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Recent News 

• Jan 2017: Four student journal papers accepted and published by IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communication and Networks (JOCN) in the last 4 months! Congratulations Yan Cui, Jeremy Plante, Pegah Afsharlar, Arash Deylamsalehi, and Juzi Zhao.
• Jan 2017: Two papers accepted to IEEE ICC 2017 in Paris (May). Congratulations Jeremy, Juzi, and Anisha Joseph!
• Jan 2017: Invited paper at ONDM 2017 in Budapest (May). Congratulations Juzi!
• Jan 2017: Arash and Juzi papers pressented at ICNC 2017 in Santa Clara, CA.
• Jan 2017: Yan Cui and Dylan Davis successfully defended their Ph.D. Dissertation Proposals. Congratulations!
• Nov 2016: Invited talk at IEEE Greencomm 2016 (Online), Nov 16, 2016 (PPT).
• Nov 2016: Pegah Afsharlar’s paper wins Best Paper Award at IEEE ANTS 2016, Bangalore, India.  Wins €200 from Springer!
• Sep 2016: Dr. Vinod Vokkarane promoted to Full Professor (ECE Dept.).
• May 2016: Pegah Afsharlar’s paper wins Top/Best Paper Award at ONDM 2016, Cartagena, Spain. Paper invited to IEEE/OSA JOCN special issue.
• April 2016: Jeremy Plante wins BEST ECE Graduate Student Award for 2015-16. Congratulations!
• Jan 2016: Jeremy Plante successfully defends his Ph.D. research proposal. Congratulations!
• Dec 2015: Yan Cui, Jeremy Plante, and Juzi Zhao present papers at IEEE GLOBECOM 2015 in San Diego.
• Sep 2015: Dr. Juzi Zhao (GWU) joins ACNL as a Post-doctoral Research Associate. Welcome!
• Sep 2015: $1 Million NSF CCDNI grant awarded on Big-Data BioMedical Innovation. (PI). (1 Ph.D. and 1 Software Developer Position – Open)
• Jun 2015: Dylan Davis presents his paper at IEEE ICC 2015 in London.
• Jun 2015: Amir Zonouz successfully defends his final Ph.D. defense. Congratulations Dr. Zonouz!
• May 2015: Dylan Davis’s paper wins Best Paper Award at ONDM 2015 in Italy. Congratulations!
• December 2014: Thilo Schöndienst successfully defends his final Ph.D. defense. Congratulations Dr. Schöndienst!
• Jan 2015: $1 Million Social-Science related NIJ grant (co-PI).

Older News 

• Oct 2014: NSF CCIIE Flowell grant on SDN (2014-2017).
• June 2014: DOE PROPER: Parallel Resource-Optimized Provisioning of End-to-End Requests grant awarded (2014-2018).
• June 2014: New Post-Doc Position on High-Speed Networks (contact me with CV). (PDF)
• Jan 2014: TPC Co-chair, IEEE ANTS 2014, Delhi, India, Dec. 2014
• Sep 2013: Joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at University of Massachusetts Lowell.
• Feb 2013: Joined the Editorial board of Springer Photonic Network Communications Journal
• Jan 2013: TPC Co-chair, IEEE ANTS 2013, Chennai, India, Dec. 2013
• Aug 2012: NSF grant awarded on Coordinated Advance Reservation for Grid over Optical Networks (CARGONET).
• Nov 2011: Received the 2011 University of Massachusetts Dartmouth “Scholar of the Year” Award.
• Sep 2011: Visiting Scientist, RLE, MIT (Sep 2011 – Present).
• Aug 2011: NSF grant awarded on Bridging Reliability Analysis and Reality in Sensor Systems: Theories and Applications (PI: Dr. Xing).
• Symposium Co-Chair, IEEE ICC 2012 – Optical Networks and Systems Symposium, Ottawa, Canada.
• Symposium Co-Chair, IEEE GLOBECOM 2011 – Optical Networks and Systems Symposium, Houston, Texas.
• TPC Co-Chair, IEEE INFOCOM HSN 2011 Workshop, Shangai, China.
• Two journal papers on Manycasting published in IEEE/ACM TON and IEEE/OSA JOCN.
• IEEE Senior Member (Nov. 2009 – Present)

Student News 

• Congratulations to Joan Triay for getting his paper accepted @ IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
• Congratulations to Arush Gadkar and Jeremy Plante for getting their paper accepted @ IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking.
• Congratulations to Tim Entel and Arush Gadkar for getting their paper accepted @ IEEE GLOBEOM 2012.
• Congratulations to Mark Boddie and Thilo Schoendienst for getting their paper accepted @ IEEE GREENCOM 2012.
• Congratulations to Tim Entel, Jeremy Plante, Bharath Ramaprasad, Mark Boddie, and Arush Gadkar, for getting TWO papers accepted @ ONDM 2012.
• Congratulations to Jeremy Plante, Bharath Ramaprasad, and Arush Gadkar, for getting TWO papers accepted @ IEEE ICNC 2012.
• Congratulations to Jeremy Plante, Arush Gadkar, and Joan Triay for getting THREE papers accepted @ IEEE GLOBEOM 2011.
• Congratulations to Neal Charbonneau for publishing his Master’s project work on Multicast Advance Reservation in the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
• Congratulations to Arush Gadkar, Neal Charbonneau, Jeremy Plante, Joan Triay, Derek Rousseau for getting THREE papers accepted @ ICCCN 2011.