CSPL Graduates

    Yuanning Yu (PhD 2007)

    yuanning_AT_cbis.ece.drexel.edu

    Yuanning Yu was born in Anhui, China, in May 1980. He received the B.Sc. Degree from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2007.

    Jie Yu (PhD 2005)

    yujie_AT_cbis.ece.drexel.edu

    Jie Yu was born in Shanghai, China, in August 1976. He received the Ph.D degree from Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Drexel University in 2005. He received the B.Sc. and M.S. Degrees from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1999 and 2002 respectively. He is currently a system engineer in Pittsburgh, PA.

    Rui Lin (PhD 2004)

    rui.lin_AT_drexel.edu

    Rui Lin was born in Wuhan, China. She received the Ph.D degree from Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Drexel University in 2004. She received B.Sc. and M.Sc. Degrees from the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.

    Sarod Yatawatta (PhD 2004)

    sarod_AT_cbis.ece.drexel.edu

    Sarod Yatawatta was born in Sri Lanka in 1974. He received the Ph.D degree in Department of Electrical and Compute Engineering, Drexel University, in 2004. He received the B.Sc. Degree from the University of Peradeniya in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 2000. He is currently a software engineer / Postdoc with ASTRON/University of Groningen, Netherlands, focusing on Developing Software/Algorithms for next generation radio telescopes.

    Xueshi Yang (PhD 2002)

    xueshi.yang_AT_seagate.com

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    Xueshi Yang was born in Hunan Province, China, in September, 1976. He received his B.Sc. Degree in 1998 from Electronic Engineering department, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and  his PhD in 2001  from Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA.  Following his graduation he spent 6 months at Princeton University as a Research Associate. Since September 2002 he is a Research Staff Member of  Seagate Research, Pittsburgh, PA.

    His research area lies in impulsive self-similar processes, with applications in communication system modeling.

    Ivan Bradaric (PhD 2002)

    ivan_AT_caprarotechnologies.com

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    Ivan Bradaric received the Dipl. Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1996, the M.S. Degree in Mathematics in 2001 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 2002, both from Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA. He is currently an associate senior scientist with Capraro Technologies, Utica NY. His research interests include statistical signal processing, blind multiple-input multiple-output system identification and equalization with applications in multiuser communications, and estimation of higher-order statistics.
    His current address is:
    Ivan Bradaric
    Assciate Senior Scientist
    Capraro Technologies, Inc.
    311 Turner Street
    Suite 410
    Utica, NY 13501
    email: ivan_AT_ caprarotechnologies.com
    tel: (315) 733-0854
    fax: (315) 733-0156

    Binning Chen (PhD 2001)

    bchen_AT_ati.com

    He received the BSEE degree from Xidian University and the MSEE degree from Tsinghua University and his PhD from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Drexel University, in September 2001. His research area was MIMO system estimation with applications in communications. He is currently a Staff Engineer with ATI Research Inc., Yardley, PA.

    His address is:

    Binning Chen
    Staff Engineer,
    DTV Products, ATI Research Inc.,
    Lower Makefield Corporate Center,
    770 Township Line Road,
    Suite 200    ,
    Yardley, PA 19067, USA

    Tel: 267-757-1059, Fax: 267-757-1120

    www.ati.com

    Alper Kutay (Research Associate 1999-2000)

    makutay_AT_tubitak.gov.tr

    Mehmet Alper Kutay was born in 1972, in Konya, Turkey. After finishing Ankara Science High School, he received his BS, MS and Ph.D. degrees all in electrical and electronics engineering from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey in 1993, 1995 and 1999 respectively. During his graduate studies, he was a Teaching and Research Assistant. During March 1999 - June 2000 he was with the Communications and Signal Processing Laboratory at Drexel University, Philadelphia PA. He is now a senior research scientist at the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey - National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (TUBITAK - UEKAE). He is the co-author of the book "The fractional Fourier Transform with Applications in Optics and Signal Processing" published by Wiley & Sons. He was awarded third place in the 1994 IEEE region 8 student paper contest for his work entitled "An Adaptive Speckle Suppression Filter for Medical Ultrasonic Imaging". His current research areas include time-frequency signal representations, fractional Fourier transform, time-varying filtering, biomedical signal characterization and processing, and radar signal processing. He is a member of IEEE.

    His current address is:
    The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey -- UEKAE,
    Ataturk Bulvari, no: 221, kat 15
    Kavaklidere, 06100 Ankara, TURKEY
    Tel: 312 468 5300 ext. 1584
    Fax: 312 468 5300 ext. 1201

    Haralambos Pozidis (PhD 1998)

    hap_AT_zurich.ibm.com

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    Haralambos received the Diploma in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the University of Patras, Greece, in July 1994 and his PhD degree from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Drexel University, in September 1998. His PhD thesis topic was:"Techniques for Blind Identification and Application to the Equalization of PAM/QAM Modulated Signals"

    His current address is
    IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
    Saeumerstrasse
    4 CH-8803 Rueschlikon
    Switzerland

    Tel. +41 1 724 82 73

    Udantha R. Abeyratne (PhD 1996)

    udantha_AT_itee.edu.au

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    He received his PhD degree from Drexel University, Philadelphia, in June 1996 majoring in Biomedical Engineering. His thesis topic was:"Higher-order spectra based modeling and characterization of tissue from ultrasound images"
    He is currently a Senior Lecturer at The University of Queensland in Australia.

    His current address is:
    Udantha R. Abeyratne,
    Senior Lecturer,
    School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering,
    The University of Queensland,
    St. Lucia, Brisbane,
    Qld 4072

    Phone: +61 (07) 334-69063

    Osman Burak Onal (MS 1996)

    bonal_AT_ telogy.com


    He received his MS in Electrical Engineering from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Drexel University, in September 1996. His MS thesis topic was "Pitch estimation and speech segmentation using cyclic statistics".
    He is currently employed by Telogy Networks , Inc., 20250 Century Blvd., Germantown, MD 20874.

    Christopher Wendt (MS 1996)

    cwendt_AT_ bell-labs.com

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    Chris received his MS in Electrical Engineering from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Drexel University, in December 1996. His research interests include speech processing with wavelets, reverberation modeling, and dereverberation using blind deconvolution. He is currently with the Modem and Multimedia Audio Group at Lucent Technologies-Bell Labs.

    Ray Wang (MS 1997)

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    Ray received his MS degree in Biomedical Engineering in September 1997. His thesis topic was signal processing with fractional order statistics and applications to ultrasound image modeling/characterization.

    Fieldi Chan (BS/MS 1997)

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    Fieldi received her combined BS/MS degree in Electrical Engineering in September 1998. Her thesis topic was speaker identification.

    Jijun Yin (MS 1998)

    jijun_AT_ arraycomm.com

    Yin received his BS degree from the Automation Department at Tsinghua University in China and MS degree in Electrical Engineering from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Drexel University, in June 1998. His MS thesis topic was: "Power Law Shot Noise, Relationship to Alpha-Stable Process and Application to Ultrasound Image". He is currently a system engineer at the Arraycomm

    Suresh Subramaniam (MS 1995)

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    He received his MS in Electrical Engineering from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Drexel University, in September 1995. His MS thesis topic was: "Dereverberation of speech signals: a blind deconvolution approach".
    He is currently a system analyst with University Services, 5301 Tacony Str., Philadelphia PA 19137.

    Ganesh Vishwanathan (MS 1999)

    ganesh_AT_technobox.com

    Ganesh was born in 1975 , in Madras , India. He received his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Bombay, India. He was a Research and Teaching Assistant in the Communications and Signal Pro cessing Laboraotry at Drexel University, and worked on modeling of the ultrasonic response of tissue. He is currently with Technobox,Inc, 900 Briggs Road, Suite 220, Mt.Laurel, NJ 08054, Tel. (856)793-0149.

    Riddhi Dattani (M.S.)

    riddhi_AT_cbis.ece.drexel.edu

    Riddhi Dattani was born in Cochin, India in November 1979. She recieved her B .E. Degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Mumbai, India in 2001 and her MS in Telecommunication Engineering from Drexel University in 2003.

    Her research area is in applications of Digital Signal Processing in Wireless Communication Systems.

    Chunrui Pei (M.S.)

    pei_AT_cbis.ece.drexel.edu

    Chunrui Pei was born in Beijing, China. She received the B.Sc. Degree from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, and her M.S. in Telecommunications Engineering from Drexel University in 2003.

    Vasileios T. Nasis

    billnasis_AT_drexel.edu

    Vasileios Nasis was born in Igoumenitsa, Greece, in 1978. He received his A.Sc. Degree in Engineering Science from Camden County College in 2000 and his B.Sc. Degree in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University in 2002. He received his MS degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, from Drexel University in 2004.

    His thesis topic was tissue characterization using ultrasound imaging.

    Sonal Ghandi

    She received her MS degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, from Drexel University in 2004. She performed research on evaluation of wireless communication standards (IEEE 802 11a,b).

    Turev Acar

    turev_acar_AT_maximhq.com

    Turev Acar was born in Denizli, Turkey, in March 1979. After attending Ankara Science High School, he received his B.Sc. Degree from Bilkent University in 2002. He received his MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Drexel University in 2004. His thesis topic was blind MIMO system estimation. He is currently with Maxim Integrated Products, 120 San Gabriel Drive Sunnyvale, CA 94086, (408-470-4237).

    Frank Prihoda (BS/MS 2006)

    prihoda_AT_cbis.ece.drexel.edu

    Frank Prihoda was born in Trenton, NJ in 1983. He received his BS/MS degrees in Electrical Engineering in 2006.