Group Members

We are looking for new PhD students, Postdocs, and Master students to join the team (see openings) !

Jump to Faculty/Senior Researchers, Ph.D. Students, M.S. Students, Alumni, Administrative Support.

Faculty/Senior Researchers

Krishna Narayanan

Co-director, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • AI-native wireless networks

  • PHY/MAC, information theory

Srinivas Shakkottai

Co-director, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • AI-native wireless systems

  • Reinforcement learning, Robotics

Jean-Francois Chamberland

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Statistical signal processing

  • Machine learning, AI-native wireless networks

Eman Hammad

Assistant Professor, Engineering Technology & Industrial Distribution,

  • Cyber-Physical Systems’ Security, Trust, and Resilience

  • Autonomous, Collaborative and Human-in-the-Loop Complex Systems

I-Hong Hou

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Cyber-Physical Systems’ Security, Trust, and Resilience

  • MAC, AI-native wireless networks

Dileep Kalathil

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Reinforcement learning

  • Artificial intelligence

Kamran Entesari

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Electromagnetics, antennas

  • Circuits

P.R. Kumar

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Member of the National Academy of Engineering

  • Stochastic systems and control
  • AI-native wireless networks
  • Machine learning theory

Srikanth Saripalli

Professor, Mechanical Engineering

  • Robotics

  • Autonomous systems

Nitesh Saxena

Professor, Computer Science and Engineering

  • Security

  • Software systems

Chao Tian

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Machine learning theory

  • Information theory, source coding

Ph.D. Students

Ruowan Ji

Ph.D. Student

  • Retreival augmentation generation
  • Federated learning
  • Distributed Coded Matrix Multiplication

Zaiyan Xu

Ph.D. Student

  • Reinforcement learning
  • Distributionally robust optimization
  • Reinforcement learning from human feedback

Vishnu Teja Kunde

Ph.D. Student

  • LLMS for wireless communications
  • Diffusion models

Fatemeh Doudi

Ph.D. Student

  • Diffusion models
  • Transformers and In-context Learning

Mahdi Farahbakhsh

Ph.D. Student

  • Diffusion models
  • Transformers
  • Inverse problems

Sarat Chandra Bobbili

Ph.D. Student

  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Large language models
  • Online learning and Multi-Armed Bandits
  • Stochastic Analysis

Jeremy Carleton

Ph.D. Student

  • Inference-time alignment of large language models
  • Online learning

Kaushik Valmeekam

Ph.D. Student

  • AI-native wireless communications
  • LLMs and Transformers
  • ML based Joint Source Channel Coding

Bhavya Nukapotula

Ph.D. Student

  • ML for wireless communications
  • Adaptive Gaussian Splatting Methods

Yu-Shin Huang

Ph.D. Student

  • LLM-based Steganography
  • LLM Watermarking

Debajoy Mukherjee

Ph.D. Student

  • Reinforcement learning through Human Feedback
  • LLM reasoning

Ujwal Dinesha

Ph.D. Student

  • End-to-End Learning for Robotics
  • LLM Alignment
  • Deep Learning based Video Compression
  • Bandit Algorithms

M.S. Students

Sushil Vemuri

M.S. Student

  • Large Language Models
  • Reinforcement Learning

Alumni

Jamison Ebert, Employment: Qualcomm, Inc.

Michail Gkagkos, Employment: Qualcomm, Inc.

Administrative Support

Ms. Vickie Winston is helping us (and other groups) with administration.