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Dr. Feodor F. Dragan

Professor of Computer Science

Feodor F. Dragan received the M.S. degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Moldova State University, in 1985, and the PhD degree in Theoretical Computer Science from the Belorussian Academy of Sciences, in 1990. He was an Assistant and then an Associate Professor at the Mathematics and Computer Science Department of Moldova State University from 1988 to 1999. From 1994 to 1999, he was on leave of absence and worked in Germany as a Research Associate on a Volkswagen Foundation (VW) project and on a German Research Community (DFG) project. He was also awarded a DAAD Research Fellowship (Germany) from 1994 to 1995. During 1999 to 2000, he was a Research Associate at the Computer Science Department of University of California, Los Angeles. Since August 2000 he has been with Kent State University and he is currently a Professor of Computer Science. He held visiting positions in Germany (Technische Universitaet Berlin), in France (Universite de la Mediterranee, Marseille and Universite Paris Diderot - Paris 7), in Norway (Universitetet i Bergen), and in Chile (Universidad de Chile, Santiago). He has authored more than 110 refereed scientific publications. His research interests include design and analysis of network algorithms, algorithmic graph and hypergraph theory, computational geometry, computational biology, VLSI CAD, combinatorial optimization, discrete convexity and geometry of discrete metric spaces, distance location problems and operations research, data analysis.

My h-index is 22, my i10-index is 49, my Erdős number is 3 (e.g., Feodor F. Dragan to Vitaly I. Voloshin to Zsolt Tuza, to Paul Erdős) and the total number of citations of my papers is more than 1300.

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Curriculum Vitae

Publications (see also DBLP: List of publications via the DBLP site , Links to publications via Google Scholar (search for FF Dragan or F Dragan as well))

Teaching

Previous years

SPRING 2013 (Office hours: TR 3:00 - 5:00 PM or by appointment)

CS 6/79995 - ST: ADV. ALG. FOR GRAPHS AND NETS (Syllabus)

Graduates

PhD

1. Irina Lomonosov, 2005, Routing Schemes for Special Graph Classes.

2. Chenyu Yan, 2007, Approximating Distances in Complicated Graphs by Distances in Simple Graphs With Applications.

3. Yang Xiang, 2009, Reachability, Routing and Distance Labeling Schemes in Graphs with Applications in Networks and Graph Databases.

1. Rashid Muhammad, 2003, Parallel Voronoi Diagram (co-advised).

2. Chenyu Yan, 2004, Additive Sparse Spanners for k-Chordal Graphs.

3. Sudha Elavarti, 2005, Addressing, Distance and Routing in Cubic Systems with Applications in 3D Cellular Networks.

4. Mutasem Najdawi, 2005, Implementation of Addressing, Distance and Routing Labeling Schemes for Triangular Systems.

5. Amit Borwankar, 2005, Nearest Neighbor Embracing Graph (NNEG) as a New Topology for Wireless Ad-hoc Networks.

6. George Powell, 2005, Improvement algorithms for an industrial routing problem.

7. Tran Anh Tuan, 2006, Analysis of two approximation algorithms for the Tree Flow Spanner Problem.

8. Raina Siddharth, 2006, Finding a Spanning Tree Minimizing the Maximum Edge Load.

9. Rajesh Jadhav, 2007, Routing in wireless networks without geometry.

10. Bafna, Nitin, 2007, Labeling schemes for some location problems on trees.

11. Viyyure, Udaykiran V, 2008, Frequency assignment in radio networks: L(3,1,1)-labeling.

12. Bhaduri, Sudipta, 2008, Maximum cliques and minimum colorings of chordal graphs via minimum degree orderings.

13. Rahul Sehgal, 2009, Greedy routing in a graph by aid of its spanning tree: experimental results and analysis.

14. Rab Harbart, 2009, Addressing and Distances for Cellular Networks with Holes.

15. Mayank Ladoia, 2012, Reconstructing Approximate Tree Metrics and Using Them to Approximate Min-Max Clustering Problem.

1. Dwarakanath Raghunathan, 2005, Connected Dominating Set as Backbone for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks.

2. Pankaj, Amitabh, 2007, Heuristics for routing in internet-like graphs.

Current Students

1. Muad Abu Ata, PhD Student

2. Arne Leitert, PhD Student

3. Hend Alrasheed, PhD Student

4. Zoltan Karaszi, MS Student.

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