Students in SPAS Lab

Signal Processing & Adaptive Sensing Laboratory

Current PhD Students
Current MS Students
Graduated PhDs
Graduated MS
Undergraduate Student Advising
    Barrett Honors College Graduates
    Fulton Undergraduate Research Initiative (FURI) Students
    Senior Design Students
    Research Aids
High School Student and Middle School Student Mentorship

 

Current PhD Students
– Abigail Eastman
– Jaycie Eaton
– Yongho Seo
– Bindya Venkatesh
– Peter Weber

Current MS Students
– Abha Pandey
Andrew Wylde
– Pinjia Zhang (co-chair) 

Graduated PhDs

Javaid Ikram (December 2023)
Dissertation: Nonlinear Synchrosqueezing for Dispersive Signal Analysis (co-chair)
Nayely Vélez-Cruz (December 2023)
Dissertation: Bayesian Inference and Information Learning for Switching Nonlinear Gene Regulatory Networks
Currently: PhD student in Evolutionary Biology, Arizona State University 
Francisco Solis (April 2020)
Dissertation: Electroencephalographic Signal Source Estimation Using Power Dissipation and Interface Surface Charge
Currently: Associate Professor, School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences, Arizona State University
Srija Chakraborty (December 2019)
Dissertation:  Advanced Processing of Multispectral Satellite Data for Detecting and Learning Knowledge-based Features of Planetary Surface Anomalies (co-chair)
Currently:   NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow
Bahman Moraffah  (July 2019)
Dissertation:  Bayesian Nonparametric Modeling and Inference for Multiple Object Tracking
Judith A. Northrop (May 2019)
Dissertation: Modeling and Parameter Estimation of Sea Clutter Intensity in Thermal Noise
Currently: Fellow Northrop Grumman, Palmdale CA


Alexander J. Maurer (August 2016)
Dissertation: Use of Bayesian Filtering and Adaptive Learning Methods to Improve the Detection and Estimation of Pathological and Neurological Disorders
John S. Kota (May 2016)
Dissertation: Transmit Waveform Design for Coexisting Radar and Communications Systems
Steven Sandoval (May 2016)
Dissertation: Model-driven Time-varying Signal Analysis and its Application to Speech Processing
Samuel P. Ebenezer (May 2015)
Dissertation: Sequential Monte Carlo Based Multiple Target Track Before Detect
Brian O’ Donnell (December 2014)
Dissertation: Biology-Based Matched Signal Processing and Physics-Based Modeling For Improved Detection
Meng Zhou (December 2014)
Dissertation: Multiple Detection and Tracking in Complex Time-Varying Environments
Anna Malin (May 2013)
Dissertation: Adaptive Learning and Unsupervised Clustering of Immune Responses Using Microarray Random Sequence Peptides
Daniel Huff (May 2013)
Dissertation: Adaptive Methods within a Sequential Bayesian Approach for Structural Health Monitoring
Lifeng Miao (May 2013)
Dissertation: Efficient Bayesian Tracking of Neural Activity: Algorithm and Real-Time FPGA Implementation (co-chair)
Shwetha Edla (December 2012)
Dissertation: Adaptive Parameter Estimation, Modeling and Patient-Specific Classification of Eletrocardiogram Signals
Lakshminarayan Ravichandran (August 2011)
Dissertation: Waveform Mapping and Time-Frequency Processing of Biological Sequences and Structures (co-chair)
Bhavana Chakraborty (August 2010) 
Dissertation: Advancements in Waveform Design for Multiple-input and Multiple-Output and Urban Multipath Exploitation Radar
Debejyo Chakraborty (August 2010)
Dissertation: Time-Frequency Based Adaptive Learning for Structural Health Management
Wenfan Zhou (August 2010)
Dissertation: Sequential Processing with Sensor Scheduling in Structural Health Management
Li Ying (May 2010)
Dissertation: Waveform Design and Processing for Agile Sensing
Jun Jason Zhang (December 2008)
Dissertation: Waveform Diversity and Design for Agile Sensing and Environment Characterization
Currently: Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Wuhan University
Ioannis Kyriakides (August 2008) 
Dissertation: On the Use of Monte Carlo Techniques for Integrated Sensing and Processing (co-chair)
Sandeep Sira (January 2007)
Dissertation: Waveform Agile Sensing for Target Tracking and Detection in Clutter
Amit Chhetri (May 2006)
Dissertation: Sensor Scheduling and Efficient Algorithm Implementation for Target Tracking (co-chair)
Ye Jiang (December 2005)
Dissertation: Discrete Characterizations of Wideband and Dispersive Time-varying Systems
Hao Shen (May 2004)
Dissertation: Time-varying Signal Processing Techniques for Multiple Access Wireless Communication Systems

Graduated MS

 

2023: Abigail Eastman
2022: Yiming Zhang, Yongho Seo
2021: Po-Kan (William) Shih (co-chair)
2020: Sinjini Mitra (co-chair)
2018: Vineet S. Gattani, Adarsh A. Venkataramani
2016: Matthew G. Freeman
2015: Karl Dutson, Arindam Dutta, Jian Zhou
2014: John Kota, Alexander Maurer, Jiewei (Jessie) Jiang, Bryan Paul, Joseph Zapp
2012: Peter C. Weber, Hiroko Austin, Nickolas A. Stenger, Shubo Liu, Stefanos Michael
2011: Ryan Piwowarski, Meng Zhou, Judith A. Northrop
2010: Debejyo Chakraborty, Bhavana Chakraborty, Anthony G. Gonzales, Donna M. Simon
2009: Tom Trueblood, Chang Xu
2008: Lakshminarayan Ravichandran, Shwetha Edla, Ahmad Ababnah (co-chair)
2006: Abhishek Swain (co-chair), Camron Vossberg (co-chair)
2005: Terry Bowles
2004: Nistha Sharma
2003: Moushumi Zaman, Srinivasa K. Machineni
2002: Daniel W. Huff, Tariq Mumtaz, Constantinos Annivas
2001: Samuel P. Ebenezer, Dongwon Park, Kofi Ghartey (co-chair), Charu Gupta, Sanjay Chetwani

Undergraduate Student Advising

Barrett Honors College Graduates
– Dominic Bonelli, 2019 (co-chair) 
   Design of Signal Processing Algorithms and Development of a Real-Time System for Mapping Audio   
   to Haptics for Cochlear Implant Users
– Alexander Maurer, 2012    
  Data Association for Clutter Elimination in Neural Source Localization
– Vincent Molieri, 2008    
   Structural Health Monitoring Using the Matching Pursuit Decomposition

Fulton Undergraduate Research Initiative (FURI) Students
– Lilian Kim, 2014
– Lydia Letham, 2014
– Donna Simon, 2007

Senior Design Students
– Leah Callow, JonBlake Chua, Kathryn Douglass and Brittany Hertneky:  Team: Think Outside The Rat
    Box
    Indirect Calorimetry
Fall 2020-Spring 2021
– Logan Sauder, Rushi Pate, Osama Imam and Alysyia Tarin    
   Bump in the Road, 2014
– Megan Dresch, Andrew Meadows, Anthony Rose and Joel Velazquez    
   Bio-Medical Interactive Website Application,
2011
– Scott Farley, Andrew Garrido and Vicente Molieri    
   Graphical User Interface for Structural Health Monitoring, 2008
– Timothy Lindblom, Ly Luu, Daniel Peterson and Nicholas Rancourt    
   Design and Implementation of a Target Tracker, 2005
– Ryan Brown, Wesley Butler, Nilit Muley and Gouri Nair    
   Advanced Signal Processing Techniques for Wireless Communications using Time-Frequency
   Representations,
2002
– Jeff Chruma, Anthony Helton, Christal Orlando and Tavis Tso    
  Time-Frequency Representation Workstation, 2000

Research Aids
– Hansneet Kaur, Brian Kramer, Brett Larsen

High School Student and Middle School Student Mentorship
– Sofia Wyatt, Kyrene Middle School, 2017
– Daphne Lughes, Xavier College Preparatory High School, 2011
– Anna Weiss, McClintock High School and The Payne Academy, 2011
– Abhishek Rajadas, McClintock High School and The Payne Academy, 2010