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Doctoral research is academic education at its very best. There are few more satisfying forms of teaching: a one-on-one apprenticeship that enhances knowledge of student and teacher alike; an intense effort motivated by a self-constructed vision; and a gradual refinement of taste and style in choosing problems and solution strategies. At Washington Univeristy (as chair of the Doctoral Program Committee and later as head of the Department of Compouter Science and Engineering), Roman was able to establish a culture in which every doctoral student had the opportunity to excel, understood the high expectations of our department, and made continuous progress toward completing the degree requirements.

At the personal level, Roman focused his efforts on educating a new generation of graduate students likely to succeed in academia and national research centers.  Those who chose to pursue academic careers have been successful in research, played leadership roles in international conferences, and some assumed positions of responsability in academic administration, as department chairs (Columbia, U of Mississippi, Trente, Temple) and as associate dean (UT Austin).

The list below includes the dissertaion topic and the employment immediately upon graduation.

2010



Chipara, O., (Co-Advisor with: Chenyang Lu) Towards Real-Time Wireless Sensor Networks. (Postdoc, University of California, San Diego; assistant professor, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa) 

2009



Fok, C.-L., (Co-Advisor with: Chenyang Lu) Adaptive Middleware for Ad Hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks. (Postdoc, University of Texas, Austin)

2008



Sen, R., (Co-Advisor with: Chris Gill) Supporting Collaborations Across Mobile Environments. (Advisory Forensic Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, New York, New York) 

Bhattacharya, S., (Co-Advisor with: Chenyang Lu) Achieving Application Quality of Service in Resource-Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks. (Researcher at Intel India System Research Center, Bangalore, India) 

2006



Payton, J., A Query-Centric Perspective to Supporting the Development of Context-Aware Applications for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. (Assistant professor at University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina.) 

2005



Handorean, R., Context Aware Service Oriented Computing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. (Software Engineer at Qualcomm, Boulder, Colorado.) 

2004



Julien, C., Supporting Context-Aware Application Development in Ad Hoc Mobile Networks. (Assistant professor at University of Texas, Austin, Texas.) 

2003



Huang, Q., (Co-Advisor with: Chenyang Lu) Spatiotemporal Multicast and Partitionable Group Membership Service. (Research scientist at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Palo Alto, California.) 

2002



Tudoreanu, M.-E., (Co-Advisor with: E. Kraemer) Economy of Interaction for Effective Program Visualizations. (Assistant professor at University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas.) 

2000



Hart, D., Query-Based Visualization of Executing Distributed Computations. (Assistant professor at University of Alabama, Huntsville, Alabama.)

Murphy, A. L., Rapid Development of Dependable Applications in Ad Hoc Mobility. (Assistant professor at University of Rochester, Rochester, New York.) 

1998



Picco, G. P., (Co-Advisor with: S. Gai and C. Ghezzi) Understanding, Evaluating, Formalizing, and Exploiting Code Mobility, Politecnico di Torino. (Visiting assistant professor at Washington University in Saint Louis; assistant professor at Politecnico di Milano, Italy.) 

1997



McCann, P. J., Reasoning About Program Interactions in the Presence of Mobility. (Lucent Bell Laboratories Research, Naperville, Illinois.) 

1995



Plun, J. Y., Expressing Dynamic Interaction Patterns in Concurrent Programming. (Postdoctoral fellow at Washington University in Saint Louis.) 

1994



Wilcox, C. D., Addressing Architectural and Mobility Considerations in the Formal Specification and Design of Concurrent Systems. (Radworks Corp., San Antonio, Texas.) 

1993



Cox, K. C., Visualization of Concurrent Computations. (AT&T Bell Laboratories Research, Naperville, Illinois.) 

1992



Gamble, R. F., (Adviser: W. E. Ball) Developing Reliable, Concurrent Rule-Based Programs. (Assistant professor at University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma.) 

1989



Laine, A. F., High-Speed Feature-Based Stereo Matching. (Assistant professor at University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.) 

Cunningham, H. C., The Shared Dataspace Approach to Concurrent Computation: The Swarm Programming Model, Notation, and Logic. (Assistant professor at University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi.)