Students:

Name: WILLIAM G HERBERT
E-mail: wgherber@oakland.edu
Phone: 248-703-9159


ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY: Pursuing a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering with a focus on wireless sensor networks, specifically Sensor Web Enablement (SWE), a mechanism and framework for exploiting web-connected sensor networks of all types. SWE is an emerging technology aimed at:

  1. Discovery of sensor systems, observations, and observation processes that meet specific information/data requirements.
  2. Determination of a sensor’s capabilities and quality of measurements.
  3. Accessing sensor parameters that automatically allow intelligent agents to process and geo-locate observations.
  4. Retrieval of real-time or time-series observations and coverages in standard encodings.
  5. Collaboratively tasking multiple sensor networks to acquire observations of interest.
  6. Publishing of alerts to be issued by sensors or sensor services based upon established criteria.


    7. 25+ years of industry experience in data mining, data analysis and the design of intelligent transportation systems (ITS), geographic information systems (GIS) and intelligent vehicle systems. Additional industrial experience in the development of business intelligence including customer analytics, predictive modeling of business unit/market segment performance and application of IT solutions in business and government. Works as a senior systems engineer and researcher with Cognometrics.


Name: John Meyer
E-mail: jcmeyer@oakland.edu
Phone:


ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY: John Meyer is a Doctoral student at Oakland University under the supervision of Professor Mili. Before joining Oakland, he obtained Bachelors degrees in Electrical and Computer from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1981, and a Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from Oakland University in 2005. His research focus is on:

  1. Database
  2. Query Optimization
  3. Sensor Networks

Name: Nancy Alrajei
E-mail: nmalraje@oakland.edu
Phone: 248-797-0993


ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY: Nancy is PhD student with Dr. Mili. Before joining PhD at Oakland University, she has obtained her MS in Information Systems Engineering from Oakland University, MI and BS in Information Systems from Palestine Polytechnic University. Brief note on her research is:

Sensor networks are used for monitoring purposes in different environments; a critical issue for these applications keeping it safe from attacks. The most likely type of attack is Denial of Service attack where parts of the network are overwhelmed with a flood of requests forcing them to deplete their power and die early. In my research, we introduce a set of metrics used to detect intruders. Our approach is characterized by the fact that identification of intruders is based on the intrinsic behavior that is either harmful or not beneficial to the network.

The key thing to identifying intruders is to detect “intensive” and “purposeless” activity. In a nutshell, the intensity of the activity of a node is measured in part through the node’s level of communication or power usage. The purposelessness of the activity of a node requires a bit more though to define.


Name: Swpna D Ghanekar
E-mail: sdghanek@oakland.edu
Phone:


ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY: After completing her master's from from Oakland University, she has started her PhD with Dr. Mili in the area of Sensor Network. A brief note about her research is:

Nature provides many systems that successfully detect and protect against intrusion. The goal of this research is to imitate nature to create an effective, layered "immune system" for sensor networks. This system should incorporate concepts from adaptive immunity so that the network can distinguish between "self" and "nonself". It should also incorporate concepts from innate immunity so that the network does not need to know ahead of time all the ways in which it may be attacked and so that it will have tolerance for deviation from the norm that is not harmful.


Name: Ashok K Prajapati
E-mail: akprajap@oakland.edu
Phone: 248-678-2565


ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY: Ashok is a Doctoral student at Oakland University with Dr. Mili, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. Before joining Oakland University, he has served more than six years with many IT industries and as well as in academia where he has taken care a role of Consultant at Hughes Systique, Sr. Engineer at M-Tree, and Projec Engineer at Wipro Technologies, India and he has also served as Faculty member of Computer Science and Engineering Department, MIET Meerut of UP Technical University, India. During his tenure he has published many International research papers and books (1. Computer Graphics,3/e,2006 PPM, 2. Computer Graphics and Multimedia, 1/e, 2006 PPM with Dr. Sanyal).His research focus is on:

  1. Wireless Communication
  2. Wireless Sensor Networks
  3. Computer Networks
  4. WiMAX (IEEE 802.16d/e)
  5. Databases
  6. Query Optimization