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Director
Ian Roberts is an Assistant Professor 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. He received his B.S. from Missouri University of Science and Technology (Rolla).
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.
Graduate Students
Samuel Li
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 primary research interest lies in machine learning, including its application to wireless communication and sensing.
Dominic Olson
Dominic Olson is a Ph.D. student in electrical and computer engineering at UCLA. He previously received his B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from UCLA in 2024 and 2026, respectively. His research interests lie in wireless systems, especially millimeter-wave communication, radar, optimization, and machine learning. He enjoys both developing signal processing techniques and implementing them in practical scenarios.
Undergraduate Researchers
Ethan Ge
Ethan Ge is a fourth-year undergraduate student in Electrical Engineering at UCLA. His research interests include signal processing and machine learning, wireless communications and multimodal sensing, and experimental and networked systems. At the Wireless Lab, he has led the technical development of RemoteRF, a platform for remote SDR experimentation, and learning-based approaches to wireless beam refinement. He joined the lab through UCLA ECE’s Fast Track to Success honors program.
Visiting Researchers
Sunwoo Min
Sunwoo Min 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 Computer Science from Sookmyung Women’s University in 2023. Her research interests include MIMO, handover, resource allocation, 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.
Xinsong Feng was a master’s student in the Wireless Lab at UCLA from 2024 to 2025, after which he began his Ph.D. studies at William & Mary.
Sungho Cho was a master’s student in the Wireless Lab at UCLA from 2024 to 2026.
Kanishka Roy was a master’s student in the Wireless Lab at UCLA from 2025 to 2026.
Helena Xu graduated from UCLA in 2024 with her bachelor’s degree. She then joined Stanford University for graduate school.
Caden Davis graduated from UCLA in 2025 with his bachelor’s degree, where he was recognized with the department’s top honor—the Outstanding Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Award. He then joined Stanford for graduate school. Caden played a vital role in establishing the lab’s experimental capabilities, bringing up software-defined radio and phased array platforms.
Felipe Jr Figueroa concluded his research internship with the Wireless Lab at UCLA, contributing substantially to our experimental efforts through his numerous 3-D printed models, many of which we continue using on a daily basis today.
Chaeyeon Kim was an undergraduate researcher in the Wireless Lab at UCLA from May 2024 to Dec. 2024, during her time as an exchange student at UCLA. Afterwards, she returned to Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, to finish her undergraduate degree.
Pranay Boreddy was an undergraduate researcher in the Wireless Lab in 2024–2025. He began interning in the Wireless Lab at UCLA as part of Electrical and Computer Engineering’s honors program Fast Track to Success.
Crystal DeWeese was an undergraduate researcher in the Wireless Lab in 2025 as part of Electrical and Computer Engineering’s honors program Fast Track to Success.
Former Visiting Researchers
Joohyun Son was a visiting graduate researcher in the Wireless Lab at UCLA from Feb. 2024 to Feb. 2025, after which he returned to Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, to finish his Ph.D.
Hyunwoo Lee was a visiting graduate researcher in the Wireless Lab at UCLA from Oct. 2024 to Oct. 2025, after which he returned to Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, to finish his Ph.D.
Yunseo Lee was a visiting graduate researcher in the Wireless Lab at UCLA from Feb. 2025 to Jan. 2026, after which she returned to Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, to finish her Ph.D.
Hanju Yoo was a visiting researcher in the Wireless Lab at UCLA in 2026, after which he returned to his home institution of Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, to finish his Ph.D.
Former Visiting Professors
Namyoon Lee was a visiting professor in the Wireless Lab at UCLA from 2024 to 2025, after which he returned to his home institution of POSTECH, Pohang, South Korea.
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