Current Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Research Associates

1. Fahreen Bushra (Sept. 2025 -)

2. Ahmed Radwan  (Sept. 2024 -) (2025 Selected for Vector AI Internship)

3. Muhammad Umar Khan (Sept. 2024 -)

4. Paria Mohammadzadeh (Sept. 2024 -)

5. Amirhossein Mohammadi (Jan. 2024 -)

6. Mohammad Amin Saeidi (Sept. 2021 -) (2023 Academic Excellence Fund, 2025 Selected for Nokia Bell Labs Internship)

7. Sadeq bani Melhem (Sept. 2024 - ) (2023 Recipient of NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship - Doctoral (PGS-D)), (won IEEE ComSoc School series Resume Competition, 2023), (won IEEE Toronto Student Scholarship Award, 2023)

8. Dr. Sana Mazahir (October 2025 -) (Won Prestigious NSERC Postdoc Fellowship Award, 2025-2027)

9. Aryan Kishor Kansagara [Recipient of Lassonde Undergraduate Research Award (LURA)],  Summer 2025

10. Kamyar Shavandi [Recipient of Lassonde Undergraduate Research Award (LURA)], Summer 2025

Past Postdoctoral Research Associates & Visiting Students

• Dr. Saba Asaad  (March 2023 - ) (Won Prestigious Banting Postdoc Fellowship Award, 2024-2026)

• Dr.  Sylvester Aboagye  (Jan. 2023 - Dec. 2023) [2023 Recipient of Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowships for Black and Indigenous Scholars] [Joined as Tenure Track Assistant Professor at University of Guelph, 2024] [IEEE TCOM, Exemplary Reviewer, 2024]

• Dr.  Ahmed Al-Habob  (May 2022 - March 2023 )

• Dr. Mehdi Monemi  (Visiting Professor - Summer 2019)

• Dr. Noha Hassan   (Visiting Postdoc - Summer 2020)

• Joshua Jalali, visiting PhD student, University of Antwerp  (Dec 2023 - Jan 2024)

Alumni - Graduate Students

1. Xavier Mootoo (Sept. 2023 - July 2025)

Thesis Title: Modern Deep Learning Methods for Time Series Analysis in Wireless Networks and Healthcare (Vector AI Scholarship, 2023) (Canadian Graduate Scholarship CGS-M, 2023) 

2. Borna Barahimi (Sept. 2022 - July 2024) 

Thesis Title: Robust Representation Learning Solutions for Wireless Sensing Applications (2024 Academic Excellence Fund)(Nominated for Thesis Prize) (Internship with NSERC Alliance Industry Partner)

3. Haider Shoaib  (Sept. 2021 - Apr. 2023 ) 

Thesis Title:  Performance Modeling and Optimization of  Connected and Autonomous Vehicles with Reliable Wireless Connectivity (Received IEEE Exemplary Reviewer Award, 2022) (Won Thesis Prize) (Got Selected and Obtained Travel Funding in IEEE ComSoc 6G Summer School)

4. Mehrazin Alizadeh  (Jan. 2021 -  Oct. 2022)

Thesis Title:  Deep Unsupervised Learning  for Network Resource Allocation Problems with Convex and Non-Convex Constraints  (Got Selected for MITACS Accelerate Industy Internship)

5. Sadeq bani Melhem (Jan. 2020 -  Dec. 2021 )

Thesis Title: Design and Analysis of Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Techniques for Terahertz Networks (Nominated for Thesis Prize)

6. Md. Tanvir Hossan (Sept. 2019 - Apr. 2021)

Thesis Title: Stochastic Geometry for Mobility-Aware Performance Modeling in 6G Multi-band Wireless Networks    (Journal article  listed in IEEE ComSoc Best Readings on THz Communications)

7. Sheyda Zarandi (Sept. 2019 - Apr. 2021)

Thesis Title: Resource Allocation in Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) Systems: Optimization and Machine Learning Algorithms  (Received MITACS  Research Trainee Award, 2020)

8.  Javad Sayehvand (Jan. 2019- Oct. 2020)

Thesis Title: Performance Modeling, Design, and Analysis of Large-Scale Terahertz Networks   (Journal article  listed in IEEE ComSoc Best Readings on THz Communications)

Alumni -  Undergraduate Students

1. Sahana Selvam (Recipient of MITACS Globalink Research Award), Summer 2024

2. Vansh Bhasin  [Recipient of Lassonde Undergraduate Research Award (LURA)],  Summer 2024

3. Mustafa Yildirim   [Recipient of Lassonde Undergraduate Research Award (LURA)],  Summer 2024

4. Ammar Mohamed Mohieldin Ahmed Abouelmaati  (Won 2nd Place in the Poster Competition at Lassonde Undergraduate Research Conference)  [Recipient of Lassonde Undergraduate Research Award (LURA), 2023], Summer 2023

5.  Ramsundar Tanikella (May 2023 - August 2023) (Recipient of MITACS Globalink Research Award) - Summer 2023

6.  Yamin Tayyar  [Recipient of Lassonde Undergraduate Research Award (LURA)],  Summer 2023

7. Yunyun Zhang  [Recipient of NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA)] - Summer 2022

8. Zijiang Yan  (Summer 2021)  [Recipient of Lassonde Undergraduate Research Award (LURA)] - Summer 2021

9. Jeet Tilara  (Summer 2021)   [Recipient of Lassonde Undergraduate Research Award (LURA)] - Summer 2021

10. Arjun Kaushik  [Recipient of Lassonde Undergraduate Research Award (LURA)] - Summer 2020 

11. Naman Jain [Recipient of Lassonde Undergraduate Research Award (LURA)] - Summer 2020

12. Ramein Zahedi [RAY Scholarship] - Summer 2019