Current PhD Students

• Nasimeh Heidary

Current MS Students

• Alex Ying
• Gautam Thakur

Current Undergraduate Students

UROP team "Heterodox macro-economic models with sound mathematical/engineering foundations"

• John Robison
• Jianrong Yu

MDP team "Backyard Brains"

• Cedric Bernard
• Anusha Joshi (MS)
• Jun Luo (MS)
• Trevor Mckinney
• Xiaoran Peng (MS)
• Yifan Zhang

Graduated PhD students

• Abhinav Sinha. Ph.D. thesis title: Mechanism Design with Allocative, Informational and Learning constraints, (graduated Sep 2017, now PostDoc at Columbia University).
• Deepanshu Vasal. Ph.D. thesis title: Dynamic decision problems with cooperative and strategic agents and asymmetric information, (graduated May 2016, now PosDoc at UT-Austin).
• Jung Hyun Bae. Ph.D. thesis title: Capacity-achieving schemes for finite state channels, (graduated May 2011, now with Samsung Information Systems America, San Diego, CA).
• Ali Nazari (co-advised with Sandeep Pradhan). Ph.D. thesis title: Error exponent for discrete memoryless multiple-access channels, (graduated May 2011, now with J.P. Morgan, quantitative research group, New York, NY).
• Kaiann Fu. Ph.D. thesis title: Finite-Length and Asymptotic Analysis and Design of LDPC Codes for Deep Space and Fading Channels, (graduated August 2007).
• Chun-Hao Hsu. Ph.D. thesis title: Design and Analysis of Capacity-Achieving Codes and Optimal Receivers with Low Complexity, (graduated December 2006, now with Qualcomm, San Jose, CA).
• Shih-Yu Chang (co-advised with Wayne Stark). Ph.D. thesis title: Generating Function Analysis of Wireless Networks and ARQ Systems, (graduated July 2006, now with the Computer Science Department at the National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan).
• Arvind Krishnamoorthy. Ph.D. thesis title: Code and receiver design for the non-coherent fast fading channel, (graduated December 2005, now with Motorola Inc., Schaumburg, IL).
• Lihua Weng (co-advised with Sandeep Pradhan). Ph.D. thesis title: Error exponent regions for multi-user channels, (graduated September 2005, now with MStar Semiconductor Inc., Taiwan).
• Rza Nuriyev. Ph.D. thesis title: Communication over the noncoherent channel, (graduated May 2003, now with Boston Consulting Group, Moscow).