Group as of September 2013:
Top (left to right): Yingzhe Li, Arthur Ishiguro, Prof. Andrews, Derya Malak.
Bottom: Xingqin Lin, Qiaoyang Ye, Sarabjot Singh, Mandar Kulkarni.

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Ph.D. Students



Qiaoyang Ye

Qiaoyang Ye is a Ph.D. student at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her M.S. degree from the same university in 2013, and the B.S. degree from Zhejiang University (China) in 2010, respectively. She is currently a member of WNCG under the supervision of Dr. Jeff Andrews and Dr. Constantine Caramanis. Her research interests are in the broad area of wireless communications and networking. Currently, she is working on the topic of self-organizing Heterogeneous Cellular Networks and Device-to-Device (D2D) communications.



Derya Malak

Derya Malak is a first year 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.



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.



Mandar Kulkarni

Mandar Kulkarni received his B.Tech degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati in 2013. He was awarded the President of India Gold Medal during 15th convocation of IIT Guwahati, for best academic performance amongst all eligible B.Tech/B.Des students of 2009-13 batch of the institute. He is being supervised by Prof. Jeffrey Andrews for his graduate studies (MS followed by PhD) in Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. His broad research interest lies in wireless communications. His undergraduate research experience was focused on BER analysis of MIMO based cognitive radio systems. He has held summer internships at TU Berlin and IISc Bangalore, where he has worked on distributed spectrum sensing in TWIST (a large indoor wireless sensor testbed) using connectivity brokerage framework and use of cognitive aggregator to improve secondary user throughput in imperfect channel sensing scenario, respectively.



Abhishek Gupta

Abhishek Gupta is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his B.Tech.- M.Tech dual degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 2010. His research interests include wireless communication, stochastic geometry and numerical methods. He was recipient of GE-FS Leadership Award by General Electric (GE) Foundation and Institute of International Education in 2009 and IITK Academic Excellence Award for four consecutive years. He is author of two books MATLAB by Examples and Numerical Methods in MATLAB. In past, he has worked in Applied Microelectronics Circuit Corporation, Pune and Futurewei Technologies, NJ.



Chang-sik Choi

Chang-sik Choi is a Ph.D. student in Department of Electrical &Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He works at Wireless Network and Communication Group under the supervision of Dr. Jeffrey G. Andrews. His current research topic includes Millimeter wave MIMO and Heterogeneous network. He received a Masters degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from UT Austin in 2014. and a B.S.E. (summa cum laude) in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University in 2012. He held internship at M87, an Austin-based start-up, as a network planning engineer in summer 2013. During his undergraduate study, he served his country as a sergeant for two years. His graduate study is supported by Graduate Dean's Prestigious Fellowship and Kwanjeong Abroad Scholarship. He was also funded by Korean Government during his undergraduate study.




PhD Alumni



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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




Postdoc Alumni



Xinchen Zhang

Xinchen Zhang was at UT from 2013-2014. He is now a senior systems engineer at Qualcomm in San Diego, CA.



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.



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.



Beiyu Rong

Beiyu Rong was at UT from 2009-11. She is now at Marvell, in Silicon Valley.



Radha Krishna Ganti

Radha Ganti was at UT from 2009-11. He is now an Asstant Professor at IIT Madras.



Marios Kountouris

Marios Kountouris was at UT from 2007-2009. He is now an Assistant Professor at the Supelec, Paris.



Illsoo Sohn

Illsoo Sohn was at UT from 2009-2010. He is now at LG in Korea.



Han Gyu Cho

Han Gyu Cho was at UT from 20075-7 He is now at Samsung in Korea.



Jin Sam Kwak

Jin Sam Kwak vwas at UT from 2005-6. He is now at LG in Korea.




Group Volunteer Positions



Abhishek Gupta is maintaining our group webpage.
Qiaoyang Ye is maintaining our group book library.
Chang Sik Choi is in charge of all group hardware.
Mandar Kulkarni is in charge of SW and networking of the group.
Derya Malak and Yingzhe Li are PR persons in our group.





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