The current PhD program consists of formal courses and original research conducted under the guidance of a faculty advisor, leading to a thesis. Students in the PhD program complete a Master of Science (MS) degree as part of their program. Learn more about our PhD Program.
Mahdiyeh Abbasi ma75@rice.edu Advisor: Natelson Fall 2016 Mahsan Abbasi Mahsan.Abbasi@rice.edu Advisor: Sabharwal Fall 2019 Elsa Acosta De Anda eacosta@rice.edu Advisor: Xie Fall 2019 Mohammad Furqan Ahmad Furqan.Ahmad@rice.edu Advisor: Knightly Fall 2018 Fatima Ahsan Fatima.Ahsan@rice.edu Advisor: Aazhang Fall 2016 Sina Alemohammad Sina.Alemohammad@rice.edu Advisor: Baraniuk Fall 2019 Fatima Alrashdan Fatima.T.Alrashdan@rice.edu Advisor: Robinson Fall 2019 Qing An Qing.An@rice.edu Advisor: Doost-Mohammady Fall 2020 Hossein Babaei Hossein.Babaei@rice.edu Advisor: Baraniuk Fall 2019 Rashad Baiyasi Rashad.I.Baiyasi@rice.edu Advisor: Landes Fall 2015 Randall Balestriero Randall.Balestriero@rice.edu Advisor: Baraniuk Fall 2016 Anton Banta arb17@rice.edu Advisor: Aazhang Fall 2019 CJ Barberan CJ.Barberan@rice.edu Advisor: Baraniuk Fall 2014 Lokesh Boominathan Lokesh.Boominathan@rice.edu Advisor: Pitkow Fall 2018 Haimu Cao hc56@rice.edu Advisor: Tkaczyk Fall 2020 Tianyu Cao charlottedoyle@rice.edu Advisor: Sabharwal Fall 2018 Brendan Celii brendancelii@rice.edu Advisor: Pitkow Fall 2019 Zhican Chen Zhican.Chen@rice.edu Advisor: Sabharwal Fall 2018 Xu Chen Xu.Chen@rice.edu Advisor: Sabharwal Fall 2016 Wenwan Chen wc43@rice.edu Advisor: Sabharwal Fall 2018 Zhiyu Chen Zhiyu.Chen@rice.edu Advisor: Yang Fall 2018 Yirong Cheng yc118@rice.edu Advisor: Sabharwal Fall 2019 Yee Ching Matthew Cheung Matt.Cheung@rice.edu Advisor: Veeraraghavan Fall 2020 Alicia Choto Segovia Alicia.M.Choto.Segovia@rice.edu Advisor: Sano Fall 2020 Arindam Chowdhury Arindam.Chowdhury@rice.edu Advisor: Segarra Fall 2019 Joshua Chu joshua.chu@rice.edu Advisor: Kemere Fall 2015 Benjamin Coleman Ben.Coleman@rice.edu Advisor: Shrivastava Fall 2018 Romain Cosentino Romain.Cosentino@rice.edu Advisor: Aazhang Fall 2016 Vinicius Da Silva Goncalves vinicius@rice.edu Advisor: Knightly Fall 2016 Shabnam Daghaghi Shabnam.Daghaghi@rice.edu Advisor: Shrivastava Fall 2018 Keerthi Priya Dasala kd32@rice.edu Advisor: Knightly Fall 2017 Akshat Dave Akshat.Dave@rice.edu Advisor: Veerarghavan Fall 2017 Shayok Dutta Shayok.Dutta@rice.edu Advisor: Kemere Fall 2015 Negar Erfanian Taghvayi ne93@rice.edu Advisor: de Hoop Fall 2016 Dorsa Esmaeilpourmoghaddam Dorsa.Esmaeilpourmoghaddam@rice.edu Advisor: Aazhang Fall 2019 Boqiang Fan Boqiang.Fan@rice.edu Advisor: Aazhang Fall 2015 Yingying Fan Yingying.Fan@rice.edu Advisor: Chi Fall 2019 Bo Fan Bo.Fan@rice.edu Advisor: Robinson Fall 2016 Sean Farrell Sean.M.Farrell@rice.edu Advisor: Veerarghavan Fall 2019 Yonggan Fu yf22@rice.edu Advisor: Lin Fall 2019 Sibo Gao Sibo.Gao@rice.edu Advisor: Kemere Fall 2016 Bhargav Sachin Ghanekar Bhargav.Ghanekar@rice.edu Advisor: Veeraraghavan Fall 2020 Zijing Guo Zijing.Guo@rice.edu Advisor: Robinson Fall 2020 Gaurav Gupta Gaurav.Gupta@rice.edu Advisor: Shrivastava Fall 2018 Shreya Gupta Shreya.Gupta@rice.edu Advisor: Knightly Spring 2020 Fahid Hassan fh16@rice.edu Advisor: Knightly Fall 2020 Sakib Hassan Sakib.Hassan@rice.edu Advisor: Robinson Fall 2017 Yan He yanhe@rice.edu Advisor: Yang Fall 2018 Jennifer Hellar jennifer.hellar@rice.edu Advisor: Aazhang Fall 2020 Seyyed Ali Hosseini Jebeli jebeli@rice.edu Advisor: Link Fall 2015 Yaolong Hu yh72@rice.edu Advisor: Chi Fall 2019 Ahmed Imtiaz Humayun ah73@rice.edu Advisor: Baraniuk Fall 2019 Shuqiao Jia Shuqiao.Jia@rice.edu Advisor: Aazhang Fall 2012 Liwen Jiang lj13@rice.edu Advisor: Yang Fall 2020 Yifu Jin Yifu.Jin@rice.edu Advisor: Luan Fall 2019 Lingbo Jin mary.jin@rice.edu Advisor: Veerarghavan Fall 2018 Kshipra Kapoor Kshipra.S.Kapoor@rice.edu Advisor: Kono Fall 2016 Maryam Khalid Maryam.Khalid@rice.edu Advisor: Knightly Fall 2018 Robin Kim robinkim@rice.edu Advisor: Luan Fall 2019 Soonyoung Kim kelly.kim@rice.edu Advisor: Robinson Fall 2018 Zachary King Zach.King@rice.edu Advisor: Sano Spring 2021 Natsumi Komatsu Natsumi.Komatsu@rice.edu Advisor: Kono Fall 2017 Santhoshi Krishnan santhoshi.krishnan@rice.edu Advisor: Rao Fall 2017 Abhishek Kumar Abhishek.Kumar@rice.edu Advisor: Segarra Fall 2019 Bishal Lamichhane Bishal.Lamichhane@rice.edu Advisor: Sabharwal Fall 2019 Daniel LeJeune dlejeune@rice.edu Advisor: Baraniuk Fall 2017 Chaojian Li Chaojian.Li@rice.edu Advisor: Lin Fall 2019 Boning Li Boning.Li@rice.edu Advisor: Segarra Fall 2018 Dai Li Dai.Li@rice.edu Advisor: Yang Fall 2014 Camille Little clittle1@rice.edu Advisor: Allen Fall 2020 Naiming Liu Naiming.Liu@rice.edu Advisor: Baraniuk Fall 2020 Zhuohe Liu Harry.Liu@rice.edu Advisor: St. Pierre Fall 2016 Zhecun Liu Thomas.Liu@rice.edu Advisor: Knightly Spring 2020 Minhan Lou Minhan.Lou@rice.edu Advisor: Norlander Spring 2014 Daiyi Luo Della.Luo@rice.edu Advisor: Kemere Fall 2020 Lorenzo Luzi Lorenzo.Luzi@rice.edu Advisor: Baraniuk Fall 2017 Jialing Lyu Jialing.Lyu@rice.edu Advisor: Sabharwal Fall 2020 Alix Macklin Alix.Macklin@rice.edu Advisor: O'Mally Fall 2018 Akash Maity Akash.K.Maity@rice.edu Advisor: Sabharwal Fall 2016 Paul Mayer Paul.M.Mayer@rice.edu Advisor: Baraniuk Fall 2018 Caitlin McCowan Caitlin.V.McCowan@rice.edu Advisor: Kemere Fall 2015 Tharun Kumar Medini trm3@rice.edu Advisor: Shrivastava Fall 2016 Nishant Mehrotra Nishant.Mehrotra@rice.edu Advisor: Sabharwal Fall 2018 Nadya Mohamed Nadya.A.Mohamed@rice.edu Advisor: Babakhani Spring 2016 Ali Asghar Mojibpour ali.mojibpour@rice.edu Advisor: Kono Fall 2015 Madeline Navarro Madeline.Navarro@rice.edu Advisor: Segarra Fall 2020 Weili Nie wn8@rice.edu Advisor: Patel Fall 2016 Ewa Nowara emn3@rice.edu Advisor: Veerarghavan Fall 2015 Behnaz Ostovar bo6@rice.edu Advisor: Link Fall 2016 Bei Ouyang bo11@rice.edu Advisor: Knightly Fall 2020 Amruta Pai Amruta.Pai@rice.edu Advisor: Sabharwal Fall 2016 Akhil Pakala Akhil.R.Pakala@rice.edu Advisor: Yang Fall 2020 Matthew Parker Matthew.C.Parker@rice.edu Advisor: Robinson Fall 2020 Delaram Pirhayatifard Delaram.Pirhayatifard@rice.edu Advisor: Patel Fall 2019 Ankit Raghuram Ankit.Raghuram@rice.edu Advisor: Veerarghavan Fall 2016 Nathaniel Raymondi Nate.Raymondi@rice.edu Advisor: Sabharwal Fall 2017 Tarence Rice Tarence.M.Rice@rice.edu Advisor: Knightly Fall 2019 Thomas Roddenberry tmr5@rice.edu Advisor: Segarra Fall 2018 Seyed Mojtaba Safaei msafaei@rice.edu Advisor: St. Pierre Fall 2018 William Schmid William.Schmid@rice.edu Advisor: Aazhang Fall 2020 Zhambyl Shaikhanov Zhambyl.Shaikhanov@rice.edu Advisor: Knightly Fall 2017 Shashank Sonkar Shashank.Sonkar@rice.edu Advisor: Baraniuk Fall 2017 Hedinn Steingrimsson Hedinn.Steingrimsson@rice.edu Advisor: Vardi Spring 2020 Yingchu Sun Yingchu.Sun@rice.edu Advisor: Luan Fall 2020 Jasper Tan Jasper.T.Tan@rice.edu Advisor: Baraniuk Fall 2015 Shiyu Tan shytan@rice.edu Advisor: Veerarghavan Fall 2018 Chance Tarver Chance.A.Tarver@rice.edu Advisor: Cavallaro Fall 2014 Zaid Tasneem Zaid.Tasneem@rice.edu Advisor: Veerarghavan Fall 2019 Mohammad Taha Toghani mttoghani@rice.edu Advisor: Uribe Fall 2019 Catherine Tuppen Anne.Tuppen@rice.edu Advisor: Robinson Fall 2020 Cheng Wan chwan@rice.edu Advisor: Lin Fall 2018 Zichao Wang jzwang@rice.edu Advisor: Baraniuk Fall 2016 Chia-Yi Yeh Chia-Yi.Yeh@rice.edu Advisor: Knightly Fall 2015 Sudha Yellapantula sudha@rice.edu Advisor: Aazhang Fall 2015 Fatih Furkan Yilmaz Fatih.YILMAZ@rice.edu Advisor: Heckel Fall 2017 Haoran You hy34@rice.edu Advisor: Lin Fall 2019 Zhongzhi Yu Zhongzhi.Yu@rice.edu Advisor: Lin Fall 2020 Han Yu Han.Yu@rice.edu Advisor: Sano Fall 2019 Lantao Yu Lantao.Yu@rice.edu Advisor: Orchard Fall 2012 Zhanghao Yu zy29@rice.edu Advisor: Yang Fall 2018 Mohammad Zalbagi Darestani mz35@rice.edu Advisor: Heckel Fall 2018 Jorge Zepeda Jorge.Zepeda@rice.edu Advisor: Landes Fall 2018 Qiang Zhang Qiang.Zhang@rice.edu Advisor: Antoulas Fall 2015 Yongan Zhang luke.zhang@rice.edu Advisor: Lin Spring 2020 Xiaohan Zhang xz82@rice.edu Advisor: Chi Spring 2020 Tianyi Zhang zhangty@rice.edu Advisor: Veerarghavan Fall 2019 Yang Zhao Zhao.Yang@rice.edu Advisor: Lin Spring 2019 Yongyi Zhao yongyi@rice.edu Advisor: Veerarghavan Fall 2018 Qiang Zhou peterzhou@rice.edu Advisor: Chi Fall 2019 Hanlin Zhu Hanlin.Zhu@rice.edu Advisor: Xie Spring 2020 Yu Zhu yz126@rice.edu Advisor: Segarra Fall 2017