Students
I have served on the Ph.D. committees of a few outstanding students:
- Omid Fatemieh (UIUC, 2011, now at Microsoft)
- Eric Rozner (UT Austin, 2011, now at UC Boulder)
- Shravan Rayanchu (U Wisconsin, 2012, now at Google)
- Souvik Sen (Duke, 2012, now at Google).
- Parya Moinzadeh (UIUC, 2013, now at Google)
- Farhana Ashraf (UIUC, 2013)
- George Nychis (CMU, 2013, now at Adaptrum)
- Mariya Zheleva (UCSB, 2014, now at SUNY)
- Apurv Bhartia (UT Austin, 2014, now at Cisco)
- Omid Abari (MIT, 2017, now at UCLA)
- Curtis Kexiong Zeng (Virginia Tech, 2018, now at Facebook)
- Deepak Vasisht (MIT, 2019, now at UIUC)
- Talal Ahmad (NYU, 2019, now at Google)
- Collen Josephson (Stanford, 2020, now at VMWare)
- Debopam Bhattacharjee (ETH, 2021, now at MSR)
- Zerina Kapetanovic (University of Washington, 2022, now at Stanford)
- Akshay Gadre (CMU, 2022, now at University of Washington)
- Suraj Jog (UIUC, 2022, now at MSR)
- Vaibhav Singh (CMU, 2023, now at Apple)
I have also worked with some very good interns:
- Yuvraj Agarwal (UCSD) (opens in new tab)
2006: Reducing power consumption of VoIP over Wi-Fi for smartphones
2007: Worked on reducing energy consumption of desktop PCs and laptops
Currently Assistant Professor in CMU, Previously Director of SYNERGY Labs @ UCSD - Talal Ahmad (NYU) (opens in new tab)
2016: New communication techniques between airplanes and the ground - Emmanuel Azuh (MIT)
2018: Microclimate prediction for Agriculture - Apurv Bhartia (UT Austin) (opens in new tab)
2011: Designed efficient wireless display mechanisms - Aakanksha Chowdhery (Stanford) (opens in new tab)
2012: Investigated Dynamic Spectrum Access techniques in various spectrum bands
Now at Microsoft Research - Saumitra Das (Purdue) (opens in new tab)
2006: New routing metrics for mesh networks
Currently Sr. Systems Engineer, R&D at Qualcomm - Chris Dekmezian (UC Berkeley)
2015: New dynamic battery designs - Jian Ding (opens in new tab) (Rice University)
2017, 2018: RF based sensing for soil - Jing Dong (opens in new tab) (Georgia Tech)
2017: Vision techniques to align multi-spectral and RGB images, 4-D time lapse - Omid Fatemieh (UIUC) (opens in new tab)
2008 to 2010: Security in White Space networks
Now at Google - Tony Ferresse (UC Berkeley)
2014: Investigated chemistries to be used in multi-battery mobile systems
Now at Tesla - Tulika Garg (IIT Roorkee)
2006: Implemented mesh routing support in QualNet - Pan Hu (UMass)
2014: Designed hardware for multi-battery mobile systems - Junchen Jiang (CMU)
2013: Security in mobile systems - Xinxin Jin (UCSD)
(opens in new tab)2015: Cloud for weakly connected IoT systems - Suraj Jog (opens in new tab) (UIUC)
2018: Sensing environments using RF, MAC for long range networks - Colleen Josephson (opens in new tab) (Stanford)
2018: Backscatter based sensing in Agriculture - Srikanth Kandula (MIT) (opens in new tab)
2006: Developed algorithms for localizing faults in enterprise networks
2007: Developed eXpose for determining communication rules in a packet trace
Now at Microsoft Research - Zerina Kapetanovic (University of Washington)
2015: Sensors, solar panels, and white spaces for IoT deployments
2016: RF for long range networks
- Manikanta Kotaru (Stanford)
2015: Diagnosing Skype call quality over wireless networks - Lopa Kundu (NCSU)
2015: Efficient antenna designs for small form factor mobile devices
Now at Intel Research - Amy Kumar (U. Iowa)
2015: Single radio design for XBOX
2016: Extremely low-latency XBOX wireless - Matthew Lentz (U Maryland) (opens in new tab)
2016: Algorithms for Software Defined Batteries - Jing Li (UCSD)
2013: Studied the energy overhead of mobile storage systems - Lun Li (Caltech) (opens in new tab)
2006: Algorithms for a black box technique to detect faults using packet traces - Qingxi Li (UIUC)
(opens in new tab)2011: Techniques for low-latency wireless display - Radhika Mittal (IIT Kharagpur, now at UC Berkeley)
(opens in new tab)2011: An energy estimator for mobile apps
Now Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley - Parya Moinzadeh (UIUC)
(opens in new tab)2012: Developed data driven techniques for diagnosing energy bugs on mobile devices
Now at Google - Rohan Murty (Harvard) (opens in new tab)
2006-2007: Design and implementation of a dense access point system
2008: Worked on protocols for networking in UHF bands
2009: Worked on a geo-location service for white spaces
Now Harvard Fellow, EVP at Infosys - Andres Neyem (University of Chile) (opens in new tab)
2009: Designed a system for proximity sensing
Now Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile - George Nychis (CMU) (opens in new tab)
2009: Worked on MIC interference issues in white spaces & campus deployment
2010: Studies loss characteristics in wireless networks
Now at Adaptrum - Ki-Woong Park (KAIST) (opens in new tab)
2009: Designed and implemented a new system for social networking on phones - Chunyi Peng (UCLA) (opens in new tab)
2013: Modulation techniques to be used in the XBOX One
Now Assistant Professor in Ohio State - Ramya Raghavendra (UCSB) (opens in new tab)
2007: Worked on applications of variable channel widths in 802.11
Now at IBM Research, TJ Watson - Hariharan Rahul (MIT) (opens in new tab)
2009: Designed algorithms for coexistence in white space networks - Shravan Rayanchu (Wisconsin) (opens in new tab)
2010: Working on real-world channel width adaptation algorithms
Now at Google - Eric Rozner (UT Austin) (opens in new tab)
2010: Studied loss characteristics in wireless networks
Now at IBM Research, Previously at AT&T Research - Jinghao Shi (SUNY Buffalo)
(opens in new tab)2015: Wireless protocol verification
2016: Verifying the implementation of wireless protocols - Evangelia Skiani (Columbia)
(opens in new tab)2014: Algorithms to use multi-battery systems - Vasuki Narasimha Swamy (UC Berkeley)
(opens in new tab)2016: Techniques for low-cost, long term aerial monitoring - Deepak Vasisht (MIT)
(opens in new tab)2015: Design of an IoT Edge, and the Machine Learning and Vision algorithms for Agriculture
2016: MAC & PHY design for long range wireless communication. Also, using RF to sense soil. - Xiaohui (Eeyore) Wang (CMU) (opens in new tab)
2009: Explored changes in the network stack for the next generation of networking technolgies - Jongho Won (Purdue)
(opens in new tab)2015: Path planning and battery life optimizations for drones - Hang Yu (Rice) (opens in new tab)
2 internships in 2012: Investigated techniques to use in the protocol of the XBOX One Wireless Controllers - Yuan Yuan (University of Maryland) (opens in new tab)
Summer 2006, Fall 2006 & Spring 2007: Designed a new MAC for cognitive radios, and implemented it in QualNet
Now at Google - Sangki Yun (UT Austin) (opens in new tab)
2013: Studied bandwidth overlapping systems in 802.11ac - Mariya Zheleva (UCSB) (opens in new tab)
2013: Worked on the spectrum observatory — to mine spectrum measurements for patters of spectrum use - Xia Zhou (UCSB) (opens in new tab)
2011: Working on low power Wi-Fi mechanisms
Now Assistant Professor in Dartmouth College