I am/was an investigator/researcher in the following projects:

• July 2025 to April 2026, Integrating Rate-Splitting with SCMA for Efficient 6G Massive Access (RETHINK6G), funded by EPSRC HASC via The University of Oxford, Role: Essex PI. 

• April 2025 to March 2026, A Novel and Legacy Compatible Doppler Resilient Waveform Design for 6G (Legend6G), funded by EPSRC TITAN via The University of Cambridge, Role: Essex Co-I. 

• September 2024 to September 2026, Integrating Code-Domain NOMA and OTFS for Machine-Type High Mobility Communications, funded by The Yusuf and Farida Hamied Foundation. Role: Essex PI. 

• June 2024 to March 2025, Affine Frequency Division Multiplexing for 6G Communications and Sensing, funded by EPSRC Federated Telecoms Hub 6G Research Partnership Funds (THRPF) via The University of Cambrige. Role: Consortium PI. 

• 31 March 2024 to 30 March 2026, Towards 6G Massive Short-Packet Communications with SCMA, funded by Royal Society International Exchanges 2023 Cost Share. Role: Consortium PI. 

• 27 March 2024 to 31 March 2025, Multiple Access Techniques for Improved Rural & Remote Connectivity in Aerospace Integrated Networks, funded by British Council under UK India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI-4). Role: Consortium PI. 

• 1-5 July, 2024: The 12th International Conference on SEquences and Their Applications (SETA'2024). Role: Hosting General Co-Chair. 

• May 2024 - July 2024: Leveraging Adversarial Machine Learning (AML) to secure AI-powered threat detection systems and their development pipelines, funded by Innovate UK Accelerated Knowledge Transfer (AKT) (Accelerated Knowledge Transfer (AKT)) with Glasswall. Role: Essex PI. 

• December 2023 - November 2025: Evolving Sequences for Beyond-5G Machine-Type Communications (SORT), funded by EPSRC ECR International Collaboration Grant. Role: Consortium PI. 

• January 2024 - December 2025: New Signal Design and Processing for Future Vehicular Communications (DRIVE), funded by EPSRC New Investigator Award Grant. Role: Essex PI. 

• April 2023 - March 2025: High Spectral Efficiency, Minimally Interfering, Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Communication Signals, funded by Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. In collaboration with Prof Yong Liang Guan at NTU. Role: Essex PI. 

• March 2023 - Feb 2025: Training Sequence Design for Generalized Spatial Modulation System. Funded by Royal Society International Exchange 2022 Cost Share (NSTC). In collaboration with Prof Chao-Yu Chen at National Cheng-Kung University (Taiwan). Role: Essex PI. 

• July 2020 - June 2024: SEquences and Their Applications (SETA). Funded by The Research Council of Norway, in collaboration with Prof Chunlei Li in University of Bergen, Norway. Role: International Co-I. 

• 1-5 August, 2022: The 10th International Workshop on Signal Design and its Applications in Communications (IWSDA'2022). Role: Hosting General Co-Chair. 

• July 2019 - June 2021: Design of Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) Systems for Future Vehicular Communications. Funded by SPARC from the Indian Government, with Prof Vivek Bahara. Role: UK Co-I. 

• Jan. 2018 - Dec. 2020: New Air-Interface for Future Massive Machine-Type Communications (EPSRC). Media report by Futurum. 

• Jan. 2018 - Oct. 2019: Converged Wireless Access for Reliable 5G MTC for factories of the future - Clear5G (H2020 EU-Taiwan);

  • D2.2: New Frame Structure & Waveforms. [PDF]

  • D2.3: PHY Solutions (FINAL). [PDF]

  • D2.4: Physical Layer Security. [PDF]

  • D2.5: WP2 Implementation and Implementation Performance. [PDF] [YouTube Demo Link]

• Jan. 2018 - Dec. 2019: Sequence Design for Modern Spectrum Efficient Communications (NSFC);

  • Research Fellowship for International Young Scientists. 

• Jan. 2017   - Dec. 2019:  Sequence Design for Data Reduction in Time-Varying Channels (NRF-NSFC);

  • A three-year China-Singapore project. 

• Jan. 2017   - Jan. 2018:   Optimum Iterative (Turbo) Receiver for Block-Coded Continuous Phase Modulation (CPM) Signals (NTU);

• Sept. 2016 - Jan. 2017    Machine Learning (e.g., support vector machine/random forest) based Blind Parameter Identification for CPM (NTU); 

• Aug. 2014 - Aug. 2016:  Performance Analysis and USRP2-GNURadio Testbed Design for Cooperative Relaying based on Continuous Phase Modulation (CPM) and Single-Carrier Frequency-Domain Equalization (SC-FDE), NTU;

• Jan. 2013   - Aug. 2014: Design of Cognitive CDMA under Arbitrary Spectral Hole Constraint (NTU);

• Sept. 2009 - Dec. 2012: Software Defined Ratio (SDR) Design of Downlink/Uplink ZCZ-CDMA System in USRP2-GNURadio Platform (NTU);

• July 2008   - Aug. 2009: SDR Design of 802.11a Receiver in Lyrtech Platform (NTU);

• July 2007   - July 2008:   ASIC Design of FM/RDS Transmitter and Receiver (KTMicro, Inc);

• Sept. 2004 - July 2007:   ASIC & FPGA Design of Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) Receiver (Tsinghua);

In addition, I have received SDR trainings from Lyrtech (Nov. 2008), National Instruments (Apr. 2011) and NTU (Jan. 2014)