Welcome to the website of the Network Systems Reserach Laboratory
More than 20 years of research in the area of Computer Networks and Cloud Computing
Thanks for taking the time to visit the Network Research Lab at the Department of Computer Science in the University of Pittsburgh. This research group is headed by Dr. Taieb Znati and has students and researchers from the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Telecommunication at the University of Pittsburgh. A wide variety of research areas are pursued, namely: security, personalization of the web, peer-to-peer networks, Quality of Service in wide-area networks, ad-hoc networks and sensor networks. To know more about these areas of research, feel free to browse through the web site
OUR TEAM
Dr. Taieb Znati
Professor
Dr, Taieb Znati is professor at the Computer Science Department at University of Pittsburgh
Qun Yu
PhD Student
She is currently doing her Ph.D at the School of Information Science, University of Pittsburgh and working under the supervision of Professor Taieb Znati. Her research interests are in energy-efficient networking system design, network energy modeling, and Green Internet Data Center.
Xiaoyu Liang
PhD Student
My name is Xiaoyu Liang, a PhD student in Department of Computer Science at University of Pittsburgh. My research interests are using machine learning methods in DDoS attacks defense. I’m working under the supervision of Dr. Taieb Znati.
Xiaolong Cui
PhD Student
Currently a Ph.D student and research assistant in Computer Science Department at the University of Pittsburgh, his interest lies in fault tolerance in large scale systems, focusing on energy-awareness and quality of service. His advisors are Dr. Taieb Znati and Dr. Rami Melhem.
Longhao Li
PhD Student
Longhao Li is a 5th year PhD student at the University of Pittsburgh in the Department of Computer Science. His research interests are in power aware resilience in high performance computing. He is working under the supervision of Dr. Taieb Znati.
Debarun Das
PhD Student
My name is Debarun Das. My research area is in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, with primary focus on crowdsourced enforcement of spectrum access.
Xerandy
PhD Student
He has been PhD student of School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh since 2012. His research interest is in sensor network. His current research is application of undersea sensor network for tsunami disaster mitigation
Daniel Petrov
PhD student
My name is Daniel Petrov. My interests are related to Networks and Wireless networks. I work under the supervision of Dr. Taieb Znati.