Experience

Work Experience

  • [2018-present] Senior Standardization Specialist, Nokia Bell Labs France, Nozay, France.

  • [2014-2018] Senior Researcher, Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab, Huawei Paris Research Center, Boulogne-Billancourt, France.

  • [2012-2013] Research Engineer, Supélec, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

      • Project: HENIAC, Réseaux optiques 400G/1T à haute efficacité spectrale à base de convertisseurs numériques-analogiques ultra rapides.

      • Activity: Designed and implementation of digital signal processing algorithms to enable high data rate coherent fiber-optic communications.

  • [2012-2013] Intern, 5 months, Bell Labs Research Center, Villarceaux, France.

      • Activity: Analyzed the performance of both carrier frequency offset and phase-shift estimation and compensation techniques for coherent optical receivers.

  • [2008] Intern (Master Thesis), 4 months, Bluewind s.r.l., Castelfranco Veneto, Italy.

      • Activity: Studied the feasibility, designed and implemented a remote video surveillance software suite based on UMTS.

Academic Experience

  • [2013-2014] Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore.

      • Project: Adaptive Mobile Ad-Hoc Network - Connectivity, Robustness and Heterogeneity.

      • Activity: Developed and implemented new dynamic spectrum management strategies and multi-user interference mitigation techniques for mobile ad-hoc networks.

  • [2013-2014] Visiting Researcher, 1 month, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam.

      • Activity: Studied the feasibllity of a testbed implementation by means of the software defined radio platform SDR4All to test network coding and interference alignment strategies.

  • [2013-2014] Researcher, 1 month, Università degli Studi fi Padiva, Padova Italy.

      • Project: New generation DVB-T Transmission.

        • Activity: Designed a complete end-to-end DVB-T2 system simulator platform, and implemented it in GNU-Octave.

Awards and Honors

  1. Best of GLOBECOM 2014, with the paper "Energy-harvesting for self-sustainable OFDMA Communications"

  2. Italian National Doctoral Scholarship, 2009/2011

  3. Scholarship for a ”New generation DVB-T transmission” project to develop a DVB-T2 complete system simulator in GNU-Octave environment, 2008

  4. Winner of EDERS (European DSP Education & Research Symposium) sponsored by Texas Instruments, co-sponsored by IEEE, with the work: “DSP Implementation of Packet Synchronization for OFDM”, published inside EDERS 2006 – European DSP Education & Research Symposium Proceedings (pp. 327-333) by Texas Instruments, 2006

Editorial Experience

  • Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Letters, Mar 2016-present

  • Guest Editor of the special issue of IEEE Communications Magazine on Practical Perspectives on IoT in 5G Networks: From Theory to Industrial Challenges and Business Opportunities, together with D. Niyato, D. I. Kim, M. Zorzi, A. Xhafa, and A. Dutta, Feb 2017

  • Guest Editor of the special issue of IEEE Wireless Communications entitled Wireless Powered Communication Networks: Architectures, Protocol Designs and Standardization, together with D. Niyato, D. I. Kim and Z. Han, Apr 2016

Event Organization

  • IEEE Workshop on Emerging Energy Harvesting Solutions for 5G Networks (5G-NRG), M. Maso, A. Muller, A. Ikhlef, organized in conjunction with IEEE ICC 2017

  • IEEE Workshop on Wireless Powered Communication Networks (WPCNets ‘2016), M. Maso, K. Tourki, O. Dobre, A. Nasir, A. Ikhlef, D. Niyato, D. I. Kim, Z. Han, M. Gregori and D. Gunduz, organized in conjunction with IEEE WCNC 2016

  • Self-sustainable networks: energy harvesting and wireless energy transfer, M. Maso and D. Michalopoulos, special session organized and chaired at EUSIPCO 2015, Nice, France, Sep. 2015

  • Signal Processing for Sustainable Communications, M. Maso and T. Q. S. Quek, special session organized and chaired at IEEE ICCS 2014, Macau, Nov. 2014

  • Advanced Small Cells for Future Systems, T. Q. S. Quek and M. Maso, special session organized and chaired at IEEE ISWCS, Barcelona, Spain, Aug. 2014

  • Member of the Technical Program Committee and Session Chair in a number of international workshop/conferences.