Faculty
Nick Mastronarde
Department of Electrical Engineering
226 Davis Hall
University at Buffalo, SUNY
Buffalo, NY 14260
Email: nmastron@buffalo.edu
Curriculum Vitae: [pdf]
Current Ph.D. Students
Prem Sagar Pattanshetty Vasanth Kumar
Josh Zhang
Co-advised with Prof. Zhangyu Guan
Mohammad Koosha
Anjali Omer
M.S. 2017: Performance Analysis of an Adaptive-Rate Buffer-Aware CSMA/CA-Based MAC Protocol
Current M.S. Students
Current Undergraduate Students
Senior Personnel
Guanying Sun
Principal Research Scientist
Dave Satterlee
Research Support Specialist
Alumni
Jamel Usen
B.S. 2024:
Andrew Corra
M.S. 2024: Low-complexity Physics-Informed Reinforcement Learning using Post-Decision States with Stochastic Sampling
David Bone
M.S. 2023: Simulating UAS-Swarm Networks: A Task Allocation Framework
Michael Seguin
Jipeng Dai
Nikhilesh Sharma
Ph.D. 2020: Value function approximation algorithms for reinforcement learning in delay-sensitive wireless communications
M.S. 2017: Structural Properties of Optimal Transmission Policies for Delay-Sensitive Energy-Harvesting Wireless Sensors
Mingkun Shi
M.S. 2020: Implementation of a Connectivity Service for UAV Swarms with a Distributed Algorithm
Michael Tilkins
B.S.
Daniel Walsh
B.S.
Elan Anderson
B.S.
Shreya Puranik
B.S.
Salvatore Piazza
B.S.
Nicholas McCartney
B.S.
Nasiah Johnson
B.S.
James Leu
B.S.
Yizheng Li
B.S.
Matthew Rantanen
B.S.
Someshwar Rao Somayajula Venkata
M.S. 2019: Delay-optimal MAC level LTE Scheduling using Deep Reinforcement Learning for Downlink
Employment: Now with Qualcomm, San Diego, CA
Zahra Hajibabaei
Ph.D. 2019: Reduction of Energy Consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks and IEEE 802.11 DCF
Employment: Now with Qualcomm, San Diego, CA
Shuanshuan Wu
Ph.D. 2018: Stochastic Geometry-based Analysis of Emerging Network Technologies: From MmWave Cellular to Nano-Optical Wireless Networks
Employment: Now with Qualcomm, San Diego, CA
Dr. Jalil Modares
Ph.D. 2017: Designing Multi-Drone Networks and Applications
Employment: Now with Qualcomm, San Diego, CA
Web: http://jmod.io
Wei Shao
B.S.
Rajarshi Basak
M.S. 2016: On the Convergence Rate of Fast Reinforcement Learning Algorithms with Application to Energy-Efficient Delay-Sensitive Wireless Communications
Alvin Alba
B.S. 2016
Jean Claude Santiuste
B.S. 2016
Ismail Aktas
B.S. 2016
Ragavendaran Srinivasan
M.S. 2016
Nathan Jacobson
B.S. 2015
Andrew Tennenbaum
B.S. 2015
Rakshit Viswanatham
B.S. 2015
Prince Joseph
B.S. 2015
Zujia Xu
CSTEP Fall 2015
B.S.
Ryan Thorne
B.S. 2015
Conor Hixon
B.S.
Jordan Hoeber
B.S.
Xiangyang Chen
CSTEP Summer 2014: Evaluating the Distortion Impact of Video Packet Losses in Streaming Video
CSTEP Fall 2015
B.S.
Dylan Elliott
B.S. 2015
Viral Patel
M.S. 2015
Changcan Wu
M.E. 2014: Energy-Efficient Delay-Sensitive Multiuser Uplink Scheduling Using a CSMA/CA-Based MAC
Sweta Sundaram
M.S. 2014: Matroska Video Streaming on USRP Software-Defined Radios
Khoi Nguyen
M.S. 2014
Praveen Janarthanan
M.S. 2013: Cross-layer Framework for Wireless Video Over USRP