Advising

Current students 

• PhD Sajjad Maleki, co-advised with S. Lakshminarayana, Jan. 2022-Dec. 2025, on "Wide-area adaptive control in Intelligent cyber-physical power systems exploiting deep reinforcement learning"

• PhD Ibrahim Sbeity, co-advised with M. Chafii, B. Dennis, and C. Villien, Jan. 2022-Dec. 2024, on "User localization using machine (deep) learning"

Alumni

• PhD  Yacine Ben Atia, co-advised with A. Savard and R. Negrel, Oct. 2020-Sep. 2023, on "Cooperation, Optimization and AI for future communications: interplay between model-based and data driven approaches", defense Dec. 7th, 2023. He is now an Assistant Researcher and Professor (ATER) at Univ. Gustave Eiffel, France.

• PhD  Hajar El Hassani, co-advised with A. Savard, Oct. 2019-Sep. 2022 + 6 months (COVID), on "Energy-efficient solutions for NOMA systes aided by ambient backscattering", defense Dec. 2nd, 2022. She is now an Assistant Professor (MCF) at ENSEA, France.

• PhD  Kimon Antonakopoulos, co-advised with P. Mertikopoulos on "Learning algorithms for variational inequalities", defense Jan. 12th, 2022. He is now a post-doc at EPFL, Switzerland.

• PhD  Irched Chafaa, co-advised with M. Debbah on "Resource allocation management in mmWave communication systems", defense Sep. 7th, 2021. He is now a Teaching Assistant at École Polytechnique, Algeria.

• PhD  Alexandre Marcastel, co-advised with P. Mertikopoulos and I. Fijalkow on "Online Power Allocation policies in dynamic and unpredictable IoT networks: Impact of the feedback information", defense Feb. 21st, 2019. He is now a Trainer & Teacher at CESI, Angouleme, France. 

• PhD Raouia Masmoudi, co-advised with I. Fijalkow and N. Sellami on "Home automation energy efficient communications", defense Dec. 1st, 2015. She is now a Research Engineer at Safran Tech, Paris-Saclay, France.
  
  
  
  

• Post-doc Olivier Bilenne, co-advised with P. Mertikopoulos, Sep. 2018 - May 2020, on "Adaptive optimization algorithms for massive MIMO systems". He is now a post-doc at ENPC, Marne-la-Valee, France.

• Post-doc Antonia M. Masucci, co-advised with I. Fijalkow, Sep. 2011 - Jul. 2013, on "Block-wise subcarrier allocation strategies in SC-FDMA systems".  She is now a Research Engineer at Orange, Paris area, France.
  
  
  
  

• MEng Jérémy Gatineau, co-advised with W. Saad and M. Chafii, Jul. 2021-Dec. 2021, on "Emergent communication and reasoning". He is now pursuing a PhD with VirginiaTech, USA.

• MSc Nicolas Laurence, co-advised with S. Lakshminarayana, Nov. 2020-Mar. 2021, on "Online reinforcement learning for the design of moving target defense in power grids"

• MSc Angelo Passah, co-advised with M. Chafii, Nov. 2020-Mar. 2021, on " Traditional reinforcement learning vs. deep learning in highly mobile wireless networks". He is now a PhD student at PUC-Rio, Brazil and ETIS/ENSEA, France.

• MSc Bello Mouktar, co-advised with I. Chafaa, Nov. 2018-Mar. 2019, on "Multi-armed bandits for efficient beam alignment in mmWave channels". He is now pursuing a PhD thesis at ETIS/ENSEA, France.

• MSc Gada Rezgui, co-advised with A. Chorti, Nov. 2016 - Sep. 2017, on "Energy harvesting against jamming attacks". She is now pursuing a PhD thesis at ETIS/ENSEA, France.

• MSc  Alexandre Marcastel, Nov. 2014 - Sep. 2015, on "Efficient algorithms for resource allocation problems in wireless networks". He is now a trainer & teacher at CESI, Angouleme, France. 

• MSc Dora Boviz, Nov. 2011-Mar. 2012, on "Energy-efficiency performance metrics for future green communications". She is now a 5G System Architect at Nokia, Paris-Saclay, France.

• MSc Camilla M. G. Gussen, co-advised with M. Debbah, Jan. 2011-Apr. 2011, on "Pricing and bandwidth allocation problems in wireless multi-tier networks". She is now a post-doc at IMT Atlantique, Brest, France. 

• BSc Gada Rezgui, co-advised with I. Andriyanova, Apr. 2015 - Jul. 2015, on "Distributed storage in wireless networks". She is now pursuing a PhD thesis at ETIS/ENSEA, France.