Students and Postdoctoral Researchers

Current PhD students

• Xuechao Wang

• Peiyao Sheng

• Ranvir Rana

• Ashok Vardhan Makkuva

• Gerui Wang

Current Postdoctoral Researchers

Former Ph.D. Students:

• Tie Liu (Professor, Texas A&M). Thesis: Some Information Theoretic Aspects of Reliable Communication With Transmitter Side Information, 2006.

• Saurabha Tavildar (Light). Thesis: Source and Channel Coding for Wireless Networks, 2006.

• Hua Wang (Qualcomm). Thesis: Topics in Network Information Representation and Communication, 2007.

• Aleksandar Jovicic (Qualcomm). Thesis: Topics in Information Theory of Wireless Networks, 2007.

• Adnan Raja (Uhana). Thesis: Topics in multi-terminal wireless networks, 2012.

• Sreeram Kannan (Associate Professor, UW Seattle). Thesis: Layering principles for wireless networks, 2013.

• Quan Geng (Google). Thesis: The optimal mechanism in differential privacy, 2014.

• Peter Kairouz (Google): Thesis: The fundamental limits of Statistical Data Privacy, 2016.

• Shaileshh Venkatakrishnan (Assistant Professor, Ohio State University): Thesis: Algorithms for interactive, distributed and networked systems, 2017.

• Jiaqi Mu (Google): Geometries of Word Embeddings, 2019.

• Weihao Gao (ByteDance): Information theory meets big data: Theory, algorithms and applications to deep learning, 2019

Former Postdoctoral Researchers:

• Hyeji Kim (Assistant Professor, UT Austin)

• Giulia Fanti (Assistant Professor, CMU)

• Vinod Prabhakaran (Professor, TIFR, India)

• Aaron Wagner (Professor, Cornell)