Alumni

Former PhD students and Postdocs from the group.

PhD Alumni

David Wu

(2026)

Now: OpenAI

Joshua Sanz

(2024)

Dissertation:Lightly Supervised Machine Learning for Wireless Signals

Now: Deepgram

Vignesh Subramanian

(2022)

Dissertation:When do machine learning models generalize well? A signal-processing perspective

Now: PlusAI

Vidya Muthukumar

(2020)

Dissertation:Learning from an unknown environment

Now: Tenure-track at Georgia Tech

Vasuki Narasimha Swamy

(2018)

Dissertation:Real-time Communication Systems For Automation Over Wireless: Enabling Future Interactive Tech

Now: Caris Life Sciences

Kate Harrison

(2015)

Dissertation:A quantitative approach to wireless spectrum regulation

Now: Google

Gireeja Ranade

(2014)

Dissertation:Active systems with uncertain parameters: an information-theoretic perspective

Now: Tenured at UC Berkeley

Kristen Woyach

(2013)

Dissertation:Building trust into light-handed regulations for cognitive radio

Now: Google

Se Yong Park

(2013)

Dissertation:Information Flow in Linear Systems

Hari Palaiyanur

(2011)

Dissertation:The impact of causality on information-theoretic source and channel coding problems

Now: Infra Finance at Meta

Pulkit Grover

(2010)

Dissertation:Actions can speak more clearly than words

Now: Tenured at CMU

Shridhar Mubaraq Mishra

(2009)

Dissertation:Maximizing available spectrum for cognitive radios

Now: Uber TL, Foundational Engineering in Google Home and Health

Rahul Tandra

(2009)

Dissertation:Spectrum Sharing by Cognitive Radios: Opportunities and Challenges

Now: Head of AI Safety, LinkedIn

Cheng Chang

(2007)

Dissertation:Streaming source coding with delay

Now: D.E. Shaw

Danijela Cabric

(2007)

Dissertation:Cognitive Radios: System Design Perspective

Now: Tenured at UCLA

Tunc Simsek

(2004)

Dissertation:Anytime Channel Coding with Feedback

Now: Mathworks

Postdocs

Ali Abedi

(2024)

Now: Tenure track at University of Wisconsin, Madison

Baris Nakiboglu

(2013)

Now: Professor at Middle East Technical University

Stark Draper

(2006)

Now: Professor and Vice Dean for Research at University of Toronto