About Me

RA Openings for PhD Students 

Awards

• National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early CAREER Award, Feb. 2006
• Best Student Paper Award (from all papers whose first author is a student) in ACM MobiCom, Montreal, Canada, Sept. 2007
• Best Paper Award in the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), San Diego, CA, Oct. 2005 
• Best Paper Award in the IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), Phoenix, AZ, April 2006
• Best Paper Award in the IEEE International Workshop on Network Science for Communication Networks (NetSciCom), Hong Kong, April 2015

Teaching

• ECE 220: Analytical Foundations of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sections 002 & 602 (Spring’22, 21, 20, 19)
• ECE 592 / CSC 591, Section 069: Introduction to Network Science (F’20, F’18, F’17)
• ECE/CSC 776: Design and Performance Evaluation of Network Systems and Services, (Spring’17, 16, 15, 13, 12, 10)
• ECE/CSC/OR 579: Introduction to Computer Performance Modeling (F’21, F’19, Spring’18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 08, 06, 05)
• ECE/CSC 792Y: Advanced Topics in Network Design and Optimization (Spring09, Spring07)
• ECE/CSC 570: Computer Networks (F’21, F’20, F’19, F’18, F’17, F’16, Spring’–Fall’14, Fall08-10,12, Fall03-05)
• ECE 407: Introduction to Computer Networking (Fall’15, Fall’13, Fall’11, Spring09, Spring08, Spring07)
• ECE/CSC 791Q: Advanced Topics in Quality of Service (QoS) (Spring04)
• Communication Network Analysis (EE627, KAIST), Spring 2011 (taught at KAIST, Korea, during sabbatical leave)

Research Areas & Interests 

Grants (Current)

• NSF Grant: ” CNS-Core: Closing the Theory-Practice Gap in Understanding and Combating Epidemic Spreading on Resource-Constrained Large-Scale Networks“, PIs: Do Young Eun, Chul-Ho Lee (Lee’s award), Oct. 2020 — Sept. 2023
• NSF Grant: ” III: Cost-Efficient Sampling and Estimation from Large-Scale Networks“, PIs: Do Young Eun, Chul-Ho Lee (Lee’s award), Oct. 2019 — Sept. 2022
• NSF Grant: “SpecEES: Efficient Monitoring and Spectrum Utilization in Multi-Layer Wireless Networks“, PIs: Wenye Wang, Do Young Eun, Huaiyu Dai, Oct. 2018 — Sept. 2021

Grants (Past)

• NSF Grant: “Exploring Theoretical Foundation of Mobile Cloud: From One-Hop Neighbors to the Internet“, PI: Wenye Wang, Co-PI: Do Young Eun, Oct. 2014 — Sept. 2019
• NSF Grant: “Distributed and Efficient Randomized Algorithms for Large Networks“, PI: Do Young Eun, Aug. 2012 — July. 2017 (dept. news) 
• NSF Grant: “Efficient Design and Control of Heterogeneous Mobile Networks: Beyond Poisson Regime”, PI: Do Young Eun, Sept. 2008 — Aug. 2013 (dept. news)
• NSF Grant: “A Theoretical Foundation of Spatio-Temporal Mobility Modeling and Induced Link-Level Dynamics“, PI: Do Young Eun, Co-PI: Wenye Wang, Sept. 2008 — Aug. 2012 (dept. news) 
• NSF CAREER Award: “A Stochastic Approach to the Design of Communication Networks: An Alternative to Fluid Modeling“, PI: Do Young Eun, March. 2006 — Feb. 2012

Current Interests:

• Distributed Optimization, Machine Learning 
• Distributed and Randomized Algorithms for Large Social Networks and Wireless Networks
• Epidemic Spreading on Networks 
• Graph Analytics, Graph Sampling/Mining Techniques
• Network Modeling and Performance Analysis
• Stochastic Analysis and Probability Theory, Probabilistic Algorithms

Past:

• Mobility Modeling, Contact-related Metrics, and Performance in MANET/DTN
• Stochastic Approach to Internet Congestion Control & Peer-to-Peer Networks
• Decomposition of Large Networks
• Measurement-Analytic Approach for QoS Estimation
• Ad-hoc/Sensor Networks
•  Performance Evaluations & Queueing Networks

Publications 

Recent Publications

• Jie Hu, Vishwaraj Doshi, and Do Young Eun, “ Efficiency Ordering of Stochastic Gradient Descent“, to appear in NeurIPS 2022 
• Vishwaraj Doshi, Jie Hu, and Do Young Eun, “ Bi-SIS Epidemics on Graphs — Quantitative Analysis of Coexistence Equilibria“, to appear in IEEE CDC 2022 
• Jie Hu, Vishwaraj Doshi, and Do Young Eun, “Minimizing File Transfer Time in Opportunistic Spectrum Access Model“, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
• Vishwaraj Doshi, Shailaja Mallick, and Do Young Eun, “Convergence of Bi-Virus Epidemic Models with Non-Linear Rates on Networks – A Monotone Dynamical Systems Approach“, to appear in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
• Jie Hu, Vishwaraj Doshi, and Do Young Eun, “Opportunistic Spectrum Access: Does Maximizing Throughput Minimize File Transfer Time?“, in WiOpt, Oct. 2021 
• Srinjoy Chattopadhyay, Huaiyu Dai, and Do Young Eun “Controlling Metastable Infection Patterns in Multilayer Networks via Interlink Design “, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, Aug. 2021 
• Vishwaraj Doshi, Shailaja Mallick, and Do Young Eun, “Competing Epidemics on Graphs – Global Convergence and Coexistence“, in IEEE INFOCOM, May 2021 
• Seyyedali Hosseinalipour, Ali Rahmati, Do Young Eun, and Huaiyu Dai, “Energy-Aware Stochastic UAV-Assisted Surveillance“, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 20, No. 5, May 2021 
• Shiju Li, Chul-Ho Lee, and Do Young Eun, “Trapping Malicious Crawlers in Social Networks”, ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Full Research Track, Oct. 2020 (full technical report) 
• Vishwaraj Doshi and Do Young Eun, “Fiedler Vector Approximation via Interacting RandomWalks” in ACM SIGMETRICS, Boston, MA, June 2020. (Also in Proc. ACM Meas. Anal. Comput. Syst (POMACS), March 2020) (arXiv link) (POMACS link) (Presentation Video) 
• Seyyedali Hosseinalipour, Jiayu Mao, Do Young Eun, and Huaiyu Dai, “Prevention and Mitigation of Catastrophic Failures in Demand-Supply Interdependent Networks“, in IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, Nov. 2019 
• Chul-Ho Lee, Srinivas Tenneti, and Do Young Eun, “Transient Dynamics of Epidemic Spreading and its Mitigation on Large Networks”, in ACM MobiHoc, Catania, Italy, July 2019 (Best Paper Award Finalists)
• Chul-Ho Lee, Min Kang, and Do Young Eun, “Non-Markovian Monte Carlo on Directed Graphs” in ACM SIGMETRICS, Phoenix, AZ, June 2019 (arXiv link) (POMACS link)

Selected Publications

• Jaewook Kwak, Chul-Ho Lee, Do Young Eun, “A High-order Markov Chain Based Scheduling Algorithm for Low Delay in CSMA Networks”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 24, No. 4, pages 2278-2290, Aug. 2016 (full version)
• Xin Xu, Xin Chen, and Do Young Eun, “Modeling Time-Sensitive Information Diffusion in Online Social Networks“, in IEEE NetSciCom 2015 (Best Paper Award!)
• Chul-Ho Lee and Do Young Eun, “On the Efficiency-Optimal Markov Chains for Distributed Networking Applications“, in IEEE INFOCOM, Hong Kong, May 2015
• Xin Xu, Chul-Ho Lee, and Do Young Eun, “A General Framework of Hybrid Graph Sampling for Complex Network Analysis“, in IEEE INFOCOM, Toronto, Canada, April 2014
• Chul-Ho Lee, Jaewook Kwak, and Do Young Eun, “Characterizing Link Connectivity for Opportunistic Mobile Networking: Does Mobility Suffice?“, in IEEE INFOCOM, Turin, Italy, April 2013
• Chul-Ho Lee, Xin Xu, and Do Young Eun, “Beyond Random Walk and Metropolis-Hastings Samplers: Why You Should Not Backtrack for Unbiased Graph Sampling“, in ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance (31 out of 203), London, UK, June 2012 (short 12-page version, full paper in double-column ACM format) 
• Han Cai and Do Young Eun,  “Aging Rules: What Does the Past Tell About the Future in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks?“, in ACM MobiHoc, New Orleans, LA, May, 2009 (talk slides)
• Do Young Eun and Xinbing Wang, “Achieving 100% Throughput in TCP/AQM under Aggressive Packet Marking with Small Buffer,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 16, No. 4, pages 945-956, August 2008
• Yuh-Ming Chiu and Do Young Eun, “Minimizing File Download Time in Stochastic Peer-to-Peer Networks,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 16, No. 2, pages 253-266, April 2008
• Han Cai and Do Young Eun, “Crossing Over the Bounded Domain: From Exponential to Power-law Inter-meeting Time in MANET“, ACM MobiCom, Montreal, Canada, Sept. 2007 (Best Student Paper Award) (talk slides)
• Do Young Eun, “On the Limitation of Fluid-based Approach for Internet Congestion Control,” IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), San Diego, CA, Oct. 2005 (Best Paper Award) [talk slides]
• Do Young Eun and Nes s B. Shroff,  “Network Decomposition in the Many-Sources Regime,” Advances in Applied Probability, Vol. 36, No. 3, pages 893-918, Sept. 2004.
• Do Young Eun and Ness B. Shroff,  “A Measurement-Analytic Approach for QoS Estimation in a Network based on the Dominant Time Scale,”  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 11(2), pages 222-235, April. 2003 

Full Publications List

Students:

Current Ph.D. Students:

• Vishwaraj Dilesh Doshi
• Shailaja Mallick
• Jie Hu
• Srinivas Tenneti (part-time, working in Cisco)

Former Visiting Scholars:

• Xiaoying Lei (2019~2020)

Former Students and postdoc:

• Postdoc — Dr. Fidan Mehmeti (Ph.D. Telecom ParisTech, 2015)
• Srinjoy Chattopadhyay (PhD, June 2020)
• Xin Xu (PhD, Dec. 2015)
• Jaewook Kwak (PhD, Dec. 2015), currently a postdoctoral researcher at Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
• Chul-Ho Lee (PhD. May 2012), currently an assistant professor in the Dept. of Computer Science at Texas State University, San Marcos, TX 
• Sungwon Kim   (PhD, Dec. 2010), currently in Samsung Co. 
• Han Cai (PhD, Dec. 2009)
• Yuh-Ming Chiu (PhD, May 2009), currently at Yahoo, Taiwan
• Xinbing Wang (PhD, May 2006) currently a Distinguished Professor in EE at Shanghai Jiaotong University
• Terrence A Vanvalkenhoef (MS, Aug. 2006)

Education

• Ph.D. in  ECE, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 2003
• M.S. in EE, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon, Korea, 1997
• B.S. in EE, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon, Korea, 1995

Professional Activity: 

Technical Program Committee Members

• ACM SIGMETRICS 2013
• IEEE INFOCOM 2005–2017, ICDCS 2010
• ACM MobiHoc 2008, 2009, 2014–2018
• ACM CHANTS 2013, 2016-2018, ITC 2016
• IEEE ICC 2005–2009
• IEEE GLOBECOM 2005, 2009
• IEEE IPCCC 2006–2008,, IEEE ICCCN 2006, 2007, WICON 2008

Technical Program Committee co-Chair:

• The 6th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA 2011)

Editorial Board:

• IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (past)
• Computer Communications Journal — Elsevier (past) 

Served NSF Panel for ECCS and CNS 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2015

Service: President for KSEA-NC Chapter 2017–2018