M.S. Student Profile Gregory Kaple
Email: gkaple at stevens dot edu
While working as a Data Networking Account Executive for AT&T, I was interested in extending my technical as well as managerial knowledge to improve my value added consulting capabilities for clients I served. At the time, Stevens had a partnership with AT&T. I had recently moved to Hoboken and the convenience of attending Stevens with funding support from AT&T was too good to pass up. As I began doing the degree, I found that the balance of the educational experience and my work experience was greatly increasing my understanding and capacity to perform as a highly trained expert in the field. What started as a convenient method for increasing my experience has become a cornerstone to my personal professional business plan. The Stevens education has taught me the foundational technology skills need to establish credibility within the IT field and the management skills to take ideas to another level impressing my clients and my professional networks. During the summer, I decided to complete my master degree by doing a Thesis study. I plan on leveraging this research to begin speaking and presenting at professional conferences and increasing my professional credibility as I begin to embark on a new venture to start an IT consulting firm.
Josh Levine
Email:jlevine at stevens dot edu
As a Stevens undergraduate in the Business and Technology program, I had some available room in my schedule due to the AP classes I had taken in high school. I began looking through the course catalog, and discovered the Telecommunications Management program - its blend of technical and managerial courses seemed to be the perfect complement to both my interests and to my undergraduate curriculum. I arranged a meeting with the dean of the program, Dr. Curtis, who was very supportive. She provided a lot of great advice, both in determining which courses to take, and later in determining which of my job offers to accept after graduation (I ended up choosing Banking Technology at Goldman Sachs). I'm very glad that I was able to enroll in the Telecommunications Management program; I feel that it has not only provided me with valuable skills and knowledge, but also made me a much more competitive candidate when applying for jobs.
PhD Student Profile
Saravut Yaipairoj , Full time PhD candidate & Research Assistant
Email: syaipair at stevens dot edu
URL: http://personal.stevens.edu/~syaipair/
Saravut was born in Bangkok , Thailand . He earned my bachelor degree in Telecommunication Engineering and worked for one year at Advanced Info Service (AIS) Corp., a respectable telecom operator in Thailand . Then, he came to US and earned two master degrees in Computer Networking and Communication Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He joined Lucent Technology for one year as a network engineer. He has involved in several proposals such as Wireless Transport network, Voice over DSL, DWDM. After that, he pursued a doctoral degree in Telecommunication Management at Stevens Institute of Technology. His area of research includes network performance analysis and pricing in telecommunication networks.
Venkata Praveen Tanguturi, Full time PhD candidate & Research Assistant
Email: vtangutu at stevens dot edu
URL: http://personal.stevens.edu/~vtangutu/
Praveen was born in Hyderabad , India . He earned his bachelor degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from University of Mumbai , Mumbai. Right after, he came to U.S. and earned his Masters degree in Telecommunications from University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh . Currently, he pursues his doctoral degree in Telecommunication Management at Stevens Institute of technology. His areas of research includes 3Generation Networks, Real Options, Investment Decision and Pricing of Networks.
Vinoth Gunasekaran , Full time PhD candidate & Research Assistant
Email: vgunasek at stevens dot edu
URL: http://personal.stevens.edu/~vgunasek/
Vinoth was born in Tamilnadu , India . He earned his bachelor degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from Baradhiyar University , Coimbatore , in 2000. Right after, he came to U.S. and earned his Masters degree in Telecommunications from the University of Louisiana , Lafayette . His Master's thesis was in Interoperability between Wi-Fi (IEEE802.11b) and Bluetooth. Currently, he pursues his doctoral degree in Telecommunication Management at Stevens Institute of Technology. His areas of research include Pricing of Emerging Wireless Networks, e.g., Wi-Fi Pricing, Interoperability of Wi-Fi with other technologies, Wi-Fi integration with 2.5G & 3G, and Voice over IP and WLAN.
Moshiur Rahman, Part-time PhD candidate
Email: moshiurrahman at att dot com
Moshiur Rahman received his MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Wayne State University , MI , in 1985. He joined AT&T Bell Labs, Napperville IL , at the switching division in 1987. He is currently a Senior Technical Member in AT&T Labs, Middletown , NJ , with the voice and data services division. He is also pursuing his Ph.D. degree at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken , NJ , in Telecommunications Management. His research areas of interest include mobility management for voice and data, WLAN, broadband and signaling protocols.
Miao Linyan, Full-time PhD candidate & Research Assistant
Email : lmiao at stevens dot edu
Ms. Miao Linyan is from China . She got her Bachelor's degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Information Management/Systems (major) and Computer Science (minor). She also received her Master's degree in Financial Engineering form the same university in 2004. While at USTC, she conduced research in credit risk of the Chinese market. She also gained experience working as an intern in large financial institutions of China , such as the Agricultural Bank of China and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. She joined Stevens in the fall of 2004, to start her Ph.D. at the School of Technology Management , under the Supervision of Prof. Harmantzis. Her research interests are in the areas of Risk Management and Financial Analytics.
Irina Goldman, Full-time PhD candidate & Research Assistant
Email : igoldman at stevens dot edu
Mrs. Irina Goldman was born in Moscow , Russia . She received her B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees in applied mathematics and physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1998 and 2000 respectively. She has several research publications in Mathematical Immunology. Starting fall 2004, she has been a full-time Ph.D. student at Stevens Institute of Technology, School of Technology Management . Currently, her research interests are of stochastic processes for quantitative finance. She works under the supervision of Dr. Fotios Harmantzis .
Manaf Zghaibeh, Full-time PhD candidate & Research Assistant
Email: mzghaibe at stevens dot edu
Manaf was born in Damascus , Syria . He earned his Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Damascus University and worked for an IBM business partner in Syria for three years. He got his Masters degree in Telecommunications Management from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken , NJ , where he currently continues towards his doctorate degree in the same discipline.
Elias Aravantinos, Full-time PhD candidate
Email: earavant@stevens.edu
Mr. Aravantinos is an ICT business consultant with extended experience in systems integration and network management, security services and global infrastructure solutions, project management services and information systems design. He has worked in Europe as well as in the US market with KPMG, EU IST projects, Thales-Thomson, Lucent Technologies, Stevens Institute of Technology and a number of start-ups businesses.
Mr. Aravantinos is an Adjunct Lecturer in Queens College’s Economics department Currently he is pursuing his Ph.D. in Technology Management department at Stevens Institute of Technology with a specialization in Telecommunications. His main research interests are technology projections and innovation forecasting, with a specific focus on the technology convergence in the telecommunications industry.
Mr. Aravantinos holds a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Technology from the University of Patras, Greece and an MBA in Information Technology from Oklahoma City University.
Web-page: http://personal.stevens.edu/~earavant/ | 
