Sarah Brandsen
PhD expected graduation 2021
Mengke Lian, PhD 12/19
Thesis: Belief Propagation with Deep Unfolding for High-dimensional Inference in Communication Systems
Joined Google in Mountain View after completion
Narayanan Rengaswamy, PhD 05/20
Post-doc at University of Arizona under Bane Vasic
Thesis: Classical Coding Approaches to Quantum Applications
MS Thesis: On Cyclic Polar Codes and the Burst Erasure Performance of Spatially-Coupled LDPC Codes
Christian Häger, Marie Sklodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow joint with Chalmers, Sweden
Visiting student, 09/14 - 12/14 & 08/15 - 11/15, Chalmers University, Sweden
Fabrizio Carpi, 03/18 - 09/18, University of Parma, Italy
Elia Santi, 11/16 - 06/17, University of Parma, Italy
Siyang Yuan, MS 05/17
Mohammad Sanatkar, PhD 12/16
Thesis: The Dynamics of Polarized Beliefs in Networks Governed by Viral Diffusion and Media Influence
Joined eBay in San Jose after completion
Santhosh Kumar Vanaparthy, PhD 12/15 (co-advised by Jean-Francois Chamberland)
Thesis: Capacity-Achieving Coding Mechanisms: Spatial Coupling and Group Symmetries
Joined Intel in San Jose after completion
Santosh Kumar Emmadi, MS 12/14
Thesis: Half-Product Codes
Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr, PhD 05/14 (co-advised by Jean-Francois Chamberland)
Thesis: On the Performance Analysis of Block Codes over Unreliable Channels in Delay-Sensitive Communications
Joined Qualcomm in Santa Clara after completion
Yung-Yih Jian, PhD 08/13
Thesis: On the Analysis of Spatially-Coupled GLDPC Codes and the Weighted Min-Sum Algorithm
Arvind Yedla, PhD 08/12 (co-advised by Krishna Narayanan)
Thesis: Universality for Multi-Terminal Problems via Spatial Coupling
Joined Samsung in San Diego after completion
Phong S. Nguyen, PhD 05/12 (co-advised by Krishna Narayanan)
Thesis: Advanced Coding Techniques with Applications to Storage Systems
Joined Marvell in San Jose after completion
Byung-Hak Kim, PhD 05/12
Thesis: Joint Equalization and Decoding via Convex Optimization
Fan Zhang, PhD 05/10
Thesis: LDPC Codes over Large Alphabets and their Applications to Compressed Sensing and Flash Memory
Joined LSI Logic in San Jose after completion
Aparna Khare, MS 12/10
Thesis: Capacity and Coding for 2D Channels
Joined Cisco System in San Francisco Bay Area after completion
Sirish Boddikurapati, MS 12/09
Thesis: Sequential Monte Carlo Methods with Applications to Communication Channels
Joined Texas Instruments in Dallas after completion
Chia-Wen Wang, MS 07/08
Thesis: Bounds on the MAP Threshold of Iterative Decoding Systems with Erasure Noise
Joined RealTek in Taiwan after completion