I am an Assistant Professor of ECE in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, where I lead the ION research lab.
ION conducts research at the intersection of networking, communications, and machine learning. Contemporary network architectures we investigate include Fog computing systems, the Internet of Things (IoT), NextG Wireless, and social learning networks (SLN), and our foundational techniques include convex and non-convex optimization, machine learning, and signal processing.
Prior to joining Purdue, I was the Associate Director of the EDGE Lab and a Lecturer of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, where I received my PhD. I also co-founded the big data startup company Zoomi Inc based on my research.
I am also active in teaching. In addition to lecturing, I co-authored the book The Power of Networks: Six Principles That Connect Our Lives and have taught three Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on networking.
Note to prospective graduate students: While I am not actively hiring, I am always on the lookout for highly motivated students who want to conduct research in my area. If you fit this description, feel free to send me an email that contains at least (i) your CV and (ii) something which demonstrates to me that you have read one of my recent papers. I apologize in advance that I cannot respond to every email.
News
- June 2022: Our paper on signal detection under nonlinearity has been accepted to IEEE Communications Letters. Congrats, Rajeev!
- May 2022: Our paper on intelligent surface learning design has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Congrats, Junghoon and Ali! Also, our work on decentralized sensor classification was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
- Apr 2022: David Nickel and Jess Zhang, undergraduates in our lab, are recipients of ECE's 2022 undergraduate excellence awards in research and teaching. Congrats, David and Jess! I am also honored to have been selected for the 2022 College of Engineering Faculty Excellence Award in Online Education.
- Mar 2022: I am a 2022 NSF CAREER awardee.
- Feb 2022: I am an awardee of the 2022 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program (YIP).
- Jan 2022: Our paper on federated gradient recycling has been accepted to ICLR 2022. Also, our paper on private representation learning was accepted to AISTATS 2022. Congrats, Shams and Ali!
- Dec 2021: Our paper on multi-stage hybrid federated learning has been accepted to IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. Congrats, Ali and Shams! Also, I will be giving an invited talk at the IEEE Summit on Communications Futures, Jan. 14-15. Hope to see you there!
- Nov 2021: Our paper on D2D communication and computation co-design has been accepted to IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. Congrats, Junghoon!
- Oct 2021: Our paper on click-based performance prediction has been accepted to IEEE Conference on Big Data. Congrats, Yun-Wei!
- Sept 2021: Our paper on robust automatic modulation classification has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking. Congrats, Rajeev!
- Aug 2021: Our paper on semi-decentralized federated learning has been accepted to IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. An abridged version has also been accepted to IEEE Globecom. Congrats, Frank, Shams, and Ali!
- Jul 2021: I have started as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications in the ML and AI area.