Current PhD Students

• Nuwan Kankanamge

• Sajjad Emdadi Mahdimahalleh 

• Mehdi Hosein Alizadeh

• Iman Pourmohammadi

• Tarig Hyder

Current MSc Students

• Fahmid Mahmud (non-thesis option; working on an engineering report)

Former PhD Students

• Bach Tran (PhD, December 2022, co-supervised with Prof. Shivakumar Sastry, 1st employment: Tradefull); PhD Dissertation: Framework for Artificial Intelligence Assisted Augmented Reality Systems for Education and Training. 

• Md. Hasan Rahman (PhD, December 2021, 1st employment: Facebook); PhD Dissertation: Capacity Limits and Signal Design for Heterogeneous Networks with Ultra-Low Resolution Analog to Digital Converter.

• Mohammad Ranjbar (PhD, July 2019, with outstanding ECE Thesis Award, 1st employment: Quantenna Communications); PhD Dissertation: Optimal Signaling Strategies and Fundamental Limits of Next-Generation Energy-Efficient Wireless Networks.

• Duc-Anh Le (PhD, August 2016, 1st employment: University of Iowa, Postdoctoral Scholar); PhD Dissertation: Fundamental Limits of Communication Channels under Non-Gaussian Interference.

• Leonardo Jimenez Rodriguez (PhD, August 2014 (McGill University), co-supervised with Prof. Tho Le-Ngoc, 1st employment: Samsung Research); PhD Dissertation: Half- and Full-Duplex Amplify-and-Forward Single-Relay Systems: Achievable Rates, Power Allocations and Code Designs.

Former MSc Students

• Sejuti Banik (MSc, July 2022); MSc Thesis: Signaling Schemes and Fundamental Limits of a 2-User Static Gaussian Multiple-Access Channel with 1-Bit Analog-To-Digital-Converter.

• Ying Wang (MSc, May 2020) - Non-thesis option

• Minh Vu (MSc, July 2018); MSc Thesis: Optimal Signaling Schemes and Capacities of Non-Coherent Correlated MISO Channels under Per-Antenna Power Constraints.

• Suresh Madishetty  (MSc, May 2018, co-supervised with Prof. Arjuna Madanayake); MSc Thesis: Design of Multi-Beam Hybrid Digital Beamforming Receivers.

• Hasitha Bothenna (MSc, January 2018); MSc Thesis: Approximation of Information Rates in Non-Coherent MISO Wireless Channels with Finite Input Signals.

• Geethika Dissanayakage Wijeratne (MSc, June 2017); MSc Thesis: Fundamental Limits of Non-Coherent Rician Fading Channels with 1-Bit Output Quantization.

• Mohamed Elamin (MSc, June 2017, co-supervised with Prof. Shivakumar Sastry); MSc Thesis: Performance Analysis of Software Defined Network Concepts in Networked Embedded Systems.

• Sravan Kumar Pulipati (MSc, May 2017, co-supervised with Prof. Arjuna Madanayake); MSc Thesis: Electronically-Scanned Wideband Digital Aperture Antenna Arrays using Multi-Dimensional Space-Time Circuit-Network Resonance.

• Lubna Elsaid (MSc, June 2016); MSc Thesis: Physical-Layer Security with Full-Duplex Decode-and-Forward Relaying: Secrecy Rates and Power Allocation.

• Cuong Dang (MSc, December 2015, with outstanding ECE Thesis Award); MSc Thesis: Optimal Power Allocation and Secrecy Capacity of The Full-Duplex Amplify-and-Forward Wire-tap Relay Channel Under Residual Self-Interference.

• Rajika Kumarasiri (MSc, November 2014 (University of Toledo), co-supervised with Prof. Vijay Devabhktuni); MSc Thesis: Development of Novel Algorithms for Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks.

• Hung Vu (MSc, June 2014, with Research Assistant of the Year Award); MSc Thesis: Capacities of Bernoulli-Gaussian Impulsive Noise Channels in Rayleigh Fading.

• Tamseel Mahmood Syed (MSc, January 2014); MSc Thesis: Precoder Design Based on Mutual Information for Non-orthogonal Amplify and Forward Wireless Relay Networks.

• Tuyen Tran (MSc, August 2013, with the prestigious Dean’s Summer Fellowship); MSc Thesis: Achievable Rate and Capacity of Amplify-and-Forward Multi-Relay Networks with Channel State Information.

Former Undergraduate Students (Undergraduate Research)

• Savannah Rimmele - Cross-layer Security

• Joseph Garro - Cross-layer Security

• Nathaniel Raymondi - Full-Duplex Radio

• Michael Seredich - Full-Duplex Radio

Prospective Graduate Students

I am currently looking for some Ph.D. students. Basic requirements include: (1) meet admission requirements for ECE, University of Akron; (2) strong backgrounds in mathematics and programming skills; (3) interest and motivations in doing high impact research in Communications. Applicants with their own funding are welcome. If you are interested, please send me your CV (in pdf).