{"id":1875,"date":"2024-01-26T01:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T01:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sia.mit.edu\/dev_site\/?page_id=1875"},"modified":"2025-09-20T00:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T00:58:13","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sia.mit.edu\/dev_site\/index.php\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; custom_padding_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; max_width=&#8221;100%&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||||true&#8221; custom_margin_tablet=&#8221;|0px||0px|true|false&#8221; custom_margin_phone=&#8221;|0px||0px|true|false&#8221; custom_margin_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;|108px||108px|false|true&#8221; custom_padding_tablet=&#8221;|0px||0px|false|true&#8221; custom_padding_phone=&#8221;|0px||0px|false|true&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][et_pb_row custom_padding_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_margin_tablet=&#8221;|||123px|false|false&#8221; custom_margin_phone=&#8221;|auto||20px|false|false&#8221; custom_margin_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;|0px|||false|false&#8221; custom_padding_tablet=&#8221;|10.5rem|||false|false&#8221; custom_padding_phone=&#8221;|30px||30px|false|true&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text content_tablet=&#8221;<\/p>\n<h1><span style=%22color: #000000;%22>News<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&#8221; content_phone=&#8221;<\/p>\n<h1 style=%22text-align: center;%22><span style=%22color: #000000;%22>News<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&#8221; content_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Cabin||||||||&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;45px&#8221; header_font=&#8221;Mada||||||||&#8221; header_font_size=&#8221;40px&#8221; header_3_font=&#8221;Mada|300|||||||&#8221; header_3_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; header_3_font_size=&#8221;30px&#8221; max_width=&#8221;100%&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;|||-8px|false|false&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; module_alignment_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; module_alignment_phone=&#8221;center&#8221; module_alignment_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0News<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||0px|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;13px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;30px||30px||true|false&#8221; text_font_size_tablet=&#8221;13px&#8221; text_font_size_phone=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">8.31.2020<\/span><\/h5>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Alumnus receives doctorate at commencement<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0The laboratory\u2019s latest alumnus, Toros Arikan was granted his doctorate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at commencement today. Toros completed his thesis entitled \u201cData-Driven Localization and Structure Learning in Reverberant Underwater Acoustic Environments,\u201d in May 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; header_4_font_size=&#8221;20px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #000000;\">8.25.2022<\/span><\/h5>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #000000;\">Student in lab wins student paper award<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Graduate student Gary Lee in the lab received the Student Paper Award at the 2022 Machine Learning for Signal Processing Workshop, which was held in August. The award, which recognizes the best paper led by a student, was for the contribution entitled \u201cExploiting Temporal Structures of Cyclostationary Signals for Data-Driven Single-Channel Source Separation.\u201d The work was a collaboration among Gary Lee, Amir Weiss, Yuheng Bu, and Greg Wornell in RLE, and Alejandro Lancho, Jennifer Tang, and Yury Polyanskiy in LIDS, as part of the DAF-MIT AI Accelerator.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">6.28.2022<\/span><\/h5>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #000000;\"><strong>Alumna selected for `Innovators Under 35\u2032 list by Technology Review<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Laboratory alumna Gauri Joshi was named to MIT Technology Review\u2019s 2022 list of the world\u2019s top 35 innovators under the age of 35. Gauri appears in the `AI and Robots\u2019 category of the list for her work on distributed computing architectures for large-scale machine learning. Gauri is currently a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University. Gauri\u2019s `Innovators Under 35\u2032 profile is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/innovator\/gauri-joshi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;13px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">5.26.2022 <\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Alumnus receives doctorate at commencement\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">The laboratory\u2019s latest alumnus, Joshua Lee, was granted his doctorate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at commencement today. Joshua completed his thesis entitled \u201cMaximal Correlation Feature Selection and Suppression With Applications,\u201d in September 2021,<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">6.4.2021<\/span><\/h5>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #000000;\"><strong>Alumnus receives doctorate at commencement<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>The laboratory\u2019s latest alumnus, Adam Yedidia, was granted his doctorate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the virtual commencement today. Adam completed his thesis entitled \u201cAnalysis and Optimization of Occluder-Based Imaging,\u201d in September 2020,<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||false|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>12.9.2020<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>New postdoc joins the laboratory<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The laboratory welcomes new postdoc Amir Weiss. Amir recently obtained his PhD in electrical engineering from Tel Aviv University in Israel in 2020 and was subsequently a postdoc at the Weizmann Institute of Science in fall 2020.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>8.31.2020<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>New M.Eng. students join the laboratory<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The laboratory welcomes new M.Eng. students Mumin Jin, Tony Wang, Xiaoyi Wang, and Isabella Kang, all of whom were MIT undergraduates in electrical engineering and computer science. Mumin\u2019s research, which is a VI-A project with Analog Devices, focuses on the application of machine learning to radar imaging with sparse arrays for automotive and related applications. Tony\u2019s research focuses on robust machine learning and understanding adversarial examples. Xiaoyi\u2019s research focuses on unsupervised text translation via generative adversarial networks for natural language processing applications. Isabella\u2019s research focuses on few-shot semi-supervised text translation via meta-learning; Isabella also double-majored in mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>6.1.2020<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Alumnus receives doctorate at commencement<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The laboratory\u2019s latest alumnus, Ganesh Ajjanagadde, was granted his doctorate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the virtual commencement today. Ganesh completed his thesis in the Spring, entitled \u201cFourier Analysis on the Hypercube, the Coefficient Problem, and Applications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>9.3.2019<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>New postdoc and graduate students join laboratory<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The laboratory welcomes new postdoc Yuheng Bu, and graduate students Tejas Jayashankar and Safa Medin. Yuheng recently obtained his PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Tejas recently completed his bachelors degree in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Safa comes to MIT from Turkey, where recently completed his bachelors degree in electrical engineering from Bogazici University.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>7.9.2019<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Today at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory in Paris, France, Greg was presented the 2019 Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award, a technical field award of the IEEE that recognizes inspirational teaching of graduate students in the IEEE fields of interest. The award\u2019s citation reads: \u201cFor leadership in the mentoring of research students and in the development of graduate curricula that incorporate cutting-edge research perspectives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||false|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>6.7.2019<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Alumna receives doctorate at commencement<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The laboratory\u2019s latest alumna, Xuhong (Lisa) Zhang, was granted her doctorate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at commencement today. Lisa completed her thesis in February, entitled \u201cIntelligible Models for Learning Categorical Data via Generalized Fourier Spectrum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>9.4.2018<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>New graduate student joins the laboratory<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The laboratory welcomes new graduate student Abhin Shah. Abhin comes to us from India, where he recently completed his bachelors degree in electrical engineering at IIT Bombay.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>6.8.2018<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Alumnus receives doctorate at commencement<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The laboratory\u2019s latest alumnus, Gal Shulkind, was granted his doctorate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at commencement today. Gal completed his thesis in the Spring, entitled \u201cEfficient Data Collection Strategies for Rapid Learning in Physical Environments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>9.5.2017<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>New graduate students join laboratory<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The laboratory welcomes new graduate students Toros Arikan and Gary Lee. Toros recently completed his bachelor&#8217;s and master&#8217;s degrees in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Before arriving at MIT, Gary was with the Institute for Infocomm Research at the Agency for Science and Technology (A*STAR) in Singapore. He has a bachelors degree in electrical engineering from Stanford.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>5.1.2017<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>New visiting postdoctoral scholar<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The laboratory welcomes new postdoc Amichai Painsky. Amichai is visiting for 6 months from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, where he is a postdoc in computer science and engineering. He received his PhD in statistics from Tel Aviv University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>9.6.2016<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>New postdoctoral scholars join the laboratory<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The laboratory welcomes new postdocs Ankit Rawat and Christos Thrampoulidis. Ankit recently completed a postdoc in the computer science department at Carnegie-Mellon, after obtaining his PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Christos recently obtained his PhD in electrical engineering from Caltech.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>6.2.2016<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Alumnae receive doctorates at commencement<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The laboratory\u2019s latest alumni, Qing He, and Gauri Joshi, were granted their doctorates in electrical engineering and computer science today after completing their theses this month. Qing\u2019s thesis is entitled \u201cAn Architecture for Low-Power Voice-Command Recognition Systems,\u201d and Gauri\u2019s is entitled \u201cEfficient Redundancy Techniques to Reduce Delay in Cloud Systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>11.16.2015<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Alumnus receives 2015 Jin Au Kong Doctoral Thesis Prize Honorable Mention<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At an EECS departmental awards ceremony today, Ying-Zong Huang received the 2015 Jin Au Kong Doctoral Thesis Prize Honorable Mention for his thesis \u201cModel-Code Separation Architectures for Compression Based on Message-Passing.\u201d This prize recognizes outstanding doctoral theses at MIT in electrical engineering each year. Ying-zong is currently with Celect, Inc., a Boston-based startup.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>9.8.2015<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>New members join the laboratory<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The laboratory welcomes new members to the group: graduate students Ganesh Ajjanagadde, Adam Yedidia, and Joshua Lee, and MIT undergraduate students Wai Lok (Angus) Lai and Jimmy Mawdsley. Ganesh recently completed his bachelor&#8217;s degree in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, Adam recently completed his master&#8217;s degree in computer science and engineering at MIT, and Joshua Lee recently completed his bachelor&#8217;s degree in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>6.4.2015<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Alumnus receives doctorate at commencement<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The laboratory\u2019s latest alumnus, Ying-Zong Huang, was granted his doctorate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at commencement today. Ying-Zong completed his thesis in the Fall, entitled \u201cModel-Code Separation Architectures for Compression Based on Message-Passing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>8.19.2014<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Alumna selected for TR35 list by Technology Review<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Laboratory alumna Maryam Shanechi was named to MIT Technology Review\u2019s 2014 list of the world\u2019s top 35 innovators under the age of 35. Maryam appears in the pioneer category of the TR35 list for her work at the interface between electrical engineering and neuroscience, and in particular on brain-machine interfaces. Maryam is currently a faculty member at the University of Southern California. Maryam\u2019s TR35 profile is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/lists\/innovators-under-35\/2014\/pioneer\/maryam-shanechi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/lists\/innovators-under-35\/2014\/pioneer\/maryam-shanechi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">LINK TO NEWS ARTICLE &gt;&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>6.5.2014<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Alumni receive doctorates at commencement<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The laboratory\u2019s latest alumni, James Krieger and Da Wang, were granted their doctorates in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at commencement today. James completed his thesis in the Fall, entitled \u201cArchitectures and System Design for Digitally-Enhanced Antenna Arrays.\u201d Da completed his thesis this month, entitled \u201cComputing with Unreliable Resources: Design, Analysis, and Algorithms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>5.6.2014<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Lab sparse array technology featured in MIT News, IEEE Spectrum<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The laboratory\u2019s work on sparse antenna array technology for millimeter-wave imaging and related applications appears in the most recent issue of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation and was a research highlight on the MIT website today. Visit the article by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/newsoffice.mit.edu\/2014\/terahertz-imaging-cheap-0505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a>. It was also featured in the article \u201cSparse Arrays Cut Costs for Terahertz Imaging,\u201d which appeared in IEEE Spectrum\u2018s general technology blog \u201cTech Talk.\u201d Visit the article by clicking here. This work was the focus of the doctoral thesis of James Krieger and was co-led by the lab\u2019s former postdoctoral associate Dr. Yuval Kochman, now on the faculty at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsoffice.mit.edu\/2014\/terahertz-imaging-cheap-0505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">LINK TO NEWS ARTICLE &gt;&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>10.22.2013<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>A new member joins the laboratory<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The laboratory welcomes a new member to the group today: graduate student Mo Deng. Mo recently completed his bachelor&#8217;s degree at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>11.12.2012<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Lab\u2019s brain-machine interface research highlighted<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The laboratory\u2019s collaborative work on real-time brain-machine interfaces, which was the focus of the doctoral thesis of Maryam Shanechi, and which appears in the most recent issue of Nature Neuroscience, has been highlighted on both the MIT RLE and EECS websites. The links are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rle.mit.edu\/wornell-releases-new-paper-neural-population-partitioning-and-a-concurrent-brain-machine-interface-for-sequential-motor-function\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eecs.mit.edu\/news-events\/media\/towards-intelligent-brain-machine-interface\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a>, respectively.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rle.mit.edu\/wornell-releases-new-paper-neural-population-partitioning-and-a-concurrent-brain-machine-interface-for-sequential-motor-function\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">LINK TO NEWS ARTICLE &gt;&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>9.1.2012<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>New members join laboratory<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The laboratory welcomes new members to the group: graduate students Lisa Zhang and David Romero. Lisa recently completed her bachelor&#8217;s and master&#8217;s at Cambridge University, and David Romero joins us from Lincoln Laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>7.15.2012<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>New member joins laboratory<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The laboratory welcomes postdoctoral associate Hongchao Zhou today. Hongchao joins us from Caltech, where he recently completed his doctorate. His dissertation is entitled \u201cRandomness and Noise in Information Systems.\u201d His interests include information and coding theory, and the role of information science in emerging physical systems.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>2.10.2012<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Lab rateless code research featured in MIT News<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The laboratory\u2019s work on low-complexity capacity-approaching rateless coding for unpredictable wireless links, which appears in this month\u2019s IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, is featured as a research highlight on the MIT website today. Visit the article by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2012\/error-correcting-codes-0210\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/newsoffice\/2012\/error-correcting-codes-0210.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">LINK TO NEWS ARTICLE &gt;&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>8.30.2011<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>New member joins laboratory<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The laboratory welcomes postdoctoral associate Arya Mazumdar today. Arya joins us from the University of Maryland, College Park, where he recently completed is doctorate. His dissertation is entitled \u201cCombinatorial Methods in Coding Theory.\u201d His interests include communication, coding, compressive sensing, and information theory.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>6.30.2011<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Alumnus receives doctorate at commencement<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The laboratory\u2019s latest alumnus, Maryam Modir Shanechi, was granted her doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at commencement today. Maryam completed her thesis this month, entitled \u201cReal-Time Brain-Machine Interface Architectures: Neural Decoding from Plan to Movement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>4.28.2011<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>New member joins laboratory<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The laboratory welcomes postdoctoral associate Ligong Wang today. Ligong joins us from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) \u2013 Zurich, where he recently completed is doctorate. His dissertation is entitled \u201cInformation-Theoretic Aspects of Optical Communications.\u201d His interests include information theory and quantum optical communication.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>9.7.2010<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>New members join laboratory<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The laboratory welcomes two new members this year: graduate students Gauri Joshi and Atulya Yellepeddi. Gauri recently completed her Bachelor&#8217;s of Electrical Engineering, and Master&#8217;s in Communications and Signal Processing from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Bombay, India. Atulya recently completed his bachelor&#8217;s degree at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, and is in the MIT-WHOI joint program.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>6.4.2010<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Alumni receive a doctorate at commencement<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The laboratory\u2019s latest alumni \u2014 Urs Niesen, Charles Swannack, Anthony Accardi, and Venkat Chandar \u2014 were all granted their doctoral degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at commencement today. Urs completed his thesis in September with the thesis titled, \u201cScaling Laws for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks.\u201d He is currently a member of the technical staff with Bell Laboratories. Charles completed his thesis, entitled \u201cChannel State Quantization in MIMO Broadcast Systems: Architectures and Codes,\u201d and is currently with MITRE. Anthony\u2019s thesis, completed this month, is entitled \u201cGenerating Pictures from Waves: Aspects of Image Formation.\u201d Venkat, whose thesis, \u201cSparse Graph Codes for Compression, Sensing, and Secrey\u201d was completed this month as well. Venkat has joined MIT Lincoln Laboratory. All these are available for download here.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>9.8.2009<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>New member joins laboratory<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The laboratory welcomes a new member this year: graduate student Qing He. Qing joins us from the University of Waterloo, where she recently completed her bachelors in electrical and computer engineering.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>6.5.2009<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Alumni receive a doctorate at commencement<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Vijay Divi and Ashish Khisti, the laboratory\u2019s latest alumni, were granted their doctoral degrees in electrical engineering and computer science at commencement today. Vijay completed his thesis, entitled \u201cEstimation and Calibration Algorithms for Distributed Sampling System,\u201d in September, and is currently doing postdoctoral research in underwater acoustic communication. Ashish\u2019s thesis, also completed in September, is entitled \u201cAlgorithms and Architectures for Multiuser, Multi-terminal, Multi-layer Information Theoretic Security.\u201d After a postdoctoral year at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories in Palo Alto, CA, Ashish is joining the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Both these are available for download here.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>1.26.2009<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>New member joins laboratory<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The laboratory welcomes postdoctoral associate Yuval Kochman today. Yuval joins us from Tel Aviv University, where he recently completed his doctorate in electrical engineering. His dissertation is entitled \u201cModulo-Lattice Modulation: A Semi-Analog Approach to Communication.\u201d His interests include information theory, communication, compression, and signal processing.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>9.2.2008<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Two new members join laboratory<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The laboratory welcomes two new members this term: graduate students James Krieger and Da Wang. James joins us from Lincoln Laboratory, where he is a Staff Associate. James has a bachelor&#8217;s degree in physics from UCSB and a master&#8217;s degree in electrical and computer engineering from Ohio State. Da recently completed his bachelor&#8217;s degree in electrical engineering at the University of Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>6.6.2008<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Alumnus receives doctorate at commencement<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lane Brooks, the laboratory\u2019s latest alumnus, was granted his doctoral degree in electrical engineering and computer science at commencement today. Lane\u2019s recently completed thesis is entitled \u201cCircuits and Algorithms for Pipelined ADCs in Scaled CMOS Technologies,\u201d and it is available for download here. He is now a consultant in mixed-signal design.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>11.1.2007<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Alumnus receives award at White House ceremony<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>J. Nicholas Laneman, who completed his doctorate in the laboratory in 2002 and is now an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, was named a recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>6.9.2006<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Alumnus receives doctorate at commencement<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Everest Huang, the laboratory\u2019s latest alumnus, was granted his doctoral degree in electrical engineering and computer science at commencement today. Everest completed his doctorate in February with a thesis entitled \u201cCircuit-Aware System Design Techniques for Wireless Communication.\u201d He is now a member of the technical staff of MIT Lincoln Laboratory. His thesis is available for download here.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>9.6.2005<br \/><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Four new members join laboratory<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The laboratory welcomes four new members this term: Venkat Chandar, Urs Niesen, Anthony Accardi, and Aslan Tchamkerten. Venkat, who has been at MIT for several years, is currently working toward his M.Eng. degree and is a research assistant in the lab, where he is doing his thesis. Urs is joining the EECS doctoral program and is also a research assistant in the lab, having recently completed his bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). Anthony, whose bachelor&#8217;s and master&#8217;s degrees are from MIT, is returning to MIT to pursue his doctorate after several years at Tellme Networks in Mountain View, CA. Aslan joins us as a postdoctoral scholar and holds a doctorate in communication and a diploma in physics from EPFL.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>6.3.2005<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Alumnus receives doctorate at commencement<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The laboratory\u2019s latest alumnus, Emin Martinian, was granted his doctoral degree in electrical engineering and computer science at commencement today. Emin completed his doctorate last August with a thesis entitled \u201cDynamic Information and Constraints in Source and Channel Coding.\u201d He is currently with Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (MERL), a local industrial research laboratory. His thesis is available for download here.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>9.7.2004<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Four new members join laboratory<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The laboratory welcomes four new members this term: Lane Brooks, Ying-zong Huang, Maryam Modir Shanechi, and Chen-Pang Yeang. Lane, whose bachelor&#8217;s and master&#8217;s degrees are from MIT, joins the doctoral program after several years at SMaL Camera Technologies, a local startup. Ying-zong and Maryam both joined the laboratory as research assistants and are entering EECS graduate students. Ying-zong recently completed his bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in electrical engineering at Stanford University, and Maryam recently completed her bachelor\u2019s degree in engineering science at the University of Toronto. Chen-Pang joins us as a postdoctoral scholar and holds two doctorates from MIT, one in electrical engineering and one in the history of science and technology.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>6.4.2004<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Alumnus receives doctorate at commencement<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The laboratory\u2019s latest alumnus, Albert Chan, was granted his doctoral degree in electrical engineering and computer science at commencement today. Albert completed his doctorate in May with a thesis entitled \u201cA Framework for Low-Complexity Iterative Interference Cancellation in Communication Systems,\u201d and joined Vanu Inc., a local software radio startup. His thesis is available for download here.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>5.27.2004<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Laboratory Research Wins Capocelli Award at Data Compression Conference<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Doctoral candidate Emin Martinian was honored with the Capocelli Award of the 2004 Data Compression Conference for the best student-authored paper. The prize-winning paper is entitled \u201cSource Coding with Distortion Side Information at the Encoder,\u201d and was co-authored by Greg Wornell and Ram Zamir. The paper is available for download here.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>9.2.2003<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Three new members join laboratory<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The laboratory welcomes three new members this term: Elif Uysal Biyikoglu, Hiroyuki Ishii, and Charles Swannack. Elif comes to us from the Information Systems Laboratory of Stanford University, where she recently completed a doctorate in the wireless networking area. She holds a postdoctoral lecturership in our EECS department. Hiroyuki Ishii is a visiting researcher from our industrial partner NEC Corporation in Japan. He is with the Information Systems Department of the Radio Application Division, where he specializes in system design. Charles Swannack joins the laboratory as an entering EECS graduate student who recently completed his bachelor\u2019s degree at Clemson University.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font=&#8221;Merriweather Sans||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.8em&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>6.9.2003<br \/><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Three laboratory alumni receive doctorates at commencement<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Our laboratory\u2019s latest alumni \u2014 J. Nicholas Laneman, Michael J. Lopez, and Huan Yao \u2014 were granted their doctoral degrees in electrical engineering and computer science at commencement today. Nick completed his doctorate in July 2002 with a thesis entitled \u201cCooperative Diversity in Wireless Networks: Algorithms and Architectures,\u201d and has since joined the electrical engineering faculty of the University of Notre Dame. Mike completed his doctoral thesis, \u201cMultiplexing, Scheduling, and Multicasting Strategies for Antenna Arrays in Wireless Networks,\u201d in August 2002, and since then has been on the technical staff of Analog Devices, Inc. in Wilmington, MA. Huan, whose thesis \u201cEfficient Signal, Code, and Receiver Designs for MIMO Communication Systems\u201d was completed in May, is joining MIT Lincoln Laboratory as a member of the technical staff. 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