News and Announcements:

• Vincent attended IEEE SECON 2024 and presented a paper titled "Budget-Constrained Traveling Salesman Problem: a Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach".


• Attended Cal-Bridge 2024 Fall Meeting.


• Attended IEEE NetSoft 2024 with Chris, who presented a paper titled "AggVNF: Aggregate VNF Allocation and Migration in Dynamic Cloud Data Centers".


• Attended IEEE MASS 2024 with Soham, who presented a paper titled "Revisiting Data Collection in Robotic Sensor Networks: A Budget-Constrained Traveling Salesman Perspective".


• Congratulations to Giovanni, who will pursue his Ph.D. degree at UC Riverside Computer Science Department starting Fall 2024. All the best, Giovanni!


• Served on an NSF panel.


• Congratulations to Yuning, Shanglin, and Andre, whose paper titled "Truthful and Optimal Data Preservation in Base Station-less Sensor Networks: An Integrated Game Theory and Network Flow Approach" was accepted by ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (ToSN).


• Congratulations to Hung, Yan, and Basil, whose paper titled "DAO²: Overcoming Overall Storage Overflow in Intermittently Connected Sensor Networks" was accepted by ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking (ToN).


• Attended IEEE ICC 2023 with Chris and Justin, two fantastic undergraduate students in our department and co-authors of our paper titled "Prize-Collecting Traveling Salesman Problem: a Reinforcement Learning Approach".


• Received exploreCSR award from Google. Thanks Google!


• Congratulations Makayla Riley and Aaron Malone, two sophomores in our department, for being accepted into the CSU-UC CalBridge Program!


• Hi rising juniors (i.e., graduating in 2023-2024), if you have major GPA 3.0 or higher, and are interested in pursuing Ph.D. in Computer Science, please check the CSU-UC CalBridge Scholarship Program.


• Gave a talk about Effective Online Teaching via Zoom at CSUDH CS Seminar.


• Gave a talk about What is Like to Do Resaerch at CSUDH at CSUDH ToroHack 5.0.


• Congratulations to undergraduate student Phillip Aguilera, whose paper titled "Achieving VNF Load-Balanced Flow Migration in Dynamic Cloud Data Centers" was accepted in the First Computer Science Conference for CSU Undergraduates. Only 20 papers were accepted out of 41 submissions. I am very proud of you, Phillip!


• Congratulations to undergraduate student Chris Gonzalez, whose paper titled "Performance Comparison of Fault-Tolerant Virtual Machine Placement Algorithms in Cloud Data Centers" was accepted in the First Computer Science Conference for CSU Undergraduates. Only 20 papers were accepted out of 41 submissions. I am very proud of you, Chris!


• Congratulations to graduate students Shanglin Hsu and Yuning Yu, whose paper titled "DRE²: Achieving Data Resilience in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Quadratic Programming Approach" was accepted in IEEE MASS 2020.


• Dear CS Students, IEEE ICC 2020 will be held virtually June 7-11. If you are interested in attending, please let me know and we will cover the registration fee for you. This is a great opportunity to learn the state-of-the-art of computer communication and networking from adacemia and industry, and to network with people.


• Congratulations to Vincent Tran, a CS and Math double major, for being accepted into the Computer Science Ph.D. program at UC Riverside. All the best Vincent!


• Congratulations to undergraduate student Chris Gonzalez, whose paper titled "FT-VMP: Fault-Tolerant Virtual Machine Placement in Cloud Data Centers" was accepted in ICCCN 2020.


• Served on an NSF panel.


• Congratulations to Ivan Khaffaji, Philip Aguilera, and Christopher Manriquez, who are accepted into CSU-LSAMP Spring 2020 research program.


• Congratulations to Hugo Flores and Vincent Tran, whose paper titled PAM & PAL: Policy-Aware Virtual Machine Migration and Placement in Dynamic Cloud Data Centers was accepted into Infocom'20.


• Congratulations to Hugo Flores, who becomes a Googler. All the best, Hugo!


• Our proposal titled “CNS Core: Small: RUI: Optimal and Efficient Resource Allocation in Policy-Driven Data Centers: A Network Flow Approach” was funded by NSF. We are recruiting a few highly motivated undergraduate and graduate CS students. Please contact me if you are interested in.


• Congratulations to Pedro Celis, Kenia Rioja-Naranjo, and Vincent Tran, who are CSU-LSAMP Award recipients of Summer 2019 research program.


• Congratulations to Carlos Ontiveros, who was accepted into 2018 STEM Summer Scholars Institute (STEM SSI), a component of the IU-MSI STEM Initiative.


• Our paper titled "DAO²: Overcoming Overall Storage Overflow in Intermittently Connected Sensor Networks " was accepted into Infocom'18.


• Congratulations to Janani Janardhanan, whose poster presentation titled "Energy-Efficient VNF Replication in Virtualized Data Centers" was one of the winners of the posters competition at 2017 Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference (HENAAC).


• Congratulations to Alexander Ing, whose oral presentation titled "Policy-Aware, Energy-Efficient Middlebox Placement in SDN-Enabled Data Centers" won the first place in Computer Science and Information Management Category at 2017 Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in STEM.


• Congratulations to Pedro Ledesma and Oscar Rodas, who are CSU-LSAMP Award recipients of Summer 2017 for their research in software-defined data centers.