 Group Dinner in Dec. 2015 (plus my daughter Jade and her teddy bear) |
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Rebal Al Jurdi Rebal Al Jurdi received his Bachelor of Engineering (BE) with High Distinction from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon in 2013. Before joining the graduate program at UT, he worked for a semiconductor startup as a systems engineer. He is currently working on a project for Crown Castle under the co-supervision of professors Jeffrey Andrews and Robert Heath. His research interests range from HetNets, physical layer communication and digital hardware design, to network information theory. |
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Mandar Kulkarni Mandar N. Kulkarni received M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2015 and B.Tech in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati in 2013. He is currently working towards his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests are broadly in the field of wireless communication, with current focus on modeling and analysis of cellular networks operating at millimeter wave frequencies. He has held summer internship positions at Nokia Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, U.S.A. (2016); Nokia Networks, Arlington Heights, IL, U.S.A. (2014, 2015); Technical University, Berlin, Germany (2012); and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (2011). He received the President of India Gold Medal in 2013. |
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Yingzhe Li Yingzhe Li is a Ph.D. student at UT Austin and is being jointly supervised by Dr. Jeff Andrews and Dr. Francois Baccelli. He received his B.E. degree in electronic engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, in 2012. During his undergraduate study, he focused on capacity and delay scaling analysis in wireless ad hoc networks and cognitive radio networks. His research interests are in the broad area of wireless communications and networking, and currently he is working on statistical modeling and optimization in heterogeneous celluar networks. |
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Derya Malak Derya Malak is a PhD student at Wireless Networking & Communications Group (WNCG) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her BS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (with minor in Physics) at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in June 2010. She held research and teaching assistantship positions at Next-generation and Wireless Communication Laboratory (NWCL) and received her MS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, in February 2013. Her research interests are in the area of communication theory and networks, information theory and biological networks. Currently, she is working on Device-to-Device (D2D) communications and stochastic modeling of content caching. |
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Ahmad AlAmmouri Ahmad AlAmmouri is a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, jointly supervised by Prof. Jeffrey Andrews and Prof. François Baccelli. He received his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, in 2016, and his B.Sc. degree (Hons.) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan, in 2014. His research interests include statistical modeling and performance analysis of wireless networks. |
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Abhishek Gupta Abhishek Gupta received his Ph.D. in Dec. 2016. He is now with Samsung Research America, Dallas. PhD Title: Association and Spectrum Sharing in Cellular Networks. |
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Qiaoyang Ye Qiaoyang Ye received her Ph.D. in May. 2015. She is now with Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, CA. PhD Title: Small Cell and D2D Offloading in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks |
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Xingqin Lin Xingqin Lin received his Ph.D. in Dec. 2014. He is now with Ericsson Research in Santa Clara, CA. PhD Title: Integrated Cellular and Device-to-Device Networks |
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Sarabjot Singh Sarabjot Singh received his Ph.D. in Dec. 2014. He is now with Nokia Research in Berkeley, CA. PhD Title: Load Balancing in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks |
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Harpreet Dhillon Harpreet S. Dhillon received his Ph.D. in Summer 2013. He is now an Assistant Professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, VA. PhD Title: Fundamentals of Heterogeneous Cellular Networks |
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Ping Xia Ping Xia received his Ph.D. in Winter 2012. He is now a senior systems engineer at Qualcomm in San Diego, CA. PhD Title: Interference Management in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks |
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Andrew Hunter Andrew Hunter received his Ph.D. in Winter 2012. He is now at MIT Lincoln Labs in Cambridge, MA. PhD Title: Capacity of Multi-Antenna Ad Hoc Networks via Stochastic Geometry |
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Behrang Nosrat-Makouei Behrang Nosrat-Makouei received his Ph.D. in Summer 2012. He is now a DSP systems engineer at Tarana Wireless, in Santa Clara, CA. PhD Title: Designing MIMO Interference Alignment Networks |
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Tom Novlan Tom Novlan received his Ph.D. in Spring 2012. He is now a systems engineer at Samsung Telecommunications America, in Richardson, TX. PhD Title: Fractional Frequency Reuse for Multi-Tier Cellular Networks |
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Chun-Hung Liu Chun-Hung Liu received his Ph.D. in Spring 2011. He is now an Assistant Professor at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. PhD Title: Distributed Transmission Strategies in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: A Transmission-Capacity Perspective |
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Jaeweon Kim Jaeweon Kim received his PhD in Spring 2011. Currently he is with National Instruments, Austin, TX. PhD Title: Bandwidth and Power Efficient Wireless Spectrum Sensing Networks |
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Jun Zhang
Jun Zhang received his PhD in Winter 2010. He is now a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. PhD Title: Adapting MIMO Networks to Manage Interference
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Vikram Chandrasekhar Vikram Chandrasekhar received his PhD in Spring 2009. He is now with Cisco in San Jose, CA. PhD Title: Coexistence in Femtocell-aided Cellular Architectures |
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Kaibin Huang Kaibin Huang received his Ph.D. in Spring 2008. He is now an Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong University. PhD Title: MIMO Networking with Imperfect Channel State Information |
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Runhua Chen Runhua Chen received his Ph.D. in Spring 2007. He is now a Systems Engineer at Texas Instruments, Dallas.PhD Title: Multiuser MIMO Systems in Single-cell and Multi-Cell Wireless Communication |
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Wan Choi Wan Choi received his Ph.D. in Fall 2006. He is now an Associate Professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, South Korea. PhD Title: Multiple Antenna Communications in an Interference-Limited Environment |
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Taeyoon Kim
Taeyoon Kim received his Ph.D. in Fall 2006. He is now a systems engineer at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), Seoul, Korea. PhD Title: Rate-Robustness Tradeoffs in Multicarrier Wireless Communications |
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Aamir Hasan Aamir Hasan received his Ph.D. in Spring, 2006. He is now an associate professor of electrical engineering for the Pakistan Air Force Academy. PhD Title: Interference Suppression in Ad Hoc Networks |
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Zukang Shen Zukang Shen received his Ph.D. in Spring 2006. He is now at Datang Mobile in China. PhD Title: Multiuser Resource Allocation in Multichannel Wireless Communications |
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Xinchen Zhang Xinchen Zhang was at UT from 2013-2014. He is now a senior systems engineer at Qualcomm in San Diego, CA. |
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Kyoung-Jae Lee Kyoung-Jae Lee was at UT from 2011-12. He is now an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electronics and Control Engineering, Hanbat National University in Korea. |
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Han Shin Jo Han-Shin Jo was at UT from 2009-11. He is now an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electronics and Control Engineering, Hanbat National University in Korea. |
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Beiyu Rong Beiyu Rong was at UT from 2009-11. She is now at Marvell, in Silicon Valley. |
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Radha Krishna Ganti Radha Ganti was at UT from 2009-11. He is now an Asstant Professor at IIT Madras. |
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Marios KountourisMarios Kountouris was at UT from 2007-2009. He is now an Assistant Professor at the Supelec, Paris. |
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Illsoo Sohn Illsoo Sohn was at UT from 2009-2010. He is now at LG in Korea. |
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Han Gyu Cho Han Gyu Cho was at UT from 20075-7 He is now at Samsung in Korea. |
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Jin Sam Kwak Jin Sam Kwak vwas at UT from 2005-6. He is now at LG in Korea. |
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