innovation Challenge Honorable Mentions (Aidin Faghfouri); IEEE Student Travel Grant (Rukhsana Ruby); Jarmila Vasta Von Drak Thouvenelle Graduate Scholarship (Yanyan Zhuang)
• 2009: NSERC USRA (Anthony Theocharis); BCNET Broadband Innovation Challenge First Place (Anthony Theocharis)
• 2008: The Albert Hung Chao Hong Scholarship (Yangyang Liu); BCNET Broadband Innovation Challenge Honorable Mentions (Yasser Haji Valizadeh)

• UVic FGS/GSS Graduate Travel Grant: Dawood Sajjadi (2015); Tianming Wei (2014); Boyang Yu (2013, 2014, 2015); Fei Tong (2013, 2014); Lei Zhang (2012, 2013, 2014); Maryam Ahmadi (2011, 2012, 2014, 2015); Arian Khosravi (2011); Le Chang (2010, 2012); Yangyang Liu (2009); Yanyan Zhuang (2009, 2010, 2011); Ming Lu (2008); Rukhsana Ruby (2008, 2009); Dandan Huang (2007)
• CUPE 4163 TA Travel Grant: Dawood Sajjadi (2015); Fei Tong (2015); Boyang Yu (2015); Tianming Wei (2014); Maryam Ahmadi (2014)

• UVic Outstanding Graduate Entrance Award: Dawood Sajjadi (2014); Fei Tong (2012)
• UVic Graduate Fellowship: Dawood Sajjadi (2014, 2015); Boyang Yu (2012, 2013); Fei Tong (2012, 2013); Zhonghua Wei (2009); Aidin Faghfouri (2009); Arian Khosravi (2008); Yanyan Zhuang (2008, 2009); Rukhsana Ruby (2007)
• BC Pacific Century Graduate Fellowship: Maryam Daneshi (2007, 2008)
• CSC-UVic PhD Fellowship: Heng Li (2015); Tianming Wei (2011); Lei Zhang (2010); Liang He (2009); Le Chang (2008)

Other students/associates I had the fortune to work with at UVic

• Yongmin Zhang (Postdoc): smart grid and edge computing (then hired by Central South University as a Full Professor with the Hunan Hundred Talents Plan)
• Jiayi Chen (MASc'17 thesis): Online social networks (awarded Lieutenant Governor's Silver Medal at UVic and then joined U of Waterloo for PhD)
• Jianping He (Postdoc): VANET and distributed consensus (then hired by Shanghai Jiaotong University as an Associate Professor with the Young Thousand Talents Plan)
• Zhe Yang (PhD'13): Modulation and synchronization (then hired by Northwestern Polytechnical University as an Associate Professor with special promotion)
• Siyuan Xiang (PhD'13): Scalable video streaming (then hired by Fortinet)
• Ruonan (Ivan) Zhang (PhD'10 dissertation): Hybrid MAC (now Full Professor and Associate Dept Head at Northwestern Polytechnical University)
• Emad Shihab (MASc'08 thesis): Directional MAC (then PhD'12 at Queen's University and then Assistant Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology and now Associate Professor at Concordia University)

Advice for students

• Another Biased Coin (a talk given to a class of new students starting their graduate program at UVic CSc in Fall 2011)
  • What do we learn and master in grad programs? Time management, research skills and keep motivated
• Ongoing students: our great advice collection and advice forum
• Job Hunting Strategies (a talk given to a group of students passed their candidacy exam, biased for ICT students too ;-)

• and a Student-Self Guide created and maintained by and for our students

Prospective students

I am actively recruiting students who want to take graduate study at UVic. If you are interested in what I am doing (I highly encourage the applicants to take a look at my recent papers and my student's theses first) and/or you think I will be interested in what you are doing, please let me know by sending your CV and PS in PDF or TXT format through email with [app] included in the subject line. But if you are interested in graduate study at UVic, you will have to apply at UVic Graduate Admissions, so I can see your full documents (you can indicate my name if you want---finally we have an electronic system, and I can see your file easily---we now have many strong applicants ;-). Thanks.

UVic by rankings: http://www.uvic.ca/home/about/facts-reports/ranking/

Also consider our new and popular industrial Master's program!

Please refer to university and department admission guidelines, policies and deadlines.

If you are more interested in the communications side of the networking research field, please also check UVic ECE.

How to Pick a Graduate Advisor by Ben Barres (a bit specific for biology but applicable in engineering too)