Welcome!

September 5-6, 2025: I will give an invited lecture at the Metamaterials'25 Doctoral School in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Thanks to Sander Mann and Femius Koenderink for the invitation!

September 1-4, 2025: I will give an invited talk at the Metamaterials'25 Congress in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Thanks to Francesco Monticone and Corentin Coulais for the invitation!

June 16-20, 2025: I will give an invited talk titled "Toward a universal model-based framework for wave control in extremely tunable meta-systems" at the 13th International Conference on Elastic, Electrical, Transport and Optical Properties of Inhomogeneous Media (ETOPIM13) in New York, NY, USA. Thanks to Andrea Alù and Emil Prodan for the invitation!

April 24, 2025: Our paper titled Intelligent Indoor Metasurface Robotics (published in National Science Review in Nov. 2022) in collaboration with Lianlin Li's group at Peking University has been selected as a National Science Review 2024 Best Paper.

April 11, 2025: Our manuscript titled "Programmable metasurfaces for future photonic artificial intelligence" in collaboration with Patrice Genevet's group at the Colorado School of Mines has been accepted for publication in Nature Reviews Physics.

March 15, 2025: My manuscript titled Virtual VNA 2.0: Ambiguity-Free Scattering Matrix Estimation by Terminating Not-Directly-Accessible Ports with Tunable and Coupled Loads has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.

March 7, 2025: My manuscript titled A physics-compliant diagonal representation for wireless channels parametrized by beyond-diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

February 17, 2025: Our manuscript titled ClassiGAN: Joint Image Reconstruction and Classification in Computational Microwave Imaging in collaboration with Okan Yurduseven's group at Queen's University Belfast has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems.

February 14, 2025: My manuscript titled Virtual VNA: Minimal-Ambiguity Scattering Matrix Estimation with a Fixed Set of “Virtual” Load-Tunable Ports has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement.

January 17, 2025: Our manuscript titled Agile Free-Form Signal Filtering and Routing with a Chaotic-Cavity-Backed Non-Local Programmable Metasurface in collaboration with A. Douglas Stone's group at Yale University has been accepted for publication in Advanced Science.

December 18, 2024: Ismail Ahmed has successfully defended his PhD entitled "Innovative Applications of Programmable Metasurfaces: From Reverberation Chamber Stirring to Backscatter Communication".  Guillaume Andrieu, Matthieu Davy, Elodie Richalot, Julien de Rosny, Bernard Uguen, and I served on his committee. Congratulations Ismail!

December 2, 2024: Cheima Hammami from Institut National des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie, Tunisia, has joined our group. Welcome on board!

November 22, 2024: Our manuscript titled Threading light through dynamic complex media in collaboration with David B. Phillips's group at the University of Exeter has been accepted for publication in Nature Photonics.

October 5, 2024: I have received the 2024 Reviewer Excellence Award for my contributions to the peer review at Physical Review Applied.

September 30, 2024: Our manuscript titled Electromagnetic metamaterial agent in collaboration with Lianlin Li's group at Peking University has been accepted for publication in Light: Science & Applications.

September 6, 2024: Our manuscript titled Optimal blind focusing on perturbation-inducing targets in sub-unitary complex media has been accepted for publication in Laser & Photonics Reviews.

August 21, 2024: Our manuscript titled Semantic-Electromagnetic Inversion with Pretrained Multimodal Generative Model in collaboration with Lianlin Li's group at Peking University has been accepted for publication in Advanced Science.

July 9, 2024: Our manuscript titled Over-the-Air Emulation of Electronically Adjustable Rician MIMO Channels in a Programmable-Metasurface-Stirred Reverberation Chamber has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.

July 2, 2024:  Our preprint titled Agile Free-Form Signal Filtering with a Chaotic-Cavity-Backed Non-Local Programmable Metasurface is online. Therein, we experimentally demonstrate an extremely tunable filter, both in terms of functionality and frequency (spanning the X band and lower Ku band), built off an all-metallic programmable metasurface backed by a chaotic cavity. Our device featuring spatially overlapping resonances and reverberation-induced all-to-all non-locality deliberately forgoes the limiting assumptions of conventional filter synthesis. Along the way, we also confirm multiple predictions from recently developed scattering theories, including the first experimental observation of transmissionless exceptional points.

May 21, 2024: Our manuscript titled Dynamic inverse design of broadband metasurfaces with synthetical neural networks in collaboration with the group of Chao Qian and Hongsheng Chen at Zhejiang University has been accepted for publication in Laser & Photonics Reviews.

May 21, 2024: Camille Zubialde from Polytech Nantes, France, has joined our group. Welcome on board!

April 19, 2024: Our manuscript titled Semantic regularization of electromagnetic inverse problems in collaboration with Lianlin Li's group at Peking University has been accepted for publication in Nature Communications.

March 14, 2024:  Our preprint titled Minimal-Ambiguity Scattering Matrix Estimation with Load-Tunable Ports is online. 

March 4, 2024: Our manuscript titled Experimentally realized physical-model-based frugal wave control in metasurface-programmable complex media has been accepted for publication in Nature Communications.

February 27, 2024: Our paper titled "RIS-Based Over-The-Air Channel Equalization in Resource-Constrained Wireless Networks" has been nominated for the Best Propagation Paper Award at the upcoming EuCAP 2024 conference.

February 19, 2024: Our manuscript titled Systematic Physics-Compliant Analysis of Over-the-Air Channel Equalization in RIS-Parametrized Wireless Networks-on-Chip has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

February 15, 2024: Our manuscript titled On the Tacit Linearity Assumption in Common Cascaded Models of RIS-Parametrized Wireless Channels has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

February 1, 2024: Our manuscript titled Microwave speech recognizer empowered by a programmable metasurface in collaboration with Lianlin Li's group at Peking University has been accepted for publication in Advanced Science.

January 30, 2024:  Our preprint titled Optimal blind focusing on perturbation-inducing targets in sub-unitary complex media is online. 

November 21, 2023: The author's version of my chapter titled RIS-Parametrized Rich-Scattering Environments: Physics-Compliant Models, Channel Estimation, and Optimization in the forthcoming book "Reconfigurable Metasurfaces for Wireless Communications: Architectures, Modeling, and Optimization" (Editors: George C. Alexandropoulos, Alessio Zappone, Nir Shlezinger, Marco Di Renzo, Yonina Eldar) is available on the arXiv.

November 20, 2023: I successfully defended my habilitation (habilitation à diriger des recherches). Many thanks to Andrea Alù, Hui Cao, Marco Di Renzo, Yonina Eldar, Patrice Genevet, and Ronan Sauleau for serving on my habilitation committee!

November 7, 2023: Our paper titled Backpropagation-free Training of Deep Physical Neural Networks in collaboration with Romain Fleury's group at EPFL has been accepted for publication in Science.

November 3, 2023: Our paper titled Efficient Computation of Physics-Compliant Channel Realizations for (Rich-Scattering) RIS-Parametrized Radio Environments has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Communications Letters.

October 23, 2023: Our paper titled Toward Remote Model-Based Fault Localization in Transmission-Line Networks has been accepted for publication in Acta Physica Polonica A.

October 12, 2023: Our paper titled Equireflectionality and customized unbalanced coherent perfect absorption in asymmetric waveguide networks with our collaborators in Le Mans, France, and Hamburg, Germany, has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Applied.

September 22, 2023: Our paper titled Optimal matrix-based spatiotemporal wave control for virtual perfect absorption, energy deposition, and scattering invariant modes in disordered systems has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Applied.

September 14, 2023: Chenqi Qian has received the Nature Photonics award "Best contributions related to photonics" at the Metamaterials Congress 2023.

September 8, 2023: Our paper titled Covert Scattering Control in Metamaterials with Non-Locally Encoded Hidden Symmetry has been accepted for publication in Advanced Materials.

August 1, 2023:  Our preprint titled Experimentally realized physical-model-based wave control in metasurface-programmable complex media is online. Therein, we report the first experimental demonstration of wave control in RIS-parametrized "smart" radio environments based on a calibrated compact physical model. Moreover, we discover that our pure-physics model has unique generalization capabilities: it can accurately retrieve all phase information when calibrated with phaseless data, and it can even retrieve information about scattering coefficients not included in the calibration data!

June 27, 2023: Our work "Reflectionless Programmable Signal Routers Built Off the Anti-Laser" has been selected as a finalist for the Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year 2023 in the category Physical Sciences.

May 22, 2023: Chenqi Qian has been selected as a finalist for the student paper competition at the upcoming Metamaterials Congress 2023. Congratulations!

May 2, 2023: Jean Tapie from the Grenoble Institute of Technology, France, has joined our group. Welcome on board!

May 2, 2023: Our preprint titled Covert Scattering Control in Metamaterials with Non-Locally Encoded Hidden Symmetry is available on the arXiv.

February 13, 2023: Our preprint titled On the Tacit Linearity Assumption in Common Cascaded Models of RIS-Parametrized Wireless Channels is available on the arXiv.

January 2, 2023: Hugo Prod'homme from Institut Pprime, France, has joined our group. Welcome on board!

December 22, 2022: Our paper titled Reflectionless Programmable Signal Routers in collaboration with A. Douglas Stone's group at Yale University has been accepted for publication in Science Advances.

November 15, 2022: Our paper titled Intelligent Indoor Metasurface Robotics in collaboration with Lianlin Li's group at Peking University has been accepted for publication in National Science Review. 

November 6, 2022: Our paper titled Self-Adaptive RISs Beyond Free Space: Convergence of Localization, Sensing and Communication under Rich-Scattering Conditions has been accepted for publication in IEEE Wireless Communications.

October 7, 2022: Our magazine paper titled Wave Engineering meets Information Science: How to Fully Reap the Potential of Artificial Intelligence for Programmable Metamaterials has been published in Revue de l'Electricité et de l'Electronique as part of the special issue Cahier Azur: Journées URSI France 2022 guest-edited by Alain Sibille and Frédéric Grillot. 

October 7, 2022: Our invited paper titled Noise-Adaptive Intelligent Programmable Meta-Imager has been accepted for publication in Intelligent Computing as part of the special issue on Computational Imaging guest-edited by Sylvain Gigan and Hilton Barbosa De Aguiar. 

October 6, 2022: Fabian Faul from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, has joined our group. Welcome on board!

September 27, 2022: Our preprint titled Reflectionless Programmable Signal Routers in collaboration with A. Douglas Stone's group at Yale University is available on the arXiv.

September 15, 2022: Our recently published paper titled Metasurface-Programmable Wireless Network-on-Chip has been featured on the cover of Advanced Science. 

September, 2022: I served on the Award Committee at the Metamaterials Congress 2022. Congratulations to all student paper competition winners and finalists, as well as to the recipients of best papers and posters awards!

August 19, 2022: Our paper titled Time Reversal Communications with Channel State Information Estimated from Impedance Modulation at the Receiver has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access. 

August 1, 2022: Our paper titled PhysFad: Physics-Based End-to-End Channel Modeling of RIS-Parametrized Environments with Adjustable Fading has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. The associated open-source code is available on GitHub.

July 1, 2022: Chenqi Qian from Imperial College London, UK, has joined our group. Welcome on board!

June 13, 2022: Yiyang Gu from Imperial College London, UK, has joined our group. Welcome on board!

June 7, 2022: Antonin Rabault from INSA Rennes, France, has joined our group. Welcome on board!

June 3, 2022: I have been selected as Outstanding Reviewer in 2021 for Light: Science & Applications (LSA).

May 24, 2022: Our preprint titled Self-Adaptive RISs Beyond Free Space: Convergence of Localization, Sensing and Communication under Rich-Scattering Conditions is available on the arXiv.

April 25, 2022: Our paper titled Metasurface-Programmable Wireless Network-on-Chip has been accepted for publication in Advanced Science. 

April 19, 2022: Our paper titled Exceptional points of PT-symmetric reflectionless states in complex scattering systems has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters. 

April 13, 2022: I have been selected as Monthly Editor's Pick Reviewer in March 2022 by Light: Science & Applications (LSA).

April 6, 2022: Our paper titled One-bit quantization is good for programmable coding metasurfaces in collaboration with Lianlin Li's group at Peking University has been accepted for publication in Science China Information Sciences. 

March 15, 2022: Our preprint titled Metasurface-Programmable Wireless Network-on-Chip  is available on the arXiv. Therein, we introduce smart radio environments on the chip scale and leverage them for over-the-air equalization to overcome a vexing dilemma of current wireless networks-on-chips.

March 10, 2022: Our paper titled Meta-Programmable Analog Differentiator has been accepted for publication in Nature Communications. 

March 9, 2022: Our paper titled Controlling the Spatiotemporal Response of Transient Reverberating Sound in collaboration with Guancong Ma's group at Hong Kong Baptist University has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Applied. 

March 3, 2022: Our review paper titled Intelligent Meta-Imagers: From Compressed to Learned Sensing has been published in Applied Physics Reviews and highlighted as Featured Paper. 

February 8, 2022: Our preprint titled PhysFad: Physics-Based End-to-End Channel Modeling of RIS-Parametrized Environments with Adjustable Fading is available on the arXiv.

February 8, 2022: My invited News & Views article titled Calibration-free speckle matrix imaging has been published in Light: Science & Applications.

January 28, 2022: Our review paper titled Intelligent Meta-Imagers: From Compressed to Learned Sensing has been accepted for publication in Applied Physics Reviews. 

December 22, 2021: Our manuscript titled Efficient Joint Estimation of DOA, Range and Reflectivity in Near-Field by Using Mixed-Order Statistics and a Symmetric MIMO Array in collaboration with Okan Yurduseven's group at Queen's University Belfast has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

October 28, 2021: The preprint of our review paper titled Intelligent Meta-Imagers: From Compressed to Learned Sensing is available on the arXiv. Therein, we introduce a clear taxonomy in terms of the flow of task-relevant information that distinguishes between compressive  and intelligent computational meta-imagers. 

September 23, 2021: Our manuscript titled Diffuse field cross-correlations: Scattering theory and electromagnetic experiments, a collaborative effort with colleagues from Rennes, Paris, London and Nice, has been accepted for publication in Physical Review E.

September 1, 2021: Ismail Ahmed Bouha from XLIM Research Institute, France, has joined our group. Welcome on board!

August 16, 2021: Our preprint titled Meta-Programmable Analog Differentiator is available on the arXiv. Therein, we leverage the unique flexibility of programmable metasurfaces inside chaotic cavities to tune such systems in situ to special scattering states that perform a programmable differentiation operation on impinging signals.

July 23, 2021: Our work on Reverberation-Coded Apertures for deeply subwavelength sensing has been published in Physical Review Letters and highlighted in a Focus Story in Physics.

July 5, 2021: Rashid Faqiri from Imperial College London, UK, has joined our group. Welcome on board!

June 14, 2021: Our manuscript titled Deeply Subwavelength Localization with Reverberation-Coded Aperture  has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.

June 3, 2021: I have been selected as Outstanding Reviewer in 2020 for Light: Science & Applications (LSA).

May 17, 2021: Chloé Saigre-Tardif from INSA Rennes, France, has joined our group. Welcome on board!

May 11, 2021: I have received a Young Scientist Award by URSI-France to attend the URSI GASS 2021 conference in Rome, Italy, in August.

April 22, 2021: Our manuscript titled Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Rich Scattering Wireless Communications: Recent Experiments, Challenges, and Opportunities with our collaborators in Greece and Israel has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Communications Magazine.

April 13, 2021: Our manuscript titled Coherent wave control in complex media with arbitrary wavefronts has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.

March 24, 2021: I have received the 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Award from the Institute of Physics Publishing.

March 16, 2021: Our manuscript titled On-demand coherent perfect absorption in complex scattering systems: time delay divergence and enhanced sensitivity to perturbations has been accepted for publication in Laser & Photonics Reviews.

February 15, 2021: Our manuscript titled Diffuse Field Cross-Correlation in a Programmable-Metasurface-Stirred Reverberation Chamber with our collaborators in Rennes and Nice has been accepted for publication in Applied Physics Letters.

February 11, 2021: Our preprint titled Deeply Sub-Wavelength Localization with Reverberation-Coded-Aperture is available on the arXiv. Therein we combined insights from wave chaos and coded-aperture imagers to achieve deeply sub-wavelength resolution without any invasive near-field manipulations.

January 1, 2021: Our manuscript titled Lowering latency and processing burden in computational imaging through dimensionality reduction of the sensing matrix with our collaborators in Limoges, Belfast and at Duke University has been accepted for publication in Scientific Reports.

December 17, 2020: I have been awarded the Prix de thèse DGA 2020 by the French Minister of Armed Forces and the French Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation for my Ph.D. thesis titled "Shaping Green's Functions in Cavities with Tunable Boundary Conditions: From Fundamental Science to Applications" (Sept. 2018).

December 11, 2020: Our manuscript titled Experimental Realization of Optimal Energy Storage in Resonators Embedded in Scattering Media with our collaborators in Rennes and Nice has been accepted for publication in Laser & Photonics Reviews.

November 3, 2020: Our manuscript titled Robust Position Sensing with Wave Fingerprints in Dynamic Complex Propagation Environments has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Research.  

October 2, 2020: Our presentation titled "Perfect Absorption in a Metasurface-Programmable Complex Scattering Enclosure" has received the APS Award for the Best Applied Paper at the Metamaterials'2020 conference.  

September 8, 2020: Our manuscript titled Perfect Absorption in a Disordered Medium with Programmable Meta-Atom Inclusions in collaboration with David R. Smith's group at Duke University has been accepted for publication in Advanced Functional Materials.  

July 16, 2020: Our manuscript titled Metasurface-Assisted Massive Backscatter Wireless Communication with Commodity Wi-Fi Signals in collaboration with Lianlin Li's group at Peking University has been accepted for publication in Nature Communications.

July 16, 2020: Our manuscript titled Implementing Non-Universal Features with a Random Matrix Theory Approach: Application to Space-to-Configuration Multiplexing with our collaborators in London and Nice has been accepted for publication as a Rapid Communication in Physical Review E.

June 11, 2020: Our preprint titled Perfect Absorption in a Metasurface-Programmable Complex Scattering Enclosure is available on the arXiv.  In close collaboration with our colleagues at Duke University, we demonstrated a novel route to implementing perfect absorption in complex media and even prototyped a concrete application thereof to secure communication.

May 29, 2020: Our preprint titled Robust Position Sensing with Wave Fingerprints in Dynamic Complex Environments is available on the arXiv. 

April 22, 2020: Our magazine article Wireless Sensing using Dynamic Metasurface Antennas: Challenges and Opportunities has been accepted for publication by the IEEE Communications Magazine. Many thanks to lead author Guohao for his tremendous work!

April 1, 2025: I gave two talks titled "Multiport Network Theory for Modeling and Optimizing Reconfigurable Metasurfaces" and "Toward a Coupled-Dipole Formalism for Circuit Theory to Harmonize Physics-Compliant Models of RIS-Parametrized Wireless Channels" at a convened session organized together with Marco Di Renzo at the 19th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2025) in Stockholm, Sweden.

February 4, 2025: I gave an invited lecture titled "TEMPEST and DEW attacks enabled by the Virtual VNA concept" at the Winter 2025 CyberSchool in Rennes, France. Thanks to Benjamin Farinier and François Sarrazin for the invitation!

December 18, 2024: Ismail Ahmed defended his PhD titled "Innovative Applications of Programmable Metasurfaces: From Reverberation Chamber Stirring to Backscatter Communication". Thanks to Guillaume Andrieu, Elodie Richalot, Julien de Rosny and Bernard Uguen for serving on Ismail's thesis jury!

November 25, 2024: I gave an invited talk titled "Toward a Physical-Model-Based Universal Framework for Wave Control in Next-Generation Extremely Tunable Microwave Systems" at the Workshop on Intelligent Surfaces and Analog Computing for Wireless Communications at Imperial College London, UK. Thanks to Matteo Nerini and Bruno Clerckx for the invitation!

November 18, 2024: I gave an invited talk titled "Toward a universal model-based framework for wave control in extremely tunable meta-systems" at the Duke Advanced Multifunctional Metamaterials (AMM) Workshop at Duke University in Durham, NC, USA. Thanks to Willie Padilla, Natalia Litchinitser and Xiaoyue Ni for the invitation!

October 28, 2024: I gave an invited seminar titled "Toward a universal framework for wave control in next-generation extremely tunable microwave systems" at the Yale Quantum Institute in New Haven, CT, USA. Thanks to Douglas Stone for the invitation!

October 24-25, 2024: I attended the 2024 Simons Collaboration on Extreme Wave Phenomena Based on Symmetries Annual Meeting in New York, NY, USA. Thanks to Andrea Alù for the invitation!

September 18, 2024: I gave an invited talk titled "Toward frugal calibration protocols for intelligent programmable meta-imagers" at the SPIE Sensors+Imaging conference  in Edinburgh, UK. Thanks to Luana Persano for the invitation!

September 13, 2024: I gave an invited talk titled Physics-compliant diagonal representation of beyond-diagonal RIS at the 25th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC) in Lucca, Italy. Thanks to Bruno Clerckx and Matteo Nerini for the invitation!

September 11, 2024: I gave an invited talk titled "Physical-Model-Based Wave Control in Metasurface-Programmable Complex Systems: Theory, Model Calibration, and Applications" at the Metamaterials Congress 2024 in Crete, Greece. Thanks to Romain Fleury and Yakir Hadad for the invitation!

September 2, 2024: I gave an invited talk titled "Physics-compliant modeling and estimation of RIS-parametrized wireless channels" at the 2024 ICEAA / IEEE APWC conference  in Lisbon, Portugal. Thanks to Raphael Kastner for the invitation!

July 28 - August 1, 2024: I gave an invited talk titled "Physical-model-based wave control with reverberation-nonlocal programmable metasurfaces" at the Optica Advanced Photonics Congress 2024 in Québec City, Canada. Thanks to Lynda Busse for the invitation!

July 17, 2024: I gave an invited talk titled "Do we need machine learning to predict wave scattering in metasurface-programmable unknown complex media?" at META 2024 in Toyama, Japan. Thanks to Willie Padilla for the invitation!

May 13, 2024: I gave an invited seminar at LiPhy (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique) in Grenoble, France. Thanks to Dorian Bouchet and Emmanuel Bossy for the invitation!

April 7-11, 2024: I gave an invited talk titled "Frugal open-loop coherent wave control in metasurface-programmable complex media" at SPIE Photonics Europe in Strasbourg, France. Thanks to Kevin MacDonald, Isabelle Staude and Anatoly Zayats for the invitation!

March 17-22, 2024: I gave two talks titled "RIS-Based Over-The-Air Channel Equalization in Resource-Constrained Wireless Networks" and "Load Impedances Vs Polarizabilities: On the Compactness of Physics-Compliant Models of RIS-Parametrized Wireless Channels" at convened sessions at the 18th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2024) in Glasgow, United Kingdom.

February 26, 2024: I gave an invited talk at NEC Laboratories Europe in Heidelberg, Germany. Thanks to Placido Mursia for the invitation!

February 23, 2024: I gave an invited talk at the International Workshop on RIS in Palaiseau, France. Thanks to Marco Di Renzo and François Baccelli for the invitation! A video recording of the talk is available here.

February 15, 2024: I gave an invited talk titled "Tunable Complex Media: Theory & Applications" at IETR's Journée Ondes et Signaux in Rennes, France. Thanks to Maxim Zhadobov for the invitation!

January 23, 2024: I gave a talk titled "Physical-model-based wave control in metasurface-programmable complex media" at the 3rd Colloquium on the Physics and Applications of Metasurfaces in Zürich, Switzerland.

November 29, 2023: I gave an invited seminar titled "Experimentally realized frugal physics-compliant end-to-end channel estimation for RIS parametrized (rich scattering) radio environments" at the CEA-Leti in Grenoble. Thanks to Benoît Denis for the invitation!

November 23, 2023: I gave an invited talk titled "Experimentally realized frugal physics-compliant end-to-end channel estimation for RIS parametrized (rich scattering) radio environments" at the PEPR5G-PC4 plenary meeting. Thanks to Jean-Baptiste Doré for the invitation!

November 20, 2023: I successfully defended my habilitation (habilitation à diriger des recherches). Many thanks to Andrea Alù, Hui Cao, Marco Di Renzo, Yonina Eldar, Patrice Genevet, and Ronan Sauleau for serving on my habilitation committee!

November 14, 2023: I gave a talk titled "Experimentally realized physical-model-based wave control in massively parametrized complex media" at the Photonics Online Meetup 2023.

October 2, 2023: I gave a talk titled "Experimentally realized physical-model-based wave control in metasurface-programmable complex media" at the Journée thématique traitement de l’information en imagerie des milieux complexes (GDR Ondes and GDR ISIS) "Traitement de l’information en imagerie des milieux complexes : problèmes inverses, IA, wavefront shaping" in Paris, France.

September 20, 2023: I gave an invited talk titled "Toward THz RIS-Parametrized Wireless Networks-on-Chip" at the ACM NanoCom 2023 conference in Coventry, UK. Thanks to Filip Lemic for the invitation!

September 11-16, 2023: I gave a talk titled "Reverberation-Induced Non-Locality: Implications for RIS-Based Communications and Opportunities for Scattering Singularity Control" at the Metamaterials Congress 2023 in Crete, Grece. Moreover, Chenqi presented her work titled "On the Role of Noise in Integrated Wave-Based Sensing and Computing with Dynamic Metasurface Antennas" as a finalist of the Student Paper Competition.

August 30, 2023: I gave an invited talk titled "Molding Wireless Channels with Programmable Metasurfaces" at Nokia. Thanks to Christophe Henry for the invitation!

July 18-21, 2023: We gave three invited talks at the META 2023 conference: "Digital Twins for Generic Radio Environments Parametrized by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Physics-Based vs. Physics-Agnostic Surrogate Models", "Emulating Fast-Fading Rician Wireless Environments with Electronically Adjustable K-Factors in a Programmable-Metasurface-Stirred Reverberation Chamber" and "High-Fidelity Reprogrammable Signal Processors Built Off the Anti-Laser". Thanks to Willie Padilla, Shah Nawaz Burokur and Simon Horsley for the invitations!

July 7, 2023: I gave an invited talk titled "Covert Scattering Control in Metamaterials with Non-Locally Encoded Hidden Symmetry" at the 6th Local Symmetries Workshop in Le Mans, France. Thanks to Vassos Achilleos for the invitation! 

June 28-29, 2023: I gave a keynote talk titled "Molding Wireless Channels with Programmable Metasurfaces: Applications to Communications and Over-the-Air Computing from the Indoor to the Chip Scale" at the "Wireless Networks within Next-Generation Computing Systems Workshop" at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Thanks to Sergi Abadal for the invitation!

May 25-26, 2023: I gave an invited talk titled "Covert Scattering Control in Quantum-Graph Metamaterials with Non-Locally Encoded Hidden Symmetry" at the 11th Workshop on Quantum Chaos and Localisation Phenomena. Thanks to Leszek Sirko for the invitation! A video recording of the talk is available here.

March 26-31, 2023: I gave two talks titled "Do Linear Cascaded Models of RIS-Parametrized Wireless Channels Violate Wave Physics?" and "Noise-Adaptive and Task-Specific Coherent Illuminations with a Programmable-Metasurface Imager" at convened sessions at the 17th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2023).

December 4-8, 2022: I gave a talk titled "End-to-End Fading Channel Modeling for RIS-Empowered Smart Wireless Environments" at the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2022.

October 10, 2022: I gave an invited talk titled "Intelligent Wave Systems based on Programmable Metamaterials" at the AI4Waves workshop. Thanks to Patrice Genevet for the invitation!

September 13, 2022: I gave a talk titled "PhysFad: Physics-Based End-to-End Communication Modeling of Programmable-Metasurface-Parametrized Environments with Adjustable Fading" at the Metamaterials Congress 2022.

September 8, 2022: I gave an invited talk at the Exeter Microwave Metamaterials Meeting (XM3). Thanks to James Capers for the invitation!

September 6, 2022: I gave an invited seminar titled "Intelligent Wave Systems based on Programmable Metamaterials" at the Department of Physics at Imperial College London, UK. Thanks to Riccardo Sapienza for the invitation! 

July 21, 2022: I gave an invited talk titled "Intelligent Meta-Imagers: From Compressed to Learned Sensing" at the META 2022 conference. Thanks to Willie Padilla for the invitation! A video recording of the talk is available on our Talks page.

July 6, 2022: Ismail gave a talk titled "Prototyping a Massive Programmable Metasurface: Fabrication and Characterization" at the IEEE MTT-S International Conference on Electromagnetic and Multiphysics Modeling and Optimization (NEMO2022).

July 4, 2022: I gave a talk titled "Meta-Programmable Disordered Coherent Perfect Absorption" at the 12th International Conference on Elastic, Electrical, Transport, and Optical Properties of Inhomogeneous Media (ETOPIM12).

June 22, 2022: I gave an invited talk titled "Reaping The Full Potential of Artificial Intelligence for Programmable Metamaterials: The Example of Intelligent Computational Meta-Imaging" at the GdR Ondes' webinar on unconventional imaging modalities. Thanks to Thomas Fromentèze for the invitation! A video recording of the talk is available on our Talks page.

June 19, 2022: We gave a talk titled A self-adaptive RIS that estimates and shapes fading richscattering wireless channels at the VTC2022-Spring conference. A video recording of the talk is available on our Talks page.

May, 2022: We gave four talks at the URSI AT-AP-RASC 2022 conference. Our talks were titled "Reflectionless Programmable Signal Routers", "Tailoring Wireless Intra-Chip Communication Links Using a Programmable Metasurface", "Practical Aspects of Optimal Coherent Illumination for Information Extraction: Application to Wireless Backscatter Communication in MIMO RFID" and "Coherent control of waves in chaotic and random systems: blind focusing on resonators and perfect absorption".

March 22, 2022: I gave an invited talk titled "Reaping The Full Potential of Artificial Intelligence for Programmable Metamaterials: The Example of Intelligent Computational Meta-Imaging" at the Journées Scientifiques de l’URSI 2022 "Nano, méso, micro : sciences et innovations pour la radio et la photonique". Thanks to the TPC led by Frédéric Grillot for the invitation!

January 5, 2022: We gave a talk titled "Tailoring Wireless Intra-Chip Communication Links Using a Programmable Metasurface" at the 2022 USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting (NRSM).

December 14, 2021: I gave an invited seminar titled "Intelligent Wave Systems: Extraction, Processing and Transfer of Information through Tailored Wave-Matter Interactions" at the GdR Complexe Annual Workshop. Thanks to Alexandre Aubry and Nicolas Cherroret for the invitation!

December, 2021: We gave two talks titled "Intelligent Meta-Imagers: From Compressed to Learned Sensing" and "Deeply Sub-Wavelength Position Sensing with a Reverberation-Coded Aperture" at the 2021 AP-S/URSI conference. 

November 17, 2021: We gave a talk titled "On-Demand SIMO Channel Impulse Response Shaping in Smart On-Chip Electromagnetic Environments" at ACM NanoCoCoA 2021. A video recording of the talk is available here. 

November 8, 2021: I gave an invited seminar titled "Meta-Programmable Analog Differentiator" at the Laboratoire d'Acoustique de l'Université du Mans (LAUM) in Le Mans, France. Thanks to Vincent Pagneux for the invitation! 

October 21, 2021: I gave an invited talk titled "RIS-Based Radio Localization in Rich-Scattering Environments" at the RISE-6G WP5 meeting. Thanks to Benoît Denis and Henk Wymeersch for the invitation! 

September, 2021: We gave a talk titled "Deeply Sub-Wavelength Position Sensing with a Reverberation-Coded Aperture" at the Kleinheubacher Tagung 2021. 

September, 2021: We gave a talk titled "RIS-Based Radio Localization in Rich Scattering Environments: Harnessing Multi-Path with ANN Decoders" at the 22nd IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC).

September, 2021: We gave three talks titled "Deeply Sub-Wavelength Position Sensing with a Reverberation-Coded Aperture", "Tuning Wireless Intra-Chip Channels with Programmable Metasurfaces" and "Intelligent Meta-Imagers: From Compressed to Learned Sensing" at the Metamaterials Congress 2021.

September, 2021: We gave two talks titled "On-Demand Perfect Absorption in Complex Scattering Systems" and "Intelligent Meta-Imagers: From Compressed to Learned Sensing" at the METANANO 2021 conference.

August, 2021: We gave three talks titled "Deeply Sub-Wavelength Position Sensing with a Reverberation-Coded Aperture", "On-Demand Perfect Absorption in Disordered Scattering Systems with Programmable Meta-Atom Inclusions" and "From compressed sensing to learned sensing with programmable-metasurface imagers" at the XXXIV URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (GASS) 2021 in Rome, Italy. Moreover, we organized a session titled "Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Wireless Communication and Sensing" (BE2). 

June 16, 2021: We gave a talk titled "Intelligent Imaging and Reverberation-Coded-Apertures" at the Webinaire du GDR Ondes, GT3, "Techniques et Systèmes d'Imagerie Radar". 

May 25, 2021: We gave a talk titled "RIS-Based Radio Localization in Rich Scattering Environments: Harnessing Multi-Path with ANN Decoders" at the GdR ISIS research day "Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Programmable Wireless Environments".

April 23, 2021: I gave an invited talk at the Applied Electromagnetics Colloquium at Arizona State University. Thanks to Mohammadreza Imani and George Trichopoulos for the invitation! A video recording of the talk is available on our Talks page.

April, 2021: We presented our paper titled From compressed sensing to learned sensing with metasurface imagers at the SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing 2021 conference.

November 16, 2020: We presented our paper titled Toward Dynamically Adapting Wireless Intra-Chip Channels to Traffic Needs with a Programmable Metasurface at the 1st ACM International Workshop on Nanoscale Computing, Communication, and Applications.  The paper introduces our ongoing efforts with collaborators in Arizona and Barcelona to bring the concept of programmable propagation environments to the chip scale.

September 29, 2020: We presented our recent work on Perfect Absorption in a Disordered Medium with Programmable Meta-Atom Inclusions at the Metamaterials'2020 conference.