Abdol Esfahanian
Abdol Esfahanian
Associate Professor
Research Biography
Dr. Esfahanian joined MSU in 1983. His research interests include applied graph theory, computer networks, fault-tolerant computing, and web mining. He has published articles in journals such as IEEE Transactions on Computers, NETWORKS, Discrete Applied Mathematic, Graph Theory, and Parallel and Distributed Computing. From 1996 to 1999, he was an Associate Editor of NETWORKS, an international journal. He served as the department's graduate director for 10 years.
Selected Publications
- Jerry Scripps, Pang-Ning Tan, and A-H. Esfahanian, "Node Roles and Community Structure in Networks," KDD 2007 Workshop on Web Mining and Social Network Analysis, pp. 26 - 36, August 2007.
- Andrew Chen and A-H. Esfahanian, "On The Construction of Graphs with Large Numbers of Spanning Trees," Congressus Numerantium, Vol. 172, pp. 123-148, 2005.
- Li Xiao, Abhishek Patil, Yunhao Liu, Lionel M Ni, and A-H. Esfahanian, "Prioritized Overlay Multicast in Ad-hoc Environments," IEEE Computer Magazine, pp. 67-74, Feb 2004.
- Abhishek Patil, Yunhao Liu, Li Xiao, A-H. Esfahanian, and Lionel M Ni, "SOLONet: Sub-optimal location-aided overlay network for MANETs," Journal of Wireless Networks, pp. 1572-8196, January 2007.
Selected Achievements and Awards
- Withrow Teaching Excellence Award, College of Engineering, MSU, 2005
- Withrow Exceptional Service Award, College of Engineering, MSU, 1998
- IEEE Senior Member