Graduate Students




Current Graduate Students

♦ Jed Carty (post-qualifiers)
 PhD Candidate
 Research interests: Distributed estimation, tracking and scheduling in mobile sensor networks, satellite surveillence networks.

♦ Mohamed Aref (pre-qualifiers)
PhD Candidate
Research interests: Cognitive radios, machine learning, frequency rendezvous.

♦ Matthew Goodson (pre-qualifiers)
 PhD Candidate
 Research interests: Space situational awareness.

♦ Esteban Yepez (post-qualifiers)
 PhD Candidate
 Research interests: Cognitive radios, machine learning, networks, vehicular networks

♦ Juan Samuel Perez Rodriguez
MS Thesis
Research interests: 5G Networks, Radio access technologies.

♦ Steven Machuzak
MS Thesis
Research interests: Cognitive radios, full-duplex communications, self-interference cancellation, aognitive anti-jamming.


Former PhD Students

♦ Thakshila Wimalajeewa
 PhD Dissertation: Mobility-assisted, energy-efficient algorithms for distributed inference in sensor networks, October 2009. pdf
Current Position: Research  Assistant Professor, Syracuse University.

♦ Kamrul Hakim
 PhD Dissertation: Collaborative information processing in wireless sensor networks for siffusive source estimation, March 2013. pdf
Current Position: Haliburton, Houston, TX.

♦ Mario Bkassiny
 PhD Dissertation: Wideband spectrum sensing and signal classification for autonomous self-learning cognitive radios. May 2013. pdf
Current Position: Assistant Professor, SUNY at Oswego.

♦ Yang Li
 PhD Dissertation: Wideband autonomous cognitive radios: Spectrum awareness and PHY/MAC decision making, Dec. 2013. pdf
Current Position: Sylvania, Boston, MA.

♦ Ding Li
 PhD Dissertation: Machine Learning Aided Decision Making and Adaptive Stochastic Control in a Hierarchical Interactive Smart Grid, Aug. 2014. pdf
Current Position: Qualcomm Inc.

♦ Yongxian Ruan
 PhD Dissertation: Information Theory and Cooperative Control in Networked Multi-Agent Systems with Applications to Smart Grid, Aug. 2014. pdf
Current Position:


 Former MS Students (Thesis)

♦ Johnny Silva
 MS Thesis: Guaradian Automated Patient Monitoring System, 2009.
Current Position: Sandia National Labs.

♦ A. Church
 MS Thesis: An Iterative Algorithm for Simultaneous Suppression of Multiple Narrowband Interferers in Spread Spectrum Systems, 2008.
Current Position: Sandia National Labs.

♦ T. Li
 MS Thesis: Dynamic Spectrum Access in Cognitive Radios via Primary-Secondary User Power Control Games, 2008.
Current Position: PhD Candidate at Rutgers University.

♦ K. A. Al Tarazi
 MS Thesis: Asymptotic Fusion Performance in a Power Constrained, Distributed Wireless Sensor Network, 2006.
Current Position: inCode Telecom Inc.

♦ A. D. Sathish
 MS Thesis: Iterative Low-Complexity Multi-user Detection and Decoding for Coded UWB Systems, 2006.
Current Position:

♦ B. Garimella
 MS Thesis: Distributed detection and data fusion in resource-constrained wireless sensor networks, 2005.
Current Position: Qualcomm.

♦ S. Prasad
 MS Thesis: Zoom-based robust super-resolution, 2005.
Current Position: Intel.

♦ M. L. Chebolu
 MS Thesis: Virtual MIMO and distributed signal processing for wireless sensor networks - An integrated approach, 2005.
Current Position: AT&T Bell Labs.

♦ S. Balasubramanian
 MS Thesis: Energy-aware, collaborative tracking with ad-hoc wireless sensor networks, 2004.
Current Position: Apple.

♦ V. Veeramachaneni
 MS Thesis: Adaptive signal processing for energy-limited distributed wireless sensor networks, 2004.
Current Position: Nokia.

♦ L. S. Pilluta
 MS Thesis: Capacity of MIMO systems - A theoretical and practical perspective, 2004.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar, Gujarat.


 Former MS Students (Non-thesis)

♦ A. V. Kariyapperuma
 August 2008.
Current Position:

♦ Julie Walter
 August 2010.
Current Position:

♦ Andrew Gamulja
 December 2012.
Current Position:

♦ Katie Spotz
November 2014.
Current Position:

♦ Miguel Diego Leyba
April 2015.
Current Position:

♦ Andrew Anthony Aragon
April 2015.
Current Position:


Research Experience for International Undergraduate Students at CISL

♦ Zheng Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Fall 2008. Exchange student.
Project Title: Implementation of a cognitive radio system. Fall 2008. Exchange student.

♦ Himanshu Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India. Summer 2008. EYES Student.
 Project Title: A distributed data compression scheme for MICAz-based wireless sensor network.

♦ Chung-Chi Tsai, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan. Spring and Summer 2008. Exchange student.
 Project Title: Distributed data compression with cooperative communications.

♦ Ankur Sharma, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, India. Summer 2007. EYES Student.
 Project Title: Distributed and adaptive data compression in wireless sensor networks.

♦ Hongwei Liao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Fall 2006. Exchange student.
 Project Title: A Robust face-recognition algorithm based on DWT-eigenface super-resolution for face recognition.

♦ Jiayuan Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Fall 2006. Exchange student.
 Project Title: A Robust face-recognition algorithm based on DWT-eigenface super-resolution for face recognition.