Faculty

Dr. Ali Cafer Gurbuz
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, Information Processing and Sensing Lab (IMPRESS)
Mississippi State University

Office:  Simrall 433A
​Lab:       Simrall 433, 436

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Post-Doctoral

Dr. Volkan Senyurek
Assistant Research Professor
Geosystems Research Institute
Mississippi State University
Email: [email protected]
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Office:  HPC 207
Address: 2 Research Boulevard, Starkville, MS 39759
 
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Current Graduate Students

Ahmed M. Alam
Ph.D. Student, ECE, Aug 2020 - 
Email: [email protected]​
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Awards:  

• IEEE IGARSS 2022 Best Student Paper Finalist​

Bruce Hicks
Ph.D. Student, ECE, Aug 2020 - 
Email: 
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Cemre O. Ayna
Ph.D. Student, ECE, Aug 2020 - 
Email: 
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Mehedi Farhad
​Ph.D. Student, ECE, Aug 2020 - 
Email: [email protected]​
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Google Scholar
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Award: NASA FINESST 23 Awardee 

M M Nabi Rony
Ph.D. Student, ECE (Fall, 2019- Continue)
Email: [email protected]
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Award: Best TA award, 2020
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Sabyasachi Biswas
​Ph.D. Student, ECE, Aug 2020 - 
Email: [email protected]​
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Awards:  

• 1st place winner of Fall 2022 Graduate Student Research Symposium Poster Presentation - Engineering (PhD Category)
• ECE Fall 2022 Research Symposium Best Presentation Award

Md Abdus Shahid Rafi
Ph.D. Student, ECE, Aug 2022 - 
Email: [email protected]
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AJ Dahal
MS Student, ECE, Jan 2023 - 
Email: [email protected]
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IMPRESS Alumni

Ph. D. Graduates: 

Robiulhossain MdRafi​
PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, March 2022
Thesis:  Data-Driven Sparse Computational Imaging with Deep Learning
First Employment: Senior Data Scientist at FedEx World Tech Center. ​
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M.S. Graduates (Thesis): 

​Jan Rainer Jamora 
MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aug 2021
Thesis: Angular-Dependent Three-Dimensional Imaging Techniques in Multi-Pass Synthetic Aperture Radar
First Employment: Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) ​
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Samantha Butler 
MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dec 2021
​Thesis: Evaluation of Hyperspectral Band Selection Techniques for Real-Time Applications 
​First Employment: U.S. Army Engineering research and Development Center (ERDC)​
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Benjamin Bartlett
MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2022
​Thesis: Recognizing traffic signaling gestures through automotive sensors
First Employment: U.S. Army Engineering research and Development Center (ERDC)​
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Matt Duck
MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2022
​Thesis: Analysis and implementation of low fidelity radar-based remote sensing for unmanned aircraft systems
​First Employment: U.S. Army Engineering research and Development Center (ERDC)​
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Wm. Peyton Johnson
​MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dec 2022
Thesis: Assessment of Simulated and Real-world Navigation Performance with Small-Scale Unmanned Ground Vehicles
​First Employment: U.S. Army Engineering research and Development Center (ERDC)​
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Ben Woo
MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dec 2022 (Co-Major with Dr. John Ball)
Theis: A Harmonic Radar System for Honey Bee Tracking to Better Understand Colony Collapse Disorder
First Employment: U.S. Army Engineering research and Development Center (ERDC)​
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M.S. Graduates (Non-Thesis): 

1. Bryan N. Lagrone (Spring 2020)
2. Sam McDevitt (Spring 2022)

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Graduated Students Prior to MSU (Thesis): 
Prior to MSU I have graduated 7 Masters students with Thesis at TOBB ETU University, Ankara, Turkey: 

1. İhsan İlhan, MS, 2016. Masters Thesis: “Compressive Sensing Based High Resolution Radar Stretch Processing”
2. Coskun Aydemir, MS, 2015. Masters Thesis: “Effect of two tone transmit signal on nonlinear junction detection performance”
3. Mert Can Aktas, MS, 2014. Masters Thesis: “Comprehensive method for pulse repetition interval modulation recognition for electronic support systems”
4. Arif Ataman, MS, Dec 2012. Masters Thesis: “Development of a through the wall imaging radar prototype”
5. Celalettin Karakus, MS, Apr 2013 Masters Thesis: “Investigation of the impact of compressive sensing on the energy dissipation and lifetime of wireless sensor networks”
6. Muhammed Duman, MS, Dec 2012. Masters Thesis: “Performance analysis of subsurface/through the wall imaging techniques and improvement methods.”
7. M. Ali Çağrı Tuncer, MS, Aug 2011. Masters Thesis: “Solutions to the problems of sparsity enhanced subsurface imaging for stepped frequency GPRs.”