PhD Students

• Urtzi Ayesta (now Director of Research at IRIT and CNRS, France)
  Thesis topic: Stochastic Scheduling and its Application to TCP/IP Networks.
• Balakrishna Prabhu (now Senior Researcher at LAAS-CNRS, France)
  Thesis topic: Markov Chains and Decision Processes for Congestion Avoidance and Power Control.
• Gregory Miller (now Senior Researcher at the Institute of Informatics Problems, Russia)
  Thesis topic: Filtration and Minimax Problems with Application to Networking
• Natalia Osipova (now Engineer at Amadeus, France)
  Thesis topic: Size Based Scheduling in TCP/IP Networks.
• Danil Nemirovsky (now Engineer at Deutche Bank UK division, UK)
  Thesis topic: Aggregation/Decomposition Methods and Weighted PageRank.
• Elena Smirnova (now Researcher at Criteo, France)
  Thesis topic: Expert Finding in Social Networks
• Lorenzo Maggi (now Researcher at Nokia Bell Labs, France)
  Thesis topic: Markovian Competitive and Cooperative Games with Applications to Communications.
• Mahmoud El Chamie (now Senior Research Engineer at UTRC, USA)
  Thesis topic: Optimization, Control and Game Theoretical Problems in Consensus Protocols.
• Jithin Sreedharan (now Postdoc at Purdue University, USA)
  Thesis topic: Sampling and Inference in Complex Networks.
• Arun Kadavankandy (now Lead Data Scientist at AKUR8, France)
  Thesis topic: Spectral Analysis of Random Graphs with Application to Clustering and Sampling.
• Zaid Allybokus (now Research Engineer at TotalEnergies, France)
  Thesis topic: Real-Time Scalable Algorithms for Alpha-Fair Resource Allocation in Software Defined Networks
• Mounia Hamidouche (now Postdoc at IMT Atlantique, France)
  Thesis topic: Spectral Analysis of Random Geometric Graphs
• Maximilien Dreveton (now PostDoc at EPFL, Switzerland)
  Thesis topic: Graph clustering and semi-supervised learning of non-binary, temporal and geometric networks
• Mikhail Kamalov (current student)
  Thesis topic: Generative Models for Analysis of Graphs and Processes

Prizes/Awards

• OPRS - Oversea Postgraduate Research Scholarship (1996-1999)
• The 1-st prize in the 4-th Baltic Student Control Conference (1995)
• The best presentation in the Youth Congress for Science and Technology (1995)
• IEEE GLOBECOM 2007 Best Paper Award
• Second Best Paper Award at NETCOOP 2007
• Best Paper Award at IEEE IWCMC 2012
• Best Paper Award at IEEE NetSciCom 2014
• Best Paper Award at ITC29 2017

Editorial Activities

• Associate Editor of International Journal on Performance Evaluation
• Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems
• Associate Editor of Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
• Associate Editor of Stochastic Models
• Associate Editor of IEEE Network

Journal Reviewer

• Automatica
• IEEE Trans. on Networking
• IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control
• IEEE Trans. on Control of Network Systems
• IEEE Trans. on Network Science and Engineering
• IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing
• IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
• IEEE Trans. on Cybernetics
• SIAM J. on Optimization
• SIAM J. on Control and Optimization
• SIAM J. on Matrix Analysis and Applications
• Linear Algebra and its Applications
• Linear and Multilinear Algebra
• Computer Networks
• Computer Communications
• Performance Evaluation
• Journal of Applied Probability
• Queueing Systems
• Operations Research
• Operations Research Letters
• Mathematics of Operations Research
• Mathematical Methods of Operations Research
• European Journal of Operational Research
• Dynamic Games and Applications
• Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications
• Int. J. of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science