Faculty
Dr. John MacLaren Walsh
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, 2006
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, 2004
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, 2002
Research Interests
- Bounding the Region of Entropic Vector
- Rate region for network coding and distributed storage: hierarchy, symmetry and computation
- Interactive and Distributed Function computation
- Machine Learning Based Recommender System for Patent processing
- Performance and Complexity of Variational Inference
- Optimization of Big Data Storage and Analytics Systems
e-mail: jwalsh@coe.drexel.edu
PhD Students
Yirui Liu
BS in Communication Engineering, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China, 2011
MS in Electrical Engineering, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China, 2015
Research Interests
- Network coding rate regions
e-mail: yl926@drexel.edu
David A. Cinciruk
BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Drexel University, 2012
Research Interests
- Patent Natural Language Processing
- Machine learning for Patent Processing
- Robust Speech Processing
e-mail: david.a.cinciruk@drexel.edu
Alexander Erick Trofimoff
EE and ME PhD studies at Drexel University 2011-present
Post Masters studies in Distributive Control at Automation Robotics Research Institute, Fort worth, 2009-2011
MS in General Statistics, University of Texas at Arlington, 2009
MS in Industrial Mathematics, University of Texas at Brownsville, 2007
Master of Computer Science, Universidad de la Veracruz ( UNIVER) , Mexico city DF, Mexico 2005
Technology Education Specialist. Universidad de San Buenaventura, Sta Fe de Bogota, DC, Colombia, 1998
BS double Major in EE and CE, 1996, 1997 respectively, Universidad del Valle( UNIVALLE), at Santiago de Cali, Colombia.
Research Interests
- Enumeration and listing of non-isomorphic representable matroids
- List of extremal linear polymatroids
- Classes of entropic matroids & polymatroids other than linear ones
- Applications to the calculation of Network Coding Capacity Regions
e-mail: a.erick.trofimoff@gmail.com
Ph.D. Alumni
Solmaz Torabi
Ph.D., Drexel University, 2018.
BS in Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2011
Research Interests
- Interactive compression for rapid Big Data Analytics
- Performance Complexity Tradeoffs in Distributed Variational Inference
e-mail: solmaz.t@drexel.edu
Mengke Hu
Ph.D., Drexel University, 2017.
M.E. degree in communication, image and information processing from Télécom SudParis, Evry, France, 2011
B.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from Xidian University, Xian, China, 2008
Research Interests
- Patent Natural Language Processing
- Patent Information Retrieval
- Robust Speech Processing
e-mail: mengke.hu@gmail.com
Jayant Apte
Ph.D., Drexel University, 2016.
B.E. Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, Mumbai University, India 2011
Research Interests
- Symmetry in Network Coding
- Algorithms for the computation of limits for information flow and storage
- Efficient Polyhedral Computation
e-mail: jayant91089@gmail.com
Jie Ren
Ph.D., Drexel University, 2016.
MS in Telecommunication, Widener University, 2011.
BS in Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, China, 2009
Current Position: Software Engineer in Big Data Analysis and Wireless Access at Huawei.
Research Interests
- Interactive Communications for Function Computation
- Fundamental Overhead Performance Tradeoffs for Resource Allocation
e-mail: jr843@drexel.edu
Yunshu Liu
Ph.D., Drexel University, 2016.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Drexel University, 2013.
B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Shandong University, China, 2008
Current Position: Data scientist at ZestFinance.
Research Interests
- Region of Entropic Vectors
- Information Geometry
- Fundamental limits of Probabilistic Machine Learning
e-mail: Yunshu.Liu@drexel.edu
Congduan Li
Ph.D., Drexel University, 2015.
M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Northern Arizona University, 2011.
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China, 2008.
Current Position: Postdoctoral scholar at the Institute of Network Coding at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Research Interests
- Distributed Storage System
- Rate regions for network coding: computation and hierarchy
- Region of Entropic Vector
e-mail: cl698@drexel.edu
Gwanmo Ku
Ph.D., Drexel University, 2014.
MS in Telecommunication Networks, Polytechnic University, 2007
BS in Electronics, Sogang University, Korea, 2000.
BS in Physics, Sogang University, Korea, 2000.
Current Position: Sr. Researcher at Advanced Communication Technology R&D Lab, LG Electronics Inc, Seoul, KOREA.
Research Interests
- Evaluating the amount of overhead and performance of the 4G wireless standards
- Efficient Resource Controller Design in LTE Standard
- Practical Distributed Source Coding
- DSP techniques for wireless communications
e-mail: gwanmoku@gmail.com
Ciira Wa Maina
Ph.D., Drexel University, 2011.
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2007.
Current Position: Lecturer, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Dedan Kimathi University of Technology, Nyeri Kenya.
Research Interests
- Statistical signal processing
- Speech processing
- Approximate Bayesian inference
- Inference in graphical models
e-mail: cwamaina.dekut @ gmail . com
Sivagnanasundaram Ramanan
Ph.D., Drexel University, 2011.
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, 2006.
Research Interests
- Distributed estimation and detection
- Distributed source coding
- Practical code design for distributed source coding
- Signal processing for wireless communications
e-mail: sur23@drexel.edu
BS and MS Alumni
Danielle Godwin
Undergraduate Research Student, Summer 2020
Research Interests
- Machine Learning
- Control Systems
e-mail: dg857@drexel.edu
Harpreet Cheema
Undergraduate Research Student, Summer 2020.
Research Interests
- Adversarial Label Attacks on Machine Learning Systems
- Label Attacks on Transfer Learning
e-mail: hc566@drexel.edu
Jessica Dixon
Undergraduate Research Student, Summer 2020.
Research Interests
- Machine Learning
- Computational Astronomy
e-mail: jd3323@drexel.edu
Julius Park
Undergraduate Research Student, Spring 2020.
Research Interests
- Machine Learning for Patent Processing
- Web Interface for Rate Region Calculation Software
e-mail: jmp536@drexel.edu
Linda Nora McLaughlin
Undergraduate Research Student, Summer 2010 -- Spring 2011.
Current Position: M.S. Ph.D. student in Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Eng, Cornell University
Research Interests
- Machine Learning
- Pattern recognition
- Digital Signal Processing
e-mail: lm549@drexel.edu
Ian Gallagher
Undergraduate Research Student, Fall 2010 -- Spring 2011.
Research Interests
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Adapting collaborative estimation algorithms to build distributed nuclear material detection and tracking sensor network algorithms
e-mail: img28@drexel.edu