CV

Title of Docent, signal processing algorithm design for wireless systems
University of Oulu, Finland

PhD in Electrical & Information Engineering Best Dissertation Award
Seoul National University of Science and Technology, South Korea

M.Sc. in Electrical and Information Engineering Best Thesis Award
Seoul National University of Science and Technology, South Korea

B.Sc. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering Graduation Award
Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam

Business Finland – Nokia, Radio Energy Saving in 6G (REINs-6G 2026). €110,000, Co-PI

RCF Academy, Sustainable 6G Radio Access Networks (S6GRAN). €266,564, Co-PI

Business Finland – Nokia, Radio Adaptations for Network Energy Saving in 6G (6G RNES 2025). €170,000, Co-PI

Joint NSF-RCF, Distributed Multi-Modal Sensing Aided Large-Scale MIMO Communications (DYNAMICS). €400,000, PI

RCF Fellowship, DIRECTION: Deep Unfolding Solutions to 6G Communication & Sensing. €593,073, PI

Nokia Donation, INTEGRATE: Integrated Sensing and Communication with RIS and Machine Learning. PI

Nokia Foundation Jorma Ollila Grant, DECENT: Deep Unfolding for Energy-Efficient Transceiver Designs in 6G THz Systems. €12,000, PI

Samsung Talent Grant: one-year financial assistance, internship and an engineering position at Samsung Vietnam Mobile R&D Center

Vietnam’s NAFOSTED, Toward Sustainable ISAC: Optimizing Energy Efficiency through Integration of Advanced Systems and Smart Resource Allocation. €35,000

Lead a research team of 9 doctoral researchers and 1 postdoctoral researcher (supervising 5, co-supervising 5), and supervise 3 MS theses and 4 MS summer internships. See supervision.

Project manager of PASSIONATE (CHIST-ERA, with University of Oulu, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, CentraleSupélec, University of Luxembourg) and of 6G-WISECOM (Business Finland, with KAIST, ETRI and Dankook University). Lead of work package 2 in 6GLearn (with VTT).

Led joint research with Ben-Gurion University, Weizmann Institute of Science, University of California, Irvine, Nokia, University of Luxembourg, Queen’s University Belfast and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Best Paper Award, International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP)

Exemplary Editor, IEEE Communications Letters

Top 25 most downloaded paper, IEEE Signal Processing Society (JSTSP)

Appointed Assistant Professor (tenure track) through an open international call, University of Oulu

Top 25 most downloaded paper, IEEE Signal Processing Society (TSP)

Research Council of Finland Fellowship (15% success rate)

Title of Docent, University of Oulu

Best Student Paper Award, IEEE SPAWC (co-author)

Best Paper Award, IEEE SSP

Exemplary Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Communications

Nokia Foundation Award (one of five selected ICT proposals)

Best Paper Award, ATC

Best PhD Dissertation Award, SeoulTech

Best Master Thesis Award, SeoulTech

Graduation Award, Hanoi University of Science and Technology

Samsung Talent Award, Samsung Electronics Vietnam

Editor, IEEE Transactions on Communications

Editor, IEEE Communications Letters

Guest Editor, IEEE Communications Standards Magazine special issue “Standardizing the AI-Native 6G Air Interface: Protocols, Coordination, and Integration”

Track Chair, Signal Processing for Wireless Communications, IEEE VTC-Spring; co-organizer of a session at IEEE SPAWC

Program Chair, IEEE RIVF International Conference on Computing and Communication Technologies

Co-organizer and Guest Editor, IET Communications special issue on Next Generation MIMO Technologies for Future Wireless Networks; co-organizer of a session at IEEE ICASSP

TPC member of IEEE Globecom, ICC, SPAWC, VTC-Spring and JC&S; session chair at IEEE SPAWC 2022, Asilomar 2024 and ICASSP 2025

Journals: IEEE TSP, TWC, TCOM, TVT, TAES, TGCN, JSTSP, JSAC, IoT, OJ-COMS; EURASIP journals
Magazines and letters: IEEE ComMag, WCM, COML, WCL, SPL
Conferences: IEEE ICASSP, Globecom, ICC, SPAWC, VTC, Asilomar, JC&S

Doctoral thesis pre-examiner at international universities (2025 – 2026); PhD supervision committee at University of Luxembourg (2025 – 2029); reviewer of research proposals for national funding agencies (2025)

Model-driven machine learning for wireless communications and ISAC design. IEEE ComSoc SPCC Technical Committee Talk Series

Joint communications and sensing hybrid beamforming design via deep unfolding. IEEE Signal Processing Society webinar for top downloaded papers

Model and data-driven approaches for ISAC design and optimization. 6GUESS seminar, University of Oulu

Multiuser MIMO wideband joint communications and sensing with subcarrier allocation. IEEE Signal Processing Society webinar for top downloaded papers

Performance analysis and beamforming designs for massive MIMO JCAS. IEEE JC&S Symposium

Wireless C&S via model-based and data-based methods. Arizona State University

Hybrid approaches for RIS & ISAC designs. University of California, Irvine

Applications of AI in wireless networking technologies. 5G Beyond and 6G Workshop, Oulu

Model-based AI/ML for THz communications. Finland-Japan 3rd Workshop for Future Wireless Communications, Oulu

100 papers openly available on arXiv, IEEE Xplore and the University of Oulu repository

Source code for replication of the papers on GitHub