Coding, Communications and Information Theory Group

(last updated May 2008)

Picture, November 2005

Picture, December 2000

Active research projects in these areas

  • Communications and Information theory
  • Physical layer security, data security
  • Iterative decoding (turbo codes, LDPC codes etc.)
  • Coding for high density magnetic and optical recording
  • M-ary optical data storage

Current Ph.D. students

Group Alumni

  • Matthieu Bloch (Ph.D. 2008)
  • Rajesh Narasimha (Ph.D. 2007 co-advised with Prof. Chuanyi Ji)
  • Woonhaing Hur (Ph.D. 2007)
  • Souvik Dihidar (Ph.D. 2006)
  • Jaehong Kim (Ph.D. 2006)
  • Shayan G. Srinivasa (Ph.D. 2006)
  • Yogesh Sankarasubramaniam (Ph.D. 2006)
  • Olivier Guerreau(Ph.D. 2005 co-advised with Prof. Francois Malassenet)
  • Majid Fozunbal (Ph.D. 2004 co-advised with Prof. Ron Schafer)
  • Aravind Nayak (Ph.D. 2004, co-advised with Prof. John Barry)
  • Estuardo Licona-Nunez (Ph.D. 2004)
  • Andrew Thangaraj (Ph.D. 2003)
  • Jeongseok Ha (Ph.D. 2003)
  • Cenk Argon (Ph.D. 2002)
  • Pornchai Supnithi (Ph.D. 2002)
  • Laura McPheters (Ph.D. 2001)
  • Ravi Sivasankaran (Ph.D. 2000)
  • Suparna Datta(Ph.D. 2000)
  • Kofi Anim Appiah (Ph.D. 2000)
  • Sarat Krishnan(MS 2003)
  • Chris Smith(MS 2000)
  • Jian (Jane) Luo (MS 1996)

Past and Present Research Sponsors

  • Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute http://www.etri.re.kr
  • Agence Nationale de la Recherche http://www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/
  • Seagate Research http://www.seagate.com/
  • Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology http://www.sait.samsung.com
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, France) http://www.cnrs.fr
  • Fujitsu Labs Limited
  • Texas Instruments
  • LSI Logic
  • CIENA Corporation
  • Western Digital Corporation
  • Calimetrics, Inc
  • Optex Communications
  • General Electric Corporation
  • Harris Corporation
  • National Science Foundation
  • Information Storage Industries Consortium
  • National Institutes of Standards and Technology
  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
  • US Air Force Office of Scientific Research