Group Updates

David K. W. Ho successfully defended his thesis on Thursday, December 9, 2021 and was titled: “Channel Estimation and Data Detection Methods for 1-bit Massive MIMO Systems”. Congratulations, Dr. Ho!

Kuan-Lin Chen passed his PhD Qualifying Exam on Tuesday, December 7, 2021. His research presentation was titled: “ResNEsts and DenseNEsts: Block-based DNN Models With Improved Representation Guarantees”. Congrats, Kuan-Lin!

On Friday, November 19, 2021, Kuan-Lin, Rohan, and Govind presented their works to the attendees of the 2021 CWC 5G and Beyond Forum at the student poster session. Their presentations are listed below: ResNEsts and DenseNEsts:…

Prof. Rao has been selected for the 2020-21 ECE Best Graduate Teacher Award!

Rohan Pote passed his PhD Qualifying Exam on Thursday, June 10, 2021. His research presentation was titled: “Techniques for Super Resolution and Low Complexity Sparse Parametric Spectrum Estimation”. Congrats, Rohan!

Aditya Sant passed his PhD Qualifying Exam on Wednesday, June 9, 2021. His research presentation was titled: “Robust Channel Models and System Design for Intelligent mmWave Communication”. Congrats, Aditya!

Govind Ravikumar Gopal passed his PhD Qualifying Exam on Friday, May 28, 2021. His research presentation was titled: “Access Point Placement in Massive MIMO Systems”. Congrats, Govind!

Maher Al-Shoukairi successfully defended his thesis on Wednesday, May 26, 2020 and was titled: “Message Passing Algorithms and Extensions of Sparse Bayesian Learning”. Congratulations, Dr. Al-Shoukairi!

David Ho passed his university qualifying exam on Wednesday, December 16, 2020. His research presentation was titled: “1-bit Massive MIMO: Methods for Channel Estimation and Detection”. Congrats, David!

Ching-Hua Lee successfully defended his thesis on Friday, December 4, 2020 and was titled: “A Family of Sparsity-Promoting Gradient Descent Algorithms Based on Sparse Signal Recovery”. Congratulations, Dr. Lee!