Members of Hua's Lab since 1990
Photo snapshots
Ph.D. Students, Postdocs, Visiting Students
and Scholars:
At
University of California, Riverside
- Moontasir Rafique, 2023-
- Md Saydur Rahman, 2020-
- Ahmed MAKSUD, 2018-2024, “Novel Methods
for Wireless Network Security from Continuous Encryption to Information-Theoretic
Secret-Key Generation”.
- Shuo WU, 2018-2021, “Information Security of Wireless Networks with
Full-Duplex Radios”. (Joined Goldman
Sachs. Now Assistant Professor
with California State University at Fresno.)
- Ishmam ZABIR, 2016-2021, “Secrecy Enhancement with Full-Duplex Radio in Wireless
Networks”. (Joined Microsoft
Research.)
- Gaofeng CUI, visiting scholar,
2019-2020, “Secure radar-communication systems”.
- Qiping ZHU, 2015-2019, “Physical layer
security of wireless networks”. (Joined Nokia, Chicago; now Intel,
CA.)
- Min ZHU, visiting student, 2018-2019,
“Optical wireless communications”.
- Yuan JING, visiting scholar, 2018-2019,
“Localization and tracking of radar targets”.
- Qingpeng LIANG, visiting student, 2018-2019,
“Cooperative relay networks.” (Joined Southwest Jiaotong
University as Assistant Professor.)
- Suyue LI, visiting scholar, 2017-2018,
“Analysis of multiuser detectors”.
- Peixi LIU, visiting student, 2017-2018,
“Power allocation for advanced wireless relays”.
- Reza SOHRABI, 2014-2018, “Jamming
strategies for secure wireless communication”. (Joined Stitch Fix, Inc.)
- Habib GHARAVI, 2014-2018, “Secret key
agreement”. (With California State University at Fullerton.)
- Lei CHEN, visiting student, 2015-2017,
“Fast power allocation for full-duplex radio network”. (Joined DJI Shanghai)
- Yifan LI, 2013-2017, “Self-interference
cancellation in full-duplex radio.” (Joined InterDigital)
- Yiming MA, 2010-2014, “Power allocation
for multicarrier relays and hardware experiment for full-duplex radio”.
(Joined a startup company, then Broadcom,
Irvine, CA, and now with Apple,
CA.)
- Armen GHOLIAN, 2010 -2015, “Optimization
issues in industrial load control and full-duplex radio”. (Joined NASA and now with Physical Optics Corporation,
Torrance, CA.)
- Ali C. CIRIK, 2009-2014, “MIMO relays
and full-duplex systems”, (Now with Ofinno Technologies, Washington, DC.)
- Qian GAO, 2009-2014, “Wireless relays
and optical communications,” (Became Associate
Professor, University of Science and Technology of China. Now with Futurewei Technologies, Chicago.)
- Shengyang XU (B.S., Dalian University of
Technology); 2007-2012, “Wireless two-way relays and thermal modeling”,
(Interned with Marvell Semiconductor. Now with Broadcom/NXP
Semiconductors, Irvine, CA.)
- Rui
WANG, visiting student, Shanghai Jiaotong Univerisity, 2012. (Now Associate Professor with Tongji University)
- Yong
WANG, visiting scholar, Associate Professor, Xidian
University, 2012.
- Fangni CHEN, visiting scholar, Associate Professor, Zhejiang
University, 2012.
- Ting KONG (B.S., M.S., University of
Electronic Science and Technology of China); 2006 –2011, “Wireless relay
schemes and MIMO channel estimation”. (Interned with VIA, San Diego, CA.
Joined VIA, San Diego, CA, and then Qualcomm,
CA.)
- Masashi TSUJI, visiting student, Tokyo
University, 2011.
- Zhi CHEN, visiting scholar, Professor,
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 2010.
- Mitsuru
KAWAMOTO, visiting scholar, National Institute of Advanced Industrial
Science and Technology, Japan, 2008.
- Yi HUANG (B.S., University of Science
and Technology of China; M.Phil., Chinese University of Hong Kong); 2005
–2010, “Distributed estimation in multihop
sensor networks”. (Interned with MERL, Cambridge, MA, and LitePoint, Sunnyvale, CA. Now joined Qualcomm, San Diego, CA.)
- Xiang DONG; 2007-2009, “Cooperative
power scheduling for a network of MIMO links”. (Joined Sichuan
Telecommunication)
- Yue RONG, postdoc, (B.S., Shanghai Jiao
Tong University; M.S., University of Duisburg-Essen; Ph.D., Darmstadt
University of Technology); Feb 2006 – Nov 2007, "Power Scheduling for
Wireless Networks". (Became Professor
with Curtin University, Perth, Australia.)
- Bin
ZHAO, postdoc, (B.S., M.S., Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Ph.D., West
Virginia University); Dec 2005 – May 2007, "Medium Access Protocols
for Large-Scale Wireless Networks." (Joined CINEA, VA)
- Yuan YU (B.S., Nankai University; M.S.,
Chinese Academy of Sciences); 2005 -2009, “Power allocation for multi-user
relay systems”. (Interned with Mercury Data System, Greensboro, NC and Huawei Technologies, Santa
Clara, CA. Now joined Finisar,
Sunnyvale, CA, and then Apple,
CA.)
- Kezhu HONG (B.S., M.S., Shanghai Jiao Tong
University); 2005 –2007, "Design and analysis of medium access
protocols for multi-hop wireless networks". (Joined Toyota InfoTechnology
Center, Inc., Palo Alto, CA.)
- Shan
OUYANG, visiting scholar, (B.S., Guilin University of Electronic
Technology; M.S., Ph.D., Xidian University); Jan
2003 - Jan 2004, "Fast subspace tracking and reduced rank
estimation". (Professor, Guilin University of Electronic Technology,
China)
- Xiaojun
TANG (B.S., M.S., University of Electronic Science and Technology of
China); 2003 – 2005, "Capacity of relay networks". (Joined
Rutgers and then Marvell Semiconductor Inc, Santa Clara CA, and then
AT&T, CA, and then Apple,
CA.)
- Zhenzhen YE (B.S., M.S., Southeast University; M.S.,
National University of Singapore); 2003 – 2005, "Routing algorithms
for relay networks". (Joined RPI and then iBasis,
MA and then IBM)
- Zheng
FANG (B.S., University of Science and Technology of China); 2002 - 2006,
"Blind source separation and identification and wireless
relays", (Joined Qualcomm,
San Diego, CA)
- Yan
MEI (B.S., University of Science and Technology of China; M.S., Concordia
University); 2002 – 2006, "Space-time coding and orthogonal frequency
division multiplexing for cooperative wireless relays." (Joined Petroleum Geo-Services, Houston,
TX. Now with GE Shanghai.)
- Yu
CHANG (B.S., M.S., Beijing Institute of Technology); 2001 -2005,
"Space-time coding and its applications in wireless networks."
(Joined Rambus, Mountain View,
CA, and then Apple, CA.)
At
University of Melbourne, Australia
- Hassan
ALI-BALOCH (Became Assistant Professor, The University of Nottingham (UniM), Kuala Lumpur campus)
- Qi
CHENG (Became Lecturer, University of Western Sydney, Australia)
- James
EVAN (Senior Engineer, Nokia Research Center, Australia)
- Paul
JUNOR (Lecturer, Latrobe University, Australia)
- Dragi KLIMOVSKI (Lecturer, Swinbane
University, Australia)
- Margaret
LECH (Research Fellow, Monash University, Australia)
- Jonathan
MANTON (Became Professor with
Australian National University, Australia, and then with University of
Melbourne, Australia. Fellow of
IEEE.)
- Yongfeng MIAO (Senior Engineer, Synopsis, CA)
- Maziar NIKPOUR – Winner of Chancellor's Award for the
Best Ph.D. Thesis (Research Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia)
- Minh
PHAM (Senior Engineer, CSIRO, Australia)
- Wenzhi QIU (Senior Engineer, NEC, Australia)
- Yong
XIANG (Became Professor with
Deakin University, Australia)
- Dr.
Karim ABED-MERAIM (Became Professor,
the University of Orleans, France. Fellow
of IEEE.)
- Dr.
Senjian AN (Research Fellow, Curtin University of Technology, Australia)
- Dr.
Hua (Howard) YANG (Expert, National Institute of Health, Washington, DC)
- Dr.
Wensheng YU (Professor, Chinese Academy of
Science)
- Dr.
Ce ZHU (Became Associate Professor, Nanyang University of Singapore,
Singapore. Now a Professor with
University of Science and Technology of China. Fellow of IEEE. )
- Professor
Tianping CHEN, Fudan University, Shanghai,
China.
Master-by-Thesis
Students:
At
University of California, Riverside
- Yuanxi
FU, 2018-2019, “License plate number recognition – using neural networks
and signal processing”. (with KLA-Tencor, Austin, Texas)
- Vishaal
MADANAGOPAL, 2017-2018, “Blind source separation of speech signals:
exploiting second-order statistics”. (with Verizon)
- Ashmika
DHABALE, 2017-2018, “Direction-of-arrival estimation using array signal
processing”. (with Goldman Sachs)
- Basil
MASRI, 2015-2016, “Recursive Cramer-Rao bound for random parameters”.
- Chaitanya
MAUSKAR, 2014-2015, “Interference cancellation for full-duplex radio”.
(With Intel, CA, and now with Apple, CA)
- Qiping
ZHU, 2014-2015, “Interference cancellation for full-duplex radio”.
(Converted to Ph.D. program)
- Haitao, LIU; 2008-2010, “Wireless relay assisted
communications”. (Joined LitePoint, Sunnyvale,
CA)
- Jie
LIANG; 2007-2009, “MIMO channel estimation”. (Joined Novatel Wireless, San
Diego, CA, and then Qualcomm,
CA.)
- Ben FELLOWS (B.S., University of
California at Riverside); 2006–2007, "Wireless Mesh Networks and WiMax". (Joined Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona, CA.)
- Sidharth KHANNA (B.S., India); 2006-2007, "Peak to
average power ratio reduction in orthogonal frequency division
multiplexing".
At
University of Melbourne, Australia
- Farhan BAQAI (Senior
Engineer, Sony US Research Lab, San Jose, CA. Now Senior Research
Engineer, Apple, CA. Fellow of IEEE.)
- Muhammad IKRAM (Senior
Engineer, Texas Instruments,
Dallas, TX)
- Hai (SAM) LE (Senior
Lecturer, He Zhi Ming University, Vietnam)
- Simon LOUREY (Engineer, Defence Science and Technology Organization,
Australia)
- P. (Raj) TISSAINAYAGAM
(Research Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia)
- Lei WEI (Became Associate Professor, Central
Florida University, FL)
- Yan ZHU (Senior Engineer,
Canon Research Center, Sydney, Australia)