Hossein Hosseini, PhD Associate Professor and Computer Science Chair Contact Information Phone: (414)229-5184 Fax: (414)229-2769 E-Mail: hosseini@uwm.edu Address: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 3200 N. Cramer St. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI 53211

EDUCATION

University of Iowa                    Electrical and Computer Engineering     PhD. 1982

Iowa State University                Electrical and Computer Engineering     M.E. 1977

Polytechnique University           Electrical Engineering                            B.S.1972

POSITIONS

2002-Present               Computer Science Chairman, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UWM

2004-Present               Co-Director of Computer Networks Laboratory

1989-Present               Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer

1982-1989                   Assistant Professor, Department of electrical Engineering and Computer

RESEARCH

My interest has evolved and grown over years from Fault-Tolerance to Computer Architecture, Distributed Systems, Load Balancing and Scheduling, and to Computer Networks. This evolution is seen in my teaching as well as my research activities. Developing and expanding into a new area requires time and effort and I am glad I have done that knowing the growing needs of our department and students.

Because of my diverse interests, I have been contributing to the research, teaching, and service needs of both Computer Science (CS) and Electrical Engineering (EE) programs. I have also been an instrument to meet the needs of students whose interests fall where the two programs interface. I have taught and developed several courses which are cross-listed in EE and CS programs and I have supervised PhD and MS theses from both programs.

Research Interests

My research contributions cover a wide range of activities from publication, to funding, seeking patents, collaboration with colleagues and members of local industry, and graduate student thesis supervision. Over years I have worked on several different research projects with my students and my colleagues in pursuit of creative, novel, and original research work for the advancement of knowledge.

Selected List of Publications  

I have published over a total of 100 refereed journal and conference papers, and book chapters. The following are representative samples:

• Inbum Kim and S.H. Hosseini, “A Study on the Choice of G-Node and Disconnections for GOSST Heuristic”, Fifth IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2008), January 10-12, 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA , Accepted.
• M. Goyal, W. Xie, M. Soperi, S. H. Hosseini, and K. Vairavan, “Scheduling Routing Table Calculations to Achieve Fast Convergence in OSPF Protocol,” IEEE Broadnets 2007, Durham, NC, Sept. 2007.
• D. Rohm, M. Goyal, N. Dua, S. H. Hosseini, and K. Vairavan, “Smart Parking Lots of the Future,” RTAS 2007: Workshop on Smart Transportation, Bellevue, WA, April 3, 2007.
• Hamed El-Afandi, Hossein Hosseini, and K. Vairavan, "Wireless Ad Hoc Protocols: A Comparison Study of DSR, AODV and IWAR," Journal of Computational Methods in Science and Engineering, Special Issue, Vol. 6, No. 5, pages 181-190, Dec. , 2006.
• Inbum Kim, Chae-Kak Kim, and S. Hossein Hosseini, “A Heuristic Using GOSST with 2-Connection Strategies for Minimum Construction Cost of Network”, International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security (IJCSNS) , Vol. 6, No. 12, pp. 60-72, Dec. 2006.
• Tariq Omari, H. Hosseini, and G. Franks, “Dynamic Load Balancing Protocol for Locally Distributed Systems,” International Journal of Computers and Their Applications (IJCA), Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 211-219, Dec. 2006.
• M. Goyal, W. Xie, H. Hosseini, and K. Vairavan, “Improving OSPF Dynamics Over Broadcast LAN,” SIMULATION of Transaction of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International-Special Issue on Recent Advances in Network Modeling and Simulation, Vol. 82, No. 2, pp. 107-130, Feb. 2006.
• Hamed El-Afandi, Hossein Hosseini, and K. Vairavan,”A Simulation Study between the Ad Hoc Protocols IWAR and AODV,” The 5^th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, pp. 630-634, Athens, Greece, December 18-21, 2005
• Hamed El-Afandi, Hossein Hosseini, and K. Vairavan, “A Simulation Study of the Intelligent Wireless Ad Hoc Routing (IWAR) Protocol,” Proceedings of the 2^nd ACM International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks, pp. 264-266, Montreal, Canada, October 2005.
• Tariq Omari, Hossein Hosseini, K. Vairavan, “Traveling Token for Dynamic Load Balancing,” 3 rd IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA 2004), pp 329-332, Cambridge, MA, Aug. 30-Sept. 1, 2004.
• Hamed El-Afandi, Hossein Hosseini, and K. Vairavan, “A Load Balancing Routing Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Network”,  International Workshop on Advanced Architectures and Algorithms for Internet Delivery and Applications Proceedings of the International Conference on Internet Computing, pp. 369-375, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 21-24, 2004.M. Huang, S. H. Hosseini, and K. Vairavan, “A Receiver Initiated Load Balancing Method in Computer Networks using Fuzzy Logic, “ Proceedings of IEEE 2003 Global Communications Conference, Vol. 7, pp 4028-4033, San Francisco, CA, USA., December 2003.
• M. Huang, S. H. Hosseini, and K. Vairavan, “Fuzzy Logic Based Congestion Control for Load Balancing in Computer Networks, “ The 16^th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, PDCS 2003, pp 199-204, Reno, Nevada, August 13-15, 2003.
• M. Huang, S. H. Hosseini, and K. Vairavan, “Load Balancing in Computer Networks, “Proceedings of ISCA 15^th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, PDCS-2002, Special Session on Networks Communication and Protocols, pp. 331-336, Louisville, Kentucky, Sept. 2002.
• S. H. Hosseini, Editorial page on, “Load Balancing,” Cluster Computing Journal, Vol. 3, No.2, September 2000.
• S. H. Hosseini, O.A. Abulnaja, K. Vairavan, “An Efficient Hardware Fault Tolerant Technique,” Chapter 17, pp. 301-314, Fault-Tolerant Parallel and Distributed Systems, D. R. Avresky and David R. Kaeli, Dluwer Academic Publishers, 1998.
• O. A. Abulnaja , S. H. Hosseini, K. Vairavan,  " Reliability Evaluation of A Task Under Hardware Fault Tolerant Technique" , Chapter 18, pages 315-327 , Fault-Tolerant Parallel and Distributed Systems, D. R. Avresky and David R. Kaeli, Kluwer Academic Publishers,1998.
• Joshi, Bharat and Hosseini, Seyed, ``Efficient Algorithms for Microprocessor Testing'', Proceedings of the IEEE Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, pp. 100-104, Anaheim, CA, January 19-22, 1998.
• M. Rooholamini and S. H. Hosseini, “Load Sharing in Fault Tolerant Real Time Systems," 10th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering, CAINE-97, San Antonio, Texas, December 3-5, 1997.
• O. A. Abulnaja, S. H. Hosseini, K. Vairavan, ``On the Effect of Recovery Block Scheme on System Performance,'' Proc. IEEE 21st Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference, COMPSAC97, pp76-81, Washington, DC, Aug 13-15, 1997.
• Joshi, Bharat, Hosseini, S. and Vairavan K., ``On a Load Balancing Algorithm Based on Edge Coloring'', Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth IEEE Southeastern Symposium on System Theory, pp. 174-178, Cookeville, TN, March 9-11, 1997
• Joshi, Bharat, Hosseini, S. and Vairavan K., ``A Load Balancing Algorithm for Bus-Oriented Systems'', Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE Symposium for Parallel and Distributed Processing}, pp. 370-374, New Orleans, LA, October 23-26, 1996.
• Joshi, Bharat, Hosseini, S. and Vairavan K., ``Stability Analysis of a Load Balancing Algorithm'', Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth IEEE Southeastern Symposium on System Theory, pp. 412-415, Baton Rouge, LA, 1996.
• Bruce Litow, S.H. Hosseini, K. Vairvan, and Gregory S. Wolffe, “Performance Characteristics of a Load Balancing Algorithm,” Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing Vol. 31, No. 2, 159-165, 1995.
• Ibrahim Onyuksel and S. Hossein Hosseini, " Amdahl's Law: A Generalization under Processor Failures ", IEEE Transaction on Reliability, Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 455-462, Sept. 1995.
• Ramakumar Kosuru and S.H. Hosseini, "On Fault-Tolerant Embeddings in a Faulty 2D Torus", Presented at The Fifth Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation, McLean Hilton, McLean, VA, February 6-9, 1995.
• Ramakumar Kosuru and S.H. Hosseini, "Fault-Tolerant Embeddings of Graphs in Generalized Hypercubes", 1994 IEEE Workshop on Fault-Tolerant Parallel and Distributed Systems, College Station, Texas. June 12-14, 1994.
• S. H. Hosseini and N. Jamal, "Efficient Distributed Algorithms for Self Testing of Multiple Processor Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 1397-1409, Nov.1992.
• S. H. Hosseini, B. Litow, M. Malkawi, S. Nadella, and K. Vairavan, "Distributed Parallel Algorithms for Edge Coloring of Graphs," Proceedings of the ISMM International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems," pp. 170-172, Pittsburgh, Oct. 1992.
• B. Litow , S. H. Hosseini, and K. Vairavan, " Distributed Global State Determination via Graph Coloring ," Proc. IEEE International Phoenix Conference on Computers and Communications, pp. 247-251, Vol. 1, Scottsdale, Arizona, March 27-30, 1991
• S. H. Hosseini, "On Fault Tolerant Structure, Distributed Fault Diagnosis, Reconfiguration, and Recovery of the Array Processors," IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 38, No. 7, pp. 932-942, July 1989.
• S. H. Hosseini, J. G. Kuhl, and S. M. Reddy, "On Self Fault-Diagnosis of the Distributed Systems," IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 248-251, February, 1988.
• S. H. Hosseini, J. G. Kuhl, and S. M. Reddy, "Distributed Fault-Tolerance of Tree Structures," IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. C-36, No. 11, pp. 1378-1382, November, 1987.
• S. H. Hosseini, B. E. Litow, M. I. Malkawi, and K. Vairavan, "Distributed Algorithms for Load Balancing in Very Large Homogeneous Systems," Proceedings IEEE/ACM Fall Joint Computer Conference, pp. 397-404, Texas, 1987.
• S. H. Hosseini, J.G. Kuhl, and S. M. Reddy, “A Diagnostic Algorithm for Distributed Computing Systems with Dynamic Failure and Recovery,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. C-33, No. 3, pp. 223-233, March 1984.

Patents

NETS-NBD: Fast Convergence to Topology Changes in Link State Routing Protocols- T06019US. CO-PI; with Mukul Goyal as the PI, 2007, Applied for Regular Patent through the UWM Research Foundation.

Funding & Collaboration

I have received funding from NSF and Industry supporting my research. I have collaborated with my colleagues at UWM and other universities as well as with our local industry. My collaboration with our colleagues and local industry is on the rise.  For instance; my CS colleagues same as I are planning to reach out to our faculty in the School of Nursing for collaborating in the applications of sensor networks for monitoring and managing the health of elderly people. We are currently collaborating with Johnson Controls and are expanding our collaboration with Rockwell Automation, Astronautics Corporation, Eaton Corporation, and GE healthcare. 

Professional Experience

• Served on the Editorial Board of Cluster Computing Journal.  The Journal of Networks, Software, and Applications.
• Have served as a chairman of several sessions of IEEE conferences.
• Have served as a committee member for several conference proceedings.
• Have reviewed proposals for NSF.
• Regularly review papers for various journals and conferences.
• Regularly review books for various publishing companies including Prentice Hall, McGraw Hill, John Wiley & Sons, Addison Wesley.

TEACHING

My teaching contribution is very broad and comprehensive. It ranges from teaching courses, to course, laboratory, curriculum, and program development.

Program Development

• I have played a leading role in the development of a new BS degree program in Computer Engineering.
• I have initiated the development of a BS program in the Software Engineering.
• I have played a leading role in the development of new Blended (Partially On-line) MS degree in Computer Science with support from a Sloan Foundation grant to UWM.

Curriculum Development

I have played a leading role in the development of the Computer Network Curriculum at our department. I have developed research as well as teaching components. Already several graduate students have completed their PhD and MS theses in this area under my supervision. I have also developed new courses in this area.

Course Development

I have developed the following graduate courses:

• Advanced Computer Networks CS 730
• Advanced Computer Architecture EE/CS 758
• Computer Systems Performance Evaluation EE/CS 760
• Fault Tolerant Computing EE/CS 762

Laboratory Development

I have developed Computer Network Laboratory CS 530 and I am currently one of the directors of this lab.

Courses Taught (Partial list)

• Digital Logic EE 354
• Introduction to Computer Organization and Assembly Language Programming CS 315
• Introduction to Microprocessors EE 367
• Computer Architecture EE/CS 458
• Computer Networks CS 520
• Advanced Computer Networks CS 730
• Advanced Computer Architecture EE/CS 758
• Computer Systems Performance Evaluation EE/CS 760
• Fault Tolerant Computing EE/CS 762

Graduate Student Supervision

Over the years, I have supervised or co-supervised a large number of graduate students as indicated below:

• 8 PhD theses.

• 41 MS theses

• 13 MS capstone projects

All my PhD students have published several research papers based on their theses and all have very successful careers. They are working either as a university professor or in the research and development areas of major companies (including HP, GE, and Intel.)

My MS students have also done very well. I have published journal as well as conference papers with some of them and they have produced quality theses.

Some of MS graduates have also reached very high-level positions in their careers. For instance, Satya Nadella, a former MS thesis student of mine, is now a senior vice president at Microsoft Corporation.

My contribution to our graduate student supervision is strong.  I have invested a lot of time and effort into supervising our graduate students from problem formulation, to problem solution, and to the publication of our results. I have also been available to serve as a committee member for numerous PhD and MS theses. I have served in a total of 142 PhD and MS thesis committees in our college.

PhD Students Supervised or Co-Supervised :

• Inbum Kim.
  Thesis Title: Heuristics for Solving the Grade Services Steiner Minimum Tree Problem. , Dec., 2007.

• Hamed El-Afandi
  Thesis Title: An Intelligent Wireless Ad Hoc Routing Protocol, Dec. 2006.

• Ming-Chang Huang
  Thesis Title: Load Balancing and Congestion Control Using Fuzzy Logic Control Method in Computer Networks, Dec. 2003.

• Gregory S. Wolffe
  Thesis Title: Scheduling and Load Balancing for Distributed Computing Systems, August 1998.

• Mohamad Rooholamini
  Thesis Title: Fault-Tolerant Scheduling of Real-Time Multiple Processor Systems, Dec. 1997.

• Osama A. Abulnaja
  Thesis Title: High Performance Techniques for Reliable Execution of Tasks under Hardware and Software Faults, Feb. 1996.

• Ramakumar Kosuru
  Thesis Title: Mapping of Parallel Programs on Multiprocessor Systems with Processor and Link Faults, Dec. 1995.

• Bharatkumar S. Joshi
  Thesis Title: Graph Coloring Based Load Balancing Algorithms for Distributed Systems, May 1994.

Current PhD Students

• Mohd Soperi

• Xin Wang

• Lihua Zhang 

• Kamil Samara

SERVICE

I have had the privilege to serve our department as a faculty as well as the chair. While this is a very rewarding experience, with each one comes its own duties, responsibilities and challenges. During my years of service, I have always aimed at fulfilling the mission of our department, college, and university to pursue excellence in research, teaching, and service. My service contributions include an array of activities including:

University, College, and Department Committee Service (Partial List)

• Have served in many department, college and university committees.
• Served on the UWM College of Engineering and Applied Science Strategic Planning Committee.
• Have participated in the EE and CS external program evaluations and accreditations.   

Department Chair

I have served as the Computer Science Chair since 2002. The department chair is about leadership, management of the department affairs in consultation with the faculty, dean, and other university officials, and marketing the department programs to potential students and broader community. It requires dedication and commitment in facilitating excellent scholarly work, teaching, and service as stated in the mission and vision of the department. It is my honor to serve this position in pursuit of achieving the educational goals of our department.