Michael Gastpar (Ph.D. EPFL, 2002, M.S. UIUC, 1999, Dipl. El-Ing, ETH, 1997) has been an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, since January 2003. He was also a student in electrical engineering and philosophy at the Universities of Edinburgh and Lausanne, and a summer researcher in the Mathematics of Communications Department at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. He won the 2002 EPFL Best Thesis Award.

Krish Eswaran is a fifth-year graduate student. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 2003. He also works in the BASICS group with Professor Kannan Ramchandran.

Bobak Nazer is a fifth-year graduate student. He graduated from Rice University with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 2003. His main interests lie in the fields of information theory, signal processing, and theoretical neuroscience.

Galen Reeves is a third-year graduate student. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 2005. He is currently investigating topics in distributed signal processing.

Jiening Zhan is a third-year graduate student. She received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis in 2005. Her research is on using information theory for neuroscience applications.

Anand Sarwate was a graduate student in SIPC and finished his dissertation in July, 2008. He received S.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002, with minors in Music and Theater Arts. His research is on robust communication in the presence of interference, specifically on arbitrarily varying channels.

Birsen Sirkeci-Mergen was a postdoctoral researcher from August 2006 to August 2007. She received her Ph.D. from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY in Aug. 2006 and her M.S. from Northeastern University, Boston, MA in 2001, both in Electrical and Computer Engineering. She received her B.Sc. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Mathematics in 1998 from Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey. She worked as a system engineer at Aware Inc, Bedford, MA during 2000-2002 and as a research intern at DoCoMo Labs, Palo Alto, CA during Summer 2006. Her research lies in the areas of wireless communications, sensor networks and statistical signal processing. She received the Fred Ellersick Award for the best unclassified paper in MILCOM 2005 with her co-authors.

Stela Llusha came to Berkeley from from Rutgers University, where she graduated in 2005 with a B.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a B.A. degree in Economics. She graduated from UC Berkeley in May 2007 with an MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and also completed the Management of Technology program from Haas School of Business. Her thesis was on interference management for municipal cognitive radio systems.

Jeremie Ezri was a visiting student from EPFL from June to September 2005. He completed his diploma project on LDPC codes for the relay channel with Rüdiger Urbanke (EPFL) and Michael Gastpar.

Sahand Negahban graduated with a Bachelor's in 2006 from the EECS Department. He was on the officer board of Eta Kappa Nu. His research project was on signal processing models in computational neuroscience.