
Ali Tajer
Associate Professor
Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
(518) 276-8237
6040 Jonsson Engineering Center, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180
Ph.D. Students
Arpan Mukherjee
M. Tech., IIT-Kharagpur
Awards:
J. Baliga Fellowship (2019-20)
I obtained my B.Tech degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from West Bengal University of Technology, India, in June 2017 and M.Tech. degree in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in May 2019, majoring in Telecommunication Systems. I joined RPI as a PhD student in August 2019. My research interests include statistical learning theory, optimization, statistical and adaptive signal processing, and high dimensional statistics.
Burak Varici
B.Sc., Bogazici University
Awards:
AI Horizon Fellowship (IBM)
I received my B.Sc. degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Bogazici University, Turkey, in June 2018. I joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a Ph.D. student in August 2018. My research interests include Structure Learning in graphical models and reinforcement learning.
Homepage: https://bvarici.github.io
Anmol Dwivedi
B.Tech., NIT Tiruchirappalli
Awards:
J. Baliga Fellowship (2021-22)
I received my B.Tech. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from NIT Tiruchirappalli in May 2019. I joined RPI as a Ph.D. student in August 2019. My research interests include Power Systems, Optimization and Signal Processing techniques for Power System Analysis.
Kamron Fazel
B.Sc., RPI, M.Sc., Penn State University
I received the bachelor's degree in Nuclear Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University. My research is at the interface of machine learning and material science.
Zirui Yan
B.Sc. & B. Tech, University of Science and Technology of China
I received my B.Sc. degree in Statistics and the B.Tech degree in Computer Science and Technology from USTC in May 2020. I joined RPI as a PhD student in August 2021. My research interests include optimization, machine learning and statistical signal processing.
Homepage: https://ziruiyan.github.io
Shiuli Subhra Ghosh
B.Tech., NIT, M.Sc., Chennai Mathematical Institute
Awards:
J. Baliga Fellowship (2022-23)
I obtained my B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India, in 2018. Before joining Chennai Mathematical Institute for M.Sc. in Data Science (2020-22), I worked with Jindal Stainless Limited as an Associate Manager at Cold Rolling Mill Electrical and Automation Department. I joined RPI as a Ph.D. student in Fall 2022. My research interests include a data-driven approach to power systems analysis, process control, and trustworthy AI/ML.
Homepage - https://bonnya15.github.io/
Former Students
Former MS and BS Students
Javad Heydari (Ph.D., 2018)
Saeid Balaneshin (Ph.D., 2018)
Safak Bayram (Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2013-2014))
Hamad Bin Khalifa University (Qatar), Assistant Professor
Mateo Mengis (M.Sc., 2015)
Hsin-Ting Shih (M.Sc., 2014)
Logistic Solutions
Zhongyang Zhao (M.Sc., 2014)
Ph.D. Student in ECE at WSU
Sage Trudeau (Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2014-2016)
MIT Lincoln Lab
Vincent Cerati (Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2014-2016)
Fidessa
Grant Barron (Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2014-2016)
Wyman Gordon
James Hanford (Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2014-2016)
MIT Lincoln Lab
Stanley Cheung (Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2014-2016)
MIT Lincoln Lab
Jesse Greeves (Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2014-2016)
MIT Lincoln Lab
Phil LaGambino (Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2014-2016)
MITRE
Diego Cepeda (Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2014-2016)
Jack Keats (Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2014-2016)
MILCOS
Alex Link (Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2014-2016)
MassChallenge Accelarator
Visitors
Prof. Mohamed Abdallah
Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar
Zeyu Sun
Graduate Student, University of Michigan Ann-Arbor
Jingqi Huang
Graduate Student, UCSD
Song Wang
Graduate Student, UCSD
Yifan Zhang
Beihang University