Faculty

Suhas Diggavi

+1 310 206 5171
6731J Boelter Hall

suhas@ee.ucla.edu

Current PhD students

Antonious M. Girgis

September 2018-present

amgirgis@g.ucla.edu

Navjot Singh

September 2018-present

navjotsingh@ucla.edu

Dhaivat Joshi

July 2019–present

djjoshi@ucla.edu

Mohamad Rammal

September 2019–present

ridarammal@ucla.edu

Kaan Ozkara

September 2019–present

kaan@g.ucla.edu

Bruce Huang

September 2022-present

brucehuang@g.ucla.edu

Sadik Yagiz Yetim

September 2023-present

yagizyetim@g.ucla.edu

Current MS students

Mehmet Ufuk Ozdemir

September 2022–present

ufukozdemir@g.ucla.edu

Sabbatical Visitor

Prof. Changho Suh

2022-2023

Current postdoctoral scholars

Dr. Ruida Zhou

August 2023–present

ruida@g.ucla.edu

Alumni

PhD students

 

Mehrdad Showkatbakhsh

Graduated March 2019

PhD Thesis: Security and Privacy in Dynamical Systems (UCLA)

Currently at Google.

Joyson Sebastian

Graduated August 2018

PhD Thesis: On the Capacity of Non-coherent Wireless Networks (UCLA)

Currently at Samsung.

Can Karakus

 

Graduated March 2018

PhD Thesis: Robust Communication and Optimization over Dynamic Networks (UCLA)

Currently at Amazon labs.

Jad Hachem

 

Graduated December 2017

PhD Thesis: Coded Content Caching for Wireless Networks (UCLA)

Currently at Google labs.

Shaunak Mishra

 

Graduated September 2016

PhD Thesis: Towards Network Reliability: Harnessing Interference and Dynamics (UCLA)

Currently at Amazon labs.

Shirin Saeedi

 

Graduated August 2012

PhD Thesis: Broadcasting and multicasting nested message sets (EPFL)

Currently Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadephia.

Soheil Mohajer

Graduated September 2010

PhD Thesis: Approximation results for problems in multiuser information theory (EPFL)

Currently Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Dominique Tschopp

Graduated December 2009

PhD Thesis: Routing and search on large scale networks (EPFL)

Currently at Softcom.

Etienne Perron

Graduated August 2009

PhD Thesis: Information-theoretic secrecy for wireless networks (EPFL)

Currently at Zürcher Kantonalbank

Sanket Dusad

Graduated July 2008

PhD Thesis: Diversity embedding for broadband communications (EPFL)

Currently at Virtu Financial

Postdoctoral scholars

 

Dr. Deepesh Data

April 2018-Dec 2022

Distributed Machine Learning

Currently at Meta, Seattle.

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 Apple.

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 Associate Professor, IIT Mumbai, India.

Dr. Ayan Sengupta (PhD, EPFL, 2015)

April 2015–April 2016

Wireless Networks

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

 

Ozgur Bora Gevrek

September 2021–June 2023.

Kenny Chang

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.