Abdol Esfahanian

Abdol Esfahanian

Abdol Esfahanian

Professor and Chairperson

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.

Research Area
Awards
Withrow Teaching Excellence Award, College of Engineering, MSU, 2005
Withrow Exceptional Service Award, College of Engineering, MSU, 1998
IEEE Senior Member
Education
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University 1983
M.S., Computer, Information, and Control Engineering, University of Michigan 1977
B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan 1975
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.
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.
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.