Supervision

I have had the privilege of supervising and co-supervising talented researchers and master’s students.

🧑‍🎓 Postdoctoral researchers

• Abolfazl Zakeri (Jan. 2025 – ) — Goal-oriented ISAC and multimodal sensing

🎓 Doctoral researchers

• Isuri Welgamage (Jan. 2025 – ) — ML for ISAC and multimodal sensing
• Pouya Mobaraki (Apr. 2024 – ) — Deep unfolding for RIS design
• Sina Tavakolian (Feb. 2024 – ) — Knowledge distillation for ISAC
• Tianyu Fang (Jan. 2024 – ) — Model-based AI/ML for ISAC
• Nam-Phuong Tran (co-supervised) (Jan. 2025 – ) — Deep reinforcement learning for RIS and ISAC
• Ali Raza (co-supervised) (Nov. 2024 – ) — RIS-assisted localization
• Smriti Uniyal (co-supervised) (Jun. 2023 – ) — RIS, ISAC, and massive MIMO
• Prasanth Krishnananthalingam (co-supervised) (2022 – ) — Deep unfolding for ISAC
• Mengyuan Ma (co-supervised) (2021 – ) — Low-resolution ADC, hybrid beamforming, deep unfolding

🧳 Visiting researchers

• Iñigo Bilbao (visiting PhD, co-supervised) (2023) — ML/AI for physical layer security

📜 Master’s students

• Irfan Ullah (co-supervised) (2021) — Summer Internship
• Asif Shakil (co-supervised) (Jun. 2020) — MS Thesis: Wideband Millimeter Wave Phased Array Beamforming