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Prof. Ian Roberts
Ian Roberts is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCLA, where he leads the Wireless Lab in conducting theoretical and experimental research on wireless communication and sensing. Prior to joining UCLA, he completed his Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow in the Wireless Networking and Communications Group and the 6G@UT Research Center.
He has industry experience developing and prototyping wireless technologies at AT&T Labs, Amazon, GenXComm (startup), Sandia National Labs, and Dynetics (defense contractor). During his time at GenXComm, he created and demonstrated their earliest wireless solutions combining RF, photonic, and digital signal processing for interference cancellation. In 2023, he received the Andrea Goldsmith Young Scholars Award from the Communication Theory Technical Committee of the IEEE Communications Society for his work on the theory and practice of full-duplex millimeter-wave communication systems. He is a licensed amateur radio operator; his callsign is KE0QVW.
Current Students
Samuel Li is a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is currently pursuing his degree in Electrical Engineering. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering at UCLA with cum laude in 2022. His research interests include machine learning / signal processing for applications in 5G in-band full-duplex operations.
Jeong Min Kong is a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto in 2022 and 2024, respectively. His research interests span wireless communications, information theory, and machine learning, including full-duplex systems, satellite communications, and distributed learning.
Xinsong Feng is a second-year M.S. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCLA. Before joining UCLA, he earned his Bachelor’s degree from Chongqing University in June 2023. His research interests include wireless communication, particularly next-generation mobile communication systems, optimization, and artificial intelligence, aiming to advance AI-enabled communication network design.
Sungho Cho is currently pursuing the M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Korea University in 2024. His research interests include MIMO, beamforming, integrated sensing and communication, and their practical implementations.
Caden Davis is an undergraduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles majoring in Electrical Engineering. He has previously done research developing communication systems and channel access methods for underwater acoustic nodes. His current research interests cover topics in signal processing including wireless communication and imaging systems.
Chaeyeon Kim is a third-year undergraduate student majoring in Nano Science and Engineering at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. She is currently at UCLA as an exchange student in Materials Engineering. Previously, she has gained experience in CubeSat EGSE GUI implementation and semiconductor device processing. Her current research interests include satellite communications.
Ethan Ge is a second-year undergraduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) majoring in Electrical Engineering. He has done prior research working on TensorFlow models and is looking towards a future in signal processing. He began interning in the Wireless Lab at UCLA as part of Electrical and Computer Engineering’s honors program Fast Track to Success.
Pranay Boreddy is an undergraduate student at UCLA majoring in Computer Science. Currently, Pranay is working on leveraging computer vision for wireless communication. His research interests include applications of signal processing and machine learning. He began interning in the Wireless Lab at UCLA as part of Electrical and Computer Engineering’s honors program Fast Track to Success.
Current Visiting Professor
Namyoon Lee is a Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering, Korea University. He received a Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin in 2014. He was with the Communications and Network Research Group, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, South Korea, from 2008 to 2011, with Nokia Research Center, Berkeley, CA, USA, from 2014 to 2015, and with the Wireless Communications Research, Intel Labs, Santa Clara, CA, USA, from 2015 to 2016. He was an Assistant/Associate Professor at POSTECH from 2016 to 2022. His main research interest is inventing future communication and machine learning systems. Prof. Lee was a recipient of the 2009 Samsung Best Paper Award, the 2012 IEEE Student Best Paper Award (Seoul Section), the 2015 Intel Labs Recognition Award, the 2016 IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award, the 2020 IEEE Best Young Professional Award (Outstanding Nominee), the 2021 IEEE–IEIE Joint Award for Young Engineer and Scientist, the 2021 Headong Young Researcher Award, and the 2022 Best Patent Award for Samsung-POSTECH Research Collaboration. He was an Associate Editor for IEEE Communication Letters from 2019 to 2021 and for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology from 2020 to 2022. Since 2021, he has been an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Transactions on Communications.
Current Visiting Researchers
Joohyun Son is a Ph.D. student at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. He is currently with the Wireless Lab at UCLA as a visiting graduate researcher under Prof. Ian Roberts. He received his B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Yonsei University in 2019. His research interests include non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), new waveform techniques, and satellite communication.
Hyunwoo Lee is a Ph.D. student at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. He is currently with the Wireless Lab at UCLA as a visiting graduate researcher under Prof. Ian Roberts. He received his B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Yonsei University in 2021. His research interests include MIMO, channel estimation, advanced duplexing, and satellite communication.
Yunseo Lee is a Ph.D. student at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. She is currently with the Wireless Lab at UCLA as a visiting graduate researcher under Prof. Ian Roberts. She received her B.S. degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from Ewha Womans University in 2023. Her research interests include MIMO, beamforming, resource allocation, and satellite communication.
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