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.

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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.

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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 a third-year 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.

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Felipe Jr Figueroa is an undergraduate aerospace engineering major at UCLA, with plans to specialize in astronautics. Interested in the expanding intersection between the space industry and wireless technology, Felipe is currently working on satellite communications research at the Wireless Lab. As an aerospace engineering major, Felipe aims to provide a unique lens from which to view challenges in wireless, especially as he progresses further into his studies.
 Aside from his academic endeavors, Felipe is a distance runner who also enjoys drumming in his free time.


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 is currently an intern 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 is currently an intern in the Wireless Lab at UCLA as part of Electrical and Computer Engineering’s honors program Fast Track to Success.



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.



Alumni

Neil Kane graduated from UCLA in 2024 with his bachelor’s and master’s degrees, where he was recognized as an Electrical and Computer Engineering Departmental Scholar. He then joined the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University as an engineer.
Helena Xu graduated from UCLA in 2024 with her bachelor’s degree. She then joined Stanford University for graduate school.