GROUP MEMBERS

Faculty

Ravi Sankar, Ph.D., P.E. (Director)

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Research Interests: Communication/Computer Networking (high-speed, high-performance and fault tolerant LANs/MANs/WANs); Speech Processing and Recognition; Signal Processing and its Applications; Telecommunications; Applications of Neural Networks and Fuzzy logic; Simulation and Modeling.

Paul Flikkema, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Research Interests: Personal, Mobile, and Satellite communication systems; Spread spectrum and Distributed systems; Communications and and Signal Processing.

Ken Christensen, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Research Interests : Computer networks and Performance modeling.

Kaushal Chari, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Information Systems & Decision Sciences
Research Interests: Topological Design of Communications Network, Mobile Computing, Network Economics, Decision Support Systems.

Suili Feng, Ph.D.

Visiting Researcher, South China University of Technology
Research Interests: High-Speed Networks, VBR/ABR Traffic Modelling, Control, and Management, Communication Systems, Signal Processing.

Alumni

Yung-Yuan Yang, Ph.D.

Member of Technical Staff in ATM Applications Group, TranSwitch, Shelton, CT.
Research Interests: Performance modeling and simulation of networks, Fault tolerance, FDDI; Multimedia networking (ATM); Internetworking.

Yang

Kalyan Ram Kidambi, Ph.D.

Member of Technical Staff in Networking Group, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Green Belt, MD.
Research Interests:ATM, Congestion control, High speed networks, Internetworking, Multimedia support, and Protocol Modeling.

Kalyan Kidambi

George Edwards,Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, University of Denver, Denver, CO.
Research Interests:handoff and channel allocation for cellular communications, real-time speech processing, application of stochastic models in network and signal processing.

gedwards@odin.cair.du.edu

Girish Chiruvolu, Ph.D.

Member of Technical Staff in Network Architecture Group, Alcatel, Richardson, TX.
Research Interests: VBR Video Traffic Performance modeling and simulation, IPv6, Internet.

Girish

King Ma, M.S.

Member of Technical Staff in ATM Group, Cabletron, Rochester, NH.
Research Interests: ATM Congestion Control for ABR services

King Ma

Ranvir Singh, M.S.

Member of Technical Staff in AI Speech Group, NYNEX Science and Technology, White Plains, NY.
Research Interests: Performance trending of networks and Speech processing.

rsingh@nynexst.com

Vikram Kapoor, M.S.

Software Design Engineer in the PCS group, Motorola, Libertyville, IL.
Research Interests: PCS applications, Adaptive prediction based handoff, and CDMA systems.

vkapoor@diane.csg.mot.com

Venugopal Mannem, M.S.

Software Engineer, Adaptec, Milipitas, CA.
Research Interest: ATM

mannem@eng.adaptec.com

Wen Li, M.S.

Member of Technical Staff in the Mutimedia Group, Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX.
Research Interests: Integrated voice/data networks and Video compression.

weli@msg.ti.com

Current Graduate Students

Srihari Varada (Ph.D. Candidate, Electrical Engineering)

Lesley Civil (Ph.D. Candidate, Electrical Engineering)

Nilesh Savkoor (M.S., Electrical Engineering)

Sameer Azad (M.S., Electrical Engineering)

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