Grad Students Receive Scholarship Awards
Four CIS grad students have recently received scholarship awards.
Nazanin Magharei received the 2008-09 Henry V. Howe Scholarship. She also received the 2008-2009 Miller Family Graduate Award in Technology and Science. Nazanin is a fourth year PhD candidate with a GPA of 4.08. Her research area is peer-to-peer streaming. She has published in ten journal and conference publications and received the 2006 Julifs Scholarship Award.
According to CIS professor Reza Rejaie,"One of Nazanin's unique qualities is her desire to set a high bar for herself in any assigned task, and then try to pass that bar. Nazanin is a very talented, motivated and goal-directed PhD student who has achieved a great deal."
Aroon Nataraj was chosen to receive the 2008-09 Dunbar Scholarship. Aroon is a 4th year PhD student in the Computer and Information Sciences department who works with Dr. Allen D. Malony in the Performance Research Laboratory. His research involves Parallel Performance Measurement of large parallel environments such as supercomputers.
His work has been published in ACM and IEEE conferences and journals in his field. He is from the southern Indian coastal city of Madras (more recently called Chennai). His free time is spent on his hobbies, amateur photography and spotting the occasional Higgs Boson.
Toby Ehrenkranz received the Clarence & Lucille Dunbar Scholarship for 2008-2009. Toby is a fourth year PhD student working with Dr Jun Li in the Network Security Laboratory. Toby's research includes identity assurance on the Internet, Internet routing forensics and worm defense. His recent publications include a survey paper, "On the State of IP Spoofing Defense" with Jun Li in ACM Transactions on Internet Technology and "Learning the valid incoming direction of IP packets" with Jun Li and others in Computer Networks.
Toby recently passed his Oral Comprehensive Exam with distinction and became the proud father of Elizabeth Azalea Ehrenkranz born on Jan 29, 2008.
Scott Brooks received the Henry V. Howe Scholarship for 2008-2009. He was also was awarded the non-traditional student award by the University. Scott is finishing his undergraduate degree and will be in the graduate program next year. He has been working in the Network Security Lab with Professor Jun Li for the last year and is researching Border Gateway Protocol.