Gregory W. Wornell has been on the MIT faculty since 1991, where he is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science . He did his graduate work at MIT, and his undergraduate work at the University of British Columbia . In addition to leading the Signals, Information, and Algorithms Laboratory, he is also affiliated with the interlaboratory Center for Wireless Networking , which he co-directs. He also chairs Graduate Area I (Systems, Communication, Control, and Signal Processing) within the department's doctoral program.

Greg's work emphasizes fundamental and novel research that is strongly connected to important emerging applications and technologies. Over the years, he has held visiting appointments at the (former) AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, the University of California , Berkeley, CA, and Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA. He has been involved in the Signal Processing and Information Theory societies of the IEEE in a variety of capacities, and maintains a number of close industrial relationships and activities. He has won a number of awards for both his research and teaching.

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Tricia Mulcahy has been at MIT since 2002 as an administrative assistant in the lab, working closely with Professor Wornell and the students, staff, and visitors. She handles office administration for the lab, Prof. Wornell's courses, and the EECS Department's Graduate Area I.

Outside of MIT, Tricia's passion is figure skating. She has passed her Senior Gold Freestyle Test, and competed at National Collegiates and New England Regionals. She has been a professional figure skating†instructor for 11 years, and coaches skaters at all levels, ages, and backgrounds. Her skaters have competed at the New England Regionals, Bay State Games, ISI Worlds, and many other events.

Just as with her experience in figure skating, Tricia enjoys being surrounded at MIT by individuals just as passionate about their endeavors, and the challenges and diversity that MIT has to offer.

In 2005, Tricia received an MIT Infinite Miles Award for her work at MIT.

Giovanni Aliberti has been at MIT since 1985. Prior to coming to MIT, he was with Boeing, Tektronics, and then Digital Equipment
Corporation, where he helped lead the development of processes and tools for the automation of computer systems design. He completed his bachelors and masters degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from Northeastern University in 1978 and 1980, respectively.

At MIT, Giovanni designs and manages computer and laboratory systems infrastructure, working closely with the faculty, students, and staff. He is a research staff member and computer systems specialist both in RLE, and with the campus-wide Information Systems Division. He has also worked with LIDS and the AI Lab on campus.

A longtime friend of the GNU Project, his technical interests span the areas of computer systems, development tools, networking and security. He is also an avid traveler, speaks several foreign languages, and loves photography.

Dr. Aslan Tchamkerten

tcham@mit.edu

Office: 36-689

Phone: 617.253.2197

Dr. Aslan Tchamkerten joined MIT in 2005 after obtaining his Physics diploma and Ph.D. degree in communication from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). His doctoral research studied coding strategies for the situation where the channel is unknown to both the transmitter and the receiver.

More generally his research interests include universal source/channel coding, feedback communication, interactive communication, adaptive coding schemes, and random graphs theory applied to ad-hoc networks.

Lane Brooks
lbrooks@mit.edu
Office: 36-699
Phone: 617.253.0373

Venkat Chandar

vchandar@mit.edu

Office: 36-673

Phone: 617.253.0310

Venkat Chandar came to MIT in 2002and is currently working on his masters degree. His undergraduate coursework focused on theoretical computer science and digital communication. His research interests include algorithms, information theory, coding theory, cryptography and
digital communications. In general he enjoys pursuing research problems that both demand strong mathematical skills and have great potential applications. His current research is on iterative quantization techniques for lossy source coding. In earlier work as an undergraduate, he studied image segmentation techniques for cardiac data in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems.

Vijay Divi came to MIT in 1998 and completed is bachelors degree in electrical engineering and computer science in 2002. He is currently pursuing the masters degree in electrical engineering and computer science, and a second bachelors degree in mathematics. His masters research is in the area of sampling theory for high-speed A/D conversion. Vijay's current interests include topics in signal processing, communication, and machine learning. His undergraduate research include experience at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology. He has twice served as a TA in 6.011.

Beyond MIT, he has worked at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (MERL), Akamai, and General Motors. And, through an MIT program, he also worked at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras on the development of inexpensive medical technologies. He is a winner of a 2004 Morris Joseph Levin EECS Masterworks award from MIT for his thesis presentation "Signal Recovery in Time-Interleaved Analog-to-Digital Converters,"  and holds a NDSEG Fellowship.

Ying-zong Huang
zong@mit.edu
Office: 36-669
Phone: 617.253.7311

Maryam Modir Shanechi
shanechi@mit.edu
Office: 36-669
Phone: 617.253.7311

Urs Niesen

uniesen@mit.edu
Office: 36-669

Phone: 617.253.7311

Charles Swannack
swannack@mit.edu
Office: 36-673
Phone: 617.253.0310

Charles Swannack came to MIT in 2003 after receiving his bachelors
degree in computer engineering from Clemson University, where he
focused on computational and discrete mathematics. His current
research interests include problems of digital communication, coding
and information theory. As an undergraduate, he received a best
student paper award from the Society of Plastic Engineers. As a
graduate student, he holds an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

Dr. Richard J. Barron

rbarron@ll.mit.edu
Office: 36-689

Phone: 617.253.2197

Dr. Stark C. Draper recently completed his graduate work at MIT, obtaining the PhD in 2002. Before coming to MIT he obtained bachelors degrees in both electrical engineering and history from Stanford University. Stark held the Information Processing Laboratory Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Toronto from 2002-2004, and is currently a postdoctoral scholar in EECS at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests and activities span several aspects of signal processing, communications, estimation, information theory, queuing, and networking.

He served as a regular TA in both 6.341 and 6.432, a course development TA in 6.432, and was co-leader in the establishment and design of 6.962/6.975, the advanced graduate seminar in communications, control, and signal processing. While a student, he held industrial positions at a variety of places, including Arraycomm and Draper Laboratory.  Among several awards, he has received the MIT Carlton E. Tucker Teaching Award, an Intel Graduate Fellowship, and a Fulbright Fellowship.

Dr. Uri Erez completed his postdoctoral studies at MIT in 2005, where he worked on problems of coding and communication.  Before coming to MIT he was at Tel-Aviv University, where he completed undergraduate degrees in mathematics and physics in 1996, and his masters and doctoral degrees in 1999 and 2003, respectively. He is currently on the faculty of the Electrical Engineering - Systems department at Tel Aviv University.

Uri has served as a consultant for a number companies, among them Lucent Technologies' Bell Laboratories, Tadiran-Systems and Ultracom. He received the Omicron Delta prize for his presentation at the 2000 Israel IEEE Convention. His research interests encompass information theory and digital communication.

Prof. Amos Lapidoth

lapidoth@isi.ee.ethz.ch

Office: 36-687

Phone: 617.253.0565

Dr. Emin Martinian completed his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California at, Berkeley in 1997. After a year and a half at the startup OPC Technologies, he joined the doctoral program at MIT in 1998, receiving the masters degree in 2000, and the doctoral degree in 2004. His masters research was in the area of multimedia authentication, and his doctoral thesis in the area of dynamic information and constraints in source and channel coding.   Since completing his doctorate he has been with Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (MERL) in Cambridge, MA.

Emin served as a TA in 6.341. In addition, he co-founded 6.454, the department's advanced graduate seminar in communications, control, and signal processing, and has co-organized this seminar for three terms. In summer terms, he worked at Lucent Technologies' Bell Laboratories, Analog Devices, MERL, and has also served as a consultant to various start-ups. His broader research interests include digital communications and signal processing, especially information theory, error control codes, cryptography and image compression and authentication. While at MIT he held an NSF Graduate Fellowship, and received the Capocelli Award of the 2004 Data Compression Conference for the best student-authored paper.