Students and Postdoctoral Researchers

Current PhD students

• Ka Kit Lam

• Govinda Kamath

• Farzan Farnia

Current Postdoctoral Researchers

• Sreeram Kannan

• Eren Sasoglu

• Adel Javannard

• Meisam Razaviyayn

• Ilan Shomorony

Former Ph.D. Students:

• Pramod Viswanath (Professor, UIUC). Thesis: Capacity of vector multiple access channels, 2000.

• Lizhong Zheng (Professor, MIT). Thesis: Diversity-multiplexing tradeoff: A comprehensive view of multiple antenna systems, 2002.

• Xia Ye (Associate Professor, University of Florida, Gainesville). Thesis: Design and analysis of modern network transport protocol, 2003.

• Ada Poon (Assistant Professor, Stanford University). Thesis: Use of spatial dimension for spectrum sharing, 2004.

• Raul Etkin (Samsung). Thesis: Spectrum sharing: Fundamental limits, scaling laws, and self-enforcing protocols, 2006.

• Vinod Prabhakaran (Reader, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India). Thesis: Two multi-terminal communication problems: Distributed estimation and source-channel broadcast, 2007.

• Amir Salman Avestimehr (Associate Professor, University of Southern California). Thesis: Wireless network information flow: A deterministic approach, 2008.

• Leonard Grokop (Qualcomm). Interference management in wireless networks: Physical layer communication strategies, MAC layer interactions, and high layer messaging structures, 2008.

• I-Hsiang Wang (Assistant professor, National Taiwan University). Thesis: Cooperative interference management in wireless networks, 2011.

• Changho Suh (Assistant Professor, KAIST, South Korea). Thesis: Feedback and interference alignment in networks, 2011.

• Guy Bresler (post-doctoral researcher, MIT). Thesis: Fundamental limits and insights: from wireless communication to DNA sequencing, 2012.

• Baosen Zhang (Assistant professor, U. of Washington, Seattle). Thesis: Control and Optimization of Power Systems with Renewables: Voltage Regulation and Generator Dispatch, 2013.

• Sudeep Kamath (postdoctoral researcher, UCSD). Thesis: Some problems in network information theory, 2013.

Former Postdoctoral Researchers:

• Matthias Grossglauser (Associate Professor, EPFL, Switzerland)

• Jamie Evans (Professor, Monash University, Australia)

• David Starobinski (Professor, Boston University)

• Massimo Franceschetti (Professor, University of California at San Diego)

• Dana Porrat (Lecturer, Hebrew University, Israel)

• Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali (Researcher, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Laboratories)

• Nan Ma (Yammer Inc.)

• Albert Lam (Lecturer, City University of Hong Kong)

• Abolfazl Motahari (Sharif University of Technology)

• Soheil Mohajer (Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota)