Columbia University

Postdoctoral Research Scientists

Dr. Igor Kadota

2020-2023
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University

Dr. Jip KimLinkedinIcon

2021-2022
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Energy Engineering, Korea Institute of Energy Technology (KENTECH)

LinkedinIconDr. Jonathan Ostrometzky

2018-2020
Current Affiliation: Faculty member, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Dr. Gail Gilboa-Freedman

2015-2016
Co-advised with Prof. Hanoch Levy
Current Affiliation: Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Reichman University, Israel

LinkedinIconDr. Guy Grebla

2013 – 2015
Co-advised with Prof. Dan Bienstock
Current Affiliation: Google

LinkedinIconDr. Maria Gorlatova

Summer 2013 – Fall 2013
Current Affiliation: Nortel Networks Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Computer Science, Duke University

Dr. Dorian Mazauric

2011 – 2012
Co-advised with Prof. Augustin Chaintreau and Prof. Vishal Misra
Current Affiliation: Researcher, INRIA, France

LinkedinIconDr. Caroline Lai

Summer 2011
Co-advised with Prof. Keren Bergman
Current Affiliation: Rockley Photonics Inc.

Dr. David Hay

2009 – 2010
Current Affiliation: Professor, Computer Science, Hebrew University, Israel.

Ph.D. Students

LinkedinIconTingjun Chen

Facebook Fellow and Wei Family Foundation Fellow
Graduated 2020
Thesis: Algorithms and Experimentation for Future Wireless Networks: From Internet-of-Things to Full-Duplex (Morton B. Friedman Memorial Prize for Excellence and Jury Award Recipient)
Current affiliation: Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University

LinkedinIconCraig Gutterman

NSF IGERT Fellow and NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Graduated 2020
Thesis: Learning for Network Applications and Control (Collaborative Research Award Recipient)
Current Affiliation: Facebook

Saleh SoltanLinkedinIcon

Graduated 2017
Thesis: “Computational and Analytical Tools for Resilient and Secure Power Grids” (Jury Award Recipient)
Current Affiliation: Amazon

LinkedinIconVarun Gupta

Graduated 2017
Thesis: “Measurement-Driven Algorithm and System Design for Wireless and Datacenter Networks” (Collaborative Research Award Recipient)
Current Affiliation: Facebook

LinkedinIconJelena Diakonikolas

Qualcomm Innovation Fellow (co-advised with Prof. Clifford Stein)
Graduated 2016
Thesis: “Resource allocation in wireless networks: Theory and applications” (Morton B. Friedman Memorial Prize for Excellence and Collaborative Research Award Recipient)
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Computer Science, U. Wisconsin Madison

LinkedinIconRobert Margolies

NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Graduated 2015
Thesis: “Resource Allocation for the Internet of Everything: From Energy Harvesting Tags to Cellular Networks” (Collaborative Research Award Recipient)
Current Affiliation: Google

LinkedinIconBerk Birand

IBM Ph.D. Fellow
Graduated 2014
Thesis: “Cross-layer resource allocation algorithms in wireless and optical networks” (Jury Award Recipient)
Current Affiliation: Co-founder and CEO Fero Labs

LinkedinIconMaria Gorlatova

Columbia Presidential Fellow, NSREC CGS Fellow, and Google Anita Borg Fellow
Graduated 2013
Thesis: “Energy Harvesting Networked Nodes: Measurements, Algorithms, and Prototyping” (Jury Award Recipient)
Current Affiliation: Nortel Networks Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Computer Science, Duke University

LinkedinIconShuzo Tarumi

Co-advised with Prof. Ed Coffman
Graduated 2010
Thesis: “Analysis of Spectrum Fragmentation in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks”
Current Affiliation: Google

M.S. Students with Thesis

Trevor Joseph Gordon

Electrical Engineering MS Student, Tesla Scholar
Graduated 2023
Thesis: “Towards Real-World Dynamic Spectrum Access Using Deep Reinforcement Learning”
Current Affiliation: Google

Aditya Jolly

Electrical Engineering MS Student, Tesla Scholar
Graduated 2023
Thesis: “Real-Time Adaptive Wideband Full Duplex Radios”
Current Affiliation: Qualcomm

Aditya Dash

Electrical Engineering MS Student, Columbia University
Graduated 2022
Thesis: “Millimeter-Waves in Manhattan: A Study on 28GHz and 60GHz Channel Characterization in NYC”
Current Affiliation: AMERGINT Technologies

Hannaneh Barahouei

Universite Grenoble Alpes MS Student, co-advised with Prof. Franck Rousseau
Graduated 2017
Thesis: “Online Video Rate Adaptation Algorithms in the AMuSe System”
Current Affiliation: Ph.D. student, Computer Science, Virginia Commonwealth University

Gerald Stanje

University of Klagenfurt MS Student, co-advised with Prof. Bernhard Rinner
Graduated 2012
Thesis: “Design, Development, and Implementation of Energy-Harvesting-Aware Communication Protocols for the Energy-Harvesting Active Networked Tags (EnHANTs)”

Muhammad Taher

Technion MS Student, co-advised with Prof. Adrian Segall
Graduated 2012
Final Project: “MAC Protocol for Wireless Networks with Multipacket Reception Capability”
Current Affiliation: Intel, Israel

Visitors

Prof. Yi-Han Chiang

Visiting Assistant Professor from Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan
Fall 2023 – Spring 2024

Nicola Di Cicco

Visiting PhD Student from Politecnico di Milano via NGI Enrichers Program
Fall 2023 – Spring 2024

Dror Jacoby

Visiting PhD Student from Tel Aviv University via NGI Enrichers Program
Fall 2023 – Spring 2024

Prof. Arunabha (Arun) Sen

Visiting Professor from Arizona State University
Fall 2021

Prof. Mehdi Amhoud

Fulbright fellow from UM6P Morocco
Summer-Fall 2021

LinkedinIconDr. Levent Gürgen

Founder & President Kentyou via the NGI Explorers program
Summer-Fall 2021

Gal Morgenstern

Visiting PhD student from Ben Gurion University, Israel via the NGI Explorers program
Summer-Fall 2021

LinkedinIconDr. Yigal Bejerano

Visiting Research Scientist
2017-2020

Brigadier General Amit Kunik

Adjunct Research Scientist from the IDF
Spring 2020

LinkedinIconArtur Minakhmetov

Visiting PhD student from Telecom ParisTech
Current Affiliation: Alcatel Submarine Networks
Spring – Summer 2019

Brooke Williams

Teacher from PS/MS 46 Arthur Tappan School, participant in the COSMOS RET program
Summer 2019

Joel Bianchi

High School Teacher from Frederick Douglas Academy I, participant in the COSMOS RET program
Summer 2018

Patrick Callahan

High School Teacher from Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics, participant in the COSMOS RET program
Summer 2018

Prof. Fernando Kuipers

Visiting Professor from TU Delft
Spring-Summer 2016

Prof. Javier Gomez

Visiting Professor from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
2015-2016

Dr. Noam David

Visiting Scientist from Cornell
Spring 2016

Prof. Ephi Zehavi

Visiting Professor from Bar Ilan University
Fall 2013

Prof. Yoram Moses

Visiting Professor from the Technion
Spring-Summer 2013

Prof. Raphi Rom

Visiting Professor from the Technion
Spring 2012, Spring 2013

Prof. Adrian Segall

Visiting Professor from the Technion
Summers 2010-2012

LinkedinIconJaime Ferragut

Visiting PhD student from CTTC
Spring – Summer 2012
Current Affiliation: Scientific/Technical Project Officer at European Commission

Prof. Damiano Carra

Visiting Professor from University of Verona
Spring 2012

LinkedinIconDr. David Hay

Visiting Associate Research Scientist
Fall 2011
Current Affiliation: Associate Professor, Computer Science, Hebrew University

LinkedinIconAndrey Bernstein

Visiting PhD student from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
2010 – 2011
Current Affiliation:  Group Manager, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

LinkedinIconAya Wallwater

Visiting MS Student from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
2009 – 2010
Current Affiliation: Vice President, J.P. Morgan

MS Students

Muchen Sui

Electrical Engineering MS Student (Tesla Scholar, MS Honors Program)
Fall 2023 – Spring 2024

Sam Brosh

Electrical Engineering MS Student (Tesla Scholar, SMART Scholar)
Fall 2023

Kengmin Lin

Electrical Engineering MS Student
Spring – Fall 2023

Shivam Ojha

Electrical Engineering MS Student (MS Honors Student)
Spring – Fall 2022

Leoni Lu

Electrical Engineering BS/MS Student
Spring 2021-Fall 2022

Asha Kiran Cherukuri

Electrical Engineering MS Student
Spring – Fall 2022

Vijay Shivalingayya Kalmath

Data Science Institute MS Student
Summer 2022

Angel Estigarribia

Electrical Engineering BS/MS Student
Summer 2019-Summer 2022

Azhaan Zahabee

Computer Science MS Student
Fall 2021

Saravanan Govindarajan

Electrical Engineering MS Student
Spring 2021-Fall 2021

Breijha Anderson

Electrical Engineering MS Student
Spring 2021

Jason Tianyi Dai

Electrical Engineering BS/MS Student
Spring 2019-Spring 2021

Mohith Manohar

Computer Science MS Student
Spring 2021

Zixiang Zheng

Electrical Engineering MS student (MS Honors Student)
Fall 2020

Guanxuan Li

Electrical Engineering MS Student
Spring-Fall 2019

Shounak Roy

Electrical Engineering MS Student
Spring-Fall 2019

Yuqin Xu

Electrical Engineering MS Student
Fall 2019

Josh Rutta

Electrical Engineering MS Student
Spring-Summer 2019

Shanglin Guo

Electrical Engineering MS Student
Spring 2019

Guy Farkash

Electrical Engineering MS Student, Tesla Scholar
Fall 2017 – Fall 2018

Andy (Lianghua) Xu

Computer Science BS/MS Student
Summer 2018 – Fall 2018

Siao-Ting Wang

Computer Engineering MS Student
Fall 2018

Alexander Loh

Electrical Engineering MS student
Fall 2016-Spring 2018

Ido Michael

Computer Engineering MS Student
Fall 2017

Steven Alfano

Electrical Engineering MS student
Fall 2016-Fall 2017

Alankrit Johari

Computer Science MS Student
Spring 2016

Abhijit Roy

Computer Science MS Student
Spring 2016

Rel Fogel

Electrical Engineering MS Student (Tesla Scholar)
Summer 2015 – Spring 2016

Rama Subbaraya Kompella

Electrical Engineering MS Student

Spring 2015

Earvin Caceres

Electrical Engineering MS Student (Tesla Scholar)
Fall 2013 – Fall 2014

Craig Gutterman

Electrical Engineering MS Student (Tesla Scholar)
Summer 2012 – Fall 2013

Patrick Clare

Electrical Engineering MS Student

Fall 2013

John C. Sizemore

Computer Science MS Student
Summer 2013

  • Haodan Huang, Fall 2011 – Spring 2012
  • Michael Zapas, Fall 2011 – Spring 2012
  • Sonal Shetkar, Spring 2011 – Fall 2011
  • Apoorva Gade, Summer 2011
  • Meric Uzunoglu, Summer 2010 – Spring 2011
  • Zainab Noorbhaiwala, Summer 2010 – Spring 2011
  • Enlin Xu, Fall 2009 – Summer 2010
  • Tarun Sharma, Fall 2009, Spring 2010
  • Ashwath Narasimhan, Summer 2009 – Fall 2009
  • Dongzhen (Park) Piao, Spring 2009 – Fall 2009
  • Shilpa Srinivasan, Fall 2009
  • Devendra Laulkar, Summer 2009
  • Ellen Shlossberg, Summer 2009
  • Sergio Rico, Fall 2008

Undergraduate Students

Sunny Carlin Qi

Computer Science Undergraduate Student
Summer 2024

José Daniel Rubenstein

Computer Science Undergraduate Student from Rutgers University
Summer 2024

Liao Zhu

Computer Science and Mathematics Undergraduate Student from University of Iowa (via the Amazon SURE program)
Summer 2024

Ahuva Malka Bechhofer

Computer Science Undergraduate Student
Summer 2023 – Spring 2024

Dipto Saha

Visiting Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Student from The Cooper Union
Fall 2023-Spring 2024

Kai Chen

Visiting Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Student from The Cooper Union
Fall 2023-Spring 2024

Carson Garland

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Undergraduate Student
Spring 2022 – Fall 2023

Zachary C Hine

Computer Science Undergraduate Student
Spring – Fall 2023

Timothy Wang

Visiting Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Student from the University of Michigan
Summer 2023

Shivan Mukherjee

Computer Engineering Undergraduate Student (Applied Math Minor)
Spring-Fall 2022

Owen Nuckolls

Computer Science Undergraduate Student (Rabi Scholar)
Summer-Fall 2022

Kaya Celebi

REU student from Duke University
Summer 2020, 2021, 2022

Samuel Cohen

Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Student from Yeshiva University, New York via the Columbia Amazon SURE program
Summer 2022

Watson Mushimbei

Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Student
Spring 2021-Spring 2022

Zichen (Doris) Qian

Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Student
Fall 2021

Gulnur Zehra Avci

Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Student
Summer 2021

Sienna Caroline Brent

Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Student
Summer 2021

Perry Flamer

Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Student
Spring-Summer 2021

Sabbir Hossain

Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Student from City College New York via the Columbia Amazon SURE program
Summer 2021

Minghan Zhu

Computer Science Undergraduate Student
Spring 2021

Samuel Miserendino

Computer Science Undergraduate Student
Fall 2020

Trey Gilliland

Computer Science Undergraduate Student (Egelston Scholar)
Spring 2019 – Summer 2020

Yusheng Hu

Computer Engineering Undergraduate Student
Summer 2019-Spring 2020

Alberto Gustavo Rodriguez

Computer Engineering Undergraduate Student (Davis Scholar)
Fall 2019-Spring 2020

Brayn Fridman

Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Student
Spring 2020

Max Helman

Computer Engineering Undergraduate Student
Spring 2020

Shaokai Lin

Computer Science Undergraduate Student
Spring 2020

Tom Joshi

Computer Science Undergraduate Student
Fall 2019

Luofei Zhang

Computer Science Undergraduate Student
Spring 2019

Jackson Welles

Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Student
Spring 2018-Summer 2019

Sarthak Arora

Computer Science Undergraduate Student
Fall 2017 – Spring 2019

Jenny Li

Columbia College Undergraduate Student, Rabi Scholar
Summer 2018-Spring 2019

Gharvhel Carre

Computer Science Undergraduate Student
Fall 2018 – Spring 2019

Xinyue (Cindy) Wang

Computer Science BS/MS Student (C.P. Davis Scholar)
Spring 2019

Kimberly Santiago

Computer Science Undergraduate Student
Spring 2019

Rodda John

Columbia College Undergraduate Student
Fall 2018 – Fall 2019

Jeremy Adkins

Computer Science Undergraduate Student
Summer 2018

Andrew Dwyer Jones

Computer Science Undergraduate Student
Summer 2018

Andy (Lianghua) Xu

Computer Science Undergraduate Student
Summer 2016 – Spring 2018

Aishwarya Rajen

Visiting Undergraduate Student from Anna University, India (S.N. Bose Scholar, co-advised with Prof. Krishnaswamy)
Summer 2017

Jinhui Song

Visiting Undergraduate Student from Tsinghua University, China
Summer 2017

Fan Yi

Visiting Undergraduate Student from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Summer 2017

Timothy Goodwin

Computer Science Undergraduate Student
Spring 2016-Summer 2017

Raphael Norwitz

Computer Science Undergraduate Student
Summer 2015-Fall 2015, Fall 2016

Bohan Wu

Visiting Computer Science Undergraduate Student from Duke
Summer 2016

Nicole Grimwood

Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Student
Fall 2015 – Spring 2016

James Thompson

Electrical Engineering Integrated BS/MS student (Egleston Scholar)
Fall 2015 – Spring 2016

Saahil Jain

Computer Science Undergraduate Student
Spring 2016

Gregory Chen

Computer Science Undergraduate Student
Spring 2016

Savvas Petridis

Computer Science Undergraduate Student
Summer 2015 – Fall 2015

Alexandre Simoes

Visiting Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Student from Universidade de Sao Paulo via the Brazil Scientific Mobility Program
Summer 2015

Preetish Tilak

Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Student from Purdue University
Summer 2015

Marc Kurtz

REU student from City College of the City University of New York
Summer 2014 – Summer 2015

Supanath Juthacharoenwong

Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Student
Fall 2014

Adam Edelstein

REU Student from Yeshiva University

Summer 2014

Russell Spiewak

REU Student from Yeshiva University
Summer 2014

Benjamin Zhu

Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Student
Summer 2014

Richard Chiou

Computer Science Undergraduate Student
Fall 2013 – Spring 2014

Mina Cong

Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Student
Fall 2011 – Fall 2013

Vanshil Shah

Computer Engineering Undergraduate Student
Summer 2013 – Fall 2013

Tingjun Chen

Visiting Undergraduate Electrical Engineering Student from Tsinghua University, China
Summer 2013

Josiah Hutchinson

REU student from Northern Arizona University
Summer 2013

Kanghwan Kim

Visiting Undergraduate Electrical Engineering Student from Cooper Union

Summer 2012 – Summer 2013

Matthew Cowan

Computer Science Undergraduate Student
Spring 2013

Luis Pena

Computer Engineering Undergraduate Student
Fall 2012 – Spring 2013

Ishaan Sayal

Visiting Undergraduate Student from PEC University of Technology (formerly Punjab Engineering College), Chandigarh, India
Spring 2013

  • Albert Maldonado, REU student from University of Puerto Rico, Summer 2012
  • Elliot Katz, Spring 2012
  • Dillen Roggensinger, Spring 2012
  • Osman Ahmed, REU student from Texas Southern University, Summer 2011
  • Michael Zapas, Summer 2010 – Spring 2011
  • Hari Subedi, REU student from University of Arizona, Summer 2010
  • Abraham Skolnik, Spring 2010 – Summer 2010
  • Jiasi Chen, co-Advised with Prof. Kinget, Spring 2009 – Summer 2010

High School Students

David Chen

High School Student from Stuyvesant High School
Summer 2023, 2024

Gal Sternberg

High School Student from Tenafly High School
Summer 2024

Enzo Schulze

High School Student from Townsend Harris High School
Summer 2023

David Chen

High School Student from Stuyvesant High School
Summer 2023

Aahan Mehta

High School Student from Stuyvesant High School
Summer 2022

Jared Moser

High School Student from Stuyvesant High School
Summer 2021, Summer 2022

Shiraz Bendor

High School Student from Cresskill High School
Summer 2019

Kaya Çelebi

High School Student from Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School
Summer 2019

Rodda John

Student from Stuyvesant High School and CIAN Young Scholar
Summer 20196

Tristan Kilper

Student from Rumson Fair Haven Regional High School and CIAN Young Scholar
Fall 2015 – Summer 2016

David Alvarez

Student from Peddie High School and CIAN Young Scholar

Summer 2016

Oz Bejerano

Student from Union County Academy of Information Technology and CIAN Young Scholar

Summer 2015

Caroline Schiavo

Student from Kent Place School through the NYU GSTEM Program and CIAN Young Scholars Program

Summer 2014

Sohan Kumar

Student from Peddie High School and CIAN Young Scholar

Summer 2013