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People
![Joydeep Acharya](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/JAcharya_000.jpg)
Joydeep Acharya, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Roy Yates
Thesis Title: Utility and Profit Maximization in Dynamic Spectrum Allocation
Defended: 4/8/2009
Email: aacharyajoydeep@gmail.com
![Rahul Aggarwal](/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Aggarwal.jpg)
Rahul Aggarwal
Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor(s): Professor Predrag Spasojevic
Email: ra813@echo.rutgers.edu
![Mohamed Ahmed](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MIbrahim.jpg)
Mohamed Ahmed, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Marco Gruteser
Thesis Title: Ubiquitous Precise Tracking: From Activity Detection over Indoor Tracking to Outdoor Vehicle Positioning
Defended: 12/18/2020
Email: mibrahim@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Ahmed A. Alabdel Abass](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ahmeda.jpg)
Ahmed A. Alabdel Abass, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Narayan B. Mandayam and Professor Zoran Gajic
Thesis Title: Evolutionary Games: Applications to Security and Resource Allocation in Networks
Defended: 5/1/2018
Email: aabass@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Musaab Alaziz, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MAlaziz.jpg)
Musaab Alaziz, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Yanyong Zhang
Thesis Title: A Load-Cell Based In-Bed Body Motion Detection and Classification System
Defended: 5/11/2017
Email: musaab@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Murtadha Aldeer](/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/aldeer.jpg)
Murtadha Aldeer
Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor(s): Professor Richard Martin
Email: maldeer@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Shanmuga Sundaram Anandaraman](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ShanmugaWeb_000.jpg)
Shanmuga Sundaram Anandaraman
Thesis Title: Distributed Spectrum Coordination for Multi-Radio Platform Co-Existence: An Experimental Study on the ORBIT Testbed
Defended: 6/17/2008
Email: a.shanmugasundaram@gmail.com
![Ashwin Ashok, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AAshok.jpg)
Ashwin Ashok, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professors Marco Gruteser and Narayan Mandayam
Thesis Title: Design, Modeling and Analysis of Visual MIMO Communication
Defended: 6/4/2014
Email: aashok@gsu.edu
![Akash Baid, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ABaid.jpg)
Akash Baid, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Thesis Title: Dynamic Spectrum Management Architecture and Algorithms for the Future Mobile Internet
Defended: 4/11/2014
Email: akashbaid@gmail.com
![Gautam Bhanage, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GBhanage.jpg)
Gautam Bhanage, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professors Dipankar Raychaudhuri and Yanyong Zhang
Thesis Title: Network Virtualization on the Wireless Edge
Defended: 6/20/2011
Email: gbhanage@gmail.com
![Vijayant Bhatnagar](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/VBhatnagar.jpg)
Vijayant Bhatnagar
Advisor(s): Professor Predrag Spasojevic
Thesis Title: Performance and Hardware Complexity Analysis of Programmable Radio Platform for MIMO OFDM Based WLAN Systems
Defended: 6/16/2008
Email: mail_tovijayant@yahoo.com
![Abhishek Bindiganavile](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ABindiganavile.jpg)
Abhishek Bindiganavile
Advisor(s): Professor Predrag Spasojevic
Thesis Title: Experimental Evaluation of Secondary NC-OFDM Transceiver for Coexistence with Primary Transmitter
Defended: 4/17/2012
Email: abhishekbalaji@gmail.com
![Kareem Y. Bonna](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/KBonna.jpg)
Kareem Y. Bonna
Advisor(s): Professor Predrag Spasojevic
Thesis Title: On the Performance of Subspace SIMO Blind Channel Identification Methods
Defended: 9/28/2017
Email: kareem.bonna@rutgers.edu
![Dusan Borota](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/DBorota.jpg)
Dusan Borota
Advisor(s): Professor Predrag Spasojevic
Thesis Title: Cooperative and Multi-Channel Energy-Based Sensing in the Vehicular Environment: On the Minimum Time to Sense
Defended: 11/17/2011
Email: dusanborota@gmail.com
![Francesco Bronzino, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/FBronzinoNewWeb.jpg)
Francesco Bronzino, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Thesis Title: Named-Object Based Services in the Future Internet Architecture
Defended: 11/11/2016
Email: francesco.bronzino@gmail.com
![No photo](/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/people-photo-1.jpg)
Tina Burns
Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor(s): Professor Rich Martin
Email: tinadrew@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Janice Campanella](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/JaniceCampanellaWeb_000.jpg)
Janice Campanella
Accounting Specialist
WINLAB Route 1 Tech Center Room C102
Email: janice@winlab.rutgers.edu
Phone: 848-932-0940
![Abhishek Chanda](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AChanda.jpg)
Abhishek Chanda
Advisor(s): Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Thesis Title: Content Delivery in Software Defined Networks
Defended: 4/12/2013
Email: achanda@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Gayathri Chandrasekaran, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GChandrasekaran.jpg)
Gayathri Chandrasekaran, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Richard Martin
Thesis Title: Direct Inference of Location-Related Context from Wireless Signal Strength
Defended: 4/12/2011
Email: gayathri@gmail.com
![Janani Chandrasekaran](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/JChandrasekaran_000.jpg)
Janani Chandrasekaran
Advisor(s): Professor Marco Gruteser
Thesis Title: TAG: Trip-Boxes for Automatic Event Generation
Defended: 4/12/2011
Email: c.janani@gmail.com
![Generic portrait](/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/people-photo-1.jpg)
Nirmal Chandrasekaran
Advisor(s): Professors Larry Greenstein and Predrag Spasojevic
Thesis Title: Performance of a Self-Correlating Synchronization and Detection Scheme for IR-UWB in Multi-user Multipath Environments
Defended: 5/15/2007
Email: nirmal.chandrasekaran@gmail.com
![Shu Chen, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SChen.jpg)
Shu Chen, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Wade Trappe
Thesis Title: Providing Trustworthiness to the Operation of Location Based Services in Mobile Networks
Defended: 7/27/2010
Email: shuchen.cn@gmail.com
![Yingying Chen, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/YChen.jpg)
Yingying Chen, Ph.D.
Professor and Department Chair
Advisor(s): Professors Richard Martin and Wade Trappe
Thesis Title: Securing Wireless Localization Against Signal Strength Attacks
Defended: 5/18/2007
Email: yychen@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Zhuo Chen, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ZChen.jpg)
Zhuo Chen, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professors Roy Yates and Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Thesis Title: 60 GHZ MAC and Network Design
Defended: 12/9/2015
Email: zchen@winlab.rutgerse.edu
![Bin Cheng](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BCheng.jpg)
Bin Cheng, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Marco Gruteser
Thesis Title: Robust Communication in Large and Heterogeneous Vehicle-to-Vehicle Networks
Defended: 12/14/2018
Email: cb3974@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Shalini Choudhury](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/shalinic.jpg)
Shalini Choudhury
Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor(s): Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Email: shalini@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Ronak Daya](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/RDaya.jpg)
Ronak Daya
Advisor(s): Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Thesis Title: Virtual Network Traffic Shaping (VNTS) Technique to Ensure Fairness in Virtual WiMAX Networks
Defended: 8/24/2009
Email: ronakdaya@gmail.com
![Noreen DeCarlo](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/NDeCarlo.jpg)
Noreen DeCarlo
Administrative Assistant
WINLAB Route 1 Tech Center Room C104
Email: noreend@winlab.rutgers.edu
Phone: 848-932-0942
![Hua Deng](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/HDeng.jpg)
Hua Deng, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Janne Lindqvist
Thesis Title: Analysis of User Experience and Behavior in Wireless Streaming Video Viewing
Defended: 9/3/2020
Email: hd202@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
![Generic portrait](/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/people-photo-1.jpg)
Lijun Dong, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professors Yanyong Zhang and Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Thesis Title: Content Caching Retrieval and Dissemination in Networks with Storage
Defended: 3/28/2011
![Rishabh Dudheria, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/RDudheria.jpg)
Rishabh Dudheria, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professors Wade Trappe and Naftaly Minsky
Thesis Title: Resilient Regulation of Wireless Communication in Distributed Systems
Defended: 8/26/2013
![Mesut Ali Ergin, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MErgin.gif)
Mesut Ali Ergin, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Marco Gruteser
Thesis Title: Performance Improvements for Unplanned High Density Wireless LANs
Defended: 6/24/2010
Email: aliergin@gmail.com
![Xiaoran Fan](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/fan_000.png)
Xiaoran Fan, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Yanyong Zhang and Professor Wade Trappe
Thesis Title: Energy Focusing Through Distributed Beamforming in Internet of Things: Mechanisms and Applications
Defended: 3/26/2020
Email: ox5bc@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Ben Firner, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BFirnerNewWeb.jpg)
Ben Firner, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Yanyong Zhang
Thesis Title: Transmit Only for Dense Wireless Networks
Defended: 10/18/2013
Email: ben.firner@gmail.com
![Huiqing Fu](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/HFu.jpg)
Huiqing Fu, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Janne Lindqvist
Thesis Title: Improving Smartphone Permission Access Disclosures
Defended: 4/17/2017
Email: huiqingfu2005@gmail.com
![Sachin Ganu, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SGanu.jpg)
Sachin Ganu, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Thesis Title: Cross Layer Network Architecture for Efficient Packet Forwarding in Wireless Networks
Defended: 9/14/2007
Email: sachin@arubanetworks.com
![Cyrus Gerami](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/CGerami_000.jpg)
Cyrus Gerami
Advisor(s): Professor Narayan Mandayam
Thesis Title: Design Methodology for Backhaul and Distribution Networks Using TV White Spaces
Defended: 4/13/2011
Email: c.gerami@gmail.com
![Bhargav Gokalgandhi](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BGokalghandi.jpg)
![Sumathi Gopal, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SGopal.jpg)
Sumathi Gopal, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri and Dr. Sanjoy Paul
Thesis Title: Cross Layer Aware Transport Protocols for Wireless Networks
Defended: 6/15/2007
Email: sumathi.gopal@gmail.com
![Snehapreethi Gopinath](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SGopinath.jpg)
Snehapreethi Gopinath
Advisor(s): Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Thesis Title: Performance Evaluation of Cache aNd Forward (CNF) Routing Protocol in Multihop Wireless Subnetworks
Defended: 12/21/2009
Email: gopinath.sneha@gmail.com
![Seyed Mohammad Hajimirsadeghi, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MHajimirsadeghi.jpg)
Seyed Mohammad Hajimirsadeghi, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Narayan Mandayam
Thesis Title: Game Theoretic Approaches for Design of Information Centric Networks (ICN) and Spectrum Sharing
Defended: 9/5/2018
Email: hajimirsadeghi.sm@gmail.com
![Tejaswy Hari](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/THari.jpg)
Tejaswy Hari
Advisor(s): Professor Zoran Miljanic
Thesis Title: Physical Layer Design and Analysis of WINLAB Network Centric Cognitive Radio
Defended: 9/24/2009
![Baik Hoh, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BHoh.jpg)
Baik Hoh, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Marco Gruteser
Thesis Title: Achieving Guaranteed Anonymity in Time-Series Location Data
Defended: 8/21/2008
Email: baik.hoh@gmail.com
![Bin Hu](/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/hu-bin-1.jpg)
Bin Hu
Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor(s): Professor Yingying Chen
Email: binhu@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Kuo-Chun Huang](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/KCHuang.jpg)
Kuo-Chun Huang
Advisor(s): Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Thesis Title: MAC Protocol Adaptation in Cognitive Radio Networks
Defended: 9/14/2010
Email: hkc6311@gmail.com
![Omer Ileri, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/OIleri.jpg)
Omer Ileri, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Narayan Mandayam
Thesis Title: Dynamic Spectrum Access Models: Engineering Perspective in the Spectrum Debate
Defended: 6/11/2007
![Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MNIslam.jpg)
Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Narayan Mandayam
Thesis Title: Noncontiguous Spectrum Access and Small Cell Network Design
Defended: 9/15/2014
Email: mislam@qti.qualcomm.com
![Goran Ivkovic, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GIvkovic.jpg)
Goran Ivkovic, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Predrag Spasojevic
Thesis Title: Localization of Packet Based Radio Transmitters in Space Time and Frequency
Defended: 3/1/2013
Email: ivkovic@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Prashant Jadhav](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/PJadhav.jpg)
Prashant Jadhav
Advisor(s): Professor Yanyong Zhang
Thesis Title: Fading Correlation of Co-Located Transmitters
Defended: 9/20/2010
Email: prashant.mjadhav@gmail.com
![Manasi Jagannatha](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MJagannatha.jpg)
Manasi Jagannatha
Advisor(s): Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Thesis Title: Software Services for Experimentation on an Open WiMAX Base Station
Defended: 6/14/2010
Email: manasijagannatha@gmail.com
![Shalini Jain](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SJain.jpg)
Shalini Jain
Advisor(s): Professor Wade Trappe
Thesis Title: Hardware and Software for WINC2R Cognitive Radio Platform
Defended: 9/2/2008
Email: shalini.jain@barclayscapital.com
![Shubham Jain, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ShJain.jpg)
Shubham Jain, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Marco Gruteser
Thesis Title: Design of Inertial and Camera Sensing Support for Smart Intersections
Defended: 6/28//2017
Email: sjain@odu.edu
![Zhenhua Jia](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ZJia.jpg)
Zhenhua Jia, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Yanyong Zhang
Thesis Title: Unobtrusive Vital Sign Detection through Ambient Physical Vibrations
Defended: 10/31/2018
Email: zhenhua@winlab.rutgers.ed
![Tong Jin](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/TJin.jpg)
Tong Jin
Advisor(s): Professor Marco Gruteser
Thesis Title: Evaluation of Mobile WiMAX Performance in a Metropolitan Vehicular Application
Defended: 4/11/2011
Email: ittony5@gmail.com
![Xiangpeng Jing](/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/XJing.jpg)
Xiangpeng Jing, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Thesis Title: Spectrum Coordination Protocols and Algorithms for Cognitive Radio
Defended: 11/29/2007
Email: xjing.winlab@gmail.com
![Generic portrait](/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/people-photo-1.jpg)
Madhura Joshi
Advisor(s): Professors Predrag Spasojevic and Zoran Miljanic
Thesis Title: System Integration and Performance Evaluation of WINLAB Network Centric Cognitive Radio Platform for 802.11a Like Protocol
Defended: 5/10/2010
Email: 11.madhura@gmail.com
![Pandurang Kamat, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/PKamat.jpg)
Pandurang Kamat, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Wade Trappe
Thesis Title: Privacy in Emerging Wireless Networks
Defended: 9/14/2007
Email: pandurangk@gmail.com
![Jaewon Kang, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/JKang.jpg)
Jaewon Kang, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professors Badri Nath and Yanyong Zhang
Thesis Title: Congestion Control in Wireless Sensor Networks
Defended: 9/14/2007
Email: jkang@telcordia.com
![Gorkem Kar, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GKar.jpg)
Gorkem Kar, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Marco Gruteser
Thesis Title: Enhancing Vehicle Data Availability and Privacy for Connected Cars
Defended: 4/24/2017
Email: gkar87@gmail.com
![Cagdas Karatas, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/CKaratas_000.jpg)
Cagdas Karatas, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Marco Gruteser
Thesis Title: Safe Driving with Mobile Devices and Wearables
Defended: 1/12/2018
Email: cagdaskaratas@gmail.com
![Parishad Karimi](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/PKarimi.jpg)
Parishad Karimi, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Thesis Title: Algorithms and Protocols for Enhancement of Spectrum Utilization in Future Mobile Networks
Defended: 5/23/2019
Email: parishad@winlab.rutgers.ed
![Puneet Kataria](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/PuneetKatariaWeb.jpg)
Puneet Kataria
Advisor(s): Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Thesis Title: Content Name Resolution Service Implementation for Cache and Forward Network Architecture
Defended: 9/27/2010
Email: puneet25685@gmail.com
![Sanjit Kaul, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SanjitKaulWeb.jpg)
Sanjit Kaul, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Marco Gruteser
Thesis Title: Vehicle-To-Vehicle Messaging for Enhancing Road Safety
Defended: 9/7/2011
Email: sanjitkaul@gmail.com
![Aliye Ozge Kaya, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/KayaWeb.jpg)
Aliye Ozge Kaya, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Wade Trappe
Thesis Title: Channel Modeling Approaches to Wireless System Design and Analysis
Defended: 9/14/2010
Email: aliye.kayal@gmail.com
![Konstantinos Kleisouris, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/KKleisouris.jpg)
Konstantinos Kleisouris, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Richard P. Martin
Thesis Title: Improving the Speed and Accuracy of Indoor Localization
Defended: 9/10/2008
![Silvija Kokalj-Filipovic, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Sylvia_000.gif)
Silvija Kokalj-Filipovic, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professors Roy D. Yates and Predrag Spasojevic
Thesis Title: Infrastructures for Data Dissemination and In-Network Storage in Location-Unaware Wireless Sensor Networks
Defended: 11/26/2008
Email: skokalj@gmail.com
![Jakub Kolodziejski](/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Kolodziejski-1.jpg)
Jakub Kolodziejski
Senior Laboratory Engineer
WINLAB Route 1 Tech Center Room C119
Email: jkol@winlab.rutgers.edu
Phone: 848-932-4379
![Ayaka Koshibe](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AKoshibe.jpg)
Ayaka Koshibe
Advisor(s): Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Thesis Title: OpenVirteX: A Network Hypervisor
Defended: 7/15/2014
Email: akoshibe@gmail.com
![Chrysanthi Koumpouszi](/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Koumpouzi.jpg)
Chrysanthi Koumpouszi
Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor(s): Professor Predrag Spasojevic
Email: cek100@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Narayanan Krishnan, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/NKrishnan.jpg)
Narayanan Krishnan, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Narayan Mandayam
Thesis Title: Coverage and Capacity of Next Generation Cellular Radio Systems: Bandwidth Sharing and Massive MIMO
Defended: 9/26/2014
Email: narayank.winlab@gmail.com
![Tejashri Kuber](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/TKuber_000.jpg)
Tejashri Kuber, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Narayan Mandayam
Thesis Title: Learning and Prediction using Radio and Non-Radio Attributes in Wireless Systems
Defended: 11/25/2020
Email: tkuber@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Mohnish Kulkarni](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MkulkarniWeb.jpg)
Mohnish Kulkarni
Advisor(s): Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Thesis Title: Transport Implementation for a Cache and Forward (CNF) Architecture
Defended: 5/7/2010
Email: mohnish.kulkarni@gmail.com
![Tanuja Kumar](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/TanujaWeb_000.jpg)
Tanuja Kumar
Advisor(s): Professor Yanyong Zhang
Thesis Title: Performance Evaluation of AODV and OLSR under Mobility
Defended: 11/11/2008
Email: tunuja2kin@gmail.com
![Ratnesh Kumbhkar, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/RKunbhkar_000.jpg)
Ratnesh Kumbhkar, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Narayan Mandayam
Thesis Title: Opportunistic Access of Noncontiguous Spectrum
Defended: 12/1/2017
Email: ratnesh.kumbhkar@gmail.com
![No photo](/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/people-photo-1.jpg)
Demetrios Lambropoulos
Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor(s): Professor Narayan Mandayam
Email: dlambros@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Jing (Michelle) Lei, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/JLei.jpg)
Jing (Michelle) Lei, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Roy Yates
Thesis Title: Optimization Techniques for Configuration of Advanced Wireless Networks
Defended: 10/12/2010
Email: michelle.j.lei@gmail.com
![Generic portrait](/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/people-photo-1.jpg)
Zhuyu Lei, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Narayan Mandayam
Thesis Title: Utility-Based Power Control for Packet Switched Wireless Networks
Defended: 10/12/2010
![Hongyu Li](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/HLi.jpg)
Hongyu Li, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Marco Gruteser
Thesis Title: Scaling Data Sharing Among Vehicles to Tackle Long Tail Traffic Solutions
Defended: 3/26/2021
Email: hongyuli@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Qing Li, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/QLi.jpg)
Qing Li, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Wade Trappe
Thesis Title: Detection and Defense Strategies for Anomalous Traffic in Wireless Networks
Defended: 3/12/2007
Email: qinglc@gmail.com
![Sugang Li, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SLi.jpg)
Sugang Li, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Yanyong Zhang
Thesis Title: Future IoT Network Architecture and Applications in Mobile Sensing
Defended: 9/24/2018
Email: sugangli@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Tianming Li, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/TLi.jpg)
Tianming Li, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Narayan Mandayam
Thesis Title: Cognitive Radio Networks: Resource Allocation and Effect of End User Behavior
Defended: 9/23/2013
Email: tmli.winlab@gmail.com
![Xin Li](/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/xinli-1.jpg)
Xin Li
Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor(s): Professor Yingying Chen
Email: lixinjesse@gmail.com
![Yao Li, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/YLi.jpg)
Yao Li, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Predrag Spasojevic
Thesis Title: Content Networking with Packet-Level Coding
Defended: 9/10/2012
Email: liyao.capehope@gmail.com
![Zang Li, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ZLi.gif)
Zang Li, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Wade Trappe
Thesis Title: Opportunistic Secret Communication in Wireless Systems
Defended: 4/22/2009
Email: zang.li@gmail.com
![Yinglung Liang, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Yliang.jpg)
Yinglung Liang, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Yanyong Zhang
Thesis Title: Failure Analysis, Modeling and Prediction for BlueGene/L
Defended: 9/26/2007
Email: moonlitsailor@gmail.com
![Can Liu](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/CLiu.jpg)
Can Liu, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Janne Lindqvist
Thesis Title: Security Analysis of Gesture Passwords
Defended: 11/20/2019
Email: cliu018@gmail.com
![Hansi Liu](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/HansiLiu.jpg)
Hansi Liu
Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor(s): Professor Marco Gruteser
Email: hansiiii@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Jian Liu](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/JCai.png)
Jian Liu, Ph.D
Advisor(s): Professor Yingying Chen
Thesis Title: Towards Smart and Secure IoT with Pervasive Sensing
Defended: 6/13/2019
Email: jianliu@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Luyang Liu](/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/liu.jpg)
Luyang Liu, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Marco Gruteser
Thesis Title: Enabling High-Quality Mobile Immersive Computing through Edge Support
Defended: 5/10/2019
Email: luyang@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Hongbo Liu, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/HLiu.jpg)
Hongbo Liu, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Narayan Mandayam
Thesis Title: Cross-Layer Design for Reliable and Efficient Data Transmission over Multiple Antenna Mobile Infostation Networks
Defended: 11/16/2007
Email: Hongbo.Liu@spitent.com
![Song Liu, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SLiu.jpg)
Song Liu, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professors Wade Trappe and Larry Greenstein
Thesis Title: Interference Issues in Modern Communications Systems
Defended: 4/28/2010
Email: song7seas@gmail.com
![Xiruo Liu, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/XLiu.jpg)
Xiruo Liu, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Wade Trappe
Thesis Title: Integrating Security and Privacy Protection into a Mobility-Centric Internet Architecture
Defended: 4/28/2010
Email: sissiok@gmail.com
![Ying Liu, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/YLiu.jpg)
Ying Liu, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Wade Trappe
Thesis Title: Robustness in Ad Hoc Networks
Defended: 4/28/2010
Email: yl.appletree88@gmail.com
![Lin Luo, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/LLuo.jpg)
Lin Luo, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Thesis Title: Association, Routing and Scheduling Algorithms for Enhancing Throughput and Fairness in Wireless Mesh Networks
Defended: 9/22/2010
Email: clarylin@gmail.com
![Prasanthi Maddala](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/prasanthi.jpg)
Prasanthi Maddala
Engineering Research Manager
WINLAB Route 1 Tech Center Room C119
Email: prasanti@winlab.rutgers.edu
Phone: 848-932-4378
![Hajar Mahdavi-Doost, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/HDoost1.jpg)
Hajar Mahdavi-Doost, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Roy Yates
Thesis Title: Energy-Aware Reliable Communication
Defended: 4/12/2016
Email: hajarmahdavi@gmail.com
![Sumit Maheshwari](/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Maheshwari.jpg)
Sumit Maheshwari, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Thesis Title: Mobile Edge Cloud Architecture for Future Low-Latency Applications
Defended: 4/24/2020
Email: sumitm@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Rajesh Mahindra](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/RMahindra.jpg)
Rajesh Mahindra
Advisor(s): Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Thesis Title: Heterogeneous Networking Testbeds Integration and Wireless Network Virtualization
Defended: 12/4/2007
![Shivesh Makharia](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SMakharia.jpg)
Shivesh Makharia
Advisor(s): Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Thesis Title: Video Multicast over Wireless Local Area Networks
Defended: 8/23/2007
Email: shivesh83@gmail.com
![Suhas Mathur, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SMathur.jpg)
Suhas Mathur, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professors Wade Trappe and Narayan Mandayam
Thesis Title: Building Information-Theoretic Confidentiality andTraffic Privacy into Wireless Networks
Defended: 8/4/2010
Email: suhas.mathur@gmail.com
![Shweta Medhekar](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SMedeker.jpg)
Shweta Medhekar
Advisor(s): Professor Wade Trappe
Thesis Title: Roll-Call: An Energy Efficient Radio Frequency Identification System
Defended: 8/16/2007
Email: shwetamedhekar@gmail.com
![Swapnil Mhaske](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SMhaske.jpg)
Swapnil Mhaske, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Predrag Spasojevic
Thesis Title: On the Efficiency of Retransmission Schemes for the Open Area MM-Wave Device-to-Device Environment
Defended: 9/28/2020
Email: smhaske@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Robert D. Miller, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/RMiller.jpg)
Robert D. Miller, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Wade Trappe
Thesis Title: Exploiting the Physical Layer to Enhance Wireless Operation with Cognitive Radios
Defended: 12/15/2010
Email: rdmiller14@gmail.com
![Robert Moore, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/RMoore_000.jpg)
Robert Moore, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Richard Martin
Thesis Title: Owl Platform: Design and Evaluation of a Practical Sensor
Defended: 12/15/2010
Email: robert.moore.dev@gmail.com
![Christopher Mueller-Smith](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/CSmith.jpg)
Christopher Mueller-Smith
Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor(s): Professor Predrag Spasojevic
Email: cwsmith@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Shreyasee Mukherjee](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SMukherjee.jpg)
Shreyasee Mukherjee, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Thesis Title: Network Protocols for the Mobility-Centric Future Internet
Defended: 10/25/2018
Email: shreya@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Lisa Musso](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Musso_Lisa.jpg)
Lisa Musso
Business Assistant II
WINLAB Route 1 Tech Center Room C101
Email: lmusso@winlab.rutgers.edu
Phone: 848-932-0928
![Hithesh Nama, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/HNama.jpg)
Hithesh Nama, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Narayan Mandayam
Thesis Title: Resource Allocation in Cooperative and Non-Cooperative Energy-constrained Wireless Networks
Defended: 2/6/2007
Email: hithesh@gmail.com
![Prasad Netalkar](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/PNetalkar.jpg)
Prasad Netalkar
Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor(s): Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Email: pnetalka@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Viet Nguyen](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/VNguyen2.jpg)
Viet Nguyen, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Marco Gruteser
Thesis Title: Communication and Sensing Techniques for Smart, Seamless Human- Environment Interactions
Defended: 5/31/2019
Email: vietnh@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Alireza Nooraiepour](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ANooraiepour.jpg)
Alireza Nooraiepour
Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor(s): Professor Narayan Mandayam
Email: alinoora@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Neelakantan Nurani Krishnan](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/NNuraniKrishnan.jpg)
Neelakantan Nurani Krishnan, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Narayan Mandayam
Thesis Title: Pushing the Envelope of Wi-Fi Networks Using Distributed Multi-User MIMO
Defended: 10/10/2019
Email: neel45@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Sangho Oh, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SOh.jpg)
Sangho Oh, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Marco Gruteser
Thesis Title: Implicit Coordination Techniques for Wireless Communications
Defended: 4/5/2012
Email: sangho.oh@gmail.com
![Generic portrait](/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/people-photo-1.jpg)
Shraddhe Pandhe
Advisor(s): Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Thesis Title: Design and Implementation of Distributed Mobile Computing Platform Using Hadoop
Defended: 7/15/2013
Email: shraddha.pandhe@gmail.com
![Leonard Park](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/LPark.jpg)
Leonard Park
Advisor(s): Professor Narayan Mandayam
Thesis Title: Psychophysics Testbed and Experiments for Assessing End-User Perception of Video QoS over Wireless Channels
Defended: 4/8/2016
![Generic portrait](/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/people-photo-1.jpg)
Amar H. Patel
Advisor(s): Professor Marco Gruteser
Thesis Title: Indoor Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks
Defended: 10/1/2008
Email: patel.amar.h@gmail.com
![Srinivas Pinagapany](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SPinagapany.jpg)
Srinivas Pinagapany
Advisor(s): Professor Predrag Spasojevic
Thesis Title: Decentralized Spectrum Allocation Schemes for Cognitive Radio Networking
Defended: 4/13/2011
Email: psrinivas11@gmail.com
![Rahul N. Pupala, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/RPupula.jpg)
Rahul N. Pupala, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professors David Daut and Larry Greenstein
Thesis Title: Investigation of Co-Channel Interference, Channel Dispersion, and Multi-User Diversity in MIMO-Based Cellular Systems
Defended: 2/25/2008
Email: rahul.n.pupala@gmail.com
![Manik Raina](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MRaina.jpg)
Manik Raina
Advisor(s): Professor Predrag Spasojevic
Thesis Title: Properties of LDGM-LDPC Codes with Applications to Secrecy Coding
Defended: 4/7/2010
Email: manikraina@gmail.com
![Mohsen Rajabpour](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/mohsen.jpg)
Mohsen Rajabpour
Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor(s): Professor Narayan Mandayam
Email: mohsen@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Kishore Ramachandran, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/KRamachandran_000.jpg)
Kishore Ramachandran, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Marco Gruteser
Thesis Title: Bit-Rate Transmit Power and Beam Pattern Selection in CSMA Wireless Networks
Defended: 11/13/2008
Email: keyshawn@gmail.com
![Chandrasekharan Raman, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/CRaman.gif)
Chandrasekharan Raman, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Roy Yates
Thesis Title: Relaying and Scheduling in Interference Limited Wireless Networks
Defended: 2/18/2010
Email: craman@qti.qualcomm.com
![Vishaka Ramani](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/VRamani.jpg)
Vishaka Ramani
Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor(s): Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Email: vishakha@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Mete Rodoper](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MRodoper.jpg)
Mete Rodoper
Advisor(s): Professor Wade Trappe
Thesis Title: An IBC and certificate Based Hybrid Approach to WiMAX Security
Defended: 3/9/2010
Email: mrodoper@gmail.com
![Ali Rostami](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ARostami2.jpg)
Ali Rostami, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Marco Gruteser
Thesis Title: Context-Aware Congestion Control for Pedestrian Safety Communication
Defended: 1/10/2020
Email: rostami@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Siddharth Rupavatharam](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SRupavatharam.jpg)
Siddharth Rupavatharam
Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor(s): Professor Marco Gruteser
Email: sidr@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Shweta Sagari, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SSagari.jpg)
Shweta Sagari, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Wade Trappe
Thesis Title: Models and Algorithms for Spectrum Coexistence in Wireless Networks
Defended: 4/12/2016
Email: sagari.shweta@gmail.com
![Ayesha B. Saleem](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ASaleem.jpg)
Ayesha B. Saleem
Advisor(s): Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Thesis Title: Performance Evaluation of the Cache and Forward Link Layer Protocol in Multihop Wireless Subnetworks
Defended: 7/24/2008
Email: ayesha.bsaleem@gmail.com
![Lalitha Sankaranarayanan, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/LSankar.jpg)
Lalitha Sankaranarayanan, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Narayan Mandayam
Thesis Title: Relay Cooperation in Multiaccess Networks
Defended: 5/25/2007
Email: lalithasankar@asu.edu
![Onkar Sarode](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/OSarode.jpg)
Onkar Sarode
Advisor(s): Professor Predrag Spasojevic
Thesis Title: Architecture of a Programmable System-on-Chip Platform for Flexible Radio Processing
Defended: 9/27/2010
Email: onkar.sarode@gmail.com
![Sumit Satarkar](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SSatarkar.jpg)
Sumit Satarkar
Advisor(s): Professor Wade Trappe
Thesis Title: Performance Analysis of the WINC2R Platform
Defended: 9/25/2009
Email: ssatarkar@gmail.com
![Samson Sequeira](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Samson.jpg)
Samson Sequeira
Advisor(s): Professor Predrag Spasojevic
Thesis Title: Energy Based Spectrum Sensing for Enabling Dynamic Spectrum Access in Cognitive Radios
![Generic portrait](/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/people-photo-1.jpg)
Jennifer Shane
Research Programmer
WINLAB Route 1 Tech Center Room C119
Email: jenny@winlab.rutgers.edu
Phone: 848-932-4379
![Cong Shi](/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/shi-cong-1.jpg)
Cong Shi
Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor(s): Professor Yingying Chen
Email: cs1421@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Jasvinder Singh, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Singh_Jasvinder.gif)
Jasvinder Singh, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Christopher Rose
Thesis Title: Resource Allocation in Coordinated and Un-coordinated Wireless Systems with Greedy or Non-Greedy Users
Defended: 9/18/2007
Email: jasingh@gmail.com
![Tripti Singh](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/TriptiSinghWeb.jpg)
Tripti Singh
Advisor(s): Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Thesis Title: Multi radio Interference in Small Office Home Office Scenario – A Study on ORBIT Testbed
Defended: 12/13/2010
Email: tripti.singh007@gmail.com
![Shruti Singhal](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ShrutiSinghalWeb.jpg)
Shruti Singhal
Advisor(s): Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Thesis Title: Evaluation of UML Based Wireless Network Virtualization
Defended: 9/26/2007
Email: shruti20@gmail.com
![Ruochen Song](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/RuochenSong.jpg)
Ruochen Song
Advisor(s): Professor Christopher Rose
Thesis Title: Bounds of the Capacity of Exponentially Diffused Timing Channel
Defended: 4/3/2009
Email: songruochen@gmail.com
![Dragoslav Stojadinovic](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/DStojadinovic.jpg)
Dragoslav Stojadinovic
Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor(s): Professor Wade Trappe/Ivan Seskar
Email: stojadin@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Kai Su, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/KaiSu.jpg)
Kai Su, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professors Narayan Mandayam and Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Thesis Title: Algorithms and Protocols for Efficient Multicast, Transport and Congestion Control in Wireless Networks
Defended: 5/4/2016
Email: kais@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Tingting Sun, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/TSun.jpg)
Tingting Sun, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professors Wade Trappe and Yanyong Zhang
Thesis Title: Enhancing Mobile Functioalities for Emerging Mobile Networks Through Learning
Defended: 4/2/2014
Email: belledion@gmail.com
![Xiaojun Tang, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/xtang.gif)
Xiaojun Tang, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Predrag Spasojevic
Thesis Title: Communication Over Wireless Channels with Information-Theoretic Secrecy
Defended: 4/6/2010
Email: xtang001@gmail.com
![Yaqin Tang](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/YTang.jpg)
Yaqin Tang
Advisor(s): Professor Marco Gruteser
Thesis Title: Content Adaptive Encoding Method for High Frame Rate Screen-Camera Communication
Defended: 1/13/2016
Email: tangyaqin@outlook.com
![](/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/people-photo-1.jpg)
Mehrnaz Tavan, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Roy Yates
Thesis Title: Design and Implementation of Real-Time Cloud Assisted Systems
Defended: 9/25/2017
Email: mehrnaztavan1@gmail.com
![Vahideh Vakil](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/VVakil.jpg)
Vahideh Vakil
Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor(s): Professor Wade Trappe
Email: vavakil@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Tam Vu, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/TVu.jpg)
Tam Vu, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Marco Gruteser
Thesis Title: Enriching Communication Methods for Composable Mobile Systems
![Chen Wang](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/CWang.jpg)
Chen Wang, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Yingying Chen
Thesis Title: Threats and Opportunities of Mobile Sensing Technology in Personal Privacy and Public Security
Defended: 7/9/2019
Email: chenwang@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Yan Wang](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/YanWang.jpg)
Yan Wang, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Wade Trappe
Thesis Title: A Study of Pricing-Based Relaying Cooperation in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Defended: 9/7/2010
Email: yanwang529@gmail.com
![Kailong Wang](/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/wang-k-1.jpg)
Kailong Wang
Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor(s): Professor Yingying Chen
Email: kw414@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
![Mohit Wani](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MohitWani.jpg)
Mohit Wani
Advisor(s): Professor Predrag Spasojevic
Thesis Title: ASIP Data-Plane Processor for Multi-Standard Wireless Protocol Processing
Defended: 6/23/2010
Email: wmohit@gmail.com
![Newman Wilson](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/NWilson.jpg)
Newman Wilson
Project Manager – COSMOS
WINLAB Route 1 Tech Center Room C111
Email: nwilson@winlab.rutgers.edu
Phone: 848-932-4374
![Zhibin Wu, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ZhibinWu.jpg)
Zhibin Wu, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Thesis Title: Towards Conflict-Free Switching in Multihop Wireless Mesh Networks
Defended: 12/19/2007
Email: zbinwu@gmail.com
![Liang Xiao, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/liangxiao.gif)
Liang Xiao, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Narayan Mandayam
Thesis Title: PHY-Techniques to Improve Higher-Layer Functions in Wireless Network
Defended: 3/18/2009
Email: adalittlel@gmail.com
![Generic portrait](/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/people-photo-1.jpg)
Sijie Xiong
Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor(s): Professors Anand Sarwate and Narayan Mandayam
Email: sijie_x@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Chenren Xu, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/CXu_000.jpg)
Chenren Xu, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professors Yanyong Zhang and Richard Howard
Thesis Title: Learning Human Context through Unobtrusive Methods
Defended: 5/16/2014
Email: chenren.xu@gmail.com
![Wenyuan Xu, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Xu_Wenyuan.gif)
Wenyuan Xu, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Wade Trappe
Thesis Title: Defending Wireless Networks from Radio Interference Attacks
Defended: 6/11/2007
Email: wyxu@zju.edu.cn
![](/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/people-photo-1.jpg)
Yulong Yang, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Janne Lindqvist
Thesis Title: Usable Security: Human Factors in Mobile Authentication
Defended: 7/7/2016
Email: yyl.dev@gmail.com
![Yilin Yang](/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/yang-yilin-1.jpg)
Yilin Yang
Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor(s): Professor Yingying Chen
Email: yy450@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Mohammad Yousefvand](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MYousefvand.jpg)
Mohammad Yousefvand, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Narayan Mandayam
Thesis Title: User Centric and Network Centric Approaches for Resources and Emergency Alert Optimization in Wireless Networks
Defended: 2/11/2021
Email: my342@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Shengchao Yu, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Yu_Shengchao.jpg)
Shengchao Yu, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Yanyong Zhang
Thesis Title: Robust Sentry-Based Schemes: Towards Long-Lived, Fault-Tolerant Wireless Sensor Networks
Defended: 12/5/2011
Email: shengchao.yu2005@gmail.com
![Wenjia Yuan, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/YuanWeb.jpg)
Wenjia Yuan, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professors Kristin Dana and Marco Gruteser
Thesis Title: Computational Photography Methods for Visual MIMO
Defended: 9/16/2014
Email: wenjia.yuan@gmail.com
![Bin Zan, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BinZanWeb.jpg)
Bin Zan, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Marco Gruteser
Thesis Title: Vehicular Sensing Networks: Efficiency, Security and Privacy
Defended: 5/28/2013
Email: zanbin2046@gmail.com
![Wuyang Zhang](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/wuyang_000.png)
Wuyang Zhang, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri & Professor Yanyong Zhang
Thesis Title: Distributed Placement and Resource Orchestration of Real-Time Edge Computing Applications
Defended: 11/6/2020
Email: wuyang@winlab.rutgers.edu
![Generic portrait](/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/people-photo-1.jpg)
Dan Zhang, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Narayan Mandayam
Thesis Title: On the Dynamics of Random Network Coding
Defended: 9/5/2012
![Feixiong Zhang, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/feixiong.jpg)
Feixiong Zhang, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri and Yanyong Zhang
Thesis Title: Mobile Content Delivery in Information-Centric Networks
Defended: 4/25/2016
Email: zhangfeixiong2006@gmail.com
![Yu Zhang, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/YuZhang.jpg)
Yu Zhang, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Wade Trappe
Thesis Title: Enhancing the Efficacy and Security of Emerging Wireless Systems
Defended: 4/27/2009
Email: yuz1977@gmail.com
![Tianfang Zhang](/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/zhang-t.jpg)
Tianfang Zhang
Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor(s): Professor Yingying Chen
Email: tz203@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
![Wenjin Zhang](/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/zhang-w-1.jpg)
Wenjin Zhang
Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor(s): Professor Yingying Chen
Email: wz315@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
![Suli Zhao, Ph.D.](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Zhao_Suli.gif)
Suli Zhao, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Thesis Title: On the Scalability of Ad Hoc Networks
Defended: 9/18/2007
Email: sulizhao@gmail.com
![Jing Zhong](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/JZhong.jpg)
Jing Zhong, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Professor Roy Yates
Thesis Title: Age of Information for Real-Time Network Application
Defended: 9/11/2019
Email: jzhong@winlab.rutgers.edu