Ping Ji
PhD, Computer Science
Associate Professor

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Master's Program on Forensics Computing
John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Computer Science PhD Program, Graduate Center
City University of New York (CUNY)
445 West 59th Street
New York, New York 10019
email: pji at jjay dot cuny dot edu
phone: 212-237-8841

Education  

Ph.D.: Department of Computer Science ,    University of Massachusetts at Amherst,     2003
Thesis:   Design, Analysis and Signaling for Advanced Network Services
Advisors: Prof. Jim Kurose and Prof. Don Towsley
B.S.: Department of Computer Science and Technology,     Tsinghua University,     1998

Research Projects  

PhD Students  

Thesis advisor for:
Marcin Szczodrak
Thesis committee member for:
Ke Tang, Qinghai Gao, Constantinos Djouvas, Jiang Wu, Simon Shamoun, Eman Abdu, Omer Dimer, Zeki Bilgin

Teaching  

Graduate Courses  

CSc82100, Network Forensics, (Spring 2009)
CSc82005, Advanced Computer Networks, (Fall 2007)
FCM 745, Network Forensics, (Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006)
FCM 742, Network Security, (Fall 2004)

Undergraduate Courses 

Math 279, Data Communication and the Internet, (Fall 2008, Spring 2005, Spring 2004, Fall 2003)
Math 279 (Online Version), Data Communication and the Internet, (Spring 2008)
Math 379, Computer Networks (Spring 2006)
Math 272, Object Oriented Programming, (Spring 2006, Fall 2005)
Math 204, Discrete Structures, (Fall 2005)
Math 105, Modern Mathematics (Fall 2004)

Selected Publications  

  • "Matchmaker: Signaling for Dynamic Publish/Subscribe Applications", Zihui Ge, Ping Ji, Jim Kurose and Don Towsley
    IEEE ICNP 2003 , Nov. 2003, Atlanta, Georgia

  • "A Comparison of Hard-state and Soft-state Signaling Protocols", Ping Ji, Zihui Ge, Jim Kurose and Don Towsley
    ACM SIGCOMM 2003,
    Aug. 2003, Karlsruhe, Germany (pdf) (ps.gz)
    An extended version is to be published in Transaction on Networking (TON), Jun., 2007(pdf)

  • "Modeling Frame-level Errors in GSM Wireless Channels", Ping Ji, Benyuan Liu, Don Towsley, Zihui Ge and Jim Kurose,
    Journal of Special Issue of Performance Evaluation, 2003, (pdf) (ps.gz)

  • "Signaling Protocols for Distributed Multicast-Based Publish/Subscribe Applications", Ping Ji, Zihui Ge, Jim Kurose and Don Towsley,
    Presented in OPENSIG 2002,
    Oct. 2002, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
    Umass CMPSCI Technical Report 02-36,     (pdf) (ps.gz)

  • "Min-Cost Matchmaker Problem in Distributed Publish/Subscribe Infrastructures", Zihui Ge, Ping Ji, Jim Kurose and Don Towsley,
    Presented in OPENSIG 2002,
    Oct. 2002, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
    Umass CMPSCI Technical Report 02-19,     (pdf) (ps.gz)

  • "Modeling Frame-level Errors in GSM Wireless Channels", Ping Ji, Benyuan Liu, Don Towsley and Jim Kurose,
    IEEE Globecom, Internet Performance Symposium (IPS) 2002,
    Nov. 2002, Taibei     (pdf) (ps.gz)

  • "A Demand Adaptive and Locality Aware (DALA) Streaming Media Server Cluster Architecture", Zihui Ge, Ping Ji, and Prashant Shenoy,
    The 12th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV'02),
    May 2002, Miami, Florida, USA     (pdf) (ps.gz)

  • "SANDS: Specialized Active Networking for Distributed Simulation", S. Zabele, M.Dorsch, Z. Ge, Ping Ji,M. Keaton, J. Kurose, J. Shapiro and D. Towsley,
    IEEE DARPA Active Networks Conference and Exposition (DANCE),
    May 2002, San Francisco, California,USA     (pdf)

  • "Activating and Deactivating Repair Servers in Active Multicast Trees", Ping Ji, Jim Kurose and Don Towsley,
    Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications (IWDC '01),
    Sep. 2001, Toarmina, Italy     (pdf) (ps.gz)

  • "Student Behavioral Model Based Prefetching in Online Tutoring System " Ping Ji, Jim Kurose and Beverly Woolf,
    Umass CMPSCI Technical Report 01-27 (pdf) (ps.gz)
    • Last Modified: Jan. 09