Students
Sheikh Ghafoor has had the privilege of working with many outstanding students over the years. Here you will find a list of his current and past students. If you are one of Sheikh's previous students, he would love to hear from you.
Doctoral Students
Rajat Bhattarai
Research Topic: Resource Management for Elastic Message Passing Applications
Swen Boehm
Research Topic: Wide Area Federated Computing
Thomas Hines
Research Topic: Models and Tools for Elastic Message Passing Parallel Applications
William Johnson
Research Topic: Remote Attestation in Embedded Systems
William Lambert
Research Topic: Security in In-vehicle and Vehicle to X Communication
Md Bulbul Sharif
Research Topic: Architecture Agnostics Performance Portable Framework for Structured Grid Applications
Andrew Worley
Research Topic: High Performance Collective Communications at Scale
Master's Students
Muzakhir Amanzholov
Research Topic: Partitioned Collective Communication
Undergraduate Students
Haley Burnell
Research Topic: In-Vehicle Network Security
John Housley
Research Topic: Embedded System Security
Alexandra Lee
Research Topic: In-Vehicle Network Security
Hallie Sevier
Research Topic: In-Vehicle Network Security
Alumni
Kathryn Kacerek
MS, Fall 2021
Debolina Haldar
Ph.D. Student, Rice University
MS, Fall 2021
Thesis: Scheduling Elastic Message Passing Parallel Applications in HPC Environments
Caleb Huck
Software Engineer, Dynetics, Huntsville
MS, Summer 2021
Jonathan Gibson
MS, Spring 2021
Zishan Onik
Software Engineer, MTech Systems
MS, Spring 2021
Andrew Worley
Ph.D. Student, Tennessee Tech
MS, Spring 2021
Thesis: A Portable Implementation of Partitioned Point-To-Point Communication Primitives
William Lambert
MS, Fall 2020
Thesis: Fuzzy Logic Based Efficient Load Management Scheme in Vehicle-To-Grid (V2G) Environments
Sheikh Rabiul Islam
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Hartford
PhD, Spring 2020
Dissertation: Domain Knowledge Aided Explainable Artificial Intelligence
MS, Spring 2018
Thesis: An Efficient Technique for Mining Bad Credit Accounts from Both OLAP and OLTP
Andrew Craig
Department of Defense
MS, Spring 2020
Thesis: Error Estimation of Interpolated Data in the SCADA System for Summit Supercomputer Cooling
Connor Gannon
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
MS, Spring 2020
Project: Blackbox: A Secure Health Data Computation Architecture
Jordan Johnson
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
MS, Fall 2019
Project: SCADA Network Intrusion Detection Testbed
Derek Schafer
MS, Fall 2019
Research Engineer, SimCenter, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Thesis: User-level Schedules in the Message Passing Interface
David Yantis
Department of Defense
MS, Summer 2019
Ryan Marshall
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Alabama
PhD, Spring 2019
Dissertation: CABS: A Framework for Cellular Automata-Based Simulations in Heterogeneous HPC Environments
Md. Mosharaf Hossain
Ph.D. Student, University of North Texas
MS, Fall 2018
Thesis: Flexible-block Partitioning for Parallel Matrix Multiplication Routines in Shared Memory Environment for the Edge Case Matrices
Md. Arman Ullah
Software Engineer, Exchange Health
MS, Fall 2018
Thesis: SecCAN: A Secure Can Based In-vehicle Network
Dustin Gardner
Technical Lead, Lockhead Martin
MS, Spring 2017
Thesis: An Autonomic Self-Protection Framework for Android
Kevin Tindall
Data Engineer, TEKsystems
MS, Spring 2017
Joseph Tatarczuk
Software Engineer, Genius Solutions
MS, Spring 2016
John Hale
MS, Spring 2014
Thesis: Impact of Scheduling Policies on Performance in a Cluster Environment in the Presence of Malleable Jobs
Md. Nazmul Islam
Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead, Uber Eats
MS, Spring 2013