Student name: Abdullah Abdullah
PhD thesis: "Advanced Antenna Design for Satellite Direct-to-Vehicle Communications"
Starting Date: Q3-Q4 2025
Funding: FNR VARRAY-5G
Student name: Sirine Ben Ati
PhD thesis: "Energy Efficient AI/ML for Wireless Communications"
Starting Date: January 2025
Funding: SES Partnership
Student name: Almoatssimbillah Saifaldawla
PhD thesis: "Artificial Intelligence for the Next Generation of Satellite Communication Systems"
Starting Date: December 2022
Funding: FNR SmartSpace
Student name: Teweldebrhan Mezgebo Kebedew
PhD thesis: “QoE-Aware Service Design for Yield Maximization in Next Generation Satellite Networks”
Starting Date: December 2021
Funding: FNR IPBG Instruct
Student name: Lin Chen (Graduated in 2024)
PhD thesis: “Satellite Dynamic Resource Management Optimization for Flexible Satellite Payloads”
Funding: FNR CORE FlexSat
Student name: Tedros Salih ABDU (Graduated in 2022)
PhD thesis: “Resource Management Techniques for Flexible Broadband Satellite Communication Systems”.
Funding: FNR AFR (individual grant)
Student name: Gebrehiwet G. Lema
PhD thesis: “Emerging on-board processing techniques for Next Generation SatComs”
Starting Date: July 2023
Funding: FNR IPBG Instruct
Student name: Kha Hung Nguyen
PhD thesis: “Dynamic spectrum management for emerging integrated SatCom and 5G/6G networks”
Starting Date: February 2022
Funding: FNR IPBG Instruct
Student name: Mahdis Jalali (Graduated in 2025 - Postdoc at SnT)
PhD thesis: “Impact of non-geostationary satellite (NGSO) interference in geostationary satellite systems”
Starting Date: September 2021
Funding: FNR CORE Project MEGALEO
Student name: Puneeth Jubba Honnaiah (Graduated in 2022 - currently OQ Technologies)
PhD thesis: “Resource Allocation and Interference Mitigation for demand based capacity adaptability in Satellite Communication System”.
Starting Date: January 2019
Funding: FNR Industrial Fellowship (individual grant w/ SES)
Student name: Praveen Kumar KORRAI (Graduated in 2021 - now in Nokia Bell Labs, Denmark)
PhD thesis: “RAN Resource Slicing Mechanisms for Multiplexing of Multiple Services in 5G”.
Funding: FNR AFR (individual grant)
Student name: Sumit GAUTAM (Graduated in 2019 - now Assistant Professor at ITT, Indore )
PhD thesis:“Design and Optimization of Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer Systems”.
Funding: FNR-FNRS Bilateral InWIP-NETs
I am involved in teaching activities at the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM), University of Luxembourg.
In particular:
Mandatory course: Satellite Communications & Security (ECTS 5)
Mandatory course: Scientific Space Project (ECTS 6)
Elective course: Advanced Satellite Communication Systems (ECTS 3)
Mandatory course: Programming for engineers 1 (ECTS 4)