Research Group

Current Group Members

 Research Associates and Postdoctoral Scholars: 

• Ozgur Ozdemir (Associate Research Professor)

• Mohamed Rabeek Sarbudeen (Research Associate)

• Amir Hossein Fahim Raouf (Research Associate)

PhD Students: 

• Mushfiqur Rahman (first semester: Fall 2022)

• Saad Masrur (first semester: Fall 2023)

• Gautham Reddy (first semester: Fall 2023)

• Cole Dickerson (first semester: Fall 2023)

• Md Sharif Hossen (co-advised with V. Shah, first semester: Fall 2023)

MS Students (with Thesis): 

• N/A

Alumni

PhD Students: 

1. Donggu Lee (2026 Spring, first job: Ofinno)

2. Amir Hossein Fahim Raouf (2026 Spring)

3. Priya Raghuraman (2025 Summer, co-advised with M. Baran, currently at Siemens)

4. Mrugen Deshmukh (2024 Fall, first job: Ofinno)

5. Sung Joon Maeng (2022 Summer, first job: postdoc at NC State)

6. Priyanka Sinha (2022 Fall, first job: postdoc at Virginia Tech, VA)

7. Simran Singh (2022 Summer, co-advised with M. Sichitiu, first job: postdoc at NJIT, NJ)

8. Md Moin Uddin Chowdhury (2022 Summer, first job: Voltela, Inc., NY)

9. Chethan Kumar (2022 Spring, co-advised with D. Baron, first job: Ericsson Research, CA)

10. Martins Ezuma (2022 Spring, first job: Meta, Inc., CA)

11. Ali Rahmati (2021 Spring, co-advised with H. Dai, first job: Qualcomm, CA)

12. Abhaykumar Kumbhar (2020 Spring, first job: Motorola Solutions, FL)

13. Wahab Ali Gulzar Khawaja (2019 Summer, first job: assistant professor, Pakistan)

14. Yusuf S. Eroglu (2019 Spring, first job: Qualcomm, MA)

15. Nadisanka Rupasinghe (2019 Spring, first job: DOCOMO Innovations, CA)

16. Macey Ruble (2018 Fall, first job: Northrop Grumman, NC)

17. Imtiaz Parvez (2018 Fall, coadvised with A. Sarwat, first job: postdoc at FIU, FL)

18. Karthik Vasudeva (2017 Summer, first job: Postdoc at IISc, India)

19. Bekir S. Ciftler (2017 Summer, first job: P.I. Works, Turkey)

20. Arvind Merwaday (2016 Spring, first job: Intel Labs, OR)

MS Students: 

1. Hyeokjun Kwong (2023, first job: Korea Military Academy)

2. Udita Bhattacherjee (2021, first job: Qualcomm, CA)

3. Kairui Du (2021, first job: Qualcomm, CA)

4. Virgil Acun (2017)

5. Jorge Iscar Vergara (2016, first job: Solvis, Inc., TN)

6. Edwin Vattapparamban (2016, first job: T.R. Joy and Associates, NY)

7. Bojun Sun (2016, first job: LitePoint, CA)

8. Nadisanka Rupasinghe (2015, then a PhD student at NCSU)

9. Leonardo Babun (2015, then a PhD student at FIU, first job: JHU-APL, MD)

Postdoctoral Students and Research Scholars:

1. Sung Joon Maeng (Sep. 2022 - Feb. 2024, postdoc, fisrt job: Assistant Professor at Hanyang University)

2. Jaehyun Park (Jan.-Dec. 2022, Visiting Faculty from Pukyong National University)

3. Ender Ozturk (2019-2021, postdoc, first job: senior data scientist at Syneos Health)

4. Fatih Erden (2018-2021, postdoc / research associate, first job: senior data scientist at 2K)

5. Haluk Celebi (2019-2020, postdoc)

6. Yavuz Yapici (2017-2020, research associate, first job: assistant professor at Univ. South Carolina)

7. Zhuangzhuang Cui (2019-2020, visiting PhD student, first job: postdoc at KU Leuven)

8. Sener Dikmese (2016-2017, postdoc, first job: Huawei-Sweden R&D Center)

9. Ali I. Yurekli (2016, postdoc, first job: assistant professor at Tiffin University)

10. Alphan Sahin (2016, short-term postdoc, first job: Interdigital, Inc.)

11. Natalie Paul (2015, research scholar, first job: adjunct faculty at FIU)

12. Yutao Sui (2014, visiting PhD student, first job: Ericsson, Inc.)

13. Meryem Simsek (2014, postdoc, first job: Lecturer at TU Dresden)

List of PhD Dissertations

1. Amir Hossein Fahim Raouf, PhD Dissertation (NC State), “Improving Wireless Spectrum Utilization: Hybrid VLC-RF Networks and Sub-6 GHz Aerial Spectrum Measurements, Analysis, and Datasets”, Spring 2026.

2. Donggu Lee, PhD Dissertation (NC State), “Ray Tracing-Based MIMO Link Analysis and Performance Evaluation of Asymmetric Links for UAV Networks”, Spring 2026.

3. Priya Raghuraman, PhD Dissertation (NC State), “New Protection and Communication Techniques to Facilitate Integration of Inverter-Based Resources (IBRs) On A Distribution System”, Summer 2025.

4. Mrugen Deshmukh, PhD Dissertation (NC State), “Feedback Overhead Reduction and Interference Mitigation for Next Generation Wireless Systems”, Spring 2024.

5. Priyanka Sinha, PhD Dissertation (NC State), “Wireless Detection, Localization and Tracking of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles”, Fall 2022.

6. Sung Joon Maeng, PhD Dissertation (NC State), “Energy Efficient and Secure Communication in UAV Networks”, Summer 2022.

7. Simran Singh, PhD Dissertation (NC State), “Wireless Communications for Reliable UAV Operations”, Summer 2022.

8. Moin Chowdhury, PhD Dissertation (NC State), “Trajectory Design and Mobility Management Based on RF Signal Observations”, Summer 2022.

9. Chethan K. Anjinappa, PhD Dissertation (NC State), “Millimeter-Wave Wireless Networks: Coverage Characterization, Deployment Optimization, and Channel Estimation”, Spring 2022.

10. Martins Ezuma, PhD Dissertation (NC State), “UAV Detection and Classification Using Radar, Radio Frequency and Machine Learning Technique”, Spring 2022.

11. Ali Rahmati, PhD Dissertation (NC State), “On Applications of Optimization Techniques in UAV Communication, Resource Allocation, and Adversarial Attacks”, Spring 2021 (co-advised with H. Dai).  

12. Abhaykumar Kumbhar, PhD Dissertation (FIU), “Towards UAV Assisted 5G Public Safety Networks”, Spring 2020.

13. Wahab Khawaja, PhD Dissertation (NC State), "Ultra-wideband and mmWave Channel Propagation for Public Safety and UAV Communications", Summer 2019.

14. Yusuf Said Eroglu, PhD Dissertation (NC State), "Multi-Element Visible Light Communications", Summer 2019.

15. R.A. Nadisanka Rupasinghe, PhD Dissertation (NC State), "Multi-antenna and mmWave Communications for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Networks", Spring 2019.

16. Macey Ruble, PhD Dissertation (NC State), “Massive MIMO Millimeter Wave Channel Estimation and Localization”, Fall 2018.

17. Imtiaz Parvez, PhD Dissertation (FIU), “Spectrum Sharing, Latency, and Security in 5G Networks with Application to IoT and Smart Grid”, Fall 2018 (co-advised with A. Sarwat).

18. Bekir S. Ciftler, PhD Dissertation (FIU), “Wireless Positioning and Tracking for Internet of Things in GPS-denied Environments”, Summer 2017.

19. Karthik Vasudeva, PhD Dissertation (FIU), “Mobility Analysis and Management for Heterogeneous Networks”, Summer 2017.

20. Arvind Merwaday, PhD Dissertation (FIU), “Stochastic Geometry Based Analysis of Capacity, Mobility and Energy Efficiency for Dense Heterogeneous Networks”, Spring 2016.