People

Postdocs Mentoring:

  1. Dr. Muhammad Arsalan, Postdoc, 09/09-05/10, Carleton University, now at Aramco
  2. Dr. Hossein Roufarshbaf, Postdoc, 09/11-08/12, George Mason University, now at Broadcom
  3. Dr. Abouzar Ghavami, Postdoc, 09/15-08/16, Clemson University, now at Fidelity
  4. Dr. Somayeh Khosroazad, Postdoc 09/18-08/20, Birjand University, now at NXP

PhD Students (Chair/Advisor, Co-advisor*):

  1. Arman Kiani, Qunatum Communication in Space, 2022-Present
  2. Joseph Patton, Design and Implementation of CubeSats, 2021-Present, now at Aurora Engineering
  3. Sonia Naderi, Wireless sensors for forest ecosystem monitoring, 2018-22, now at LA County College
  4. Joel Castro, Leak Detection in Pressurize Space Structures, 2013-20, now at Activas Diagnostics
  5. Lonnie Labonte, Wireless feedback control with noise and delay, 2013-16, now at NASA GSFC
  6. Mojtaba Razfar, Network Coding, 2011-16, Lead system engineer, now at Ford
  7. Abolfazl Razi, Distributed coding in wireless sensor networks, 2009-13, now Associate Professor at Clemson University
  8. Fatemeh Afghah, Game theory in wireless relay networks, 2009-13, now Associate Professor at  Clemson University
  9. Christopher Farah*, Topology detection in wireless sensor networks, PhD, 2007-2011, MapLarge

Also served on PhD Committee of : JC Whittier, David Almeida, Kraig King, Qinghan Liang, Radek Glaser, Clementina Russo, Alma Delic-Ibukic, Steven Turner;

MS Students (Thesis and Non-thesis*):

  1. Mersedeh Najishabahang, Wireless network optimization, 09/22-12/24, now at Dielectric
  2. Thayer Whitney, Reliability Analysis of Wireless Networks, 09/21-05/23, now at Dielectric
  3. Travis Russell, Design & implementation of Ground stations for CubeSats, 09/20-05/22, now at Bose
  4. Steele Muchmore-Allen, Flight computer design for CubeSats, 05/21-05/22, now at IDEXX
  5. Chitra Manjanai Pandian, Water wireless quality sensor network, 08/16-08/17, now CTO at Empower Wearables
  6. Casey Clark, 09/14-05/16, Leak detection system for ISS, now at SpaceX
  7. Fred Schwaner*, 09/09-12/13, now at Generac
  8. Joel Castro, Leak Detection, 09/11-05/13, next a PhD Student at UMaine (See above)
  9. Daniel Blackmer*, 09/09-08/11 (part time), now Director of Engineering at Earthworks Audio
  10. Dhruv Shah*, 09/09-08/11, now at Wi2Wi
  11. Keyvan Yasami, Wireless Network Coding, 09/09-05/11, now at Azimuth
  12. Kale Schrader, Wireless sensor networks for sturctural monitoring, 09/08-08/10, now at Capstan
  13. Robert Strauss, Resource Allocation in wireless sensor networks, 09/08-08/10, now at Onset
  14. Jun Chen, Modelling indoor wireless channel for wireless sensor networks, 09/08-08/10, next at University of Notre Dame
  15. Carl Hansen*, 09/08-08/11 (part time), now at BBN
  16. Darrell Wilson*, 09/08-08/11 (part time), now at AT&T
  17. Timothy Falkner, Multi-dimensional Signal Processing in Low SNR Regime, 05/08-05/10, 
  18. Morvarid Bassir*, 09/06-05/08, formerly at Husson University, and now at Accenture.
  19. Ravi Subaraya*, 09/06-12/08, next at SRD Corp
  20. Bingxin Shen, Error correction codes for wireless sensor nets, 09/05-08/07, Recevied PhD at Stony Brook University, now at BMS

Also served on MS Committee of : Jessica Aronis, Nathaniel Hayes, and Evan Dudzik.

Undergraduates Research Assistants (* Honors thesis):

  1. John Hodson, UMaine, ECE, 2024-2025
  2. Josiah Bloom, UMaine MEE, 2024-2025
  3. Sam Aali, UMaine, Physics, 2023-2024
  4. Joseph Patton, UMaine, ECE, 2020-2021
  5. Steele Muchmore-Allen, ECE, 2020-2021
  6. Victoria Nicholas, UMaine, ECE, 2019-20
  7. Thayer Whitney, UMaine, ECE, 2019-20
  8. Daniel Woodhouse, UMaine MEE, 2018-19
  9. Nicole McGrath, UMaine Bio, 2018-19
  10. Ryan Dufour, UMaine ECE, 2018-19
  11. Matt Ingram, UMaine MEE, 2018
  12. Summer Camire, UMaine MEE, 2018
  13. *William Robertson, UMaine ECE, 2017
  14. Forest LeBlanc, UMaine ECE, 05/17-05/18 
  15. Dan Schlabig, UMaine ECE, 05/17-05/18
  16. Sean Turner, UMaine ECE, 09/16-05/17
  17. Peter Lenardis, UMaine ECE, 06/15-09/15
  18. Cassandra Jones, Arizona State, 06/14-09/14 (NSF REU Fellow)
  19. Robert Sepanek, UMaine ECE, 06/14-09/15
  20. Brian Rice, UMaine ECE, 06/14-09/14
  21. Casey Clark, UMaine ECE, 09/13-09/14
  22. Taylor Brown, UMaine ECE, 06/13-09/13 (NSF REU Fellow)
  23. Cody St Luis, UMaine ECE, 06/13-09/13
  24. Justin Lad, UMass, 06/13-09/13 (NSF REU Fellow)
  25. Sam Foster, UMaine PHY, 06/13-09/13
  26. * Kenn Bundy, Down-link Channel Capacity of Space Probes, Computer Science, 2012-13
  27. Timothy Bremm, UMaine ECE, 06/11-08/11
  28. Elysar Mogharbel, Arizona State, 06/11-08/11
  29. Kristen Zych, University of Centeral Florida, 06/11-08/11
  30. Jennifer Doiron, UMaine Eng Physics, 06/11-08/11
  31. Kyle Holyoke, Softwaredevelopment, 01/10-05/11
  32. Jesse Rodgerson, AOA Analysis, 09/10-05/13
  33. Dale Goodman, Statistical Analysis, 09/10-05/11
  34. Anin Maskay, RSS Analysis, 01/10-05/13
  35. Cameron McGary, 01/10-05/11 (Senior project)
  36. John Murray, 01/10-05/11 (Senior project)
  37. Yusef Nuri, 01/10-05/11 (Senior project)
  38. John Tkach, 01/10-05/11 (Senior project), Electric Boat
  39. Joel Castro, 01/10-05/11 (Senior project)
  40. Zachary Janosik, 01/10-05/11 (Senior project)
  41. Adam Marsano, 01/10-05/11 (Senior project)
  42. *Alex Servadio, Robomoon project, 01/10-05/11
  43. Kenneth Willey, Capacity of wireless networks, 05/09-05/10
  44. * Tim Baker, Algebraic topology applications in WSN, Math, 2009-2010
  45. Nathan Broyer, Dielectric Antenna Software Planner, 02/08-09/08, BAE
  46. Robert England, Wireless Accelerometer Project, NASA Higher Ed, 05/08-08/08
  47. Brian Tomassetti, Wireless access project, NASA Intern, MW, 05/08-08/08
  48. Peter Delong, Wireless access project, NASA Intern, MW, 05/08-08/08, Sikorski Aircarft
  49. James Knarr, Wireless sensing project, NASA Intern, JSC, 03/08-08/08, GD
  50. Stephanie Duy, Coding project, NASA Intern, JPL, 03/08-08/08, Kepware
  51. Kendra Richards, Wireless Light Monitoring project, NASA Higher Ed, 03/08-05/08, BIW
  52. Carl Hansen, Enhancing OPNET Transcevier pipeline, NSF-REU, 01/07-05/08, BBN
  53. Chris Wilson, Wireless vibration sensor net, NASA Higher Ed, 01/07-05/08, Electric Boat
  54. Kevin Goodspeed, Noise estimation in wireless photo sensors, NSF-REU, 06/06-08/06