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Welcome! I am a third year graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Rice University. My advisor is Dr. Behnaam Aazhang, a J.S. Abercrombie Professor and the current department chair. Currently, my research falls within the intersection of cooperative wireless communications and information theory.

I received my B.A. degree with Honors in Applied Mathematics (emphasis in Systems Theory) from the University of California at Berkeley in December 2006.

Research and Interests

My research background has spanned education, image processing, and wireless communications. Currently my research is focused on cooperative wireless communications. In particular, I'm interested in relay forwarding protocols, network resource allocation, and coding over multiple users. Research experience:

  • Assisting Rozy Brar, graduate student in Science and Mathematics Education at UC Berkeley, in her research on middle school students' understanding of rational numbers using physical or pictorial representations.
  • Wavelet algorithms for high-resolution image reconstruction, working with Dr. Raymond Chan of Chinese University of Hong Kong, Megan Belinski (formerly) of Loyola Maryland, and Andrea Martinez (formerly) of Regis University. All research took place in Hong Kong and you can read about the experience in an article that appeared in SIAM News.
  • Undergraduate thesis on Applications of Wavelet Theory in Signal Processing, under the guidance of Dr. F. Alberto Grunbaum.
  • Poster at SIAM Meeting in Feb. 2007. Title: Wavelet Algorithms for High-Resolution Image Reconstruction
  • Utilizing Network State Information (NSI) for Optimal Path Selection in Multi-hop Networks, work towards the completion of ELEC 599, the qualifying research course for the Rice ECE Ph.D program. This project was completed under advisement of Dr. Aazhang.
  • Poster at 2008 IEEE Communications Theory Workshop. Title: Utilizing Network Information for Optimal Path Selection in Multi-jop Networks
  • Poster at IEEE 2009 School of Information Theory. Title: Hybrid Relaying for the Parallel Relay Network
  • A Hybrid Relaying Protocol for the Parallel-Relay Network, work towards the completion of M.S. in EE, incomplete
  • Course & Teaching Assistantships

  • ELEC 241: Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering - Fall 2008 - Course Assistant
  • ELEC 533: Random Processes and Applications - Spring 2009 - Course Assistant
  • ELEC 241: Fundamentals of Electrical Engineerings - Fall 2009 - Head Teaching Assistant
  • Other

  • Electrical and/or Computer Engineering Leaders (ExCEL): founding member, President (S'08 - S'09), Outreach Coordinator (F'09 - now)
  • Empowering Leadership Alliance: member of the Student Advisory Board (S'08-now), mentor (Su'08-now)
  • Rice ECE Mentoring Program: founding leader and organizer (S'09 - now)
  • IEEE: student member (F'08-now)
  • IEEE Communications Society: member (S'09-now)
  • IEEE Information Theory Society: member (F'09 -now)
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