Faculty

Suhas Diggavi

+1 310 206 5171
6731J Boelter Hall

suhas@ee.ucla.edu

Administration

Sandra Bryant
+1 310 206 5171
6731J Boelter Hall

sbryant@seas.ucla.edu

Current PhD students

Antonious M. Girgis

September 2018-present

amgirgis@g.ucla.edu

Navjot Singh

September 2018-present

navjotsingh@ucla.edu

Dhaivat Joshi

July 2019–present

djjoshi@ucla.edu

Mohamad Rida Rammal

September 2019–present

ridarammal@g.ucla.edu

Kaan Ozkara

September 2019–present

kaan@g.ucla.edu

Current postdoctoral scholars

Dr. Deepesh Data

May 2018–present

deepesh.data@gmail.com

Alumni

PhD students

 

Mehrdad Showkatbakhsh

Graduated March 2019

PhD Thesis: Security and Privacy in Dynamical Systems (UCLA)

Currently at Google.

Joyson Sebastian

Graduated August 2018

PhD Thesis: On the Capacity of Non-coherent Wireless Networks (UCLA)

Currently at Samsung.

Can Karakus

 

Graduated March 2018

PhD Thesis: Robust Communication and Optimization over Dynamic Networks (UCLA)

Currently at Amazon labs.

Jad Hachem

 

Graduated December 2017

PhD Thesis: Coded Content Caching for Wireless Networks (UCLA)

Currently at Google labs.

Shaunak Mishra

 

Graduated September 2016

PhD Thesis: Towards Network Reliability: Harnessing Interference and Dynamics (UCLA)

Currently at Yahoo! labs.

Shirin Saeedi

 

Graduated August 2012

PhD Thesis: Broadcasting and multicasting nested message sets (EPFL)

Currently Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadephia.

Soheil Mohajer

Graduated September 2010

PhD Thesis: Approximation results for problems in multiuser information theory (EPFL)

Currently Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Dominique Tschopp

Graduated December 2009

PhD Thesis: Routing and search on large scale networks (EPFL)

N/A

Etienne Perron

Graduated August 2009

PhD Thesis: Information-theoretic secrecy for wireless networks (EPFL)

N/A

Sanket Dusad

Graduated July 2008

PhD Thesis: Diversity embedding for broadband communications (EPFL)

First job at Morgan-Stanley.

Postdoctoral scholars

 

Dr. Tao Guo

May 2020-Jan 2021

Jointly with Prof. Fragouli’s group

Epidemics and testing

Currently at Huawei Research, Hong Kong.

Dr. Yair Yona (PhD Tel-Aviv University, 2015)

2015-2018

CPS and hardware security

Currently at Qualcomm.

Dr. Wei Mao (PhD, Caltech, 2016)

2015-2018

Nanopore DNA sequencing

Currently at Intel Corp.

Dr. Nikhil Karamchandani (PhD, UC San Diego, 2011)

2011-2014

Coded caching, secure cyber- physical systems

Currently Assistant Professor, IIT,Mumbai, India.

Dr. Ayan Sengupta (PhD, EPFL, 2015)

April 2015–April 2016

N/A

Currently at Qualcomm.

Dr. Chao Tian (Ph.D. Cornell University, 2005)

September 2005- September 2007

Network data compression

Currently Associate Professor, Texas A&M.

MS students

 

Kenny Chang

September 2018–December 2019.

Debraj Basu

September 2017–June 2019.

Cuneyd Ozturk

September 2017–December 2017.

Chi-Yo Tsai

March 2016–June 2017.

Manikandan Srinivasan

March 2016–2017.