Faculty
Administration
sbryant@seas.ucla.edu
Current PhD students
September 2018-present
amgirgis@g.ucla.edu
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
Graduated March 2019
PhD Thesis: Security and Privacy in Dynamical Systems (UCLA)
Currently at Google.
Graduated August 2018
Currently at Samsung.
Can Karakus
Graduated March 2018
Currently at Amazon labs.
Jad Hachem
Graduated December 2017
Currently at Google labs.
Shaunak Mishra
Graduated September 2016
Currently at Yahoo! labs.
Shirin Saeedi
Graduated August 2012
Currently Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadephia.
Soheil Mohajer
Graduated September 2010
Currently Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Dominique Tschopp
Graduated December 2009
N/A
Etienne Perron
Graduated August 2009
N/A
Sanket Dusad
Graduated July 2008
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
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.