Activities
Research Grants and Projects
2023 – 2026: Principle Investigator:
Integrated Waveform and Intelligence (IWAI): Physical Layer Solutions to Sustainable 6G. Supported by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC-£376k)
2020 – 2022: Senior Research Fellow:
Learning to Communicate: Deep Learning based solutions for the Physical Layer of Machine Type Communications (LeanCom). Supported by (EPSRC-£860k)
2021 – 2022: Senior Research Fellow:
Non-Orthogonal IoT for Future Wireless Networks and 5G. Supported by (Cisco-£109k).
2019 – 2020: Senior Research Fellow:
Waveform Design for Next-Generation 6G. Supported by (Huawei-£189k).
2018 – 2019: Research Fellow:
Development and Testing of a Pre-Commercialization Prototype of an Electronically Steerable Parasitic Array Radiator (ESPAR) transceiver. Supported by (EPSRC-£200k).
2016 – 2017: Research Fellow:
Development of a Pre-Commercialization 5G Transceiver Prototype Aimed at Increasing Spectrum Availability in Next Generation Networks. Supported by (EPSRC-£100k).
Invited Talks
2022(Jun.): “Spectrally Efficient Transmissions”, 47th-Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF), Bristol, UK.
2020(Dec.): “Optics Frontier-Optics Young Scientist Summit”, OYSS-2020, Ningbo, China.
2019(Oct.): “DFT-Spread spectrally efficient Non-Orthogonal FDMA”, in 2019 IEEE Wincom, Fez, Morocco.
2018(Aug.): “Deep learning for interference cancellation in non-orthogonal signal based optical communication systems”, in 2018 Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium – Spring (PIERS), Toyama, Japan.
2016(Jul.): “Nyquist-SEFDM: pulse shaped multicarrier communication with sub-carrier spacing
below the symbol rate,” in IEEE 2016 CSNDSP, Prague, Czech Republic.
2014(Dec.): “Spectrally Efficient FDM: Future 5G Technique?”, Department of Communications Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Award and Scholarship
2018: National Instruments (NI) Academic Research Grant Award.
2018: Lombardi Prize runner up for the best PhD thesis.
2018: Impact Acceleration Discovery to Use Award.
2017: Association of British and Turkish Academics (ABTA) Doctoral Researcher Award honorable mention.
2017: Hack.AgTech smart agriculture entrepreneurship competition co-winner at Rothamsted Research.
2016: Impact Acceleration Discovery to Use Award.
2013: UCL Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering PhD Research Grant.
2013: Faculty of Engineering Sciences Scholarship (Dean’s Scholarship) in UCL.
2007-2011: Outstanding Student Scholarship of Xidian University.
Conference Organization
2020(Aug.): Special Session Organizer and Chair-IEEE PIMRC on the topic ‘Waveform design for beyond 5G communications’.
2019(Apr.): Special Session Organizer and Chair-IEEE ICT on the topic ‘Waveform design and massive connection for beyond 5G’.
Demos and Exhibition
2019(Apr.): “Constructive Interference Precoding for Next Generation Multiuser MIMO Internet of Things on NG-IoT platform”, in IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2019), Paris, France.
2018(Dec.): “Prototyping of Next Generation Internet of Things”, in 37th IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2018), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
2018(Jun.): “Demonstration of Real Time Bandwidth Compressed Signal Transmission at 2.4 GHz using Software Defined Radio (SDR)”, in 19th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (IEEE SPAWC 2018), Kalamata, Greece.
2017(Oct.): “Implementation of a 5G software defined radio testbed using USRP”, in 29th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (IEEE PIMRC 2017), Montreal, QC, Canada.
International Conference Poster Presentation
2018(Sept.): “Enhanced Narrowband IoT (eNB-IoT) Design and Implementation”, in 29th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (IEEE PIMRC 2018), Bologna, Italy.
2018(Jun.): “Practical Applications of Beyond 5G Waveform SEFDM”, in 19th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (IEEE SPAWC 2018), Kalamata, Greece.
2018(Jun.): “Transmission Experiment of Bandwidth Compressed Carrier Aggregation in a Realistic Fading Channel”, in 87th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (IEEE VTC 2018), Porto, Portugal.
2015(Jun.): “Bandwidth Compressed Carrier Aggregation”, in 49th IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2015), London, UK.
In the News
2020(Sept.): Parallel Computing for Next Generation Wireless Communications
2018(Dec.): Next generation Internet of Things Demonstration
2018(Oct.): IEEE Spectrum Magazine, Wireless Research Handbook: 3rd Edition
2018(Jul.): Research excellence recognized at international conference
2018(Jul.): National Instruments (NI) Academic Research Grant Award
2018(May.): Lombardi Prize in Mildner Day
2018(Apr.): Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad