Email: mehdi -at- se.rit.edu
Kodak Endowed Scholar & Associate Professor
Department of Software Engineering
Rochester Institute of Technology
134 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623-5608
Email: mehdi -at- se.rit.edu
My Academic Genealogy
Most doctoral students work with an academic advisor, who served 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.
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My Adviser was: Jane Cleland-HuangPh.D. University of Illinois at Chicago.Faculty: DePaul University Jane's Adviser was:Carl K. ChangPh.D. Northwestern University
Faculty: Iowa State Carl's Adviser was:Stephen S. YauPh.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignFaculty: Northwestern University Stephen's Adviser was:Mac Elwyn Van ValkenburgPh. D. Stanford UniversityDissertation Title: Polarization and Fading Studies of Meteoric Radio Echoes Faculty: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Mac's Adviser was:Oswald Garrison Villard, Jr.Ph. D. Stanford UniversityDissertation Title: A New Technique for Studying Meteors and the Upper Atmosphere
Faculty: Stanford University
Oswald's Adviser was:Frederick E. TermanSc.D. M.I.T.
Dissertation Title: Characteristics and Stability of Transmission Systems Fredrick's Adviser was:Vannevar BushPh.D. M.I.T. & HarvardDissertation Title: Oscillating-current Circuits: An Extension of the Theory of Generalized Angular Velocities, with Applications to the Coupled Circuit and the Artificial Transmission Line Faculty: M.I.T.
Highlights: The first presidential science advisor (FDR), Primary organizer of
the Manhattan Project, Proposed the Creation of the National Science Foundation. 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 drop out of his school after a total of three months attendance!My hobbies
I ride my bicycle every day.
My very first software programs are:Animated LED Message Board.Simulation of 32bit Pipelined RISC CPU. Hot Standby Fault Failover for Horizontally and Vertically Distributed Databases. |