PhD admissions: Students with a strong math background (undergraduate in ECE, math, or operations research) are welcome to contact me. PhD students can enroll in ECE, the Center for Applied Mathematics or MAE.
Current Research Topics: Mathematical foundations of:
- Dynamics and Control of Social Networks Comprising Large Language Models and Sensing: misinformation spread, hallucination mitigation, LLM-based sensing
- Human–algorithm interaction: behavioral economics meets statistical signal processing, POMDPs, stochastic optimization, reinforcement learning
- Adversarial Sensing and Inverse Reinforcement Learning: cognitive radar, game-theoretic and adversarial sensing
Current PhD Students. Check out our lab website
- Shashwat Jain (did undergraduate/masters at IIT Kharagpur)
- Luke Snow (did undergraduate at Clemson Univ, NSF Fellowship)
- Adit Jain (did undergraduate at IIT Guwahati)
- Yiming Zhang (did undergraduate at Shanghai Jiao Tong and MEng at Cornell)
Alumni.
At Univ of Melbourne, UBC, and now Cornell, I have had the privilege of supervising PhD students who have gone on to outstanding careers in academia and industry. Because our work focuses on foundational aspects of stochastic systems, statistical signal processing and stochastic optimization, many alumni hold leading quant-finance positions.
| Andrew Logothetis (Univ of Melbourne, 1998) | EM Algorithms for State and Parameter Estimation | Chief Scientist, Airspan, U.K. |
| Jonathan Manton (Univ of Melbourne, 1998) | Optimal Estimation and Identification of Linear Systems — Stochastic and Algebraic Approaches | Future Generation Professor, University of Melbourne |
| Kenneth Tan (Univ of Melbourne, 1997) | Nonlinear Signal Processing Techniques based on the EM algorithm | |
| Jamie Evans (Univ of Melbourne, 1998) | Studies in Nonlinear Filtering Theory – Random Parameter Linear Systems, Target Tracking and Communication Constrained Estimation | Professor and Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Melbourne |
| Leigh Johnston (Univ of Melbourne, 2000) | Iterative Algorithms for Estimation of Nonlinear Stochastic Dynamical Systems | Professor and Department Chair, Biomedical Engineering, University of Melbourne. |
| S. Singh (Univ of Melbourne, 2003) | Optimization Issues in DS/CDMA Wirless Networks | Professor, Cambridge Univ |
| Sam McLaughlin (Univ of Melbourne, 2006) | Data Incest in Decentralized Estimation Systems | Director, Cyber Info Systems, Thales |
| Arsalan Farrokh (UBC, 2007) | Stochastic Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks | Quant Research, RBC Global Asset Management |
| Minh Ngo (UBC, 2007) | Cross Layer Adaptive Transmission Scheduling in Wireless Networks | Quant Research, RBC Global Asset Management |
| Michael Maskery (UBC, 2007) | Game Theoretic Methods for Networked Sensors and Dynamic Spectrum Access | MBM Intellectual Property Law |
| Laxminarayana Pillutla (UBC, 2008) | Resource Management in Wireless Networks | Apple , USA |
| Hassan Mansour (UBC, 2009) | Modeling of Scalable Video Content for Multi-user Wireless Transmission | Principal Research Scientist, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs |
| Farhad Ghassemi (UBC, 2009) | Sensor Management with Applications in Localization and Tracking | Principal Scientist, Amazon, USA |
| Alex Wang (UBC, 2009) | Meta-level Tracking with Stochastic Grammar | Amazon |
| Jane Way Huang (UBC, 2011) | Application of Game Theory in Wireless Communication Networks | Meta |
| Kevin Topley (UBC, 2012) | Average Consensus in Two-time Scale Markovian Systems | |
| Maryam Abolfath-Beygi (UBC, 2013) | Biosensor Arrays for Molecular Source Identification in Mass-Transport Systems | Senior Data Scientist, Nike, Portland. |
| Omid Namvar (UBC, 2015) | Stochastic Approximation Methods for Decision Making in Non-stationary Uncertain Environments | Quant Finance, CPP Investment Board, Toronto |
| Mustafa Fanswala (UBC, 2015) | Meta-level Pattern Analysis for Target Tracking | Principal Engineer, Autonomous Vehicles, NVIDIA |
| William Hoiles (UBC, 2015) | Biosensing and Electrophysiological Response | Principal AI Scientist, Katerra, Toronto |
| Maziyar Hamdi (UBC, 2015) | Statistical Signal Processing on Dynamic Graphs with Applications in Social Networks | Quant Finance, CPP Investments, Toronto |
| Mohammad Ghasemi (UBC, 2016) | Planning and Operation of Active Smart Grids | Senior Scientist, Amazon |
| Anup Aprem (UBC, 2017) | Detection, Estimation and Control in Online Social Media | Assistant Professor, National Institute of Technology, Calicut |
| Tanzil Shahrear (UBC, 2018) | Mobile Edge Cloud: Computation and Caching | Technical Leader, Machine learning or 6G, Ericsson, Sweden |
| Sujay Bhatt (Cornell, 2019) | Controlled Social Sensing: A POMDP Approach | AI Research lead, Morgan Stanley, New York. |
| Buddhika Nettasinghe (Cornell, 2022) | Statistical Modeling and Inference in Social Networks | Assistant Professor, U Iowa, Tippie College of Business |
| Rui Luo (Cornell, 2023) |
Social Network Segregation: Measurement, Estimation and Mitigation |
Assistant Professor, City Univ of Hong Kong |
| Kunal Pattanayak (Cornell, 2023) |
Inverse Reinforcement Learning: A Micro-economics based approach |
Quant Finance, Goldman Sachs, New York |
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