{"id":95,"date":"2016-08-15T14:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T18:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/matta\/?page_id=95"},"modified":"2025-10-16T17:02:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:02:19","slug":"students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/matta\/students\/","title":{"rendered":"Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Current PhD Students:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lei-huang-89a014247\/\">Lei Huang<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/prateek-jain-bu\/\">Prateek Jain<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"style3\">Past PhD Students:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/profiles\/zongshun-zhang\/\">Zongshun Zhang<\/a>, post-PhD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.workday.com\/en-us\/homepage.html\">Workday<\/a> (August 2025)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aliraza37.weebly.com\/\">Ali Raza<\/a>,\u00a0post-PhD:\u00a0<span face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.akamai.com\/\">Akamai<\/a> (August 2023)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cs-people.bu.edu\/nabeel\/\" class=\"style3\">Nabeel Akhtar<\/a>, post-PhD:\u00a0<span face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.akamai.com\/\">Akamai<\/a> (August 2019)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mgfirouz\/\">Maryam Ghasemi<\/a>, Aetna (post-PhD: Beyond Finance) (August 2017)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cs-people.bu.edu\/wyf\/\"><span face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Yuefeng Wang<\/span><\/a><span face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">, post-PhD:\u00a0<span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.akamai.com\/\">Akamai<\/a> (January 2017)<\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/cs-people.bu.edu\/wyf\/\"><span face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> <\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cs.slu.edu\/~esposito\/\">Flavio Esposito<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slu.edu\/\">Saint Louis University<\/a> (post-PhD: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exegy.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Exegy)<\/a> <\/span> (October 2013)<\/li>\n<li><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/niky-riga-b80291b\">Niky Riga<\/a>, Workable, Greece (post-PhD: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BBN_Technologies\">BBN<\/a>, Facebook) (September 2013)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kmattar\">Karim Mattar<\/a>, Uber (post-PhD: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akamai.com\/\">Akamai<\/a>, Facebook) (December 2010)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/lucachiaraviglio\/\">Luca Chiaraviglio<\/a> (visiting from Politecnico di Torino, Italy)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mpapamanz\">Marco Papa Manzillo<\/a> (visiting from Politecnico di Torino, Italy)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/hanymorcos\/\">Hany Morcos<\/a>, Google (post-PhD: Contact Networks\/Reuters, TripAdvisor) (August 2008)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cs.txstate.edu\/%7Emg65\/\">Mina Guirguis<\/a>, post-PhD: <a href=\"http:\/\/cs.txstate.edu\/\">Texas State University<\/a> (August 2006)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/selma-yilmaz-ph-d-6a7a3720\">Selma Yilmaz<\/a>,\u00a0 post-PhD: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cisco.com\">Cisco Systems<\/a> (January 2006)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/liang-guo-433a901b\">Liang Guo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akamai.com\/\">Akamai<\/a> (post-PhD: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorola.com\/us\/home\">Motorola Labs<\/a>) (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/faculty\/matta\/Graduation2003\/DSCN0435.jpg\">Graduation Picture<\/a>, May 2003)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/alberto-medina-49a01144\">Alberto Medina<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/\">Google<\/a> (post-PhD:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.icir.org\/\">ICIR<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BBN_Technologies\">BBN<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/\">Twitter<\/a>) (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/faculty\/matta\/Graduation2003\/DSCN0442.jpg\">Graduation Picture<\/a>, May 2003)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span face=\"arial,arial,helvetica\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/karu-ratnam-ab11274\">Karunaharan Ratnam<\/a>, post-PhD: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cisco.com\">Cisco Systems<\/a> (October 1999)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"style3\">Other PhD Students I have collaborated with in the past:<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Gonca Gursun<\/span> <span class=\"style3\">(PhD&#8217;13)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Sam Epstein<\/span> (PhD&#8217;13)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"> Vatche Ishakian<\/span> (PhD&#8217;13)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Ray Sweha (PhD&#8217;12)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">George Atia (PhD&#8217;09)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"> Georgios Smaragdakis (PhD&#8217;08)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Vijay Erramilli (PhD&#8217;08)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"> Anukool Lakhina (PhD&#8217;06)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"> Yuting Zhang (PhD&#8217;06)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"> Shudong Jin (PhD&#8217;03)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Adam Bradley (PhD&#8217;03)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Jun Liu (PhD&#8217;03)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Abhishek Sharma (PhD&#8217;11, USC)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Dhiman Barman (PhD&#8217;08, UCR)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current PhD Students: Lei Huang Prateek Jain Past PhD Students: Zongshun Zhang, post-PhD: Workday (August 2025) Ali Raza,\u00a0post-PhD:\u00a0Akamai (August 2023) Nabeel Akhtar, post-PhD:\u00a0Akamai (August 2019) Maryam Ghasemi, Aetna (post-PhD: Beyond Finance) (August 2017) Yuefeng Wang, post-PhD:\u00a0Akamai (January 2017) Flavio Esposito, Saint Louis University (post-PhD: Exegy) (October 2013) Niky Riga, Workable, Greece (post-PhD: BBN, Facebook) (September 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