Post-doctoral Researchers
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| Divyanshu Pandey Postdoctoral Fellow |
Edwin Vargas Postdoctoral Fellow |
Salman Khan Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Wireless Communication Systems and Networks | High-resolution Wireless Imaging | Computer Vision for Health |
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| Kun Woo Cho | Zongshen Wu | |
| Wireless Communications and Sensing | Large-scale Wireless Systems |
Current Graduate Students
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| Yirong Cheng, MS’22, PhD, wireless |
West Chen, MS’20, PhD, wireless |
Mahsan Abbasi, MS’22, PhD, health |
| Network Security, Learning in Nonstationary Wireless Channels | Weather Sensing | Pediatric Type 2 Diabetes Modeling, Long-horizon prediction of out-of-band events |
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| Sean Farell, MS’23, PhD wireless, co-advised |
Emi Sato Imuro, MS’23, PhD, health |
Isha Chakraborty, MS, health |
| High-resolution Wireless Imaging | Diabetes Heteroneity, Opportunistic Diagnostics from Medical Imaging | Computer Vision for health |
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| Morgan Brinson, MS’24, PhD, health |
Siyu Liao, MS’24, PhD, wireless |
Zishen Li, PhD, health |
| Digital bio-markers for Type 1 Diabetes | Metasurfaces, Novel Designs for Wireless Sensing | Modeling Impulsivity from fMRI |
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| Bariq Firmansyah, MS, health | Yiwen Geng, MS, health |
Kris Li, MS’23, PhD, wireless |
| Uncovering Diabetes Heterogeneity | Speech AI for Mental Health | Opportunistic Wireless Sensing, High-resolution Wireless Imaging |
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| Alireza Azizi, MS, wireless | Andrew Sedlmayr, Senior Research Engineer, Wireless | |
| Non-line-of-sight Sensing | RENEW, Houdini |
Undergraduate Students
I am a strong believer in research experiences for all undergrads. I have worked with more than 250 undergraduate students in the past decade. This has included undergraduate research and Senior Design projects. The emphasis is on open-ended, challenging projects.
Some of the senior design projects have led to actual products. Recent success stories include WARP FPGA Board and WARP MAC Framework. More recently, the students have made great progress in biomedical devices, see Scalable Health Initiative. If you are a Rice undergrad and interested in research opportunities at CMC, please write to me. We have projects available throughout the year and prefer students who are looking for multi-semester engagement.
Former Post-docs
- Souptik Barua – Postdoctoral Researcher 2019-2022, now Assistant Professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
- Lisa O’Bryan, Rice Junior Academy Fellow & Postdoctoral Research, 2018 – 23, now Research Assistant Professor at Rice ECE
- Temi Prioleau – Rice Academy Fellow, 2016-2018, now Assistant Professor at Dartmouth
- Nicolas Barati – Postdoctoral Research, 2019-24, now Research Assistant Professor at Old Dominion
- Li Niu – Postdoctoral Researcher, 2017 – 2018, Assistant Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tung University.
- John Tadrous, 2014-16, Post-doctoral Researcher, Associate Professor at Gonzaga University.
Former MS/PhD Students
- Nishant Mehrotra, MS’20, PhD’24, wireless – now Postdoc with Rob Calderbank at Duke
- Bishal Lamichhane, PhD’24, health – now Research Assistant Professor at Rice ECE
- Wenwan Chen, MS’21, PhD’24, health
- Akash Maity, MS’18, PhD’23, health
- Amruta Pai, MS’19, PhD’23, health
- Nate Raymondi MS’19, PhD’23, wireless
- Tianyu Cao, MS’21, wireless
- Xu Chen, MS’18, PhD’21, health
- Ewa Nowara,MS’18, health, co-advisor
- Xing Zhang, MS’16, PhD’20, wireless
- June Chen, MS’20, health
- Jian Cao, MS’16, PhD’19, health
- Xu Du, MS’15, PhD’19, wireless
- Fatima Ahsan, MS’18, wireless
- Niranjan Gowda, PhD’18, wireless
- Rajoshi Biswas, MS’14, PhD’18, health, co-founder of Cognita Labs
- Mayank Kumar, MS’14, PhD’18, health
- Jaehee Park, MS’18, health, co-advisor
- Andrew Kwong, MS’16, health
- Jingwen Bai, MS’13, PhD’16, wireless
- Evan Everett, MS’12, PhD’15, wireless
- Qiong Huang, MS’15, health
- Richard Latimer, MS’14, health
- Achaleshwar Sahai, PhD’14, wireless
- Sahiti Myneni, Committee Member, School of Biomedical Informatics, UT Health), now Professor at UT Health.
- Pedro Santacruz, PhD’13, wireless – now a faculty member at UT Austin, after a faculty stint at SJSU and postdoc at UT Austin with Sriram Viswanath and Christine Julien
- Debashis Dash, MS’07, PhD’11, wireless
- David Kao, MS’08, PhD’12, wireless post-doc at Cornell, then at Google.
- Chris Hunter, MS’08, PhD’12, now at Mango Communications
- Melissa Duarte, MS’07, PhD’12, wireless now at Huawei Paris, after a Postdoc at EPFL/UCLA, Switzerland with Christina Fragouli and Suhas Diggavi
- Kanes Sutuntivorakoon, MS’12, wireless
- Patrick Murphy, PhD’10, wireless, now full-time at his startup Mango Communications which he started as a PhD student.
- Vaneet Aggarwal, PhD’10, wireless Student@Princeton, co-advised with Rob Calderbank, now faculty member at Purdue, after AT&T Research Labs
- Scott Novich, MS’09, wireless, Co-founder and CTO of Neurosensory
- Sid Gupta, MS’09, CMC Research Engineer (2009-11), now at Lab126, Amazon
- Chris Steger, PhD’09
- Ahmad Khoshnevis, PhD’07
- Gareth Middleton, MS’07, co-advised with Behnaam Aazhang.
- Feifei Lou, MS’05
- Arnab Chakrabarti, MS’03, PhD’07, co-advised with Behnaam Aazhang
- Mohammad Jaber Borran, PhD, co-advised with Behnaam Aazhang
- Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, PhD, now at Qualcomm, co-advised with Behnaam Aazhang
- Dinesh Rajan, PhD, now Prof@Southern Methodist University, co-advised with Behnaam Aazhang
- Tarik Moharemovic,PhD’4, co-advised with Behnaam Aazhang
- Mohammad Ali Khojastepour, PhD’04, co-advised with Behnaam Aazhang
- Nasir Ahmed, MS’02, PhD’07
Former Research Engineers
- Dr. Rahman Doost-Mohammady, now Assistant Research Faculty @ Rice ECE
- Dr. Oscar Bejarano, RENEW Research Engineer
- Dr. Di Mu, RENEW Wireless Systems Engineer
- Mr. Anil Vadathya, Machine Learning
- Mr. Matt Barnett, Lead HealthSense Software Developer
- Wenzhou Ouyang, Post-doctoral Researcher, 2014-15.
- Adam Samaniego (Research Engineer@Rice), Founder of OcuCheck
- Gaurav Patel (Research Engineer@Rice), Co-founder of Cognita Labs
- Siddharth Gupta (Research Engineer@Rice), now at Amazon Labs.
- Patrick Murphy (Research Engineer@Rice), Founder of Mango Communications
- Charles Camp (Research Engineer@Rice), now at IBM.
- Patrick Frantz, Director and CEO of Cambridge Graphene Platform Ltd
Visiting Graduate Students
- Zhanzhan Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2016-17 (wireless)
- Donglin Liu, UESTC, 2017-18 (wireless)
- Cheng Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2017-18 (wireless)
- Hangyu Zhang, UESTC, 2017-18 (wireless)
- Gengshan Wang, UCAS, 2018-19 (wireless)