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
- Benjamin Ujcich Advisor: William H. Sanders and Adam Bates, ECE 2020, Georgetown University
- Eric Alan Dunn Advisor: Jianming Jin, ECE 2005, The George Washington University
- Ha Uk Chung Advisor: John A. Rogers, ECE 2016, Korea University