Avi Kak's former students

Listed here are people who did their Ph.D. under Avi Kak's supervision. Many of these erstwhile students now occupy challenging positions in academia, industry, and government. At some point in the future, each name listed here will be linked to his/her home page.

NOTE: The month-year following the name is when the individual received his/her Ph.D.


  1. Charles V. Jakowatz, Jr., Aug 1976

  2. Durga P. Panda, Aug. 1976

  3. Kris A. Dines, Dec. 1976

  4. Robert W. Clark, April 1979

  5. Mostafa Fatemi, July 1979

  6. Carl R. Crawford, Dec. 1981

  7. David Nahamoo, Aug. 1982

  8. Anders H. Andersen, Aug. 1983

  9. Mani Azimi, Jan. 1985

  10. Malcolm Slaney, February 1985

  11. Kim L. Boyer, Feb. 1986

  12. Hyun S. Yang, June 1986

  13. Robert J. Safranek, Aug. 1986

  14. Barry Roberts, Aug. 1987

  15. S. Tanaka, May 1988

  16. Chien H. Chen, Dec. 1988

  17. Seth Hutchinson, Dec. 1988

  18. Keith M. Andress, May 1989

  19. Whoi Y. Kim, June 1989

  20. Alan Vayda, Dec 1990

  21. Susan Gottschlich, July 1991

  22. Akio Kosaka, Dec 1991

  23. Robert Cromwell, May 1992

  24. Steve Blask, Jan 1994

  25. Lynne Grewe, April 1994

  26. HoSeok Kang, Nov 1994

  27. ChaoPing Tung, March 1995

  28. Daniel Pack, August 1995

  29. Juiyao Pan, May 1996

  30. Min Meng, May 1998

  31. Chi-Ren Shyu, July 1999

  32. Guilherme Nelson DeSouza, February 2002

  33. Jean Gao, August 2002

  34. Yuichi Motai, August 2002

  35. Andrew Jones, August 2002

  36. Johnny Park, August 2004

  37. Jae Byung Park, November 2004

  38. Yeonho Kim, May 2005

  39. Youngrock Yoon, May 2006

  40. Christina Pavlopoulou, July 2007

  41. Pradit Mittrapiyanuruk, March 2008

  42. Hyukseong Kown, December 2008

  43. Henry Medeiros, June 2010

  44. Josiah Yoder, September 2011

  45. Gaurav Srivastva, January 2012

  46. Chad Aeschliman, July 2012

  47. Khalil Ahmed Yousef, August 2013

  48. Paul Shin, August 2013

  49. Bunyamin Sisman, August 2013

  50. Shivani Rao, November 2013

  51. Donghun Kim, April 2015

  52. Tanmay Prakash, October 2017

  53. Tommy Chang, February 2019

  54. Bharath Comandur, August 2020

  55. Shayan Akbar, December 2020