Graduate Students, Ph.D. Graduates, and Advice for Potential Graduate Students

 

Graduate Students

 

·        Dorna Bandari; Thesis TBD

·        Roja Bandari; Thesis TBD

·        Nabil Hajuchehade; (nabilhc@ucla.edu) model uncertainty in sensor networks

·        Huiyu (Hugh) Luo; (huiyu@ee.ucla.edu) combined source coding and routing in sensor networks

·        Kevin Ni; (kevinni@ucla.edu)  data integrity in sensor networks

·        Yu-Ching Tong; (yuching@ee.ucla.edu) localization with articulated elements

 


 

 


Ph.D. Graduates (see Publications for Dissertation links)

·        Vishal Ailawadhi; mobility management in wireless sensor networks; Northrup-Grumman

·        Ameesh Pandya; (ameesh@ee.ucla.edu) information theoretic optimization problems in sensor networks; Northrup-Grumman

·        Mohin Ahmed (mohin@ucla.edu)  information theoretic limits in sensor networks; HRL Laboratories

·        Hong Chen; (hzchen@ee.ucla.edu) training issues in high-speed optical and radio communication systems; Broadcom Corp.                                                           

·        Dennis Connors (dconnors@san.rr.com)  efficient multimedia protocols

·        Jay Gao (jay.l.gao@jpl.nasa.gov); routing algorithms for distributed sensor networks; JPL (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/)

·        Christopher Hansen (chansen@broadcom.com); rapid line probing for wireless and wireline systems, channel allocation in PCS; Broadcom Corp. (http://www.broadcom.com/);

·        Jaehyeong Kim (jaekim@posdata-usa.com ) ; channel coding for broadcast video; Posdata USA

·        Sungsoo Kim; (sungskim@ee.ucla.edu) space-time processing for fast-changing channels; Samsung Corporation

·        George Kondylis (kondylis@broadcom.com); wireless networks for the home; Broadcom Corp.(http://www.broadcom.com/)

·        Heung-No Lee (hnlee@ee.pitt.edu); optimal channel estimation for wireless transceivers; EE Dept., University of Pittsburgh

·        Victor Lin (vslin@dslextreme.com); coding and power control for low-power transceiver; Aerospace Corp.

·        Ryan Mukai; (mukai@arcadia.jpl.nasa.gov) algorithms for pointing large radio telescopes; JPL

·        Sivathar Natkunanathan; (sivathar@ee.ucla.edu) target classification algorithms; Intel

·        Eldad Perahia (eperahia@yahoo.com); antenna diversity and adaptive antenna arrays for PCS; Cisco Systems (www.cisco.com)

·        Kambiz Shoarinejad (with Prof. Jason Speyer); (kambizsh@broadcom.com )   optimal power control in wireless networks; Broadcom Corp.

·        Kathy Sohrabi (sohrabi@sensoria.com); self-organizing wireless sensor networks; Sensoria Corp. (http://www.sensoria.com/)

·        Benjamin Tang (ben.tang@primarion.com); embedded source and channel coding; (www.primarion.com)

·        Robert Thrasher; (bobthrasher@cox.net) synchronization and modelling for fast-changing channels; L3 Communications

·        Yung-Szu Tu; (yungszu@ee.ucla.edu)  cooperative communications for planetary exploration; Afa Technologies, Taipei

·         Charles C. Wang; (charles.c.wang@jpl.nasa.gov)  dynamic channel, bit, and power allocation for PCS; JPL

·        Tommy Yu (tommyyu@broadcom.com); data fusion and target ID for distributed sensor networks; Broadcom Corp. (http://www.broadcom.com/)

 

 

 


MS Thesis Graduates

 

·        Sridhar Vemuri; (Sridhar@ee.ucla.edu) low-energy design of embedded systems; Northrup-Grumman

 

 

 


Advice to Potential Grad Students, Undergrad Researchers, and Post Docs

 

For details on graduate programs in the EE department, please go to the EE homepage. Note that there are many collaborative research projects that span the EE and other departments, e.g. the NSF Center for Embedded Network Systems (CENS). Students are encouraged to look in the research section of the EE home page to see the scope of activities being pursued; communications research in the department spans devices through to internet applications.


Fellowships, TA opportunities, and research assistanceships are available for graduate studies, awarded on a competitive basis among all applicants in the REGULAR admissions period. Thus, it is important to meet the departmental deadlines. PLEASE NOTE that ALL decisions on admission, financial aid, etc. will be made based upon the entire pool of applicants through the regular admissions process. Materials sent directly to me will therefore only contribute to deforestation or clogging of the departmental mail server, as they cannot be considered. Many communications students complete their M.S. within the first nine months. RA's and TA's are typically readily available to Ph.D. students, which is to say, after most of the course work is complete.

As the purpose of my research program is to train grad students, and to encourage some undergraduates to continue on to grad school, no funds have been sought to support post docs. Therefore only post-docs with fellowships that can be expected to cover all but incidental expenses can be considered. I do however regularly have some funds to support undergraduate researchers, usually selected from either my design course or the pool of applicants to the CENS summer program.