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Group Members

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

Faculty/Senior Researchers

Krishna Narayanan
Krishna Narayanan

Co-director, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering.

  • • AI-native wireless networks
  • • PHY/MAC, information theory
Srinivas Shakkottai
Srinivas Shakkottai

Co-director, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering.

  • • AI-native wireless systems
  • • Reinforcement learning, Robotics
Srikanth Saripalli
Srikanth Saripalli

Professor, Mechanical Engineering.

  • • Robotics
  • • Autonomous systems
Nitesh Saxena
Nitesh Saxena

Professor, Computer Science and Engineering

  • • Security
  • • Software systems
Dileep Kalathil
Dileep Kalathil

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • • Reinforcement learning
  • • Artificial intelligence
P.R. Kumar
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
Jean-Francois Chamberland
Jean-Francois Chamberland

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • • Statistical signal processing
  • • Machine learning, AI-native wireless networks
Moble Benedict
Moble Benedict

Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering

  • • Design, development and autonomous control of high-performance next-generation aircraft at small (MAVs/UAVs) and full scales
  • • Energy-efficient green aviation
Sabit Ekin
Sabit Ekin

Associate Professor, Engineering Technology & Industrial Distribution

  • • Wireless communication, mmWave and Terahertz communication
  • • Internet of Things applications, Satellite communication
Kamran Entesari
Kamran Entesari

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • • Electromagnetics, antennas
  • • Circuits
Swaminathan Gopalswamy
Swaminathan Gopalswamy

Research Professor, Mechanical Engineering

  • • Autonomous systems, Automotive systems
  • • Distributed simulation and Control
Eman Hammad
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
I-Hong Hou

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • • Cyber-Physical Systems’ Security, Trust, and Resilience
  • • MAC, AI-native wireless networks
Shuiwang Ji
Shuiwang Ji

Professor, Computer Science and Engineering

  • • Machine learning, Artificial intelligence
  • • Language models and Agents
Jason O’Kane
Jason O’Kane

Professor, Computer Science and Engineering

  • • Motion planning
  • • Autonomous robots, Computational geometry
Dylan Shell
Dylan Shell

Professor, Computer Science and Engineering

  • • Distributed AI
  • • Analysis of multi-agent systems, Crowd modeling
Chao Tian
Chao Tian

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • • Machine learning theory
  • • Information theory, source coding
Tianbao Yang
Tianbao Yang

Professor, Computer Science and Engineering

  • • Artificial intelligence
  • • Optimization in Machine learning

Ph.D. Students

Ruowan Ji
Ruowan Ji

Ph.D. Student

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

Ph.D. Student

  • • Reinforcement learning
  • • Distributionally robust optimization
  • • Reinforcement learning from human feedback
Vishnu Teja Kunde
Vishnu Teja Kunde

Ph.D. Student

  • • LLMS for wireless communications
  • • Diffusion models
Fatemeh Doudi
Fatemeh Doudi

Ph.D. Student

  • • Diffusion models
  • • Transformers and In-context Learning
Mahdi Farahbakhsh
Mahdi Farahbakhsh

Ph.D. Student

  • • Diffusion models
  • • Transformers
  • • Inverse problems
Sarat Chandra Bobbili
Sarat Chandra Bobbili

Ph.D. Student

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

Ph.D. Student

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

Ph.D. Student

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

Ph.D. Student

  • • ML for wireless communications
  • • Adaptive Gaussian Splatting Methods
Yu-Shin Huang
Yu-Shin Huang

Ph.D. Student

  • • LLM-based Steganography
  • • LLM Watermarking
Debajoy Mukherjee
Debajoy Mukherjee

Ph.D. Student

  • • Reinforcement learning through Human Feedback
  • • LLM reasoning
Ujwal Dinesha
Ujwal Dinesha

Ph.D. Student

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

M.S. Student

Sushil Vemuri
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.