WiMNet Lab Director
Gil Zussman
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Member of the Computer Engineering Program
Columbia University
On sabbatical in the School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University
Office: 811 CEPSR
Phone: +1 212 854 8670 (US), +972 58 501 0605 (Israel)
Email: gil[at]ee.columbia.edu
Postdoctoral Research Scientists
Dr. Guy Grebla
Office: 807 CEPSR
Phone: 212-854-7472
Email: guy[at]ee.columbia.edu
Guy Grebla received the B.A. (Summa Cum Laude) degree in Computer Science from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, in 2003. During 2001-2003 he worked for Intel, concentrating on the memory cluster in core 2 mobile processor. He worked as a software engineer, team leader, and system engineer for IDF, Israel, during 2004-2010. He received the M.A and PhD degree in Computer Science from the Technion – Israel Institute of Techonology in 2011 and 2013, respectively. His PhD research was on the optimization of OFDMA wireless networks.
Ph.D. Students
Tingjun Chen
Wei Family Foundation Fellow
Office: 801 CEPSR
Email: tingjun[at]ee.columbia.edu
Tingjun (Derrick) Chen graduated with B.Eng. degree in Electronic Information Science and Technology from Tsinghua University in July 2014. He is currently a first year Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at Columbia University under the advising of Professor Gil Zussman. His research interests are in resource allocation, algorithms and optimization in wireless communication networks, sensor networks, and energy harvesting networks. Tingjun has received a number of awards including the Wei Family Foundation Fellowship.
Varun Gupta
Office: 801 CEPSR
E-mail: varun[at]ee.columbia.edu
Varun Gupta completed his undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering at IIT Delhi and received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering at Columbia University in October 2012. He is currently working towards his PhD. at Columbia University. His research interests include distributed algorithms, data center network design, stochastic modeling.
Craig Gutterman
NSF IGERT Fellow and NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Office: 801 CEPSR
Email: clgutterman[at]gmail.com
Craig Gutterman received a B.S in Electrical Engineering (summa cum laude) from Rutgers University in 2012, and an M.S in Electrical Engineering from Columbia in 2013. His current research interests include network sciences, distributed algorithms and mobile network protocols.
Jelena Marasevic
Office: 801 CEPSR
Phone: 212-854-6900
Email: jelena[at]ee.columbia.edu
Jelena Marasevic received her B.S. degree from University of Belgrade, School of Electrical Engineering, in Belgrade, Serbia, in 2011. She received her M.S. degree from Columbia University in New York, NY, in 2012. Her current research interests include algorithms for resource allocation, scheduling and routing in energy harvesting networks, self-configurable mobile networks and communication protocols for the smart grid.
Robert Margolies
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Office: 815 CEPSR
Phone: 212-854-3109
Email: rsm2156[at]columbia.edu
Robert Margolies graduated with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering (summa cum laude) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in May 2010 and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia in May 2011. His current research interests are in cross-layer PHY and MAC layer design and specifically, ultra-low-power MAC design for impulse radio and opportunistic cellular scheduling.
Saleh Soltan
Office: 808 CEPSR
Email: saleh[at]ee.columbia.edu
Saleh Soltan received his B.S in Electrical Engineering and Pure Mathematics (double major) from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2011, and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in the City of New York, NY in 2012. His research interests include Network Sciences, Graph Theory and Complexity Analysis. His current focus is on cascading failures in power grids and their interdependencies with communication networks.
M.S. and Undergraduate Students
Supanath Juthacharoenwong
Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Student
Email: sj2514[at]columbia.edu
Rama Subbaraya Kompella
Electrical Engineering M.S. Student
Email: rk2797[at]columbia.edu
Marc Kurtz
REU student from City College of the City University of New York
Email: mkurtz00[at]citymail.cuny.edu
