Alumni

IMPRESS Lab alumni have gone on to faculty positions, national laboratories and industry research roles. Dissertations and theses are linked below; see Thesis & Dissertations for abstracts and citations, and Our Team for current members.

Postdoctoral Researchers

2. Dr. Volkan Senyurek
Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2020–2022

First position: Research Assistant Professor, Geosystems Research Institute, Mississippi State University

1. Dr. Tingjun Lei
Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2024

Ph.D. Alumni

Students for whom Dr. Gurbuz served as major professor.

5. Dr. Mohammad Abdus Shahid Rafi
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2026
Remote Sensing Techniques for Soil Moisture Retrieval and Crop Yield Estimation: Employing Multi-Sensor Receiver Systems from UAS and ML for Precision Agriculture

4. Dr. Sabyasachi Biswas
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2025
Complex-Valued Structured Parameterized Learnable Filter Banks for Time-Frequency Domain Based Classification

First position: Assistant Professor, Grand Valley State University

3. Dr. Md Mehedi Farhad
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2024
Estimating Surface Reflectivity with Smartphone and Semi-Custom GNSS Receivers on UAS-Based GNSS-R Technology and Surface Brightness Temperature Using UAS-Based L-Band Microwave Radiometer

First position: Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Alabama

2. Dr. M M Nabi
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2024
Deep Learning Based Soil Moisture Retrieval Using GNSS-R Observations from CYGNSS

First position: Assistant Professor, Western Kentucky University

1. Dr. Robiulhossain Mdrafi
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2022
Data-Driven Sparse Computational Imaging with Deep Learning

First position: Senior Data Scientist, FedEx World Technology Center

Ph.D. Alumni (Co-Advised)

1. Dr. John T. Rogers
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2023 — co-advised with Dr. J. E. Ball
Neural Networks for Improved Signal Source Enumeration and Localization with Unsteered Antenna Arrays

M.S. Alumni

Students for whom Dr. Gurbuz served as major professor.

6. Ajaya Dahal
M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fall 2023
Software Defined Radio (SDR) Based Sensing

First position: AMD

5. Wm. Peyton Johnson
M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fall 2022
Assessment of Simulated and Real-World Navigation Performance with Small-Scale Unmanned Ground Vehicles