Research Group
Student Research Seminars
Video recordings of the research seminars delivered by several of our students and postdocs are available here.
Current Graduate Students
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Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid is a Ph.D. student in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. He received his B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt in 2014 and M.S. degree in wireless communications from Nile University, Egypt in 2017. He worked as an Exchange Research Assistant at Sabanci University, Turkey, from Oct. 2016 to Feb. 2017. Prior to that, he was a Research Assistant at Nile University, Egypt, from Sep. 2014 to Sep. 2016. His research interests include wireless networks, energy harvesting, stochastic geometry and optimization. He is the recipient of the WiOpt 2021 best student paper award. (Webpage) (Google Scholar)
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Don-Roberts Emenonye received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, in 2016, and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2020. He is currently a Ph.D. student in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, USA. His research interests span the areas of communication theory and wireless positioning. (LinkedIn) (Google Scholar)
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Haozhou Hu is a Ph.D. student in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. He received his B.E. degree in Electronic and Information Engineering from Xidian University, China, in 2020, where he was ranked first in the gifted class of the School of Electronic Engineering and was awarded a National Scholarship. His research interests include wireless positioning, machine learning, and stochastic geometry.
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Harish Kumar is a Ph.D. student in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech since Fall 2022. Before joining VT, he was a Ph.D. student at Texas A&M University from Sept. 2021 to Aug. 2022. Prior to that, he worked at WiSig Networks, India, from Oct. 2017 to Aug. 2021. He received his M.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Hyderabad in 2016, where he was ranked third in his class. After graduating from IIT Hyderabad, he worked at Analog Devices, India from Aug. 2016 to Sep. 2017. His research interests comprise Cellular Communications, Massive MIMO, and AI for Wireless Communications. He was awarded the best paper award honorable mention at IEEE COMSNETS 2020. (LinkedIn)
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Anish Pradhan
is a graduate student in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. He completed his bachelor's degree from the National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India in 2018, where he was ranked first in the Department of Electrical and Communication Engineering and was awarded the Institute Gold Medal. During his undergraduate, he was invited to Japan to represent India in the JENESYS 2016 programme under the theme “Telecommunication” organized by the Japan International Cooperation Center (JICE) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of both countries. Upon graduation, he worked as a research intern at the Wirocomm lab, IIIT Delhi, exploring theoretical aspects of massive MIMO. His current research interests are in the area of massive MIMO and stochastic geometry. (Webpage) (Google Scholar)
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Xiangliu Tu is a Ph.D. student in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. She received her B.E. degree in Electronic and Information Engineering from Xidian University, China, in 2020, where she was ranked third in the gifted class of the School of Electronic Engineering and was awarded a National Scholarship. Her current research interests include wireless communications and stochastic geometry.
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Visiting Scholars
Our group hosts a few visiting Ph.D. students every year. Some of them continue working with us at Virginia Tech as Postdoctoral Fellows after completing their Ph.D. degrees. If you are interested in visiting us, please feel free to contact Prof. Dhillon.
Group Alumni
Postdoc
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Solmaz Niknam received her Ph.D. from Kansas State University, KS, USA in 2018. She was a visiting Ph.D. student and later a postdoc (co-hosted with Prof. Jeff Reed) in our group from July 2018 to June 2020. (Google Scholar)
First job after postdoc: Senior Modem System Engineer, Qualcomm, San Diego, CA
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Praful Mankar received his Ph.D. degree from IIT Kharagpur, India in 2016. He was a postdoctoral scholar in our group from Sept. 2017 to June 2019. (Google Scholar)
First job after postdoc: Assistant Professor, IIIT Hyderabad, India
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Mehrnaz Afshang received her Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University (co-advised by Dr. Dhillon) in March 2016. She was a visiting Ph.D. student and later a Postdoc in our group from Jan. 2015 until July 2018. (Google Scholar)
Her first job after postdoc was with Ericsson Research, Santa Clara, CA, USA
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Ph.D.
M.S.
Visiting Ph.D. Students
Undergraduate Interns
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