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

Srinivas Shakkottai
Co-director, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jean-Francois Chamberland
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Eman Hammad
Assistant Professor, Engineering Technology & Industrial Distribution,
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Cyber-Physical Systems’ Security, Trust, and Resilience
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Autonomous, Collaborative and Human-in-the-Loop Complex Systems

I-Hong Hou
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Cyber-Physical Systems’ Security, Trust, and Resilience
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MAC, AI-native wireless networks

Dileep Kalathil
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Reinforcement learning
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Artificial intelligence

Kamran Entesari
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

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
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Robotics
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Autonomous systems

Nitesh Saxena
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
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Security
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Software systems

Chao Tian
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D. Students

Ruowan Ji
Ph.D. Student
- Retreival augmentation generation
- Federated learning
- Distributed Coded Matrix Multiplication

Ph.D. Student
- Reinforcement learning
- Distributionally robust optimization
- Reinforcement learning from human feedback

Ph.D. Student
- LLMS for wireless communications
- Diffusion models

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

Ph.D. Student
- End-to-End Learning for Robotics
- LLM Alignment
- Deep Learning based Video Compression
- Bandit Algorithms
M.S. Students

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.