People

Post-Doctor Researchers

	Michael Moore mikemo@ics.uci.edu
Dr. Michael Moore is a post-doctoral researcher at UCI. His research interests are in the area of molecular communication, peer-to-peer systems, and distributed agent systems. Dr. Moore received his Phd. from UCI in 2009 and his B.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Biological Sciences from UCI in 2000.

Akihiro Enomoto  enomoto@ics.uci.edu

Dr. Akihiro Enomoto is a postdoctal researcher at UC Irvine. His research interests include molecular communication and distributed peer-to-peer networks and agent-based computing, sensor networks, ad-hoc networks and wireless networks, data-mining on financial problems, and structure search. He received his BE and MS from Kyoto University, Japan, in 2000 and 2002, respectively, he earned his Ph. D at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, in 2009. He worked for ITX Corporation, Japan for 2002 - 2004.

Graduate Students

	Ye Zhao  yez@ics.uci.edu
Ye Zhao is a third year Ph.D. student in Networked System at UC Irvine. His research interests include molecular communication, overlay networks and wireless sensor networks; He received his B.E. from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, in 2004. He received his M.S. from Imperial College London, United Kingdom, in 2005.

	Wei Dai  daiw1@uci.edu
Wei Dai is a second year Ph.D. student in Networked System at UC Irvine. His research interests include resource allocation in overlay networks and optical networking; He received his Bachelor and Master degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University , China, in 2006 and 2009, respectively.

Visitors

Alumni

Assistant Adjunct Professor

	Tadashi Nakano tnakano@ics.uci.edu
Dr. Tadashi Nakano is interested in interdisciplinary research areas involving computer science and biology. His current research is focused on molecular computing and communication.

Post-Doctor Researchers

Jun Suzuki jxs@cs.umb.edu

Dr.Jun Suzuki is a post-doctoral researcher at UC Irvine. He has been working on several key research areas in the Bio-Networking Architecture project, which is a new framework for developing scalable, adaptive and survivable network applications by applying biological concepts and mechanisms, such as the development of a middleware platform that operates the architecture and the evaluation of an adaptive behavior selection scheme for autonomous network objects (agents). His research interests include autonomous scalable distributed computing, adaptive software architectures, and artificial immune and neural systems.

Graduate Students

Ryota Egashira egashira@ics.uci.edu

Mr. Ryota Egashira is a second year Ph.D. student at UCI. His research interests include the application middleware, distributed peer-to-peer networks and agent-based computing. Mr. Egashira received his BE in Mechanical Engineering and ME in Environmental Studies from Tokyo University, Japan, in 2000 and 2002, respectively. Mr. Egashira will be primarily responsible for investigating the discovery mechanisms in the proposed project.

	Keita Fujii kfujii@ics.uci.edu
Mr. Keita Fujii is a Ph.D. student at UCI. His research interests include application middleware, distributed peer-to-peer networks and agent-based computing. His research includes dynamic service composition on distributed agent-based network architecture. Mr. Fujii received his BECS and MSCS from Waseda University, Japan, in 1999 and 2001, respectively.

	Jun Lu lujun@ics.uci.edu
Mr. Jun Lu is a second year Ph.D. student at UCI. His research interests include sensor networks, ad-hoc networks and wireless networks. His current research project is for improving network coverage of sensor networks. Mr. Lu received his BECS and MSCS from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, in 1997 and 2000, respectively.

	Yi Pan ypan@ics.uci.edu
Mr. Yi Pan is a third year Ph.D. student at UCI. His research interests include efficient mechanisms for transmission of multimedia data in the future Internet, wireless and ad hoc networks, Internet congestion control models, and large-scale system optimization techniques. Mr. Pan received his BSCS and MSCS from Fudan University, China in 1997 and 2000, respectively.

Jidong Wang jidongw@ics.uci.edu

Mr. Jidong Wang is a second year Ph.D. student at UCI. His research interests include ad hoc networks, sensor networks and wireless networks. His research has focused on handoff schemes on 802.11, multi-points surveillance in sensor network. Mr. Wang received his B.S and M.S from Tianjin University, China in 1997 and 2000 respectively. After that he worked in Microsoft Research Asia and Nortel Networks before he joined UCI in 2004 for his Ph.D. degree.

Ariffin Datuk Yahaya ariffin@ics.uci.edu

Mr. Ariffin Datuk Yahaya is currently a second year Ph.D. student at UCI. His research interests include Policy Based QoS Networks, QoS Routing and the general question on how to apply economic principles to making networks scale. Mr. Yahaya has worked in industry first in deploying enterprise level computing systems, and then later in enterprise level network and database disaster recovery. Mr. Yahaya earned his BSc. Degree in Computer Science from California State University, Northridge (CSUN) where his interests were in economics, databases and networks. Mr. Yahaya is also a champion coder, representing CSUN in ACM Programming competitions for the years 1998 and 2000. Mr. Yahaya is primarily responsible for the interdomain resource exchange (iREX) project, which is about enabling domains to exchange premium traffic in a bi-lateral manner that will comprise of all participating domains advertising a price for their available bandwidth and the domain needing services contacting these domains individually and setting up a path based on the sending domain's own criteria.

Mei Yang meiy@ics.uci.edu

Ms. Mei Yang is a fourth year Ph. D. student at UCI. Her researchinterests include QoS frameworks, ad hoc and sensor networks. Ms. Yang received her BECE and MECE from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China in 1997 and 2000, respectively. She was primary responsible for investigating the dynamic QoS path establishment techniques in the ODP project and now is working on a self-organizing algorithm in mobile sensor network..

	Weilin Zeng wzeng@ics.uci.edu
Mr. Weilin Zeng is a third year Ph.D. student at UCI. His research interests include ad hoc and sensor networks. His research is focusing on enhancing routing in ad hoc networks by employing new technologies in lower layers. Mr. Zeng received his bachelor and master degrees from Tsinghua University, China in 1997 and 2000, respectively.