Teaching/Advising

Lectures

• ITIS 6177/8177: Systems Integration                                                               Fall 2003,    Spring 2004,   Spring 2008,    Spring 2009, Fall 2009

• ITIS 6130/8130: Software Requirements Engineering for Information Systems     Fall 2004,    Spring 2006,   Spring 2007,    Fall 2008

• ITIS 3320: Introduction to Software Testing and Assurance                                Spring 2005

• ITIS & ITCS 6112/8112: Software System Design and Implementation                Fall 2005,    Fall 2006 

• ITIS 6150/8150: Software Assurance                                                               Fall 2007

• ITIS 6148/8148: Advanced Object-Oriented Design and Implementation             Spring 2009

• ITIS 3310: Software Architecture and Design                                                    Fall 2009

Individual Study or Projects 

• Individual Study: Viewpoints-oriented Requirements Engineering, Non-Functional Requirements Techniques, Software-intensive System Security Certification and Accreditation (C&A), Context-aware Computing Environment

• Senior Projects (ITCS 3650/3651 Section number4): August. 2009 - May. 2010
  - 06-155: Information Security Requirements Evaluation Methodology for Secure Software Quality Assurance
  - 06-156: Building Software Design Patterns through Semantic Association Rules from Object Models
  - 06-149: Building Semantic Web from Generic Object Model (GenOM)

Current Students/Scholars

• Liwei Shen (Post-doc/Visiting Scholar, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Feb. 2009 - present)

• Rashna Vatcha (Research Associate, MSIT, US DoT project, Fall 2007 - present)

• Byeongil Ahn (Ph.D. IT, Fall 2009 - present)

• Osa Omokaro (Ph.D. IT, Fall 2009 - present)

• Ying Ding (Ph.D. IT, Fall 2005 - present, on-leave)

• Mahalakshmi Vishnampettai Raghuraman (MSIT, US DoT project, Summer 2009 - present)

• Andrew Schumpert (MA Geography, collaboration with Dr. Wei-Ning Xiang - Advisor)

• Cody Yeager (MA Geography, collaboration with Dr. Wei-Ning Xiang - Advisor)

Past Students (*Thesis option)

  PhD

• Robin Gandhi (Ph.D. IT, Regulatory Requirements-driven Risk Assessment, Spring 2004 - May 2008)
  - First Employment: Assistant Professor, Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha

  MS/MA

• Rashna Vatcha (MSIT, US DoT project, Fall 2007 - Summer 2009)

• Joshua Blackwell (MA Geography, collaboration with Dr. Wei-Ning Xiang - Advisor, Dec. 2008)

• Ajeet Murty (MSIT Thesis, DITSCAP Automation: Simulation and Modeling, Fall 2006 - Summer 2008, Software Engineer at Wachovia)

• Geetika Jain (MSIT, Individual Study, Requirements Modeling, Fall 2006 - Spring 2007) 

• *Siddharth Wagle (RA, MSIT Thesis, DITSCAP Automation: Service-oriented Architecture, Fall 2005 - Spring 2007)  

• *Steven Gastongia (MA GIS, Summer 2006), A demand-based resource allocation method for electrical substation service area delineation, collaboration with Dr. Wei-Ning Xiang)

• *Amy Weeks (MA GIS, Spring 2006) A Delphi-Case Design Method for Model Validation in Critical Infrastructure Protection Modeling and Simulation, collaboration with Dr. Wei-Ning Xiang) 

• *Divya Muthurajan (RA, MSIT Thesis, Spring 2006, Non-Functional Requirements Engineering, Software Engineer at Bank of America)

• *Deepak Yavagal (RA, MSIT Thesis, December 2005, DITSCAP Automation, Senior Software Engineer at Amazon.com)

• *Bob McNally (MA Geography, Summer 2005, co-advising with Dr. Wei-Ning Xiang, An ontology driven GIS (ODGIS) approach to critical infrastructure protection (CIP) scenario planning)

• Suman Balabhadrapatruni (Independent study, MSCS: Ontology domain modeling for Context-aware Computing Environment, Fall 2005 - Spring 2006)

• Vikram Parekh (MS, Summer 2005, Viewpoints-oriented Requirements Engineering)

• Ashwani Kaul (MS, Spring 2005, Semantic Web Enabled Web Services)

• Ankit Vijaywargiya (MS, Summer 2004, Automatic Configuration of XACML Security Policy using Context-aware Domain Modeling)

  BS/BA

• Jonathan Mast (Senior Project, Computer Science, Summer - Fall 2007, Visualization of GenOM objects with Shrimp Integration)

• Rasha Dumarieh (BS, RA, December 2005, Cum Laude, Undergrad Research Assistant, Sensitivity Analysis)

• Ross Dorsey (BS, Spring 2005, Senior Project, Ontology-based Domain Modeling)

Last Updated Aug. 2009.