Faculty

Principal Investigator

Elizabeth M. Belding

Research Interests:
mobile networks, network analytics, broadband measurement and deployment, ICTD, computing for development, online social networks
Homepage:
http://ebelding.cs.ucsb.edu/

Current members

Ph.D. Students

Nawel Alioua

Homepage:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nawel-alioua-96bab645/

Laasya Koduru

Jiayi Liu

Homepage:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/617-jiayi-liu/

Haarika Manda

Homepage:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/haarika-manda-8bb217229/?originalSubdomain=in

Varshika Srinivasavaradhan

Homepage:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/varshikavaradhan

Hall of Fame - Lab Alumni

Ph.D. Degrees

Jiamo Liu

Graduated:
Winter 2025
Dissertation Title:
Towards Understanding Quality of Service and Quality of Experience in Terrestrial and GEO-Satellite Communication
Homepage:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jiamo-liu-a2990ba6/

Udit Paul

Graduated:
Summer 2023
Dissertation title:
Towards Bridging the Divide: Enhancing Understanding of Digital Equity
Homepage:
https://u-paul.github.io/

Vivek Adarsh

Graduated:
Summer 2022
Dissertation Title:
Autonomous and Predictive Systems to Enhance the Performance of Resilient Networks
Homepage:
https://vivekadarsh.com
Michael Nekrasov

Michael Nekrasov

Graduated:
Winter 2020
Dissertation Title:
Robust, Resilient Networked Communication in Challenged Environments
Homepage:
http://mikrasov.com

Mai El-Sherief

Graduated:
Summer 2019
Dissertation Title:
Computational Methods for Next-Generation Online Media Ecosystems
Homepage:
https://mayelsherif.github.io/melsherif/

Paul Schmitt

Graduated:
Summer 2017
Dissertation Title:
Network Measurement and Systems for Resource-Constrained Environments
Homepage
http://cs.princeton.edu/~pschmitt

Morgan Vigil-Hayes

Graduated:
Spring 2017
Dissertation Title:
Community-based Networks for Challenged Environments
Homepage:
http://www.vigilant-m.com

Lara Deek

Graduated:
Summer 2014
Dissertation Title:
Resource-Efficient Wireless Systems for Emerging Wireless Networks
Homepage:
http://web.engr.illinois.edu/~laradeek/

Mariya Zheleva

Graduated:
Summer 2014
Dissertation Title:
Modular Wireless Networks for Infrastructure-Challenged Environments
Homepage:
http://www.cs.albany.edu/~mariya/index.html

David Johnson

Graduated:
Winter 2013
Dissertation Title:
Re-architecting Internet Access and Wireless Networks for Rural Developing Regions
Website
https://people.cs.uct.ac.za/~djohnson/

Veljko Pejovic

Graduated:
Summer 2012
Dissertation Title:
Adaptive and Resource-Efficient Rural Area Wireless Networks
Homepage:
http://lrss.fri.uni-lj.si/Veljko/index.html

Mike Wittie

Graduated:
Summer 2011
Dissertation Title:
Towards Sustained Scalability of Communication Networks
Homepage:
https://www.cs.montana.edu/mwittie/

Ramya Raghavendra

Graduated:
Fall 2010
Dissertation Title:
Architecting Adaptive Resource-Aware Protocols for Large Wireless Networks
Homepage:
http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-rraghav

Ashish Sharma

Graduated:
Fall 2010
Dissertation Title:
Reconfigurable, Energy-Efficient, and Application-Aware Wireless Systems for Emerging Markets

Prashanth Acharya

Graduated:
Summer 2009
Dissertation Title:
Towards Measurement-driven Multimedia Support in Wireless Mesh Networks

Sumit Singh

Graduated:
Fall 2009
Dissertation Title:
Medium Access Control and Bandwidth Allocation for Millimeter Wave and WiFi Networks
Homepage:
http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/wcsl/people/sumit

Irfan Sheriff

Graduated:
Summer 2008
Dissertation Title:
Resource Estimation and Control in Wireless Networks

Amit Jardosh

Graduated:
Fall 2007
Dissertation Title:
Adaptive Large-scale Wireless Networks: Measurements, Protocol Designs, and Simulation Studies.

Krishna Ramachandran

Graduated:
Fall 2006
Dissertation Title:
Design, Deployment, and Management of High-capacity Large-scale Wireless Networks

Kimaya Mittal (formerly Sanzgiri)

Graduated:
Fall 2006
Dissertation Title:
Towards Ubiquitous Multihop Wireless Networks: Addressing Capacity and Security Challenges

Ian Chakeres

Graduated:
Summer 2005
Dissertation Title:
Multimedia Support in Wireless Multihop Networks
Homepage:
http://www.ianchak.com

Yuan Sun

Graduated:
Summer 2005
Dissertation Title:
Towards Adaptive, Robust and Self-organizing Multi-hop Wireless Networks

Post-Doctoral Researchers

Henrik Lundgren

Webpage:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lundgrenhenrik/

Eduard Garcia Villegas

Homepage:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/eduardgv

Masters Degrees

Carson Kopper

Project Title:
Statewide Analysis of Mobile Network Development: Availability, Accuracy, and Access
M.S.
Winter 2026

Alexander Nguyen

Project Title:
Assessing Disparities in Broadband Access and Pricing
M.S.
Winter 2026

Khalid Mihlar

M.S.
Spring 2024
Project Title:
An Analysis of TikTok for Geosynchronous Satellites

Zephyr Zhou

M.S.
Spring 2024
Project Title:
Analyzing the Impact of Socioeconomic Factors on Broadband Pricing: Insights from the Broadband-plan Querying Tool

Vinothini Gunasekaran

M.S.
Winter 2023
Project Title:
Analyzing Internet Affordability in Santa Barbara County

Gwyneth Allwright

M.S.
Spring 2021
Project Title:
Determining a Suitable Geographical Resolution for Human Mobility Data

Daniel Means

M.S.
Winter 2020
Project Title:
Domain Adaptation with Adversarial Training to Identify Actionable Information from Disaster Images

Dana Nguyen

M.S.
Spring 2020
Project Title:
A Linguistic Exploration of Online Hate Speech on Self-Directed Hate

Ryan Allen

M.S. Spring 2019
Project Title: Performance Analysis of Aerial Data Collection from Outdoor IoT Sensor Networks using 2.4Ghz 802.15.4
 

Sarah Jones

M.S. Spring 2013
Project Title:
VillageShare: A Delay and Fault Tolerant Approach to Rural Village File Sharing

Abhinav Anand

M.S. Winter 2012
Project Title:
VillageCell: Cost Effective Cellular Connectivity in Rural Areas

Manasa Chandrashekar

M.S. Winter 2012
Project Title:
Vertical Handover using Device Perceived Network Performance

Michael Benny

M.S. Fall 2005
Project Title
MeshMon: A Framework for Monitoring Wireless Mesh Networks

Andrew Hewatt

M.S., Fall 2005
Project Title:
MeshViz: A Dynamic Presentation Platform for Delivering Network Data in Real-Time

Alex Touma

M.S., Summer 2005
Project TItle
MeshMan: A Mesh Network Development and Management Framework

Christopher F. Shiflet

M.S., Summer 2004
Thesis Title:
Address Aggregation in Mobile Ad hoc Networks

Kavitha Srinivasan

M.S., Fall 2004
Thesis Title:
AODVSTAT: An Intrusion Detection System for Ad hoc Networks

Sean Tucker

M.S., Spring 2004
Project TItle:
Lightweight Multicast Authentication

Vrishali Wagle

M.S., Winter 2004
Project Title:
A Scalable Ontology-based Service Discovery Mechanism using a P2P Approach

Sumit Gwalani

M.S., Summer 2003
Thesis Title:
Intrusion Detection in Wireless Ad hoc Networks

Swaminathan Sundaramurthy

M.S., Summer 2003
Thesis Title:
Discouraging Selfishness in Mobile Ad hoc Networks

Gustavo Zaera

M.S., Spring 2003
Thesis Title:
Reservation-based Quality of Service in Ad hoc Networks

Arghyadip Paul

Project Title:
Mobile Telephony for Rural Areas

Meng (Maggie) Wang

Project Title:
VillageShare - Facebook Application Facilitating File Sharing in Rural Areas

Visiting Students

Moshe Masonta

Period:
September 2011 to December 2011
Visiting from:
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa

Anders Lindgren

Period
January 2004 to July 2004
Visiting from:
Lulea University of Technology, Sweden