Boleslaw K. Szymanski

Dr. Szymanski's research interests spans from network science, with emphasis on social networks and computer wireless and sensor networks to analysis and design of distributed and parallel algorithms, simulation of computers, networks and biological/ecological phenomena.

His projects include dynamic proceses on networks, hiddent groups in social networks, sensor network protocols and algorithms, and large-scale parallel and distributed computing and simulation. Dr. Szymanski led the development of COST and DSIM, two innovative simulation systems, SENSE for sensor network simulation, GENESIS for real-time network management and VOGUE for innovative HMM models.

Papers

On the Development of an Internetwork-centric Defense for Scanning Worms
Discussed in New Scientist issue 2821, pp. 16-17, August 15, 2009

S. Coull and B.K. Szymanski, vol. 28(7):637-647, October 2009.
The Naming Game on Social Networks: Community Formation and Consensus Engineering
Q. Lu, G. Korniss, and B.K. Szymanski, Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, vol. 4(2), 2009, pp. 221-235.
Dynamic Malleable Iterative MPI Applications
K. El Maghraoui, T.J. Desell, B.K. Szymanski and C.A. Varela, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 21(3), March 2009, pp. 393-413
Computing with Time: From Neural Networks to Sensor Networks
Wilkes Award for the Best Paper in 2008

B.K. Szymanski, and G. Chen

The Computer Journal, vol. 51(4):511-522, 2008.

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Ph.D. Graduates

- (graduated in 2007)Juong-Sik Lee
- Recurrent Auctions in E-Commerce
- Current position: Researcher at the Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, CA
- (graduated in 2007)Joel Branch
- Opportunistic Routing and Middleware Composition for Sensor and Actuator Networks
- Received the 2007 McNaughton Award
- Current position: Researcher at the IBM TJ Watson Research Laboratory, Hawthorne, NY
- (graduated in 2006)Paul Evangelista
- Computer Intrusion Detection through Statistical Analysis and Prediction Modeling
- Supervised jointly with Mark Embrechts
- Curretn position: Faculty at USMA, West Point, NY

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Projects

ITA
A collaborative partnership between the US Army Research Laboratories, the UK Ministry of Defense and a consortium of industries and universities in the US and UK.
SENSE
An efficient and powerful sensor network simulator that is also easy to use.
IOS
A distributed middleware framework that provides support for dynamic reconfiguration of large-scale distributed applications.
MetPetDB
A database for metamorphic petrology being designed as part of the National Cyberinfrastructure Initiative.
MilkyWay@home
A research project using Internet-connected computers to do research in determining the evolution of the Milkyway galaxy.
SCOREC
A research center that focuses on the development of reliable simulation technologies for engineers, scientists, medical professionals, and other practitioners.
GMLE
A distributed generic maximum likelihood evaluator implemented in the MPI/C and SALSA/Java programming languages.
OOP in Fortran 90
Research in object-oriented programming using the Fortran 90 programming language.

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Current Students

Thomas Babbitt
Eyuphan Bulut
Lei Chen
Qiming Lu (co-advisor Prof. Gyorgy Korniss)

Sahin Cem Geyik
Apirak Hoonlor
Jierui (Jerry) Xie
Travis Desell (co-advisor Prof. Carlos Varela)

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Current Positions

Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
Director, Rensselaer Center for Pervasive Computer and Networking
Editor-in-Chief, Scientific Programming
Editorial Board, Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience

Editorial Board, Computing and Informatics

Courses

Fall 2009
66-614	Computer Operating Systems (course notes)
Fall 2008
66-614	Computer Operating Systems
	Research + Dissertation
Fall 2007
66-614	Computer Operating Systems
66-694	Application of Sensor Networks
Fall 2006
6140	Computer Operating Systems
	Research + Dissertation
Spring 2006
4320-01	Parallel Programming
6360-01	Languages for Parallel Programming
4940-10	Information Organization Research