BASICS – Members

Professor

 

Kannan Ramchandran

Kannan's research interests are in machine learning, statistical signal processing and coding, information theory, and distributed cloud computation.

PhD students

 

Landon Butler

Landon is interested in algorithmic decision-making under uncertainty, leveraging tools from game theory, network science, and economics. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2022.

 

Mert Cemri

Mert is interested in machine learning, distributed optimization, and multi-agent systems. He obtained his B.S. from Bilkent University in 2023.

 

Jichan Chung

Jichan is interested in machine learning and distributed systems. He obtained his B.S. from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 2017.

 

Yigit Efe Erginbas

Efe is interested in problems at the intersection of economics, algorithms, statistics, and machine learning with a focus on theory and methods. He obtained his B.S. from Bilkent University in 2021.

 

Justin Kang

Justin is interested in signal and information processing, machine learning, and privacy in learning. He obtained his M.A.Sc. from the University of Toronto in 2021 and his B.A.Sc. from the University of British Columbia in 2019.

 

Nived Rajaraman

Nived is interested in a variety of topics in machine learning with a focus on the statistical and computational aspects of adaptive decision making problems and reinforcement learning. He obtained his B.S. from IIT Madras in 2019.

Post-docs

 

Ajil Jalal

Ajil is interested in compressed sensing, generative models, and information theory. He received his Ph.D. from UT Austin in 2022 and his B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras in 2016.

Master's students

Samarth Goel

Undergraduate Students

Arin Chang

Andrew Qin

Jingxing Wang

Former students and post-docs

Yaoqing Yang, Dartmouth

Amirali Aghazadeh, Georgia Tech

Swanand Kadhe, IBM Research

Vipul Gupta, UpTrain

Avishek Ghosh, I.I.T. Bombay

Dong Yin, Apple

Orhan Ocal, Citadel

Nihar B Shah, CMU

Rashmi K V, CMU

Kangwook Lee, UW-Madison

Giulia Fanti, CMU

Xiao Simon LI, Cubist Systematic Strategies

Reinhard Heckel, Technical University of Munich

Ramtin Pedarsani, UCSB

Dimitris Papailiopoulos, UW-Madison

Joseph Bradley, Databricks

Sameer Pawar, Meta

Venkatesan Ekambaram, XPENG Motors

Hao Zhang, Meta

Nebojsa Milosavljevic, Cisco Meraki

Salim ElRouayheb, Illinois Institute of Technology

Nan Ma, Yammer

Longbo Huang, Tsinghua University

Krishnan Eshwaran, Google

Mark Johnson, Tarana Wireless

Alyson Fletcher, University of California, Santa Cruz

Chuohao Yeo, Institute for Infocomm Research

Abhik Majumdar, Vidora

Animesh Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Vinod Prabhakaran, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Dragan Petrovic, Qualcomm Atheros

Ben Wild, Iotera

Dan Schonberg, Amazon

June Wang, Facebook

Alexander Dimakis, University of Texas at Austin

Wei Wang, Facebook

Prakash Ishwar, Boston University

Sandeep Pradhan, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Rohit Puri, Netflix

Shekar Tatikonda, Yale University

Stark Draper, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Sergio Servetto, Cornell University

Julius Kusuma, Schlumberger

Raghavan Anand, Blue Jeans Network