John W. Lockwood

Research Supervision

Doctoral Students
- Doctoral Students Graduated
  - Algorithms and Architectures for Network Search Processors
    - Sarang Dharmapurikar (Fall 2000 - August 2006)
    - Advisor: John W. Lockwood
    - Washington University in St. Louis
    - Doctoral Final: August 4, 2006
    - Now at: Nuova Systems
  - Techniques for Processing TCP/IP Flow Content in Network Switches at Gigabit Line Rates,
    - David Schuehler (Fall 2002 - November 2004)
    - Advisor: John W. Lockwood
    - Washington University in St. Louis
    - Doctoral Final: November 11, 2004
    - Now at: Exegy
  - Quality of Service Support for Heterogeneous Networks
    - Jay Moorman
    - Advisor: John W. Lockwood
    - University of Illinois:
    - Doctoral Final: Spring 2001
    - Now at: Lucent
  - Techniques for Hardware-Accelerated Parsing for Network and Bioinformatic Applications
    - James Moscola (Fall 2001 - May 2008)
    - Co-Advised with Ron Cytron
    - Washington University in St. Louis
    - Doctoral Final: April 10, 2008
  - Optimizing Application Performance Using Temperature Feedback
    - Phillip Jones (Fall 2003 - May 2008)
    - Co-Advised with Ron Cytron
    - Washington University in St. Louis
- Doctoral Students Co-Supervised
  - Optimization of Liquid Architectures
    - Shobana Padmanabhan (Fall 2003 - Present)
    - Co-Advised with Ron Cytron
    - Degree Anticipated: May 2009
  - Control for Networks of Reconfigurable Hardware
    - Todd Sproull (Fall 2000 - present)
    - Co-Advised with Roger Chamberlain
    - Degree Anticipated: May 2009
  - Cognitive Network Elements in Reconfigurable Hardware
    - John Meier (Spring 2003 - present)
    - Degree Anticipated: Dec 2007
- Doctoral Committee Service
  - Design and Evaluation of Packet Classification Systems
    - Haoyu Song, Washington University
    - Advisor: Jon S. Turner
    - Doctoral Final : Sep 8, 2006
    - Now at: Lucent/Alcatel
  - Composition and Deployment of Services in Heterogeneous Programmable Networks
    - Matthias Bossardt, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
    - Advisor: Bernhard Plattner
    - Doctoral Final: January 13, 2006
    - Now at: KPMG, Zurich
  - Models, Algorithms, and Architectures for Scalable Packet Classification
    - David Taylor, Washington University
    - Advisor: Jon S. Turner
    - Doctoral final: July 22, 2004
    - Now at: Exegy
  - Scheduling Algorithms for CIOQ Switches
    - Prashanth Pappu, Washington University
    - Advisor: Jon S. Turner
    - Doctoral proposal: Oct 28, 2003
    - Doctoral final: July 27, 2004
    - Now at: Lucent
  - Dynamic Rate Controlled Input-Buffered Switch System with QoS
    - Sueng-Yong Park (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
    - Advisor: Steve Kang (UIUC)
    - 1997-2004
    - Now at: Cisco
  - Design of Routers for Optical Burst Switched Networks
    - Jai Ramamirtham, Washington University
    - Advisor: Jon S. Turner
    - Dissertation proposal: Oct 8, 2003
    - Doctoral final: July 30, 2004
  - Scalable Real-time Architectures and Hardware Support for High-Speed QoS Packet Schedulers,
    - Rajaram B. Krishnamurthy, Georgia Institute of Technology
    - Advisor: Sudhakar Yalamanchili
    - Doctoral Dissertation: May 2003
  - A Framework For Fast Handoff Schemes in Wireless ATM Networks
    - Jamal Ramadan Elbergali, University of Cape Town
    - Advisor: Neco Ventura,
    - April 2003.
  - Switching Node to Support Voice Services in next Generation networks
    - Sven Shepstone, University of Cape Town
    - Advisor: Neco Ventura
    - October 2002.
  - Design and Development of Queuing, Cell Processing, and Cell Scheduling Modules for the iPOINT ATM Testbed
    - Haoran Duan (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
    - Advisor: Steve Kang (UIUC)
    - 1996
    - Now at HP
Masters of Science Students
- MS Students Graduated
  - Gerald Adam Covington (Fall 2004 - Present)
    - Architecture for Document Clustering in Reconfigurable Hardware
    - MS Thesis: Fall 2004 - Dec 2006
  - Andrew Levine
    - Gigabit Concept Mining, A Sensitivity Analysis
    - MS Thesis: Summer 2004 - Dec 2006
  - Shobana Padmanabhan
    - Automatic Application-Specific Customization of Softcore Processor Microarchitecture,
    - MS Thesis, Fall 2003 - May 2006
    - Now at: WashU, continuing gradaute work for doctoral degree
  - Abdel Rigumye
    - Hardware-Accelerated Packet Processing
    - MS Degree, Spring 2004 - May 2006
  - Charles Kastner
    - HAIL: An Algorithm for the Hardware Accelerated Identification of Languages
    - Master's Thesis, Summer 2004 - May 2006
    - Now at: Global Velocity
  - Framework and Tools for Shared Use of Reconfigurable Hardware Test Platforms
    - Jeffrey A. Mitchell
    - MS Project: Summer 2004 - May 2005
    - Now at: MIT Lincoln Labs
  - Architectures for Rule Processing Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems
    - Michael E. Attig
    - MS Thesis: Fall 2003 - May 2005
    - Now at: Xilinx Labs
  - Infrastructure for Quickly Deploying Hardware Networking Functions
    - Dave (Kahn-Yih) Lim
    - MS : Fall 2001 - May 2005
    - Now at: Global Velocity
  - Design of a System for Real Time Worm Detection
    - Bharath Madhusudan
    - MS Project: Fall 2002 - Aug 2004
    - Now at: Qualys
  - Architecture in Reconfigurable Hardware for Quality of Service in Gigabit Networks
    - Christopher K. Zuver
    - MS Project: Fall 2002 - Aug 2004
    - Now at: Boeing
  - Fusion and Perspective Correction of Multiple Networked Video Sensors
    - Christopher E. Neely (Washington University)
    - MS Project: May 2004
    - Now at: Xilinx Labs
  - Secure Remote Control and Configuration of FPX Platform in Gigabit Ethernet Environment
    - Haoyu Song (Washington University)
    - MS Project: August, 2003
    - Now at: WashU (Doctoral student)
  - FPgrep and FPsed: Packet Payload Processors for Managing the Flow of Digital Content on Local Area Networks and the Internet
    - James Moscola (Washington University)
    - Master's Thesis Presentation: July 29, 2003
    - Now at: WashU (Doctoral student)
  - An Analysis of Edge-Policed Quality of Service
    - Derek Chen-Becker (Washington University)
    - Master's Project, July 9, 2003
- MS Committee Service
  - Dusty Caches to Save Memory Traffic
    - Scott Friedman (Washington University)
    - Advisor: Ron K. Cytron
    - MS Thesis Presentation: April 27, 2005.
    - Now at: Appistry (was Tsunami Research)
  - Power Consumption of Digital Hearing Aid Computation Using Customized Numerical Representations.
    - Jing Lu (Washington University)
    - Advisor: Roger Chamberlain
    - MS Thesis Presentation: April 23, 2003.
    - Now at: WashU (Doctoral student)
Other Graduate Students Supervised
- Richard Hough (Summer 2005 - Present)
  - Reconfigurable Architectures
  - MS Degree Completed in 2007
- Henry Fu: Embedded Processing on FPGAs
  - Washington University. Spring 2001.
  - Completed Degree at Stanford
- Andrew Xiang: Switch and Network Simulation
  - University of Illinois, Advisor: Steve Kang. 1998
- Matthias Bossardt: Available Bit Rate Queueing.
  - UIUC Visitor, 1998.
Undergraduate Research Supervised
- Derek Eder: Memory controller for a Liquid Architecture (Summer 2004)
- Steven Broner: Design of Web-based Enginering Design Portal (Fall 2002, Spring 2003)
- Mike Attig: Network Traffic Statistics (Summer 2002, Spring 2003)
- Harvey Ku: TCP/IP Wrapper Applications (WashU: 2002) [intern from CMU]
- Eliot Sinclair: Traffic Generation (WashU: 2002)
- Tucker Evans: IP Route table trie management (WashU 1999) [Now at General Dynamics]
- Mike Wrighton: Fast IP Route Lookup [Now at CalTech]
- Ryan Speer: Linux-based Wireless basestation (UIUC: Spr' 98)
- Ben Sander: Circuit design, simulation, and syntheis (UIUC: '98)
- Ben Cox: UNIX STREAMS Device Driver (UIUC CCSM Intern '93).
- Arpeet Patel: ATM Phone (UIUC ECE345 Project).
- Anupam Singh: ATM Phone (UIUC ECE345 Project).
- Jeff Will: FPGA Demultiplexor Circuit (UIUC)
- Masood Makkar: VHDL Synthesis for ATM cell processing (UIUC CCSM Intern '95)