Illinois ECE Alumni Professors

Incomplete List of ECE Illinois Alumni Professors

This (incomplete) list includes former Ph.D. students advised by ECE faculty at UIUC who are now tenure-track/tenured professors at various universities and colleges. Name linked to website, research advisor, the department graduated from, year of graduation, and employer are listed.

• Ashutosh Dhekne Advisor: Romit Roy Choudhury, ECE 2019, Georgia Tech
• Ruochen Lu Advisor: Songbin Gong, ECE 2019, The University of Texas at Austin
• Andrew R Stillwell Advisor: Robert Pilawa-Podgurski, ECE 2019, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Khaled Alshehri Advisor: Tamer Basar, ECE 2019, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia (Systems Engineering)
• Andrew R Stillwell Advisor: Robert Pilawa-Podgurski, ECE 2019, UIUC
• Nirupam Roy Advisor: Romit Roy Choudhury, ECE 2018, Univ. of Maryland, College Park
• Pan Li Advisor: Olgica Milenkovic, ECE 2018, Purdue University
• Xu Chen Advisor: Andreas Cangellaris/Jose Schutt-Aine, ECE 2018, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Desiree Philips Advisor: Tom Overbye, ECE 2018, University of Houston
• Henry Duwe Advisor: Rakesh Kumar, ECE 2017, Iowa State
• Xun Jian Advisor: Rakesh Kumar, ECE 2017, Virginia Tech
• Hui Lin Advisor: Ravi Iyer, ECE 2017, University of Nevada
• Mahanth Gowda Advisor: Romit Roy Choudhury, ECE 2017, Pennsylvania State
• Wen Huang Advisor: Xiuling Li, ECE 2017, Hefei University of Technology
• Humphrey Shi Advisor: Thomas S. Huang, ECE 2017, University of Oregon
• Woo-Seok Choi Advisor: Pavan Hanumolu, ECE 2017, Seoul National University
• Yingyan Lin Advisor: Naresh Shanbhag, ECE 2017, Rice University
• Mingu Kang Advisor: Naresh Shanbhag, ECE 2017, University of California San Diego
• Yue Cao Advisor: Philip Krein, ECE 2017, Oregon State University
• Siming Guo Advisor: Tom Overbye, ECE 2017, Coastal Carolina University
• Xichen Jiang Advisor: Alejandro D. Dominguez-Garcia, ECE 2016, Western Washington University
• Lewis Tseng Advisor: Nitin Vaidya, ECE 2016, Boston College
• Homa Alemzadeh Advisor: Ravi Iyer, ECE 2016, University of Virginia
• Zachary Estrada Advisor: Ravi Iyer, ECE 2016, Rose Hulman Institute of Technology
• He Wang Advisor: Romit Roy Choudhury, ECE 2016, Purdue University
• Atlas Wang Advisor: Thomas S. Huang, ECE 2016, UT Austin
• Yingzhen Yang Advisor: Thomas S. Huang, ECE 2016, Arizona State
• Shiyu Chang Advisor: Thomas S. Huang, ECE 2016, UC Santa Barbara
• Su Yan Advisor: Jianming Jin, ECE 2016, Howard University
• Kurt Schab Advisor: Jennifer Bernhard, ECE 2016, Santa Clara University
• Jia-Bin Huang Advisor: Narendra Ahuja, ECE 2016, Virginia Tech
• Xichen Jiang Advisor: Alejandro D. Dominguez-Garcia, ECE 2016, Western Washington University
• Parasara Sridhar Duggirala Advisor: Sayan Mitra, ECE 2015, University of North Carolina
• Onyema Osuagwu Advisor: Steve Levinson, Lynford Goddard, ECE 2015, Morgan State University
• Saurabh Saxena Advisor: Pavan Hanumolu, ECE 2015, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
• Tejasvi Anand Advisor: Pavan Hanumolu, ECE 2015, Oregon State University
• Jun Moon Advisor: Tamer Basar, ECE 2015, Hanyang University (Seoul, S. Korea)-EE&AI
• Seyed Rasoul Etesami Advisor: Tamer Basar, ECE 2015, UIUC-ISE
• Srikanthan Sridharan Advisor: Philip Krein, ECE 2015, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
• Abhishek Gupta Advisor: Tamer Basar and Cedric Langbort (Aero), ECE 2014, Ohio State University-ECE
• Y. Christine Chen Advisor: Alejandro D. Dominguez-Garcia, ECE 2014, University of British Columbia
• Zuofu Cheng Advisor: Lippold Haken, ECE 2014, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Renjie Zhou Advisor: Lynford Goddard, ECE 2014, Chinese University Hong Kong
• Siva Theja Maguluri Advisor: R. Srikant, ECE 2014, Georgia Tech
• Taposh Banerjee Advisor: Venu Veeravalli, ECE 2014, University of Texas, San Antonio
• Aly El Gamal Advisor: Venu Veeravalli, ECE 2014, Purdue University
• Saiprasad Ravishankar Advisor: Yoram Bresler, ECE 2014, Michigan State University
• Vulong Le Advisor: Thomas S. Huang, ECE 2014, Deakin University
• Amin Emad Advisor: Olgica Milenkovic, ECE 2014, McGill University
• Katherine A. Kim Advisor: Philip T Krein, ECE 2014, National Taiwan University
• Dimitra Apostolopoulou Advisor: Peter Sauer, ECE 2014, University of London
• Katherine Kim Advisor: Philip Krein, ECE 2014, National Taiwan University
• Jiaming Xu Advisor: Bruce Hajek, ECE 2013, Duke University
• Amir Arbabi Advisor: Lynford Goddard, ECE 2013, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Javad Ghaderi Advisor: R. Srikant, ECE 2013, Columbia University
• Joseph Callenes-Sloan Advisor: Rakesh Kumar, ECE 2013, California Polytechnic State University
• Taylor T. Johnson Advisor: Sayan Mitra, ECE 2013, Vanderbilt University
• John Stratton Advisor: Wen-mei Hwu, ECE 2013, Whitman College
• Sang-Yoon Chang Advisor: Yih-Chun Hu, ECE 2013, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs
• Guo-Jun Qi Advisor: Thomas S. Huang, ECE 2013, University of Central Florida
• Usman Tariq Advisor: Thomas S. Huang, ECE 2013, American University of Sharjah
• Farzad Farnoud Advisor: Olgica Milenkovic, ECE 2013, University of Virginia
• Brian Johnson Advisor: Philip T Krein, ECE 2013, University of Washington
• Quanyan Zhu Advisor: Tamer Basar, ECE 2013, New York University-ECE
• Sairaj Dhople Advisor: Alejandro D. Dominguez-Garcia, ECE 2012, University of Minnesota
• Amir Houmansadr Advisor: Nikita Borisov, ECE 2012, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
• Prateek Mittal Advisor: Nikita Borisov, ECE 2012, Princeton University
• Sreeram Kannan Advisor: Pramod Viswanath, ECE 2012, University of Washington-Seattle
• John Sartori Advisor: Rakesh Kumar, ECE 2012, University of Minnesota
• Kiryung Lee Advisor: Yoram Bresler, ECE 2012, Ohio State University
• Sairaj Dhople Advisor: Alejandro D. Dominguez-Garcia, ECE 2012, University of Minnesota
• Eric Rozier Advisor: William H. Sanders, ECE 2011, University of Cincinnati
• Saman Zonouz Advisor: William H. Sanders, ECE 2011, Rutgers University
• Liangliang Cao Advisor: Thomas S. Huang, ECE 2011, UMass Amherst
• Jacob Adams Advisor: Jennifer Bernhard, ECE 2011, North Carolina State University
• JIe Bang (Stephen) Yan Advisor: Jennifer Bernhard, ECE 2011, University of Alabama
• Jessica Ruyle Advisor: Jennifer Bernhard, ECE 2011, University of Oklahoma
• Katherine Rogers Davis Advisor: Tom Overbye, ECE 2011, Texas A&M
• Behzad Sharif Advisor: Yoram Bresler, ECE 2010, University of California, Los Angeles
• Jun-Won Choi Advisor: Andrew Singer, ECE 2010, Hanyang University
• Hector Pulgar Painemal Advisor: Peter Sauer, ECE 2010, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• Ali Bazzi Advisor: Philip Krein, ECE 2010, University of Connecticut
• Ali Davoudi Advisor: Pat Chapman, ECE 2010, University of Texas at Austin
• Meng Lu Advisor: Brian Cunningham, ECE 2009, Iowa State
• Michael Rosulek Advisor: Manoj Prabhakaran and Michael Loui, ECE 2009, Oregon State University
• Kiersten Kerby-Patel Advisor: Jennifer Bernhard, ECE 2009, University of Massachusetts - Boston
• Karthik Pattabiraman Advisor: Ravi Iyer, ECE 2008, University of British Columbia
• Che Lin Advisor: Venu Veeravalli, ECE 2008, National Taiwan University
• Yun Fu Advisor: Thomas S. Huang, ECE 2008, Northeastern University
• Tony Han Advisor: Thomas S. Huang, ECE 2008, University of Missouri
• Zeb Tate Advisor: Tom Overbye, ECE 2008, University of Toronto
• Pablo Ruiz Advisor: Peter Sauer, ECE 2008, Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy
• Lei Ying Advisor: R. Srikant, ECE 2007, Arizona State University
• Srinivas Shakkottai Advisor: R. Srikant, ECE 2007, Texas A&M University
• Jonathan Kimball Advisor: Philip Krein, ECE 2007, Missouri S&T
• Wayne Weaver Advisor: Philip Krein, ECE 2007, Michigan Tech
• Alexis Kwasinski Advisor: Philip Krein, ECE 2007, University of Pittsburgh
• Liyan Qu Advisor: Pat Chapman, ECE 2007, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Sujay Sanghavi Advisor: Bruce Hajek, ECE 2006, University of Texas at Austin
• Bowon Lee Advisor: Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, ECE 2006, Inha University
• Jungmin So Advisor: Nitin Vaidya, ECE 2006, Hallym University, South Korea
• Romit Roy Choudhury Advisor: Nitin Vaidya, ECE 2006, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Tie Liu Advisor: Pramod Viswanath, ECE 2006, Texas A&M University
• Serdar Yüksel Advisor: Tamer Basar, ECE 2006, Queen's University
• Tansu Alpcan Advisor: Tamer Basar, ECE 2006, University of Melbourne
• Gregory Huff Advisor: Jennifer Bernhard, ECE 2006, Pennsylvania State University
• Tansu Alpcan Advisor: Tamer Basar, ECE 2006, University of Melbourne-EEE
• Robert S. Balog Advisor: Philip Krein, ECE 2006, Texas A&M University
• Sung-il Pae Advisor: Michael Loui, ECE 2005, Hongik University, South Korea
• Atilla Eryilmaz Advisor: R. Srikant, ECE 2005, The Ohio State University
• Yingbin (Grace) Liang Advisor: Venu Veeravalli, ECE 2005, The Ohio State University
• Ronald Barnes Advisor: Wen-mei Hwu, ECE 2005, University of Oklahoma
• Ali E Yilmaz Advisor: Jianming Jin, ECE 2005, University of Texas at Austin
• Jill Nelson Advisor: Andrew Singer, ECE 2005, George Mason University
• Jacqueline (Martin) Huff (MS) Advisor: Jennifer Bernhard, ECE 2005, Pennsylvania State University
• Ken Chen Advisor: Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, ECE 2004, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Jean-Francois Chamberland-Tremblay Advisor: Venu Veeravalli, ECE 2004, Texas A&M University
• Byonghyo Shim Advisor: Naresh Shanbhag, ECE 2004, Seoul National University
• Hyeon-min Bae Advisor: Naresh Shanbhag, ECE 2004, Korea Advanced Institute of Technology
• Juan Alvarez Advisor: Bruce Hajek, ECE 2004, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Rouwaida Kanj Advisor: Elyse Rosenbaum, ECE 2004, American University of Beirut
• Dror Baron Advisor: Yoram Bresler, ECE 2003, North Carolina State University
• Mohammad Mansour Advisor: Naresh Shanbhag, ECE 2003, American University of Beirut
• Jun Zou Advisor: Chang Liu, ECE 2002, Texas A&M
• Qiang Cheng Advisor: Thomas S. Huang, ECE 2002, University of Kentucky
• Qi Tian Advisor: Thomas S. Huang, ECE 2002, University of Texas at San Antonio
• Julio Urbina Advisor: Erhan Kudeki, ECE 2002, Pennsylvania State
• Christopher Schmitz Advisor: Douglas Jones, ECE 2002, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Santiago Grijalva Advisor: Peter Sauer, ECE 2002, Georgia Tech University
• Sanjay Shakkottai Advisor: R. Srikant, ECE 2001, University of Texas at Austin
• Saurabh Bagchi Advisor: Ravi Iyer, ECE 2001, Purdue University
• Pengyu Hong Advisor: Thomas S. Huang, ECE 2001, Brandeis University
• Ying Wu Advisor: Thomas S. Huang, ECE 2001, Northwestern University
• Dan Jiao Advisor: Jianming Jin, ECE 2001, Purdue University
• Lei Wang Advisor: Naresh Shanbhag, ECE 2001, University of Connecticut
• Suleyman Serdar Kozat Advisor: Andrew Singer, ECE 2001, Bilkent University
• Ananya Sen Gupta Advisor: Andrew Singer, ECE 2001, University of Iowa
• Gurdal Arslan Advisor: Tamer Basar, ECE 2001, University of Hawaii-EE
• Dan Connors Advisor: Wen-mei Hwu, ECE 2000, University of Colorado
• David August Advisor: Wen-mei Hwu, ECE 2000, Princeton University
• Mark Hersam Advisor: Joe Lyding, ECE 2000, Northwestern University
• Christopher Schmitz Advisor: Tamer Basar, ECE 2000, US Air Force Academy
• Raymond Klump Advisor: Tom Overbye, ECE 2000, Lewis University
• Vijay Subramanian Advisor: Bruce Hajek, ECE 1999, University of Michigan
• Vladimir Pavlovic Advisor: Thomas S. Huang, ECE 1999, Rutgers University
• Hai Tao Advisor: Thomas S. Huang, ECE 1999, UC Santa Cruz
• Zhi David Chen Advisor: Joe Lyding, ECE 1999, University of Kentucky
• MingQing Xiao Advisor: Tamer Basar (Math), ECE 1997, Southern Illinois University, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
• Murat Alanyali Advisor: Bruce Hajek, ECE 1996, TOBB Univ. Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey
• Scott Mahlke Advisor: Wen-mei Hwu, ECE 1996, University of Michigan
• Carlos H. Hidrovo Advisor: Philip Krein, ECE 1996, Northeastern University
• David Gallagher Advisor: Wen-mei Hwu, ECE 1995, Cedarville University
• Michael S. Lew Advisor: Thomas S. Huang, ECE 1995, Leiden University
• Gwan Choi Advisor: Ravi Iyer, ECE 1994, Texas A&M
• Andrew Horner Advisor: Lippold Haken, ECE 1993, American University Hong Kong
• Daniel Noneaker Advisor: Michael Pursley, ECE 1993, Clemson University
• Harlen Russel Advisor: Michael Pursley, ECE 1993, Clemson University
• Nancy Warter-Perez Advisor: Wen-mei Hwu, ECE 1993, California State University
• Bernard Lesieutre Advisor: Peter Sauer, ECE 1993, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Bernard (Bernie) Lesieutre Advisor: Peter Sauer, ECE 1993, University of Wisconsin
• Carl Baum Advisor: Michael Pursley, ECE 1992, Clemson University
• Frederick Kish, Jr. Advisor: Nick Holonyak, ECE 1992, North Carolina State
• Thomas Conte Advisor: Wen-mei Hwu, ECE 1992, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Chang Wen Chen Advisor: Thomas S. Huang, ECE 1992, SUNY Buffalo
• Venugopal Varadachari Veeravalli Advisor: Tamer Basar, ECE 1992,  
• Kannappan Palaniappan Advisor: Thomas S. Huang, ECE 1991, University of Missouri-Columbia
• R. Srikant Advisor: Tamer Basar, ECE 1991, UIUC-ECE
• Upmanyu Madhow Advisor: Michael Pursley, ECE 1990, University of California Santa Barbara
• Yuncai Liu Advisor: Thomas S. Huang, ECE 1990, Shanghai Jiaotong University
• Juyang Weng Advisor: Thomas S. Huang, ECE 1989, Michigan State
• Jerry Trahan Advisor: Michael Loui, ECE 1988, Louisiana State University
• Steven Blostein Advisor: Thomas S. Huang, ECE 1988, Queen's University
• Galen Sasaki Advisor: Bruce Hajek, ECE 1987, University of Hawaii
• Prasoon Tiwari Advisor: Michael Loui, ECE 1986, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
• Homer Chen Advisor: Thomas S. Huang, ECE 1986, National Taiwan University
• Khashayar Khorasani Advisor: M.A. Pai, ECE 1985, Concordia University, Quebec, Canada
• James Lenhert Advisor: Michael Pursley, ECE 1984, Purdue University
• Alan Bovik Advisor: Thomas S. Huang, ECE 1984, UT Austin
• Said Ahmed-Zaid Advisor: Peter Sauer, ECE 1984, Boise State University
• Wayne Stark Advisor: Robert McElice, ECE 1982, University of Michigan
• Pramod Varshney Advisor: Abraham Haddad, ECE 1976, Syracuse University
• Jont Allen Advisor: Hyatt (BS degree), ECE 1966, Univ of Illinois
• James Beauchamp Advisor: Lejaren Hiller, ECE 1965, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Mariesa Crow, Missouri S&T