Information for prospective PhD students
If you are interested in signal and image processing and/or wireless communication, you have a strong mathematical background, and you are interested in developing algorithms and digital VLSI circuits and systems, you might be a good fit for the VIP group. If you are already admitted to Cornell and are interested in one of my research areas, feel free to contact me. In case you are applying to Cornell and are interested in joining my research group, clearly mention this in your application. In case you want to increase the chances of me looking at your application, send me an e-mail that states why you want to join my group and why I should be interested in working with you. Also, ensure that the subject of your e-mail reads "Prospective VIP student." All other application e-mails will be ignored.
Fall 2018 VIP Group BBQ at Taughannock Falls State Park
From left to right: Emre Gonultas, Brian Rappaport, Alexis Falempin, Charles Jeon, Alexandra Gallyas, Oscar Castaneda, Maria Bobbett, Ashley He, Larry Tang, Ramina Ghods, Eric Lei, Christoph Studer, Seyed Hadi Mirfarshbafan. Not present: Said Medjkouh, Sanush Kehelella, Yirong Chen, Xinming (Lily) Liu, Jessica Tawade.
Professor
Christoph Studer (Associate Professor from ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Joined Cornell in January 2014 and transferred to Cornell Tech in 2019. Adjunct Professor at Rice University since 2014. Postdoctoral research from from 2009 to 2011 at ETH Zurich and from 2011 to 2013 at Rice University, TX.Current Ph.D. students
Sueda Taner (Ph.D. Student from Turkey)
Joined the group in August 2019. Working on theory and algorithms for beamspace communication.
Pengzhi Huang (Ph.D. Student from China)
Joined the group in August 2019. Working on positioning using machine learning.
Brian Rappaport (Ph.D. Student from the US; NSF GRFP 2019)
Joined the group in August 2018. Working on theory and algorithms for channel charting.
Alexandra Gallyas Sanhueza (Ph.D. Student from Chile)
Joined the group in August 2018. Working on algorithms and VLSI design for terahertz communication systems.
Seyed Hadi Mirfarshbafan (Ph.D. Student from Iran)
Joined the group in August 2018. Working on VLSI design and algorithms for terahertz communication systems.
Said Medjkouh (Ph.D. Student from Algeria)
Joined the group in August 2018. Working on machine learning in wireless communication systems.
Oscar Castañeda (Ph.D. student from Guatemala)
Joined the group in August 2016. Working on discrete programming, semidefinite relaxation, and manifold learning.
Emre Gonultas (Ph.D. student from Turkey)
Joined the group in August 2016. Working on analog-to-feature (A2F) conversion for low-power classification and inference.Alumni: Ph.D. students, postdocs, and visiting professors
Ramina Ghods (Ph.D. student from Iran)
Joined the group in July 2014 and successfully defended her Ph.D. Thesis entitled "Nonlinear Estimation with Applications to Wireless Communications, Imaging, and Machine Learning". Ramina is now a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University working with Prof. Jeff Schneider.
Charles Jeon (Ph.D. student from South Korea)
Joined the group in January 2014 and successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis entitled "Data Detection in Massive MU-MIMO Systems" on December 13, 2018. Charles is now at Intel Labs, in Hillsboro, OR.
Sven Jacobsson (Visiting Ph.D. student from Chalmers University of Technology and Ericsson Research, Sweden)
Joined Cornell for the Fall semester in August 2017. He was working on 1-bit massive MIMO and is now back at Chalmers University.
Said Medjkouh (Visiting M.S. student from Télécom Bretagne, France)
Joined Cornell for the Fall semester in August 2017. He was working on manifold learning and dimensionality reduction in massive MIMO and is now a Ph.D. student in the VIP group!
Olav Tirkkonen (Visiting Professor from Aalto University, Finland)
Joined Cornell for a sabbatical year in September 2016 and left in July 2017. Olav was working on 1-bit massive MIMO and machine learning in wireless. He is now back at Aalto University.
Paul Chollet (Visiting Ph.D. student from Télécom Bretagne, France)
Joined Cornell for the Fall semester in August 2016. He was working on low-power classification of EEG signals and is now an Associate Professor at Telecom ParisTech.
Michael Pelissier (Postdoc from CEA-LETI, Minatec Campus, Grenoble-France)
Joined the group in October 2015 and left in September 2016. Was working on adaptive compressive sensing for RF applications. Now back at CEA-LETI, Minatec Campus, Grenoble-France
Igor Labutov (Ph.D. student from New York City)
Joined the group in January 2014 and graduated in June 2016. Was working on machine learning in education. Now postdoc with Prof. Tom Mitchell at CMUCurrent undergraduate researchers and MEng students
Fall 2017 VIP Group at new CSL Space
From top left to top right: Xinming (Lily) Liu, Jessica Tawade, Emre Gonultas, Sven Jacobsson, Said Medjkouh, Charles Jeon. From bottom left to bottom right: Oscar Castañeda, Sanush Kehelella, Christoph Studer, Larry Tang, Ramina Ghods.