Biography

I am Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYIT’s School of Engineering and Computing Sciences, Old Westbury, Campus. I received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. I was a Visiting Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Cleveland State University, OH, from 2015 to 2017. From 2013 to 2015, I was a wireless systems research engineer with ArrayComm, San Jose, CA. I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Center for Advanced Communications, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, from 2010 to 2013. I have held research and teaching positions at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, and Villanova University.

My research interests include optimization, signal processing, and machine learning for wireless, radar, and integrated radar sensing and communications systems. I have published 4 book chapters, and 32 and 51 peer reviewed journal and conference papers, respectively. My research has been funded by Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), Army Research Lab, and Naval Research Lab. I am also the recipient of the AFRL Summer Faculty Research Fellowship (SFRF) in 2016 and 2020, and the recipient of Office of Naval Research SFRF in 2020.

I am the recipient of 2021 IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation Award (Academic) for contributions on joint radar and communications. I currently serve as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Subsystems (Radar Systems). I have been regularly serving as a Technical Program Committee (TPC) member and Session Chair in key IEEE conferences and reviewing manuscripts for IEEE journals and conferences on signal processing, communications, and radar. I was the co-organizer of special sessions in IEEE Radar Conferences, San Antonio, TX, March 2023, and NYC, NY, March 2022, and in IEEE ICASSP, New Orleans, March 2017. In 2013,  I received an exemplary reviewer award from IEEE Communications Society. I am the Senior Member of IEEE and served as an Associate Editor of EURASIP Journal of Wireless Communications and Networking from 2013 to 2017.