Students & Interns

I have served on the Ph.D. committees of:

• Omid Fatemieh (UIUC, Graduated 2011, now at Microsoft)
• Eric Rozner (UT Austin, Graduated 2011, now at AT&T Labs)
• Shravan Rayanchu (U Wisconsin, Graduated 2012, now at Google)
• Souvik Sen (Duke, Graduated 2012, now at HP Labs).

I am continuing to serve on the Ph.D. committees of George Nychis (CMU), Farhana Ashraf (UIUC) and Parya Moinzadeh (UIUC).

I have also worked with some very good interns:

• Yuvraj Agarwal (UCSD)
  2006: Reducing power cconsumption of Wi-Fi for smartphones
  2007: Worked on reducing energy consumption of desktop PCs and laptops
  Currently Director of SYNERGY Labs @ UCSD
• Apurv Bhartia (UT Austin)
  2011: Designed efficient wireless display mechanisms
• Aakanksha Chowdhery (Stanford)
  2012: Investigated Dynamic Spectrum Access techniques in various spectrum bands
• Saumitra Das (Purdue)
  2006: New routing metrics for mesh networks
  Currently Sr. Systems Engineer, R & D at Qualcomm
• Omid Fatemieh (UIUC)
  2008 to 2010: Security in White Space networks
• Tulika Garg (IIT Roorkee)
  2006: Implemented MCL in QualNet
• Srikanth Kandula (MIT)
  2006: Developed algorithms for localizing faults in enterprise networks
  2007: Developed eXpose for determining communication rules in a packet trace
  Now at Microsoft Research
• Lun Li (Caltech)
  2006: Algorithms for a black box technique to detect faults using packet traces
• Qingxi Li (UIUC)
  2011: Techniques for low-latency wireless display
• Radhika Mittal (IIT Kharagpur, now at UC Berkeley)
  2011: An energy estimator for mobile apps
• Parya Moinzadeh (UIUC)
  2012: Developed data driven techniques for diagnosing energy bugs on mobile devices
• Rohan Murty (Harvard) 
  2006-2007: Design and implementation of a dense access point system
  2008: Worked on protocols for networking in UHF bands
  2009: Worked on a geo-location service for white spaces
• Andres Neyem (University of Chile)
  2009: Designed a system for proximity sensing
  Now Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
• George Nychis (CMU)
  2009: Worked on MIC interference issues in white spaces & campus deployment
  2010: Studies loss characteristics in wireless networks
• Ki-Woong Park (KAIST)
  2009: Designed and implemented a new system for social networking on phones
• Ramya Raghavendra (UCSB)
  2007: Worked on applications of variable channel widths in 802.11
  Now at IBM Research, TJ Watson
• Hariharan Rahul (MIT)
  2009: Designed algorithms for coexistence in white space networks
• Shravan Rayanchu (Wisconsin)
  2010: Working on real-world channel width adaptation algorithms
• Eric Rozner (UT Austin)
  2010: Studied loss characteristics in wireless networks
• Xiaohui (Eeyore) Wang (CMU)
  2009: Explored changes in the network stack for the next generation of networking technolgies
• Hang Yu (Rice)
  2012: Investigated techniques for low-latency wireless gaming scenarios
• Yuan Yuan (University of Maryland)
  Summer 2006, Fall 2006 & Spring 2007: Designed a new MAC for cognitive radios, and implemented it in QualNet
  Now at Google
• Xia Zhou (UCSB)
  2011: Working on low power Wi-Fi mechanisms