NETCORE Team
Tingnan Bao (PostDoc)
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Research topic: AI-enabled reconfigurable surfaces and edge computing in 6G |
Sara Mobarak (PostDoc)
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Research topic: AI-enabled Intelligent Radio Environment with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) |
Mohammadreza Amini (Research Associate - co-supervised with Dr. Burak Kantarci)
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Research topic: Secure and Trusted 5G Network |
Hind Mukhtar (PhD Student) |
Thesis topic: Machine Learning Assisted In-flight Communications |
Han Zhang (PhD Student) |
Thesis topic:
AI-enabled Open Virtualized RAN and Large Language Models Fromer MASc Student in AAI concentration and Vector Institute Scholarship Winner |
Arafat Habib (PhD Student) |
Thesis topic: AI-enabled Traffic Steering |
Shavbo Salehi (PhD Student) |
Thesis topic: Transfer learning in 6G |
Mohammad Farzanullah (PhD Student) |
Thesis topic: Gen AI-based network optimization |
Mohammad Ghassemi (PhD Student) |
Thesis topic: Generative AI-based O-RAN rApps and xApps |
Mafuzal Hoque (MASc Student
- co-supervised with Dr. Medhat Elsayed) |
Thesis topic: AI-enabled Beam Management |
Alumni
Luciana Nobrega (MASc Student - AAI concentration)) |
Thesis title: Task Offloading with Safe and Stable Machine Learning in Next Generation Wireless Networks (October 2024) |
Pedro Iturria Rivera (PhD Student) |
Thesis title: Advanced Reinforcement Learning-based Optimization Techniques for Wireless Access Networks (May 2024) |
Anne Catherine Nguyen (MSc Student - AAI concentration) |
Thesis title: Resource Management in Next Generation MEC-Enabled Wireless Networks Using Machine Learning (April 2024) |
Atefe Termehchi (PostDoc)
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Research topic: Risk-aware and stable ML for UAV communications (April 2024) |
Hao Zhu (PhD Student) |
Thesis topic:
ML-based Optimization of Large-scale Systems: Case Study in
Smart Microgrids and 5G RAN (August 2023) Winner of Faculty of Engineering, University of Ottawa PhD Thesis Prize and Winner of a Chinese Government Award |
Ycaro Dantas (MASc Student - AAI concentration- Vector Institute Scholarship Winner)) |
Thesis topic: AI-Enabled and Integrated Sensing-Based Beam Management Strategies in Open RAN (August 2023) |
Turgay Pamuklu (PostDoc)
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Research topic: Advanced Architectures in 6G (May 2023) |
Tiffany Nien Fang Cheng (MSc Student) |
Thesis topic: Reinforcement Learning Based Resource Allocation for Network Slicing in O-RAN (May 2023) |
Fahime
Khoramnejad (PhD Student) |
Thesis topic: AI-enabled System Optimization for Carrier Aggregation and Task Offloading in 5G and 6G (April 2023) |
Xiaoyang (Owen) Wang (BSc Student)) |
Research topic: AI-enbaled Resource Management in OpenWiFi (March 2023) |
Marco Skocaj (Visiting PhD Student from University of Bologna) |
Research topic: Federated learning in wireless networks (December 2022) |
Mohammad Akbari (PostDoc)
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Research topic: Safe and stable learning in wireless networks (September 2022) |
Roghayeh Joda (Researcher)
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Research topic: AI-enabled Multi-RAT Systems (June 2022) |
Long Kong (PostDoc)
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Research topic: AI and multi vendor environments (April 2022) |
Omer Melih Gul (PostDoc)
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Research topic: OpenWiFi (December 2022) |
Yujie Yao (MASc Student) |
Thesis topic: Vision-based mMIMO in 5G (June 2022) |
Mohammad Sadeghi (PhD Student) |
Thesis topic: Learning based co-optimized energy and communication systems (April 2022) |
Mikhak Samadi (PhD Student – co-supervised with Henry Schriemer) |
Thesis topic: Demand management in smart grid (May 2022) |
David Chan (Undergraduate Student) |
Project topic: Carrier Aggregation in 5G (April 2021-December2021) |
Shahram Mollahasani (PostDoc) |
Research topic: 6G and AI-enabled Networks (November 2021) |
Medhat Elsayed (PhD)
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Thesis title: Machine Learning-Enabled Radio Resource Management for Next-Generation Wireless Networks (June 2021) |
| Hind Mukhtar (MASc) |
Thesis title: Machine Learning Enabled-Localization in 5G and LTE using Image Classification and Deep Learning (June 2021) |
Kyle Jeffrey Quintal (MSc Student
- co-supervised with Burak Kantarci) |
Thesis title: Context-Awareness for Adversarial and Defensive Machine Learning Methods in Cybersecurity (July 2020) |
| Kevin Shimotakahara (MASc Student - co-supervised with Karin Hinzer) |
Thesis title: D2D communications for smart grid
(May 2020) Recipient of NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Scholarship and the NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship Thesis nominated to the 2020 Faculty of Engineering Thesis Prize |
| Anne Catherine Nguyen (Undergraduate student - Honors Project) |
Project topic: Load Balancing in 5G with Reinforcement Learning (January 2020 - April 2020) |
Inayat Irfan (Undergraduate) |
Summer Intern – BSc student from McGill (May 2020 - August 2020) |
Riqiang (Richard) Liu (MASc Student) |
Thesis title: Dynamic Routing with Online Traffic Estimation for Video Streaming over Software Defined Networks (March 2020) |
Muhammad Usama (Master's Student) |
Project topic: Energy-efficient small cell wireless networks (September 2019) |
Navjot Singh (MASc Student) |
Thesis Title: Planning of Mobile Edge Computing Resources in 5G Based on Uplink Energy Efficiency (November 2018) |
Meesam Haider (Undergraduate) |
Work-study student, NSERC CREATE - TOPSET Trainee (January 2018) |
| Hazal Saygili (Undergraduate) | Summer Intern – 3rd year UG at Bilkent University (July 2017) |
| Sukhmani Sukhmani (Master's) | MEng - Project topic: Caching and computing in wireless networks (December 2017) |
| Sukhman Kaur (Master's) | MEng - Project topic: Directional cells in 5G networks (June 2017) |
Past Visiting Students and Faculty
| Mahdi Sharara | PhD Student, Université Paris-Saclay, France (February - May 2022) |
| Yonghun Kim | PhD Student, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea (October 2018-March 2019) |
| Ting-Hui (Jerry) Chiang | PhD Student, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan (March-May 2018) |
| Dr. Antonio Caruso | Assistant Professor, University of Salento, Italy (June-September 2017) – Visit supported by Canada-Italy Innovation Award 2017 |
| Dr. Hanife Apaydin Ozkan | Assistant Professor, Anadolu University, Turkey (July 2016) – Visit supported by National Research Council of Turkey |
Former Students at Clarkson University
| Keivan Bahmani (PhD student) |
| Md Anwar Parvej (MSc student) |
| Andy Hoang (UG, July-August 2016) |
| Jayesh Bokhira (UG, September-December 2015) |