People
Director
Research and Project Staff
Brittany McCall
Assistant Director, Project Management, M.S. – Arizona State University
Camille Holtom
Project Manager, B.S. – Brigham Young University
Julianne Mortensen
Project Manager
Dr. Alex Chiriyath
Assistant Research Professor,
Ph.D. – Arizona State University
Dr. Arindam Dutta
Assistant Research Professor,
Ph.D. – Arizona State University
Assistant Research Professor,
Ph.D. – Arizona State University
Dr. Yu Rong
Assistant Research Professor,
Ph.D. – Arizona State University
Dr. Andrew Herschfelt
Assistant Research Professor,
Ph.D. – Arizona State University
Dr. Owen Ma
Assistant Research Professor,
Ph.D. – Arizona State University
Dr. Hanguang Yu
Assistant Research Professor,
Ph.D. – Arizona State University
Dr. Carl Morgenstern
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Ph.D. – Arizona State University
Dr. Thang Pham
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Ph.D. – Arizona State University
Ph.D. Students
Yang Li
Matriculating at ASU
Ph.D. Student, Bliss Lab, 2017-
Wylie Standage-Beier
Matriculating at ASU
Ph.D. Student Student, Bliss Lab, 2018-
Yukang Fu
Matriculating at ASU
PhD Student, Bliss Lab, 2018-
Adarsh Venkataramani
Matriculating at ASU
PhD Student, Bliss Lab, 2018-
Saquib Siddiqui
Matriculating at ASU
PhD Student, Bliss Lab, 2020-
Bella Lenz
Matriculating at ASU
PhD Student, Bliss Lab, 2021-
Shammi A Doly
Matriculating at ASU
PhD Student, Bliss Lab, 2021-
Drake Silbernagel,
Matriculating at ASU
PhD Student, Bliss Lab, 2022-
Prithvi Hemanth,
Matriculating at ASU
MS Student, Bliss Lab, 2023-
Gerry Gubash
Matriculating at ASU
PhD Student, Bliss Lab, 2023-
Master’s Students
Anjali Dixit
Matriculating at ASU
PhD Student, Bliss Lab, 2022-2024
Het Miteshkumar Desai
Matriculating at ASU
MS Student, Bliss Lab, 2022-
Nishita Luhana,
Matriculating at ASU
MS Student, Bliss Lab, 2023-2024
Raj Dharmendra Thakkar,
Matriculating at ASU
MS Student, Bliss Lab, 2023-
Akshaya Srikanth,
Matriculating at ASU
MS Student, Bliss Lab, 2023-
Undergraduate Researchers
Former Ph.D. Students
Dr. Bryan Paul Ph.D., ASU, Bliss Lab, 2014-2017 – “RF Convergence of Radar & Communications Metrics, Bounds, and Systems” (LinkedIn)
Dr. Alex Chiriyath Ph.D., ASU, Bliss Lab, 2014-2018 – “Fundamental Limits on Performance for Cooperative Radar-Communications Coexistence” (LinkedIn)
Dr. Richard Gutierrez Ph.D., ASU, Bliss Lab, 2013-2018 – “An Analysis of the Unmanned Aerial Systems-to-Ground Channel and Joint Sensing and Communications Systems Using Software Defined Radio” (LinkedIn)
Dr. Arindam Dutta Ph.D., ASU, Bliss Lab, 2015-2018 – “Signal Processing and Machine Learning Techniques Towards Various Real-World Applications” (LinkedIn)
Dr. Yu Rong
Ph.D., ASU, Bliss Lab, 2013-2018 – “Remote Sensing For Vital Signs Monitoring — A Radar Approach”
Dr. Christian Chapman
Ph.D., ASU, Bliss Lab, 2014-2019 – “Distributed Reception in the Presence of Gaussian Interference”
Dr. Andrew Herschfelt
Ph.D., ASU, Bliss Lab, 2016-2019 – “Simultaneous Positioning and Communications: Hybrid Radio Architecture, Estimation Techniques, and Experimental Validation“
Dr. Hanguang Yu
Ph.D. Student, Bliss Lab, 2014-2020 – “The Architecture Design and Implementation of Communications and High Precision Positioning (CHP2) System”
Dr. Justin Echols
PhD Student, Bliss Lab, 2018-2020 – “Control and Estimation Theory In Timekeeping Applications”
Dr. Owen Ma
Bliss Lab, 2015-2020 – “Anticipating Postoperative Delirium During Cardiac Surgeries Involving Deep Hypothermia Circulatory Arrest”
Dr. Sharanya Srinivas
Bliss Lab, 2015-2020 – “Communications and High-Precision Positioning (CHP2) System: Enabling Distributed Coherence and Precise Positioning for Resource-Limited Air Transport Systems”
Dr. Jacob Holtom
Bliss Lab, 2019-2023 – “Distributed Coherent Mesh Beamforming: Algorithms and Implementation”
Dr. Zelpha Thomas, Ph.D., ASU, Bliss Lab, 2021-2023 – “Differential Privacy Protection via Inexact Data Cloning”
Dr. Carl Morgenstern, Ph.D., ASU, Bliss Lab, 2020-2023 – “In-Band Full Duplex Analog Control and Analysis”
Yang Li
Ph.D., ASU, Bliss Lab, 2017-2024 – “Accelerator Design And Hardware Implementation For Distributed Coherent Mesh Beamformer“
Former Researchers and Students
Researchers
- Dr. Sean Bryan, Ph.D. – Case Western Reserve University, BLISS Lab: 2018-2021 (LinkedIn)
- Dr. Samet Arda, Ph.D. – Arizona State University, BLISS Lab: 2020-2021 (LinkedIn)
- Dr. Sharanya Srinivas, Ph.D. – Arizona State University, BLISS Lab: 2020-2021 (LinkedIn)
- Dr. Hyunseok Lee, Ph.D. – University of Michigan, BLISS Lab: 2017-2019 (LinkedIn)
- Dr. Tom McGiffen, PhD from Stanford University, BLISS Lab: 2016-2018 (LinkedIn)
- Prof. Jaehyun Park, PhD from Seoul National University, BLISS Lab: 2017-2018 (LinkedIn)
- Prof. Xue Jiang, PhD from McMasters University, BLISS Lab: 2015–2016 (LinkedIn)
- Dr. Eric Torkildson, PhD from University of California, Santa Barbara, BLISS Lab: 2015 (LinkedIn)
- Dr. Susanna Werth, PhD from University of Potsdam, Germany, BLISS Lab: 2015 (LinkedIn)
Co-Advised Ph.Ds
- Dr. Nivia Colon-Diaz, “Active Reflection Coefficient Analysis and Prediction, Measurement and Mitigation Methodologies for Co-located MIMO Radars in Transmit Mode”, ASU, Ph.D. conferred 2021
- Dr. Siddhartha Krishnamurthy, “Peak sidelobe level distribution computation for ad hoc arrays using extreme value theory”, Harvard University, Ph.D. conferred 2013
- Dr. Danielle Hinton, “Protocols for multi-antenna ad hoc wireless networking in interference environments”, MIT, Ph.D. conferred 2010 (LinkedIn)
- Prof. Siddhartan Govindasamy, “Multiple-antenna systems in ad hoc wireless networks”, MIT, Ph.D. conferred 2008 (LinkedIn)
- Dr. Peter Parker, “On bounds and algorithms for cooperative wireless communication”, Harvard University, Ph.D. conferred 2008 (LinkedIn)
- Dr. Keith Herring, “Propagation Models for Multiple-Antenna Systems: Methodology, Measurements, and Statistics”, MIT, Ph.D. conferred 2008
Master’s Students
- Anjali Dixit, “RADAR-Based Non-Stationary and Stationary Human Presence Detection” – ASU conferred 2024
- Samuel B. Gordon, “Reconfigurable RF Transmitters for C-Band and X- Band: Design, Development, and Testing” – ASU conferred 2022
- Samuel K. Welker, “Precision Navigation using Two-Way Ranging: Bounds and Performance” – ASU conferred 2022
- Pravallika Reddy Ketha Hazarath, “Machine Learning-based Analysis of the Relationship between the Human Gut Microbiome and Bone Health” – ASU degree conferred 2020
- Huiwen Chu, “Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) Detection Methods: Performance Comparisons and Computationally Efficient Implementations” – ASU degree conferred 2020
- Saquib Siddiqui, “Hardware Implementation and Analysis of Temporal Interference Mitigation : A High-Level Synthesis Based Approach,” ASU degree conferred 2020
- Mohammad Samin Nur Chowdhury, “EEG-Based Estimation of Human Reaction Time Corresponding to Change of Visual Event,” ASU degree conferred 2019
- Gerald Gubash, “Software Defined Pulse-Doppler Radar for Over-The-Air Applications: The Joint Radar-Communications Experiment,” ASU degree conferred 2019
- Dan Pressler, “Interaction Analytics of Software Factory Recordings,” ASU degree conferred 2018
- Wylie Standage-Beier, “Ionospheric Channel Modeling and Estimation,” ASU degree conferred 2017
- Prashant Sharma, “Low-power Physical-layer Design for LTE Based Very NarrowBand IoT (VNB – IoT) Communication,” ASU degree conferred 2017 (LinkedIn)
- Ujjwala, “Development of Components for Simulation of Wireless Communication,” ASU degree conferred 2017 (LinkedIn)
- Karteek Rupakula, “Development of Multiple Protocols in Novel Simulation Environment,” ASU degree conferred 2017 (LinkedIn)
- Niranjan Thontadarya, “Spectral Efficiency of MIMO Ad Hoc Networks with Partial Channel State Information,” ASU, degree conferred 2014 (LinkedIn)
- Kishore Sekhar, “Simultaneous Signaling and Channel Estimation for In-Band Full-Duplex Communications Employing Adaptive Spatial Protection,” ASU, degree conferred 2014 (LinkedIn)
- Hanguang Yu, “FPGA-Based Implementation of QR Decomposition,” ASU, degree conferred 2014 (LinkedIn)
- Alex Chiriyath, “Joint Radar-Communications Performance Bounds: Data versus Estimation Information Rates” – ASU conferred 2014 (LinkedIn)
Undergraduate Thesis
- Matthew Jackson, “Electroencephalography Feature Extraction of Neural Stimuli,” ASU, degree conferred 2016 (LinkedIn)
- Owen Ma, “Sensitivity Analysis of a Spatiotemporal Correlation Based Seizure Prediction Algorithm,” ASU, degree conferred 2015 (LinkedIn)
Master’s Project
Undergraduate Project
