Director:
Dr. Shahriar Shahabuddin
Dr. Shahriar Shahabuddin
Biography
Dr. Shahriar Shahabuddin has amassed fifteen years of experience in digital VLSI design and Signal Processing through his roles in academia and industries across Europe and America. He received his MSc and PhD degrees from the Centre for Wireless Communications at the University of Oulu, Finland, in 2012 and 2019, respectively, under the supervision of Professor Markku Juntti, Fellow, IEEE. During Spring 2015, he was with Computer Systems Laboratory, Cornell University, NY as a Visiting Scholar in Professor Christoph Studer’s group. Since 2017 and 2020, he held positions as a SoC Specialist and Senior DSP Engineer at Nokia, Finland and Nokia, Dallas, TX, respectively. Dr. Shahabuddin has received the Docent title from Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Oulu, Finland in 2021. He also served as an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Electrical Engineering department at University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) during 2023 and 2024. Dr. Shahabuddin is currently with Oklahoma State University as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor. His research interests include digital VLSI architectures for 6G Wireless Communications, Signal Processing, Machine Learning and Wireless Security. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Signal Processing Systems.
Other Members of the VIP Group:
Md. Salman Sakib, Graduate Researcher, Oklahoma State University
Mr. Sakib has completed his BSc from Islamic University of Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is working towards his PhD on the VLSI Implementation of Terahertz Communication Systems.
Zach Johnson, Graduate Researcher, Oklahoma State University
Mr. Johnson has completed his BSc from Oklahoma State University. He is working on digital VLSI implementation of language models.
KM Faisal, Graduate Researcher, Oklahoma State University
Mr. Faisal has completed his first masters from Chosun University, South Korea and his second masters from SUNY University of Albany, USA. He is currently working towards his PhD on machine learning algorithms and their digital implementation for Reflective Intelligent Surfaces.
Katy Wagner, Miller Scholar and Undergraduate Researcher, Oklahoma State University
Ms. Wagner has started working in the VIP group on quantization aware language model training
Jacob Hood, Undergraduate Researcher, Oklahoma State University
As a Miller Scholar, Mr. Hood is working on the Neural Eavesdropping and Security of Open RAN Systems in the VIP Lab.
Nicholas Day, Undergraduate Researcher, Oklahoma State University
Mr. Day has been implementing a Neural Network VLSI Design for Digital Predistortion
Visitors and Alumni:
Dr. Joonas Kokkoniemi, Docent/Adjunct Professor, Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland
Dr. Kokkoniemi is an expert on THz Channel Modeling. During November 2024, he worked at the VIP lab on THz Backhaul Communication.
Alex Dhrubo Malakar, Miller Scholar and Undergraduate Researcher, Oklahoma State University
As a Miller Scholar, Mr. Malakar is investigating the Bipatrite Tables for Neural Network Implementation on FPGAs.