Current Graduate Students

• Mario Bkassiny
  PhD Candidate (post-qualifiers)
  Research interests: Cognitive radios, dynamic spectrum leasing, cooperative communications, game theory, network information theory, distributed learning and reasoning.

• Jed Carty
  PhD Candidate
  Research interests: Distributed estimation, tracking and scheduling in mobile sensor networks, satellite surveillence networks.

• Georges El Howayek (post-qualifiers)
  PhD Candidate
  Research interests: Dynamic spectrum leasing in cognitive radio networks, spectrum sensing topology-aware cognitive networks.
  E-mail: georgeshow@gmail.com

• Kamrul Hakim (post-qualifiers)
  PhD Candidate
  Research interests: Game theory, collaborative and distributed data processing in wireless sensor networks, cognitive radios and dynamic spectrum leasing.

• Ding Li (post-qualifiers)
  PhD Candidate
  Research interests: Smart grid communications, smart grid demand-response optimization.

• Yang Li  (post-qualifiers)
  PhD Candidate
  Research interests: Cognitive radio networks, distributed learning and reasoning, sepctrum sensing.

• Mario Maruenda (Co-advising with Prof. Fernando Perez-Gonzalez)
  PhD Candidate
  Research interests:  Security in spectrum sharing cognitive radio networks.

• Yongxiang Ruan (post-qualifiers)
  PhD Candidate
  Research interests: Mobile sensor networks, consensus in tracking/estimation, graph theory.

• Katherine Spotz 
  M.Sc. Candidate (Thesis)
  Research interests:  Cooperative multiuser communication, Power control algorithms for cooperative communications, Per-antenna adaptive modulation.  
  E-mail: kspotz@unm.edu

• Esteban Yepez
  PhD Candidate
  Research interests: Cognitive radio networks.

Former PhD Students

1. Thakshila Wimalajeewa
   PhD Dissertation: mobility-assisted, energy-efficient algorithms for distributed inference in sensor networks, 2009.

Former MS Students

1. Johnny Silva, MS Thesis: Guaradian Automated Patient Monitoring System, 2009. (Current Position: Sandia National Labs)

2. A. Church, MS Thesis: An Iterative Algorithm for Simultaneous Suppression of Multiple Narrowband Interferers in Spread Spectrum Systems, 2008. (Current Position: Sandia National Labs)

3. T. Li, MS Thesis: Dynamic Spectrum Access in Cognitive Radios via Primary-Secondary User Power Control Games, 2008. (Current Position: PhD Candidate at Rutgers University.)

4. K. A. Al Tarazi, MS Thesis: Asymptotic Fusion Performance in a Power Constrained, Distributed Wireless Sensor Network, 2006. (Current Position: inCode Telecom Inc.)

5. A. D. Sathish, MS Thesis: Iterative Low-Complexity Multi-user Detection and Decoding for Coded UWB Systems, 2006.

6. B. Garimella, MS Thesis: Distributed detection and data fusion in resource-constrained wireless sensor networks, 2005. (Current Position: Qualcomm)

7. S. Prasad, MS Thesis: Zoom-based robust super-resolution, 2005. (Current Position: Intel)

8. M. L. Chebolu, MS Thesis: Virtual MIMO and distributed signal processing for wireless sensor networks - An integrated approach, 2005. (Current Position: AT&T Bell Labs)

9. S. Balasubramanian, MS Thesis: Energy-aware, collaborative tracking with ad-hoc wireless sensor networks, 2004.  (Current Position: Apple)

10. V. Veeramachaneni, MS Thesis: Adaptive signal processing for energy-limited distributed wireless sensor networks, 2004. (Current Position: Nokia)

11. Dr. L. S. Pilluta, MS Thesis: Capacity of MIMO systems - A theoretical and practical perspective, 2004. (Current Position: Assistant Professor, India)

Research Experience for International Undergraduate Students at CISL  

1. Zheng Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Project Title: Implementation of a cognitive radio system. Fall 2008. Exchange student.

2. Himanshu Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India. Project Title: A distributed data compression scheme for MICAz-based wireless sensor network, Summer 2008. EYES Student.

3. Chung-Chi Tsai, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan.  Project Title: Distributed data compression with cooperative communications. Spring and Summer 2008. Exchange student.

4. Ankur Sharma, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, India.  Project Title: Distributed and adaptive data compression in wireless sensor networks. Summer 2007. EYES Student.

5. Hongwei Liao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.  Project Title: A Robust face-recognition algorithm based on DWT-eigenface super-resolution for face recognition. Fall 2006. Exchange student.

6. Jiayuan Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.  Project Title: A Robust face-recognition algorithm based on DWT-eigenface super-resolution for face recognition. Fall 2006. Exchange student.