WiMNet Lab Director

Gil Zussman

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Member of the Computer Engineering Program
Columbia University

Office: 811 CEPSR
Phone: 212-854-8670
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.

Dr. Maria Gorlatova

Office: 910 CEPSR
Phone: 212-854-6900
Email: maria.gorlatova[at]gmail.com

Maria received B.S. (Summa Cum Laude) and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ottawa in 2004 and 2006 respectively. She received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in May 2013. During her studies toward the Ph.D. degree, she received the Columbia Presidential Fellowship, NSERC CGS Fellowship, and Google Anita Borg Fellowship. In 2006-2008 she worked as a research scientist, specializing in wireless network security, at Defense R&D Canada and at Telcordia Technologies. Her current research is focused on networking ultra low power energy harvesting devices.

Ph.D. Students

Berk Birand

IBM Ph.D. Fellow

Office: 910 CEPSR
Email: berk[at]ee.columbia.edu

Berk’s research focus is on developing efficient cross-layer algorithms in wireless and optical networks. His current work is on proving the performance bounds on distributed scheduling algorithms and on identifying energy-efficient resource allocation problems in optical access networks.

Varun Gupta

Office: 813 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.

Jelena Marasevic

Office: 910 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 interest includes Network Sciences, Graph Theory and Complexity Analysis. His current focus is on cascading failures in power grids and their interdependencies with communication networks.