Students

Software Communication & Navigation Systems (SCNS) Lab

Administration

  • Dr. David Akopian (Head)
  • Dr. Sahak Kaghyan (Manager)

Core Communication Systems and Positioning

  • Erick Schmidt, (PhD student): SDR Instrumentation, WLAN, GPS, Positioning Systems, Baseband Level Interference Cancellation
  • Rahul Mundlamuri, (PhD student)
  • Shindara Tan (PhD student): Indoor routing algorithms
  • Junhwan Lee (PhD student): GPS spoofing

Mobile Systems and Applications

  • Sahak Kaghyan: Advisor and Messaging Systems
  • Devasena Inupakutika (PhD student): Mobile Web Apps, fast app prototyping, activity data retrieval systems
  • Thinh Vo (BS): Messaging Systems

Alumni
(Incomplete List)

  • Ali Khalajmehrabadi (Samsung)
  • Chetan Basutkar (NVIDIA)
  • Lakshmipathi Aaleswara (Microsoft)
  • Jafet Morales, PhD (UT San Antonio)
  • Paul Hamilton (NASA)
  • Gerson Rodriguez (TBD, San Jose)
  • Sawani Soman (HCL America Inc)
  • Rodrigo Escobar (Intel)
  • Swara Somala (Apple)
  • Girish Vaidyanathan (Netskope)
  • Suraj Warrier (Itron)
  • Kavya Reddy Choppa (Data Dynamics)
  • Tanjila Ahmed (UC Davis, Honeywell Intl)
  • Anirban Saha (Sprint)
  • Chandana Golagani, M.S. (Freescale)
  • Andreas Gampe (Google)
  • Rudresh Gandhinagar Ekanthappa (Ford Motor Company)
  • R. Ganesh Kumar, M.S. (Garmin)
  • Edwin Aulick (SWRI)
  • Moosa Esfahanian (Pearson, SW)
  • Michael Chan (TCG, eBay)
  • Arpine Soghoyan (Gyrfalcon Technology)
  • Arsen Melkonyan, PhD (Cisco, VMWare)
  • Fu-Wei Chang, M.S., (TBD)
  • Keyur Bhatt, MS, (p3-communications)
  • Vaibhav Reddy Mareddy, M.S. (AT&T Mobility)
  • Travis Thompson, M.S. (SWRI)
  • Jayanthi Narisetty, M.S. TBD
  • Catalin Lacatus, Ph.D. (Qualcomm)
  • Swati Goyal, M.Sc. (Guavus Network Systems)
  • Deepthi Bhupathiraju, B.S. (Nokia, Verizon Wireless, …)
  • Yessica Gutierrez, M.S., (General Dynamics)
  • Raja Sekhar Pilli, M.S. (Calsoft Labs)
  • Adnan Suleiman, PhD (AMD, Cirrus Logic)
  • Abhinav Kumar (M.S.) (Mobile at SVB Financial Group)
  • Sandesh Nerallapally, M.S. (TBD)
  • Mythreyee Doma, M.Sc. (Industry, TBD)
  • Rakesh Kasarla, M.Sc. (Industry, TBD)
  • Phanikrishna Sagiraju, PhD, GPS, (Intel, Samsung)
  • Sri Kiran Yerubandi, M.S., (Sr. Data Analyst, Group Health Cooperative)
  • Sandesh Chayapathy, M.S., (iOS Location, Apple)
  • Sunil DSouza, M.S., (Dell, Inc.)
  • Sushanth Govinahallisathyanarayana, M.S., (PhD, University of Virginia)
  • Maheedhar Gunturu, M.S., (Zscaler Inc.)
  • Adel Hussein, PhD, (Cirrus Logic)
  • Varun Jayaram, M.S., (Qualcomm)
  • Bhargav Kalgikar, M.S., (Yahoo)
  • Pradeep Kashyap, M.S., (Amazon, RF at Lab126)
  • Aleksandr Panchul, Ph.D., (GlobalSCAPE, Inc.)
  • Ashley Perez, B.S., (Hewlett-Packard)
  • James Perez, B.S., (BAE Systems)
  • Mohanapriya Sundaramurthy, M.S. (Salient Systems)
  • Rajesh Vallepalli, M.S. (Qualcomm)
  • Paul Ybarra, M.S. (USAA)
  • Larry Massengale, M.S. (TBD)
  • Ahmet Cevdet Avsar, M.S. (TBD)