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

• 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: Essex 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: Essex 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: Essex 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)