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Research Areas: I am looking for outstanding PhD students with strong mathematical skills. At Cornell, my PhD students do courses in real analysis, function analysis, measure-theoretic probability, random processes (including martingales), statistical inference and stochastic control. The student can also be with the Center for Applied Math. A solid background allows you to do meaningful research in the following areas:
- Stochastic Optimization and Game Theory
- Social Networks and Sensing – modelling the dynamics of information diffusion; sampling of sentiment in social networks
- Statistical Signal Processing; Target Tracking and Sensor Management
- Biological Ion Channels and Biosensors – we are interested in math models for the dynamics of artificial membranes
- Multimedia wireless systems, femto-cells, wireless clouds (I am moving out of this area)
Current Ph.D. Students
- Sujay Bhatt (Cornell PhD student; did Masters at IIT Mumbai): Social Learning
- Buddhika Nettasinghe (Cornell PhD student; did Masters at UBC).
- Sijia Gao (Cornell PhD student; did Masters at UBC)
- Kai Zhang (Cornell PhD student; did undergraduate at Tsinghua)
Alumni.
I have been fortunate to have graduated outstanding PhD students. You can download many of the PhD theses below.
| Andrew Logothetis (1998) | EM Algorithms for State and Parameter Estimation | Senior Research Engineer, Airspan, U.K. | |
| Jonathan Manton (1998) | Optimal Estimation and Identification of Linear Systems — Stochastic and Algebraic Approaches | Professor, Univ of Melbourne | |
| Kenneth Tan (1997) | Nonlinear Signal Processing Techniques based on the EM algorithm | ||
| Jamie Evans (1998) | Studies in Nonlinear Filtering Theory – Random Parameter Linear Systems, Target Tracking and Communication Constrained Estimation | Professor and Head, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Monash University | |
| Leigh Johnston (2000) | Iterative Algorithms for Estimation of Nonlinear Stochastic Dynamical Systems | Associate Professor, University of Melbourne. | |
| S. Singh (2003) | Optimization Issues in DS/CDMA Wirless Networks | Associate Professor, Cambridge Univ | |
| Sam McLaughlin (2006) | Data Incest in Decentralized Estimation Systems | Research Engineer ADI Thales Limited | |
| Arsalan Farrokh(2007) | Stochastic Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks | Mathematical Finance, Phillips, Hager & North In- vestment Management Ltd. | |
| Minh Ngo (2007) | Cross Layer Adaptive Transmission Scheduling in Wireless Networks | Mathematical Finance, Phillips, Hager & North In- vestment Management Ltd | |
| Michael Maskery (2007) | Game Theoretic Methods for Networked Sensors and Dynamic Spectrum Access | Patent Engineer, MBM Intellectual Property Law | |
| Laxminarayana Pillutla (2008) | Resource Management in Wireless Networks | Associate Professor DA-IIT India | |
| Hassan Mansour (2009) | Modeling of Scalable Video Content for Multi-user Wireless Transmission | Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs | |
| Farhad Ghassemi (2009) | Sensor Management with Applications in Localization and Tracking | Amazon, USA | |
| Alex Wang (2009) | Meta-level Tracking with Stochastic Grammar | Reesarch engineer, Amazon, Canada | |
| Jane Huang (2011) | Application of Game Theory in Wireless Communication Networks | Amazon, USA | |
| Kevin Topley (2012) | Average Consensus in Two-time Scale Markovian Systems | ||
| Maryam Abolfath-Beygi (2013) | Biosensor Arrays for Molecular Source Identification in Mass-Transport Systems | Postdoc, USC | |
| Omid Namvar (2015) | Stochastic Approximation Methods for Decision Making in Non-stationary Uncertain Environments | Postdoc U Toronto in Math Finance | |
| Mustafa Fanswala (2015) | Meta-level Pattern Analysis for Target Tracking | Research Engineer, Microsoft, Redmond, USA | |
| William Hoiles (2015) | Biosensing and Electrophysiological Response | Postdoc UCLA and UBC, currently BioSymetrics. | |
| Maziyar Hamdi (2015) | Statistical Signal Processing on Dynamic Graphs with Applications in Social Networks | social network startup | |
| Mohammad Ghasemi (2016) | Planning and Operation of Active Smart Grids | Risk Management at TD Bank | |
| Anup Aprem (2017) | Detection, Estimation and Control in Online Social Media | ||
| Tanzil Shahrear (2018) | Mobile Edge Cloud: Computation and Caching | Ericsson, Sweden |