Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr. Sungeun Lee
Sept. 2009 – Feb. 2013
Firstly employed by Broadcom, NJ
Topic: Synchronization for wireless networks

Dr. Yiyin Wang
May 2012 – May 2013
currently employed by Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ. as an assistant professor
Topic: UWB signal detection and localization

Ph.D. Students Graduated

Dr. Kun Shi
Graduated in Dec. 2008 (Co-advised with Dr. G. T. Zhou)
Dissertation: Nonlinear acoustic echo cancellation

Dr. Wei Zhang
Graduated in Sept. 2009
Dissertation: Wireless receiver designs: from information theory to VLSI implementation
Graduate Student Research Award, CSIP, School of ECE, fall 2008
ECE Graduate Research Assistant Excellence Award, 2009
Firstly employed by Qualcomm, San Jose, CA

Dr. Jiaxi Xiao
Graduated in May 2012 (Co-advised with Dr. S. McLaughlin)
Dissertation: Information Theoretic Approach in Detection and Security Codes
Firstly employed by IntercontinentalExchange, Inc., Atlanta, GA

Dr. Benjamin R. Hamilton
Graduated in May 2012
Dissertation: Applications of Bayesian Filtering in Wireless Networks: Clock Synchronization, Localization, and RF Tomography
Shackelford Fellowship from GTRI, 2009 – 2012
Graduate Student Research Awar, CSIP, School of ECE, spring 2012
Firstly employed by MIT Lincoln Lab

Dr. Gi Wan Choi
Graduated in Dec. 2012
Dissertation: Low-Complexity and Power-Efficient Wireless Cooperative Relay Networks with Enhanced Reliability
Firstly employed by Intel, San Jose

Dr. Qi Zhou
Graduated in June 2013
Dissertation: Noncoherent detection for UWB systems
ECE Graduate Research Assistant Excellence Award, 2013
Firstly employed by Ratrix Technologies, Atlanta, GA

Dr. Hayang Kim
Graduated Apr. 2014
Dissertation: Modeling and Tracking Time-varying Clock Drifts in Wireless Networks
Firstly employed by California Santa Clara University, CA

Dr. Malik M. Usman Gul
Graduated Jun. 2014
Dissertation: Timing and Frequency Synchronization for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple-Access (OFDMA) Systems
Firstly employed by National Instruments, Pakistan

Dr. Marie Shinotsuka
Graduated Jul. 2015 (Co-advised with Dr. G. T. Zhou)
Dissertation: Indoor Localization Based on Radio Interferometric Positioning System
Firstly employed by Panasonic Inc., TX

Dr. Andrew Harper
Graduated Feb. 2016
Dissertation: Interference Design in Wireless Communication Systems
Currently employed by GTRI, GA

Dr. Brian M. Beck
Fall 2011 – Dec. 2016 (Co-advised with Dr. R. J. Baxley)
Shackelford Fellowship from GTRI, 2013 – 2016
Dissertation: Localization in wireless sensor networks
Currently employed by GTRI, GA

Dr. Qingsong Wen
Fall 2011 – Mar. 2017
Dissertation: Efficient LLL-based Lattice Reduction for MIMO Detection: from Algorithms to Implementations
Currently employed by Alibaba, WA

Dr. Hyunwoo Cho
Spring 2013 – Fall 2018
Dissertation: Signal detection and synchronization for advanced multi-carrier systems
Currently employed by QualCom, CA

Dr. Yiming Kong
Summer 2013 – Oct. 2019
Dissertation: High performance receivers for next generation wireless communication systems
Colonel Oscar P. Cleaver Awards from ECE, Spring 2013
Currently employed by Google, CA

Dr. Jun Qi
Fall 2019 – Jan. 2022
Dissertation: Theoretical Error Performance Analysis for Deep Neural Network Based Regression Functional Approximation

Masters Students

Wei Zhang
Fall 2004 – Spring 2006
Thesis: Lattice-reduction aided linear equalization for wireless communications over fading channels

Benjamin R. Hamilton
Summer 2006 – Fall 2007
Thesis: Low-Overhead Opportunistic Routing for Wireless ad hoc and Sensor Networks in a Fading Environment

Gi Wan Choi
Summer 2007 – Spring 2008
Thesis: Cooperative communications for simple relay networks

Minzhen Ren
Fall 2011 – Sept. 2013
Thesis: VLSI design for soft-output detectors

Chao-Han (Huck) Yang
Fall 2017 – Fall 2019
Thesis: Machine learning for TCP congestion control
2020 MOE Fellowship from the Taiwan Government

Visiting Students

Yiyin Wang Feb. 2010 – Jul. 2010 From: Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Topic: Joint localization and synchronization in UWB ranging systems

Marco Mondelli Aug. 2011 – Nov. 2011 From: Pisa University, Italy Topic: Relay designs for UWB networks

Hadi Jamali Rad Jan. 2014 – Apr. 2014 From: Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Topic: Distributed Sparsity-Aware Sensor Selection

Li’an Li Sept. 2014 – Aug. 2015 From: Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Topic: OFDM Channel Estimation and Its FPGA Implementation

Rongxin Zhang Mar. 2016 – Mar. 2018 From: Xiamen University Topic: Underwater Video Transmissions

Lei Yan Dec. 2017 – Jan. 2019 From: Yanshan University Topic: Interference cancellation for doubly-selective channels

Yu Han Jan. 2019 – Jan. 2020 From: Southeast University Topic: Channel estimation for mmwave communications

Hongzhuang Wu Oct. 2018 – Jun. 2020 From: China University of Mining and Technology Topic: Learning to improve the radio tomographic imaging

Jing Zhang Oct. 2019 – Oct. 2019 From: Southeast University Topic: Machine learning for wireless communications

Yinghao Ge Dec. 2019 – Jun. 2020 From: Xi’an Jiao Tong University Topic: Mmwave Channel estimation

Mingjing Wang Dec. 2019 – Dec. 2020 From: Tsinghua University Topic: Mmwave Channel estimation

Rui Liu Dec. 2019 – May 2020 From: Zhejiang University Topic: Machine learning for mmwave user association

Junchao Shi Dec. 2019 – Dec. 2020 From: Southeast University Topic: Machine learning for channel resource allocation