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John D. Villasenor
Professor
villa@icsl.ucla.edu
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John Villasenor received the B.S. degree in 1985 from the University of Virginia, his M.S. in 1986 from Stanford University, and Ph.D. in 1989 from Stanford, all in Electrical Engineering. From 1990 to 1992, he was with the Radar Science and Engineering section of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where he developed methods for imaging the earth from space. He joined the Electrical Engineering Department at UCLA in 1992, and is currently Professor. He served as Vice Chair of the Department from 1996 to 2002. At UCLA, John Villasenor's research efforts lie in communications, computing, imaging and video compression, and networking.
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Hyungjin Kim
Ph.D Candidate
hjkimnov@ee.ucla.edu
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Hyungjin Kim received the B.S. degree and the M.S. both in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University in 1997 and 1999, respectively. He is currently completing a Ph.D focused on the combination of coding and security. He has also been active in MIMO receivers, channel coding, sensor networks, and video/image processing.
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David Choi
Ph.D Candidate
dschoi@ee.ucla.edu
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David Choi received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UCLA in 2002, and an M.S.EE in 2004. He is currently completing a Ph.D., with a research emphasis on non-volatile memory devices and their application to low-power systems. He has also been active in developing models for next generation cellular systems. In addition to his research at UCLA, David has held summer internships at O2IC.
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Pooya Monajemi
Ph.D Student
pmonajemi@ucla.edu
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Pooya Monajemi received his BS in Electrical Engineering from UC Irvine in 2006, after which he joined UCLA for graduate studies. He obtained an M.S. EE in 2007 and is currently working towards a PhD in the area of communication systems. Pooya's current research is focused on cellular network modeling, with emphasis on the next generation packet data services and upcoming technologies such as femtocells. Apart from his academic life, Pooya pursues photography as a hobby.
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LokWon Kim
Ph.D Student
knoublok@ucla.edu
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Lok-Won Kim received the B.S from Korea Aerospace University in 2001 and M.S from Korea University in 2003 respectively. From 2003 to 2006 he was with Hynix Semiconductor, Inc. where he played a key role in the design and manufacture of several mobile SOCs. From 2006-2007 he was a technical manager and researcher at KETI (Korea Electronics Technology Institute), where he led a team in the design of a 90 nm UWB baseband processor SOC for a joint project involving KETI, Infineon and LG. He entered the Ph.D. program at UCLA in 2007, and is currently conducting research on power optimized digital design methodologies for communications applications.
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Shinjae Kang
Ph.D Student
down012@ucla.edu
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Shinjae Kang received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Hanyang University, Korea, in 2005, and an M.S.EE from UCLA in 2008. He is currently pursueing his Ph.D. with a research emphasis on wireless communication systems and network modeling, particularly MIMO-OFDM systems, WCDMA/HSPA systems, and femtocells. In addition to his research at UCLA, Shinjae has held summer internships at S.A.I.T.(Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology) Korea, in 2007.
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Erica Han
Masters Student
ericahan@ee.ucla.edu
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Yuxing Han (Erica) received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2006. She is currently pursuing her MS/PHD degree in Electrical Engineering at UCLA, with research interests in information theory, entropy coding, channel coding and their application to video and image sequences. Her other professional interests include communications system design and game theory.
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Shaunak Joshi
Masters Student
sjoshi2n@ucla.edu
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Shaunak Joshi received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering at North Carolina State University in 2007. He is currently pursuing an MS degree at UCLA with an emphasis in Communications and Signal Processing. His research interests are in next generation cellular systems. Shaunak has held internships at EMC Corporation and at the Center of Embedded Systems at NCSU. In addition to work, Shaunak enjoys playing soccer at the UCLA IM fields.
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Dong-U Lee
Postdoctorate Researcher
dongu@icsl.ucla.edu
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Dong-U Lee received the BEng degree in Information Systems Engineering and the PhD degree in Computing, both from Imperial College London in 2001 and 2004, respectively. From 2005 to 2007, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the UCLA Electrical Engineering Department, where he conducted research on high-performance hardware designs for wireless communications and mathematical function evaluation. At UCLA he led work on the development of extremely high quality hardware-based Gaussian noise generators which are being used at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for evaluating channel codes for deep-space communications. In addition, he was the key designer for a very high performance MIMO receiver implementation. He is now a research scientist at Mojix, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, where he is specializing in algorithms and implementations for RFID systems. His areas of expertise include computer arithmetic, communications, and design automation. Dr. Lee is an author on more than 30 refereed publications and has received two awards from NASA.
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Esteban Vallés
Graduate Researcher
evalles@ee.ucla.edu
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Esteban L. Vallés received his B.S. degree from Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahía Blanca, Argentina, his M.S. degree from University of California, Irvine and his Ph.D. from University of California, Los Angeles, all in Electrical Engineering. His areas of interest include channel-coding applications including LDPC and algebraic codes, hardware implementation of error correcting code decoders, joint timing and carrier recovery problems and software defined radio applications. After earning his Ph.D. in 2007, he joined The Aerospace Corporation's Digital Communication Implementation Department. During his doctoral studies he also held internships with Hitachi GST, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Hughes Research labs.
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Chris Jones
Graduate Researcher
chris@mojix.com
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Chris Jones received the BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from UCLA in 1995 and 1996 respectively, and then joined Broadcom Corporation as one of its earliest employees. At Broadcom, he played a major role in industry leading designs for DOCSIS cable modem technology, consumer direct broadcast satellite, and very high rate digital subscriber lines. He then returned to UCLA to pursue a Ph.D., performing research that led to important contributions regarding capacity-achieving channel codes. After completing his doctoral work in 2003, he moved to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he designed codes that were adopted by NASA for use in the Deep Space Network and in the communications links from between the Mars Science Lander and Mars Science Orbiter. Since 2007, he has been VP Advanced Technology at Mojix, an RFID startup. In addition, he continues to hold a visiting position at JPL. Dr. Jones is an author on more than 40 refereed publications and is an inventor on 15 issued U.S. patents.
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