Ranveer Chandra

Students

I have served on the Ph.D. committees of a few outstanding students:

• Omid Fatemieh (UIUC, 2011, now at Microsoft)
• Eric Rozner (UT Austin, 2011, now at UC Boulder)
• Shravan Rayanchu (U Wisconsin, 2012, now at Google)
• Souvik Sen (Duke, 2012, now at Google).
• Parya Moinzadeh (UIUC, 2013, now at Google)
• Farhana Ashraf (UIUC, 2013)
• George Nychis (CMU, 2013, now at Adaptrum)
• Mariya Zheleva (UCSB, 2014, now at SUNY)
• Apurv Bhartia (UT Austin, 2014, now at Cisco)
• Omid Abari (MIT, 2017, now at UCLA)
• Curtis Kexiong Zeng (Virginia Tech, 2018, now at Facebook)
• Deepak Vasisht (MIT, 2019, now at UIUC)
• Talal Ahmad (NYU, 2019, now at Google)
• Collen Josephson (Stanford, 2020, now at VMWare)
• Debopam Bhattacharjee (ETH, 2021, now at MSR)
• Zerina Kapetanovic (University of Washington, 2022, now at Stanford)
• Akshay Gadre (CMU, 2022, now at University of Washington)
• Suraj Jog (UIUC, 2022, now at MSR)
• Vaibhav Singh (CMU, 2023, now at Apple)

I have also worked with some very good interns:

• Yuvraj Agarwal (UCSD) (opens in new tab)
  2006: Reducing power consumption of VoIP over Wi-Fi for smartphones
  2007: Worked on reducing energy consumption of desktop PCs and laptops
  Currently Assistant Professor in CMU, Previously Director of SYNERGY Labs @ UCSD
• Talal Ahmad (NYU) (opens in new tab)
  2016: New communication techniques between airplanes and the ground
• Emmanuel Azuh (MIT)
  2018: Microclimate prediction for Agriculture
• Apurv Bhartia (UT Austin) (opens in new tab)
  2011: Designed efficient wireless display mechanisms
• Aakanksha Chowdhery (Stanford) (opens in new tab)
  2012: Investigated Dynamic Spectrum Access techniques in various spectrum bands
  Now at Microsoft Research
• Saumitra Das (Purdue) (opens in new tab)
  2006: New routing metrics for mesh networks
  Currently Sr. Systems Engineer, R&D at Qualcomm
• Chris Dekmezian (UC Berkeley)
  2015: New dynamic battery designs
• Jian Ding (opens in new tab) (Rice University)
  2017, 2018: RF based sensing for soil
• Jing Dong (opens in new tab) (Georgia Tech)
  2017: Vision techniques to align multi-spectral and RGB images, 4-D time lapse
• Omid Fatemieh (UIUC) (opens in new tab)
  2008 to 2010: Security in White Space networks
  Now at Google
• Tony Ferresse (UC Berkeley)
  2014: Investigated chemistries to be used in multi-battery mobile systems
  Now at Tesla
• Tulika Garg (IIT Roorkee)
  2006: Implemented mesh routing support in QualNet
• Pan Hu (UMass)
  2014: Designed hardware for multi-battery mobile systems
• Junchen Jiang (CMU)
  2013: Security in mobile systems
• Xinxin Jin (UCSD)
  2015: Cloud for weakly connected IoT systems
• Suraj Jog (opens in new tab) (UIUC)
  2018: Sensing environments using RF, MAC for long range networks
• Colleen Josephson (opens in new tab) (Stanford)
  2018: Backscatter based sensing in Agriculture
• Srikanth Kandula (MIT) (opens in new tab)
  2006: Developed algorithms for localizing faults in enterprise networks
  2007: Developed eXpose for determining communication rules in a packet trace
  Now at Microsoft Research
• Zerina Kapetanovic (University of Washington)
  2015: Sensors, solar panels, and white spaces for IoT deployments
  2016: RF for long range networks

• Manikanta Kotaru (Stanford)
  2015: Diagnosing Skype call quality over wireless networks
• Lopa Kundu (NCSU)
  2015: Efficient antenna designs for small form factor mobile devices
  Now at Intel Research
• Amy Kumar (U. Iowa)
  2015: Single radio design for XBOX
  2016: Extremely low-latency XBOX wireless
• Matthew Lentz (U Maryland) (opens in new tab)
  2016: Algorithms for Software Defined Batteries
• Jing Li (UCSD)
  2013: Studied the energy overhead of mobile storage systems
• Lun Li (Caltech) (opens in new tab)
  2006: Algorithms for a black box technique to detect faults using packet traces
• Qingxi Li (UIUC)
  2011: Techniques for low-latency wireless display
• Radhika Mittal (IIT Kharagpur, now at UC Berkeley)
  2011: An energy estimator for mobile apps
  Now Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley
• Parya Moinzadeh (UIUC)
  2012: Developed data driven techniques for diagnosing energy bugs on mobile devices
  Now at Google
• Rohan Murty (Harvard) (opens in new tab)
  2006-2007: Design and implementation of a dense access point system
  2008: Worked on protocols for networking in UHF bands
  2009: Worked on a geo-location service for white spaces
  Now Harvard Fellow, EVP at Infosys
• Andres Neyem (University of Chile) (opens in new tab)
  2009: Designed a system for proximity sensing
  Now Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
• George Nychis (CMU) (opens in new tab)
  2009: Worked on MIC interference issues in white spaces & campus deployment
  2010: Studies loss characteristics in wireless networks
  Now at Adaptrum
• Ki-Woong Park (KAIST) (opens in new tab)
  2009: Designed and implemented a new system for social networking on phones
• Chunyi Peng (UCLA) (opens in new tab)
  2013: Modulation techniques to be used in the XBOX One
  Now Assistant Professor in Ohio State
• Ramya Raghavendra (UCSB) (opens in new tab)
  2007: Worked on applications of variable channel widths in 802.11
  Now at IBM Research, TJ Watson
• Hariharan Rahul (MIT) (opens in new tab)
  2009: Designed algorithms for coexistence in white space networks
• Shravan Rayanchu (Wisconsin) (opens in new tab)
  2010: Working on real-world channel width adaptation algorithms
  Now at Google
• Eric Rozner (UT Austin) (opens in new tab)
  2010: Studied loss characteristics in wireless networks
  Now at IBM Research, Previously at AT&T Research
• Jinghao Shi (SUNY Buffalo)
  2015: Wireless protocol verification
  2016: Verifying the implementation of wireless protocols
• Evangelia Skiani (Columbia)
  2014: Algorithms to use multi-battery systems
• Vasuki Narasimha Swamy (UC Berkeley)
  2016: Techniques for low-cost, long term aerial monitoring
• Deepak Vasisht (MIT)
  2015: Design of an IoT Edge, and the Machine Learning and Vision algorithms for Agriculture
  2016: MAC & PHY design for long range wireless communication. Also, using RF to sense soil.
• Xiaohui (Eeyore) Wang (CMU) (opens in new tab)
  2009: Explored changes in the network stack for the next generation of networking technolgies
• Jongho Won (Purdue)
  2015: Path planning and battery life optimizations for drones
• Hang Yu (Rice) (opens in new tab)
  2 internships in 2012: Investigated techniques to use in the protocol of the XBOX One Wireless Controllers
• Yuan Yuan (University of Maryland) (opens in new tab)
  Summer 2006, Fall 2006 & Spring 2007: Designed a new MAC for cognitive radios, and implemented it in QualNet
  Now at Google
• Sangki Yun (UT Austin) (opens in new tab)
  2013: Studied bandwidth overlapping systems in 802.11ac
• Mariya Zheleva (UCSB) (opens in new tab)
  2013: Worked on the spectrum observatory — to mine spectrum measurements for patters of spectrum use
• Xia Zhou (UCSB) (opens in new tab)
  2011: Working on low power Wi-Fi mechanisms
  Now Assistant Professor in Dartmouth College