SPiNCOM
Signal Processing in Networking & Communications
SPiNCOM Alumni 2014–2019
Nasim Yahya Soltani, U of M, Ph.D. 2014
Assistant Professor, Marquette University
Research interests: big data analysis, network science, machine learning, statistical signal processing, robust and chance-constrained optimization, smart grid and wireless
Yu Zhang, U of M, Ph.D. 2015
Assistant Professor, U of Calif. Santa Cruz
research interests: smart power grids, optimization theory, big data analytics, and wireless communications
Morteza Mardani, U of M, Ph.D. 2015
Senior Research Scientist, NVIDIA; formerly postdoc at Stanford U.
research interests: network inference and optimization, sparse and low rank recovery
Brian Baingana, U of M, Ph.D. 2016
Principal Data Scientist, Oshkosh Corp.; formerly with Wind Logic
research interests: statistical signal processing, estimation theory, network science and statistical/machine learning algorithms, statistical analysis of network data
Gang Wang, U of M, Ph.D. March 2018
Professor, Beijing Institute of Technology, P. R. China
research interests: smart power grids, networked system control, and data analytics
Yanning Shen, U of M, Ph.D. December 2018
Assistant Professor, UC Irvine
research interests: data science, statistical signal processing, optimization with application to brain, gene-regulatory, financial and social networks
Liang Zhang, U of M, Ph.D. January 2019
Senior Software Engineer, Google
research interests: Deep learning, grid analytics
Tianyi Chen, Ph.D. January 2019
Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.
research interests: optimization, machine learning, cyber physical systems and internet-of-things
Dimitris Berberidis, U of M, Ph.D. January 2019
ML Researcher, Apple; formerly with Goldman Sachs; Post-Doc at CMU
research interests: data science, graph mining
Fatemeh Sheikholeslami, Ph.D. March 2019
Research Scientist, formerly with Bosch AI; now with Amazon Alexa
research interests: machine learning, optimization, big data with application to communications and networking