People
Director
Prof. Duc (David) Tran, PhD
Dr. Tran is Founder and Director of NCLab. He is a tenured Associate Professor of Computer Science at UMass Boston, where he joined in 2007, and a Senior Member of both the ACM and the IEEE. He was a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Dayton (USA) from 2003 to 2007. He received a PhD degree from the University of Central Florida (USA) in 2003 and a BS degree from Vietnam National University in 1996, both in Computer Science. More info.
Email: duc.tran@umb.edu
Members
Anh Vo, PhD Student
Anh is a PhD student in the Computer Science department. He received a BS degree in Computer Science from Vietnam-German University in 2018, ranked 1st in his class. As a undergraduate student, he won a top-5 place at NASA's International Space Apps Challenge in 2016. He worked as an AI and blockchain engineer before joining NCLab in Fall 2019.
Email: anh.vo003@umb.edu
Thuy Do, PhD Student
Thuy is a PhD student in the Computer Science department. She joined NCLab in Fall 2016 after spending 15 years as a Lecturer at the University of Transport and Communications, Vietnam. She graduated from Vietnam National University with a BS degree in Computer Science (2001) and a MS degree in Computer Science (2006).
Email: thuy.do001@umb.edu
Alumni
Siyuan Gong, PhD
Siyuan is a former member of NCLab. He joined NCLab in Spring 2013. He received a BS degree in Statistics from Fudan University (China) in 2011. He worked at Digi International, a leading M2M and IoT company in Boston as an engineering intern in summer 2016. Siyuan passed the PhD Qualifying Exam in 2016. He defended his PhD dissertation, entitled "Fingerprint-based Localization with Limited Training Data", under Prof. Tran's supervision and graduated in 12/2019. In January 2020, Siyuan took a job as a software engineer in Harvard professor David Salat's laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Quynh Vo, PhD
Quynh is a former member of NCLab. He joined NCLab in Fall 2013. He graduated from Hanoi University of Science and Technology (Vietnam) with a BS degree in Mechatronic Engineering in 2012. Quynh passed the PhD Qualifying Exam in 2016. He defended his PhD dissertation, entitled "Server Assignment with Time-Varying Workloads in Mobile Edge Computing", under Prof. Tran's supervision and graduated in 8/2019.
Ting Zhang, PhD
Ting is a former member of NCLab. She received a B.E. degree from Qingdao Technological University (China) in 2006 and a M.E. degree from Beihang University (China) in 2010, both in Mechanical Engineering. She joined NCLab as a PhD student in Computer Science in Fall 2012. She defended her PhD dissertation, entitled "Query-Centric Storage Partitioning for Distributed Systems", under Prof. Tran's supervision and graduated in 5/2017. Right after graduation, in Fall 2017, she was appointed a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computer Science at McDaniel College, a private college in Maryland.
Cuong (Charlie) Pham, PhD
Charlie is a former member of NCLab. He joined NCLab in Spring 2008 as a PhD student after receiving his BS in Computer Science from Russia. He defended his PhD dissertation, entitled "Enabling Techniques for Surveillance Sensor Networks", under Prof. Tran's supervision. Immediately after his graduation in 12/2012, he accepted the offer to become a software engineer at Microsoft Corp. headquarter in Redmond, WA. In 9/2018 he was appointed an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.
Khanh Nguyen, PhD
Khanh is a former member of NCLab. He joined NCLab in Fall 2007 as a PhD student after receiving his BS in Computer Science from Gettysburg College (USA) in Spring 2007. He defended his PhD dissertation, entitled "Socially Aware Data Replication", under Prof. Tran's supervision and graduated in 12/2012. His first job after his graduation was with Vietnam Investment Bank as a Technical Architect. He is now a Data Science Engineer at VinID of Vingroup in Vietnam.
Pejman Ghorbanzade, MS
Pejman is a former member of NCLab. He joined NCLab in Fall 2014 as a research assistant under Prof. Tran's supervision after receiving a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from K. N. Toosi University of Technology (Iran) in 2013. After his graduation in May 2016 from UMass Boston with a MS degree in Computer Science, he joined Carbon Black, Inc., a leading company in next-generation endpoint security, as a software engineer.
Alex Dusenbury, MS
Alex is a former member of NCLab. He joined NCLab in Spring 2008 as a graduate student after receiving his BS in Computer Science from UMass Boston. He defended his MS thesis, entitled "Measuring and Modeling Investment Behavior in a Social Network", under Prof. Tran's supervision, and graduated in Spring 2012. He is now a data engineer at O'Reilly Media in Boston.
Phuong Nguyen, MS
Phuong is a former member of NCLab. He joined NCLab in Fall 2007 as a graduate student after receiving his BS in Computer Science from University of Cincinnati (USA) in May 2007. He defended his MS thesis, entitled "Evaluation of PUB-2-SUB, a Publish/Subscribe Technique for P2P Networks", under Prof. Tran's supervision and graduated in 8/2009.
Salini Pamidimukkala, MS
Salini is a former member of NCLab. She joined NCLab in Fall 2005 as a graduate student when it was housed at University of Dayton (USA). She defended her MS thesis, entitled "Development of A Relevance-Feedback Image Retrieval System Based On Multiple-Instance Learning, under Prof. Tran's supervision and graduated in 5/2007. After graduation she accepted the offer to work at LexisNexus as a Software Engineer.
Harish Raghavendra MS
Harish is a former member of NCLab. He joined NCLab in Fall 2003 as a graduate student when it was housed at University of Dayton (USA). He defended his MS thesis, entitled "Congestion Adaptive Routing in Wireless Mobile Ad hoc networks", under Prof. Tran's supervision and graduated in 5/2006. After graduation he accepted the offer to work at Intuit as a Software Engineer.
Undergraduate Research Students
I have had the privilege to supervise many undergraduate students on funded research projects, including the following most recently
- Vy Thuy Nguyen (NSF funded, Spring 2013, next move: Graduate study at Georgia Institute of Technology)
- Phong Truong (NSF funded, Spring/Summer 2013, next move: PhD study at Carnegie Mellon University)
- Vy Thao Nguyen (NSF funded, Summer 2012, next move: Software engineer at Akiban Technologies)
- Anna Gavrilman (UMass Boston Undergraduate Research Award, Spring 2012, next move: Software Engineer at MIT)
Visitors
Phuong Doan, MS
Phuong joined NCLab during academic year 2016-2017 as a guest from Vietnam National University. During this time he helped manage NCLab and set up a judge server system for the UMass Boston programing team. He received a MS and a BS, both in Computer Science, from Vietnam National University in 2006 and 2001, respectively. He was a lecturer in IT at Vietnam National University and recently joined the NSF-sponsored Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI) as a System DevOps engineer.
Holly DeBlois, MS
Holly was a guest member of NCLab during 2014-2016, working with Prof. Tran on sensor networks. She received a MS in Applied Math from Harvard University and currently is a PhD candidate in the Computer Science department at UMass Boston. She has more than 20 years as a professional software engineer.
Ken Ugo & Kwaku Farkye
Ken Ugo (2nd from left) and Kwaku Farkye (1st from left) worked at NCLab during Summer 2013, visiting as undergraduate students of Prof. Bridget Benson from California Polytechnic University to work on an NSF-funded grant on Target Localization using Low-Cost Sensor Networks. They developed an Android App to collect Wi-Fi signal information and use it to locate mobile targets.
Shilpa Ghadge, PhD
Shilpa worked in NCLab for two years since Fall 2009 as a PhD student under Prof. Timothy Killingback's supervision after receiving a BS in Applied Statistics from IIT Bombay and a MS in Applied Math from University of British Columbia. She and Prof. Tran were part of a team with Prof. Killingback and Prof. Bala Sundaram researching on power-law graphs. She received her PhD degree in Computer Science from UMass Boston in 2014, then pursued a Postdoc at Harvard Medical School and lately a researcher at MIT McGovern Institute for Brain Research.
