Faculty
Dr. John MacLaren Walsh
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, 2006
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, 2004
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, 2002
Research Interests
- Performance and convergence of belief/expectation propagation.
- Joint source separation, speaker identification, and speech recognition.
- Delay mitigating codes for network coded and multipath routed networks.
- Permeation models for ion channels.
- Composite adaptive systems theory.
e-mail: jwalsh@coe.drexel.edu
PhD Students
Gwanmo Ku
MS in Telecommunication Networks, Polytechnic University, 2007
BS in Electronics, Sogang University, Korea, 2000.
BS in Physics, Sogang University, Korea, 2000.
Research Interests
- Evaluating the amount of overhead and performance of the 4G wireless standards
- Efficient Resource Controller Design in LTE Standard
- Practical Distributed Source Coding
- DSP techniques for wireless communications
e-mail: Gwanmo.Ku@drexel.edu
Congduan Li
M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Northern Arizona University, 2011.
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China, 2008.
Research Interests
- Delay Mitigating Codes
- Practical Codes for Collaborative Estimation
e-mail: cl698@drexel.edu
Yunshu Liu
B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Shandong University, China, 2008
Research Interests
- Region of Entropic Vectors
- Fundamental limits for Collaborative Estimation
e-mail: Yunshu.Liu@drexel.edu
Jayant Apte
B.E. Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, Mumbai University, India 2011
Research Interests
- Distributed Source Coding
- High Speed Computation
e-mail: jayant91089@gmail.com
Mengke Hu
M.E. degree in communication, image and information processing from Télécom SudParis, Evry, France, 2011
B.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from Xidian University, Xian, China, 2008
Research Interests
- Robust speech processing
- Variational inference for speech processing
e-mail: mengke.hu@gmail.com
Jie Ren
MS in Telecommunication, Widener University, 2011
BS in Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, China, 2009
Research Interests
- Interactive Communications for Collaborative Estimation
- Fundamental Overhead Performance Tradeoffs in Wireless Resource Allocation
e-mail: jr843@drexel.edu
Ph.D. Alumni
Ciira Wa Maina
Ph.D., Drexel University, 2011.
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2007.
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Sheffield Inst. for Translational Neuroscience & Dept. of Comp. Sci., Univ. of Sheffield, UK.
Research Interests
- Statistical signal processing
- Speech processing
- Approximate Bayesian inference
- Inference in graphical models
e-mail: ciira.maina@drexel.edu
Sivagnanasundaram Ramanan
Ph.D., Drexel University, 2011.
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, 2006.
Research Interests
- Distributed estimation and detection
- Distributed source coding
- Practical code design for distributed source coding
- Signal processing for wireless communications
e-mail: sur23@drexel.edu
BS/MS Students
David A. Cinciruk
Research Interests
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Approximate Inference for Joint Speech Enhancement and Speaker Verification
e-mail: david.a.cinciruk@drexel.edu
BS and MS Alumni
Linda Nora McLaughlin
Undergraduate Research Student, Summer 2010 -- Spring 2011.
Current Position: M.S. Ph.D. student in Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Eng, Cornell University
Research Interests
- Machine Learning
- Pattern recognition
- Digital Signal Processing
e-mail: lm549@drexel.edu
Ian Gallagher
Undergraduate Research Student, Fall 2010 -- Spring 2011.
Research Interests
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Adapting collaborative estimation algorithms to build distributed nuclear material detection and tracking sensor network algorithms
e-mail: img28@drexel.edu