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Professor Urbashi Mitra

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  • Gordon S. Marshall Chair in Engineering
  • Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science
  • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1994, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
  • M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1989, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
  • B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, high honors, 1987, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
  • Short Bio
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Contact Info

Ph.D. Students

 

Mustafa Can Gursoy

Mustafa Can

  • Electrical Engineering Ph.D. student
  • Current Research: modulations and receiver design
    for molecular communications.
  • Research Interests: molecular communications, communications theory
  • B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
  • M.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Personal Webpage
  • Curriculum Vitae

 

 

Dhruva Kartik

Dhruva Kartik

  • Electrical Engineering Ph.D. student
  • Current Research: smart sensing and communication in autonomous systems
  • Research Interests: planning and learning in autonomous systems
  • B.S. in Electronics and Communication Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
  • Personal Webpage
  • Curriculum Vitae

 

 

 

Jianxiu Li

Jianxiu Li

  • Electrical Engineering Ph.D. student
  • Research Interests: structured signal processing with applications to communications, orbital angular momentum (OAM) based wireless communications and polar codes
  • B.S. in Telecommunications Engineering at Xidian University
  • Personal webpage
  • Curriculum Vitae

 

 

 

Madhavi Rajiv

Madhavi Rajiv

  • Electrical Engineering Ph.D. student
  • Current Research: blind channel estimation from a security standpoint
  • Research Interests: statistical signal processing
  • BSE in Electrical Engineering at Duke University
  • Personal Webpage
  • Curriculum Vitae

 

 

 

 

Joni Shaska

Joni Shaska

  • Electrical Engineering Ph.D. student
  • Current Research: low complexity decoding with feedback
  • B.S. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Michigan
  • Personal Webpage
  • Curriculum Vitae

 

 

 


Master’s Students

 

Howon Lee

  • Electrical Engineering Master’s student
  • Current Research: Privacy concerns in distributed Bayesian linear regression
  • Research Interests: Federated Learning, network information theory and quantum computing
  • BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University(SNU), South Korea

 

 

 


Undergraduates

 

Alexander Morgan

Alexander Morgan

  • Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Student

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alumni


PhD Students
Post-doctoral Researchers
Master's Students
  • Dr. Libin Liu
  • Dr. Amr Elnakeeb
    • 05/19
    • Qualcomm, San Diego, CA
  • Dr. Sajjad Beygi
    • 8/17
    • Amazon, Boston, MA
  • Dr. Sunav Choudhary
    • 2/16
    • Adobe Research, Bangalore India
  • Prof. Daphney-Stavroula Zois
  • Dr. Srinivas Yerramalli
    • 01/13
    • Qualcomm Corporate R & D, San Diego CA
  • Dr. Chiranjib Choudhuri
    • 12/12
    • Qualcomm Research, Bangalore India
  • Dr. Gautam Thatte
    • 07/10
    • Trellisware Technologies, San Diego, CA
  • Dr. Satish Vedantam
    • 05/09
    • Bloomberg Financial, New York, NY
  • Dr. Chartchai Meesookho
    • 05/07 (co-advised with S. Narayanan)
    • Founder & CEO CMSK (wealth management services) Bangkok, Thailand
  • Dr. Madhavan Vajapeyam
    • 05/07
    • Qualcomm Corporate R & D, San Diego CA
  • Dr. Stefan Franz
    • 05/06
    • Patent Examiner, European Patent Office, Munich Germany
  • Dr. Wanshi Chen
    • 05/06
    • Qualcomm Corporate R & D, San Diego, CA
  • Dr. Jifeng Geng
    • 05/04
    • Qualcomm QC San Diego, CA
  • Prof. Sau-Hsuan Wu
    • 09/03 (co-advised with C.-C. Kuo)
    • Associate Professor, National Chiao Tung University , Hsinchu Taiwan
    • Personal Webpage
  • Prof. Emre Aktas
  • Dr. Li-Chung Chu
    • OSU 06/99
    • Manager, Olympus Communication Technology of America
  • Dr. Marcos Vasconcelos
  • Dr. Daewon Seo
    • 2019 – 2019
  • Prof. Arpan Chattopadhyay
  • Prof. Junting Chen
  • Dr. Amir Salimi
    • 2016 – 2017
    • Qualcomm R & D, San Diego CA
  • Prof. Nicolo Michelusi
  • Prof. Emrah Akyol
    • 2013 – 2014
    • Assistant Professor, Binghamton University, SUNY, New York
    • Personal Webpage
  • Prof. Geoffrey Hollinger
    • 2010 – 2013 (co-advised with G. Sukhatme, CS USC)
    • Associate Professor, Oregon State University
    • Personal Webpage
  • Prof. Marco Levorato
    • 2010-2012 (co-advised with A. Goldsmith, EE Stanford)
    • Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine
    • Personal Webpage
  • Dr. Daniel Liu
    • 2008 – 2009 (co advised with G. Caire, EE USC)
    • Northrup Grumman, Los Angeles, CA
  • Dr. Feng Wan
    • NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Prof. Wenyi Zhang
    • 2006 – 2008
    • Professor, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei China
    • Personal Webpage
  • Dr. Cecilia Carbonelli
    • Principal – System and Algorithm Architect, Infineon, Munich Germany
  • Prof. Mehmet Akar
    • post-doctoral researcher/research assistant professor 2001 – 2003
    • Professor, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
    • Personal Webpage
  • Prof. Monica Fernandez Bugallo
  • Prof. Carlos Escudero Cascon
    • OSU
    • Professor & Deputy to the President for Information & Communication Technologies, La Coruna University, La Coruna, Spain
    • Personal Webpage
  • Mr. Tze-Yang Tung
    • 05/19
    • Graduate student, Imperial College, London UK
  • Nicholas Richard
    • 05/08
    • Systems Engineering at Blueridge Envisioneering and Founder of Radwave
  • Abhay Sharma
    • OSU 10/00
    • Rate Detection for Multirate CDMA, PhD at IISc at Bangalore India
  • Zhouyue Pi
    • OSU 08/00
    • Synchronization Methods for Multirate Multiuser Systems, President & CEO of Mfini Inc
  • Radha Srinivasan
    • OSU 10/98
    • Frequency-based Detection Schemes for Multi-rate DS/CDMA,Technical Director at NXP Semiconductors
  • Adolfo Recio
    • OSU 1998
    • Phd at Virginia Tech, Principal Engineer at Schlumberger at Paris
  • Jiangxin Chen
    • OSU 06/97
    • Receiver Analysis for DS/CDMA Multi-rate Systems
  • Siwaruk Siwamogsatham
    • OSU 06/97
    • Maximum-Likelihood Based Channel Estimation for CDMA Signals in Multipath
  • Keerthi Govind
    • OSU 1996
    • Member of Technical Staff at ViaSat

 

Visitors


Visiting Undergraduate Students
Visiting Graduate Students
Sabbatical / Faculty Visitors
  • Akshayaa Magesh
    • Summer 2017
    • Undergraduate student at IIT Madras
    • Current PhD student at UIUC
  • Anvitha Nandigam
    • Summer 2016
    • Undergraduate student at IIT Bombay
  • Sagar Honnungar
    • Summer 2015
    • Undergraduate student at IIT Madras
    • Master's student at Stanford
    • Currently a member of technical staff at Rubrik
  • Apratim Mukhopadhyay
    • Summer 2014
    • Undergraduate student at Jamia Millia Islamia New Delhi
  • Dhruva Kartik
    • Summer 2014
    • Undergraduate student at IIT Guwahati
    • Current PhD student at USC with Urbashi Mitra
  • Abhishek Roy
    • Summer 2012
    • Undergraduate student at IIT Kharagpur
  • Carlos Alberto Violante de Santos
    • Summer 2012
    • Undergraduate student at National Autonomous University of Mexico
  • Jingbo Liu
    • Summer 2011
    • Undergraduate student at Tsinghua University
    • PhD student at Princeton
    • Wiener Postdoc at MIT
  • Vishnu Ratnam
    • Summer 2011
    • Undergraduate student at IIT Kharagpur
    • PhD student at USC with Andy Molisch
  • Peng Guo
    • Summer 2010
    • Undergraduate student at Tsinghua University
  • Peng Sun
    • Summer 2009
    • Undergraduate student at Tsinghua University
  • Meng Zhaoshi Qiu Shi
    • Summer 2008
    • Undergraduate student at Tsinghua University
    • PhD student at Michigan
  • Sushil Subramaniam
    • Summer 2008
    • Undergraduate student at IIT Kharagpur
  • Piya Pal
    • Summer 2006
    • Undergraduate student at IIT Kharagpur
    • PhD student at CalTech
    • Currently Associate Professor at UCSD
  • Dr. Xu Zhang
    • June 2020
    • PhD student at Beijing Institute of Technology
    • PhD Advisors: Prof. Wei Cui and Prof. Yulong Liu
  • Dr. Amir Tadayon
    • December 2019
    • PhD student at Northeastern University
    • PhD Advisor: Milica Stojanovic
  • Dr. Saurabh Sihag
    • August 2019
    • PhD student at RPI
    • PhD Advisor: Ali Tajer
  • Dr. Rui Zhang
    • March 2019
    • PhD student at Georgia Tech
    • PhD Advisor: Yao Xie
  • Dr. Alessandro Biason
    • October 2015 to February 2016
    • PhD student at University of Padova
    • PhD Advisor: Michele Zorzi
  • Dr. Marian Bica
    • Fall 2014 to Spring 2015
    • PhD student at Aalto University, Helsinki Finland
    • PhD Advisor: Visa Koivunen
  • Dr. Alexander Onic
    • Spring 2013
    • PhD student at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt
    • PhD Advisor: Mario Huemer & Johannes Huber
  • Dr. Alan Barbieri
    • May 2007 to May 2008
    • PhD student at the University of Parma
  • Prof. Erik Strom
  • Prof. Vince Poor
  • Dr. Bernhard Etzlinger
    • July to August, 2017 
    • Johannes Kepler University, Linz Austria
    • Personal Webpage
  • Prof. Mariane Petraglia
    • January to December, 2014 
    • Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
  • Prof. Masoumeh NasiriKenari
  • Prof. Alexander Fish
  • Prof. Shamgar Gurevich
  • Dr. Zijian Tang
    • January to March, 2012
    • Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research
  • Mr. Hiroyuki Oka
    • July 2008 to July 2009
    • Patent Examiner Digital Communication Division, Japan Patent Office