Email: mehdi23 -at- hawaii.edu
Associate Professor | Director of Software Assurance Laboratory
University of Hawaii at Manoa | Information and Computer Sciences (ICS)
1680 East-West Road Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
Email: mehdi23 -at- hawaii.edu
My Academic Genealogy
Most doctoral students work with an academic advisor, who serves as their mentor.
Through the student-mentor relationship, the educational culture, research styles, manners, and ethics are passed on from advisor to student and from one generation to the next.
My Advisor was: Jane Cleland-HuangPh.D. University of Illinois at Chicago.Faculty: University of Notre Dame Highlights: Jane is recognized for her work in Safety Assurance; She was awarded the honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg Jane'sAdvisor was: Carl K. ChangPh.D. Northwestern University
Faculty: Iowa State Carl's Advisor was: Stephen S. YauPh.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignFaculty: Northwestern University Stephen's Advisor was: Mac Elwyn Van ValkenburgPh. D. Stanford University
Dissertation Title: Polarization and Fading Studies of Meteoric Radio Echoes Mac's Advisor was: Oswald Garrison Villard, Jr.Ph. D. Stanford University
Dissertation Title: A New Technique for Studying Meteors and the Upper
Atmosphere Oswald's Advisor was: Frederick E. TermanSc.D. M.I.T.
Dissertation Title: Characteristics and Stability of Transmission Systems Fredrick's Advisor was: Vannevar BushPh.D. M.I.T. & Harvard
Dissertation Title: Oscillating-current Circuits: An Extension of the Theory
of Generalized Angular Velocities, with Applications to the Coupled Circuit and
the Artificial Transmission Line Vannevar's Advisor was: Arthur E. KennellySelf Taught!Faculty: M.I.T. & Harvard
Highlights: Apprenticed in Thomas Edison's West Orange lab, Co-created the
electric chair Arthur's Mentor was: Thomas Alva EdisonArthur had no graduate advisor, but he is one of a few gifted men who has been considered as Thomas A. Edison's mentee. Arthur has been Edison's Ex-Aids and stated "The privilege which I had being with this great man for six years was the greatest inspiration of my life."My search ends here. Edison was also for sure self-taught, he dropped out of his school after a total of three months of attendance!My hobbies
I ride my bicycle every day.
My very first software programs are:Animated LED Message Board.Successful Windows rootkit. Hot Standby Fault Failover software. Simulation of 32bit Pipelined RISC CPU. |