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Faculty


Students Funded by the NSF

Student Advisor Start Topic
Karen Guan Singer 8/02 Universal methods, equalization
Jianyi Huang Medard/Meyn 1/00 Multiuser ALOHA /coding/capacity. Graduating summer 2004.
Yibo Jiang Singer/Koetter 8/00 Design of space-time codes for channels with memory.
Irem Koprulu Koetter 8/01 Network coding, iterative methods
Suleyman Kozat Singer 10/99 Universal adaptive filtering. Summer 2000 intern at IBM Ph.D. expected 2004.
Seok-Jun Lee Shanbhag 8/00 Architectures for joint equalization and decoding, Ph. D. expected summer 2004.
Siddhartha Mallik Koetter 8/01 Vector quantization / Code construction for time and fequency selective fading channels
Niranjan Ratnakar Koetter 8/01 Network coding, MS on soft decision decoding of Reed Solomon codes completed Aug. 2003
Vignesh Sethuraman Hajek 8/01 Noise and capacity of VLSI, MS December 2003 on capacity per unit cost of fading channels with correlation
Byonghyo Shim Shanbhag 10/00 Low power DSP through algorithmic noise tolerence Ph. D. expected December 2004.
Xiangyu Tang Koetter 8/01 Multilevel coding and factor graphs
Saurabha Tavildar Viswanath 8/01 Multiuser information theory
Hua Wang Viswanath 1/02 Information theory for wireless communications
Sichao Yang Hajek 8/01 Network issues, registration and paging, game theory on communciation networks

Other Students affiliated with the project

Student Advisor Topic
Juan Alvarez Hajek Traffic modeling in cellular networks, Ph.D. expected 2004 on ion channels in cellular biology
Jean-Francois Chamberland Veeravalli Wireless sensor networks -- detection and configuration issues
Rahul Dangui Hajek Multiuser diversity in cellular systems
Atilla Eryilmaz Srikant Wireless networks topic.
Ananya Sen Gupta Singer Signal detection in presence of nonlinear amplification
Alexander Jovicic Viswanath Multiuser information theory
Mustafal Kesal Koetter Interative coding, vector quantization,
Jill Nelson Singer Iterative techniques for equalization
Charushas Pandit Meyn Worst-Case Source Characterization with Application to Internet Admission Control and Detection in Sensor Networks
Sujay Sanghavi Hajek Mulituser diversity (wireless scheduling for transmit arrays at base station), game theory in communication networks (Completed MS thesis on multiuser diversity in January 2003)
Batu Sat Veeravalli Completed MS thesis on CDMA and OFDM, Fall 2003.
Xinzhou Wu Srikant Scheduling in wireless networks Ph.D. expected summer 2004.
Zhijun Zhao Blahut Ph. D. research on 2-d coding and equalization

Students Graduated

Student Advisor Topic
Jeong W. Lee Blahut Ph. D. December 2003 on iterative decoding techniques
Zhiyuan Yan Sarwate Ph.D. August 2003 on generalized minimum distance decoding, space-time codes, finite field arithmeic. Now at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA.
Rong-Rong Chen Madhow/Koetter Ph. D. June 2003 on noncoherent communication. Now at University of Utah.
Ashok Mantravadi Veeravalli Ph. D. 2003 on information theory of CDMA Systems Now at Qualcomm.
Rajat Prakash Veeravalli Ph. D. 2003 on Code Division Random multiple access. Now at Qualcomm.
Chaitanya Reddy Veeravalli MS thesis completed 2003, now at Qualcomm.
Michael Russell Jones Graduated Sept. 2003 with MS thesis `on OFDM techniques
Ganesh Gopalakrishnan Hajek MS January 2003 on Pricing and Resource Allocation in Networks Now at Microsoft
Sanjay Shakkottai Srikant Ph.D. 2002 on networking issues, ad hoc networks Now at University of Texas at Austin
Raj Hegde Shanbhag Ph. D. 2001. Currently with local startup company: Intersymbol Communications
Brian Krongold Jones Ph. D. 2001 on OFDM techniques
Henry Kwok Jones Peak power constraints for OFDM Graduated December 2000.
Michael Tuechler Koetter/Singer MS February 2000. Now at ??? Thesis on iterative equalization and decoding
Igor Kozintsev Ramchandran Ph. D. May 2000. Now at ??? Thesis on joint source-channel coding
Jim Giles Hajek Ph. D. August 2000. Now at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Thesis on capacity and jamming for timing channels
Pierre Seri Hajek Routing and organization of large ad hoc networks. MS 2000. Now at Microsoft.
Eugene Visotsky Madhow Ph.D. May 2000. Now at Motorola. Thesis on communication over antenna arrays.
Lei Wang Shanbhag VLSI and algorithmic noise-tolerance, VLSI design for low-power operation, now at Hewlett-Packard
Dilip Warrior Madhow Ph. D. May 2000 on noncoherent communication. Now at AWARE.
Vijay Subramanian Hajek Ph. D. Fall 1999 on noncoherent communication over fading channels. Now at Motorola
Xuan (Denise) Zhang Singer Multi-user detection