Graduate Students and Associates of Professor Edwin Chong
Graduate Students and Associates of Prof. Edwin K. P. Chong
Note to Prospective Students and Associates
I receive many emails on a regular basis from prospective
students and associates, enquiring about the possibility of
working in my group. Unfortunately I am unable to respond to every
such enquiry. If you have sent me email along these lines, and
you have not received a response, I hope you will understand.
Present Students (soon to be the best trained people ever!)
- Michael Fox
- Tushar Ganguli
- Bowen Li
- Brandon Van Over
- Mark Ritschard
- Apichart Vasutapituks
- Russell Geschrey
- Sean T. Nguyen
- Frank Panettieri
- Maxim Olivine
Past PhD Students (the best trained PhDs ever!)
- Yongseok Park
(Ph.D., May 1996). Currently with Samsung Electronics.
- I-Jeng Wang
(Ph.D., August 1996). Currently with Johns Hopkins University Applied
Physics Lab and Department of Computer Science.
- Luis G. Sison
(Ph.D., March 1998). Currently Professor and Program Leader at
DOST-UP Enterprise Center for Technopreneurship, University of Philippines.
Formerly Vice-Chancellor for Research and Development.
- Junyi Li
(Ph.D., March 1998). Currently Vice President of Engineering, Qualcomm;
Fellow of IEEE.
- Sanjiv Bavishi (currently Product Manager, Industry
Accelerators for Websphere/Business Analytics, IBM Software Group at
IBM).
- Suresh
Kalyanasundaram (Ph.D., April 2000).
Currently with Nokia Siemens Networks.
Previously with Motorola Labs/Research.
- Junshan Zhang
(Ph.D., August 2000). Currently Ira A. Fulton Chair Professor at
Arizona State University;
Fellow of IEEE.
- Hyeong Soo
Chang (Ph.D., July 2001). Currently Professor
at Sogang University, Seoul, Korea.
- Mingbo Xiao
(Ph.D., May 2002). Currently Professor, Hangzhou Dianzi University.
- Xin ("Mandy") Liu
(Ph.D., August 2002). Currently Professor at
University of California, Davis.
Fellow of IEEE.
- Uday Ramesh Savagaonkar (Ph.D., September 2002). Currently with
Google.
- Jung-Min ("Jerry") Park
(Ph.D., August 2003). Currently Professor
at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA;
Fellow of IEEE.
- Dong-Won Shin (Ph.D., August 2003). Currently with Samsung,
Korea.
- Gang ("Steven") Wu (Ph.D., October 2003). Currently VP, Asset
Liability Management at Deutsche Bank Securities.
Previously,
Fair Isaac Corp., JP Morgan Chase, Ernst & Young, Columbus, Ohio.
- Jeffrey D Herdtner (Ph.D., August 2004).
Currently faculty member at Miami University of Ohio.
- Jeongjoon Lee (Ph.D., September 2005). Currently with LSIS,
Korea.
- Hua Li
(Ph.D., December 2007). Currently with
Experian North America DataLabs. Previously with FairIsaac Corp.
- Patricia de Rezende Barbosa (Ph.D., April 2010). Currently with
Pratt & Whitney, Miami, FL.
- Tatpong
Katanyukul (Ph.D., May 2010). Currently: Department of
Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Khon Kaen University.
- (Steven) Zhi Zhang (Ph.D., August 2011). Currently: Data Scientist
Consultant at IMVU.
- Zhenliang Zhang (Ph.D., August 2013). Currently: XPENG.
- Ramin Zahedi (Ph.D., September 2013). Currently: KLA-Tencor, San Jose, CA.
- Yang Zhang (Ph.D., January 2014). Currently: Data Scientist at GFI Software,
Cambridge, MA.
- Shankarachary (Shankar) Ragi (Ph.D., March 2014). Currently:
South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
- Rick Sturdivant (Ph.D. Sys. Engr., January 2017). Currently:
President, MPt, Inc., Fullerton, CA.
- Christopher Eaton (Ph.D. Sys. Engr., March 2018). Currently:
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab.
- Yajing Liu (Ph.D., June 2018). [Deceased]
- Lucas W. Krakow (Ph.D., October 2018). Currently: Texas A&M.
- Yugandhar Sarkale (Ph.D., October 2019).
- Fateh El Sherif (Ph.D., February 2020). [Deceased]
- Alaa A. R. Alsaeedy (Ph.D., March 2020)
- Mahsa Ghorbani (Ph.D. Sys. Engr., May 2020)
- Christopher Robbiano (Ph.D., November 2020).
- Megan Emmons (Ph.D., August 2021). Currently: Sandia National Labs.
- Tian Ju Ma (Ph.D. Sys. Engr., June 2022). Currently: Sandia
National Labs. Awarded
2023 Asian
American Engineer of the Year.
- Pranav Damale (Ph.D., July 2023). Currently: Murata Electronics.
Past MS Students (the best trained MSs ever!)
- Binal M. Bhukhanwala (MSEE, August 1994)
- Surjamukhi ("Surja") Chatterjea (MSEE, November 1999).
Currently with Cisco.
- Amit Naik (M.S., July 2000). Currently with a Bay Area startup.
- Pranav Dharwadkar (M.S., July 2000). Currently with Cisco
Systems.
- Sudhir Moola (M.S., March 2006). Currently with Sai Super Sand
Pvt Ltd.
- Ramin Zahedi (M.S., October 2007; Ph.D., September 2013).
- Lucas W. Krakow (M.S., March 2009; Ph.D. October 2018).
- Pranav Damale (M.S., September 2015; Ph.D. July 2023).
Past Postdocs (the best trained postdocs ever!)
- Ying He (Currently Financial Economist, Fannie Mae)
- Yun Li (Currently Senior R&D Engineer, Hillcrest Labs)
- Entao Liu
(Currently at Texas Instruments)
Professor Edwin K. P. Chong,
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December 08, 2023.
