Research Team @ WIL

Ph.D. Students:

1. Jafor Sadique (Fall 2022- Present)

Alumni: 

1. Imtiaz Nasim (Fall 2019- Spring 2023)

2. Rashed Shelim (Summer 2020- Fall 2023)

3. Mai AbdelMalek (Fall 2016 - Spring 2021)

Mai has defended her thesis, which is entitled "Reliable and Secure Drone-assisted Millimeter Wave Communications," in March 2021. Mai is currently a post-doctoral researcher at Virginia Tech. 

4. Mohamed Awadin (Senior Engineer, InterDigital COmmunications Inc. )

Mohamed was a Postdoctoral Associate during Fall 2016- Summer 2017. He got his PhD from University of Texas at Dallas in 2014 in the area of wireless communications with more than 15 published articles and around 90 citations. 

5. Abdurrahman Fouda   (Fall 2017- Summer. 2019)

Abdurrahman received his M.S. master’s studies in Electrical Engineering at FIU.

Undergraduate Researchers

1.  Braedan Stuart (Summer'22): Relay placement via Riemannian-geometric optimization

2. Damian Fernandez (2021): Evaluation of 5G cellular deployment in Miami

   • M. I. Rochman, D. Fernandez, N. Nunez, V. Sathya, A. S. Ibrahim, M. Ghosh, W. Payne, “Impact of Device Thermal Performance on 5G mmWave Communication Systems,” Proc. IEEE ComSoC International Communications Quality and Reliability Workshop, Sep. 2022.

3. Norlen Nunez (2021): Evaluation of 5G cellular deployment in Miami

   • M. Iqbal, V. Sathya, N. Nunez, D. Fernandez, M. Ghosh, A. S. Ibrahim, and W. Payne, “A Comparison Study of Cellular Deployments in Chicago and Miami Using Apps on Smartphones,” Proc. The 15th ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation and Characterization (ACM WiNTECH'21), Oct. 2021.

4. ALberto Perez (2021): Ray tracing evaluation of drone-assisted aerial networks

   • A. Perez, A. Fouda, and A. S. Ibrahim, “Ray Tracing Analysis for UAV-assisted Integrated Access and Backhaul Millimeter Wave Networks,” Proc. 1st IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Wireless Networking, Planning, and Computing for UAV Swarms, Jun. 2019. 

5. Bruno Colo (2019): Ray tracing simulations of vehicular networks

   • B. Colo, A. Fouda and A. S. Ibrahim, “Ray Tracing Simulations in Millimeter-Wave Vehicular Communications,” Proc. the IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC’19), Sep. 2019. 

6. Kyle Hirshson (Fall'17-Spring'18)

   • Kyle graduated from FIU in May 2018 with a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, with a focus on RF communications and microelectronics, and is employed by Northrop Grumman as a software engineer. While working in the Wireless Innovation Lab, Kyle did research using WinProp to model base station coverage in the Millimeter Wave range, and designed tutorials so future researchers could use WinProp as well. 

2. Osmani Oliva (Spring 2017)

• Osmani graduated in May 2017 from the ECE department at Florida International University with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. He is currently working at Florida Power & Light Company as an Associate Engineer. While being at the Wireless Innovation Lab (WIL), he has contributed to developing the USRP-based integrated LTE-WiFi testbed.  

3. Talha Koc  (Summer 2017)

• Talha is an undergraduate student from Duke University and he conducted his REU research in cyber security self-driving cars. 

Former Visiting Graduate Students:

1. Leopoldo Gomez  (Spring-Summer 2018)

Leopoldo got his B.S. degree in industrial engineering, with specialty in electronic from University of Cadiz in Cadiz, Spain. He also got his master degree from Cadiz University in Spain, with two master degree in Research in Engineering Systems and Computing and master degree of  industrial engineering. He started the Ph.D. of information engineering in January 2018. He has been Beneficiary of a Doctorate Stay Scholarship for four months at Florida International University. Throughout the master studies, his research focused on improve the marine telecommunication, both in underwater and water surface.