Students
I am fortunate to work with an excellent group of students.
Current Ph.D. Students
Jay Shenoy
Satellite Networks, RF-Privacy
Zikun Liu
NextG Wireless, Machine Learning
Bill Tao
Satellite Networks, In-body Devices
Emerson Sie
RF Sensing, Robotics, Rural Connectivity
Maleeha Masood
Satellite Networks, Short Video Streaming. Co-advised with Prof. Indy Gupta.
Ishani Janveja
Satellite Networks, Acoustics
Seoyul Oh
NextG Wireless
Masters and Undergraduate Students
Om Chabra
Satellite Networks (UIUC Undergraduate)
Xinyu Wu
RF-Sensing, Robotics, Farm Connectivity (UIUC Undergraduate)
Aganze Mihigo
Farm Robotics, and Connectivity (UIUC ICANN)
Shlok Mehrotra
Satellite Intelligence, Spatial Analytics (UIUC Undergraduate)
Jida Zhang
(Tsinghua, visitor)
Alumni/Past Collaborators
Roshan Ayyalasomayajula
I closely collaborated with Roshan during his Ph.D. at UCSD. Next step: Assistant Professor at SUNY Buffalo.
Beatrice Lovely
I supervised Beatrice's MS thesis during her exchange visit to UIUC. Next step: AI Software Engineer at General Motors.
Rem Yang
I co-advised Rem as an undergrad at UIUC (with Prof. Gagandeep Singh and Prof. Sasa Misailovic). Next step: Ph.D. student at MIT.
Subham De
I co-advised Subham's Ph.D. thesis at UIUC with Prof. Hari Sundaram. Next step: Senior Research Scientist at Facebook.
Awards for Students
- Emerson won the Rambus Computer Engineering fellowship at UIUC and was selected as a Mavis Future Faculty fellow in 2023.
- Zikun was a winner of the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship in 2022.
- Rem won the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher honorable mention in 2022.
- Maleeha is a recipient of the Sohaib and Sara Abbasi fellowship.
- Jay won the prestigious NSF Graduate Research fellowship.