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Our undergraduate researchers, Shaikha Altamimi, Ainara Kazymova, and Kundai Mutuwira, have been awarded the Best Poster Award at the Abu Dhabi 6G Summit – 2024 for their project titled “Satellite Imaging through Synthetic-Aperture Radar (SAR): Deep Learning for Despeckling.” The project was conducted under the supervision of Salmane Naoumi, Dr. Ahmad Bazzi, and Prof. Marwa Chafii. Congratulations to the team for this remarkable accomplishment!

 

 

Dexin (Oscar) Wang, a PhD student at the Wireless Research Lab, showcased his research work titled “RIS-Enbedded Integrated Sensing and Communication for 6G Systems,” at the Brooklyn 6G Summit, 2024. 

 

 

Aleksander Boljević, an Undergraduate Research Assistant at the Wireless Research Lab, presented his research work titled “Sum Secrecy Rate Maximization for Full Duplex ISAC Systems,” at the Brooklyn 6G Summit, 2024. 

 

 

Roberto Bomfin, a Post-Doctoral Associate at the Wireless Research Lab, takes part in the NYUAD Postdoc Collaborative Grant Program in the summer of 2024, collaborating with Professor Sundeep Rangan at the NYU WIRELESS research center.

 

 

Ph.D. student Akhileswar Chowdary has been awarded with Dr. Li publication award by the ECE department of the Tandon School of Engineering. Dr. Li publication award is awarded to PhD Students who publish their research in the top publication venues in their field.

 

 

 

Our lab made a grand presence at IEEE WCNC 2024 in Dubai. We played a key role in organizing the conference, with Prof. Marwa Chafii (Lab Director) serving as the General Vice Chair and Dr. Ahmad Bazzi (Research Scientist) as the Operations Co-Chair. Several other team members contributed as session chairs  and volunteers across various technical sessions.

 
 
Ahmad Bazzi, Research Scientist at the Wireless Research Lab, served as the Operations Co-Chair at IEEE WCNC 2024 in Dubai.
 
 
 
Dexin (Oscar) Wang, Undergrad Student at the Wireless Research Lab present his first conference paper on RIS-enabled ISAC for 6G at IEEE WCNC 2024 in Dubai. 
 
 
 
Akhileswar Chowdary Gaddam, PhD Student at the Wireless Research Lab, presents his work on Full-stack sub-THz simulations using NYUSIM at IEEE WCNC 2024 in Dubai.
 

 

Ahmad Bazzi, Research Scientist at the Wireless Research Lab, gives a talk on “6G Integrated Sensing and Communications: One for All and All for One” at NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2024.

 
 
Ahmad Bazzi, Research Scientist at the Wireless Research Lab, was covered on The Globe and Mail regarding US patent number 11,496,343 for boosting BlueTooth Data Transmission Rates.
 
 
 
Ahmad Bazzi, Research Scientist at the Wireless Research Lab, was covered on RFID Journal regarding “New BLE Patent Extends Range and Reduces Power”.
 
 
 
Ahmad Bazzi, Research Scientist at the Wireless Research Lab, was interviewed by Nerd Voices. Read full conversation here.
 
 
 
 

Marwa Chafii joined the Academic Resource Center (ARC) at NYUAD as a Super Faculty Mentor!

 

Roberto Bomfin, Post-Doctoral Associate at the Wireless Research Lab, gives a talk on “Power Budget Analysis and Waveform Design for ISAC” at the 2nd Workshop Brasil 6G, organized by the National Institute of Telecommunications (INATEL), held in Santa Rita do Sapucaí, Brazil, in February 2024.

 

Dr. Yuanwei Liu (Fellow, IEEE), Associate Professor, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, visits NYU Abu Dhabi in February 2024 as a part of the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Program (DLP), and gives a talk on the STAR-RIS and near-field ISAC.

 

Marwa Chafii has been listed among the “100 Brilliant and Inspiring Women in 6G” by Women in 6G.

 

Marwa Chafii gave a talk on ISAC at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore, hosted by Prof. Dusit Niyato.

 

Ahmad Bazzi, Research Associate at the Wireless Research Lab, receives a US patent for enhancing BlueTooth data rates. The news was featured by various media outlets, including Daily Silicon Valley, Tech User Magazine, ipsnews, Vents Magazine, and Think 7 Figures.   

 

Ahmad Bazzi, Research Associate at the Wireless Research Lab, was classified amongst 200 influencers in the Arab world.

 

The Wireless Research Lab attends the 2nd Abu Dhabi 6G Summit held in Abu Dhabi, UAE in November 2023.

 
 
We had the pleasure of hosting Nuria González Prelcic and Robert Heath at the NYUAD campus. As part of our Engineering seminar series, they delivered insightful talks on: “Integrating Model and Data-Driven Approaches for High-Accuracy Localization in mmWave Networks” presented by Nuria González Prelcic, and “Advancements and Opportunities in Next-Generation MIMO Wireless Communication” presented by Robert Heath.
 

 

Konpal Ali, Post-Doctoral Associate at the Wireless Research Lab, is a finalist in the NYUAD GradSlam 2023 competition held on campus at NYUAD in October 2023.

 

Akhileswar Chowdary Gaddam, PhD Student at the Wireless Research Lab, presents his paper titled “Uplink and Downlink Communications Fusion for Enhanced Radar Sensing” at the IEEE Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC) conference held in Shanghai in September 2023.

 

Roberto Bomfin, Post-Doctoral Associate at the Wireless Research Lab, gives a talk on “Sparse-DFT and WHT precoding with Iterative Detection for high Frequency-Selective Channels” at the workshop “Bayesian Approximation and Variation Methods for Detection, Estimation and Coding”, organized by Groupement de Recherche Information Signal and Vision in September 2023.

 

Ahmad Bazzi, Research Associate at the Wireless Research Lab, is recognized as an Exemplary Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Communications in 2022.

 

Marwa Chafii, Lab Director at the Wireless Research Lab, gives a talk on “Recent advances in Integrated Sensing and Communication for 6G Systems” at Digital Futures, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden in August 2023.

 

Marwa Chafii, Lab Director at the Wireless Research Lab, gives a talk on “Integrated Sensing and Communication for 6G: Motivations, Challenges, and Recent Contributions” at TU Vienna, Austria in July 2023.

 

Marwa Chafii, Lab Director at the Wireless Research Lab, gives a talk on “Recent advances in Integrated Sensing and Communication for 6G Systems” at UC3M, Madrid, Spain in July 2023.

 

Marwa Chafii, Lab Director at the Wireless Research Lab, receives certificate of appreciation for her role as co-chair of SAC: Machine Learning for Communications and Networking at the IEEE International Conference on Communication (ICC) held in Italy in June 2023.

 

Marwa Chafii, Lab Director at the Wireless Research Lab, gives a Keynote titled “Deep Learning based Channel Estimation for Reliable Communications”, at the Workshop on Scalable and Trustworthy AI for 6G Wireless Networks (6GSTRAIN) at the IEEE International Conference on Communication (ICC) held in Italy in June 2023.

 

Marwa Chafii, Lab Director at the Wireless Research Lab, gives a Keynote titled “Integrated Sensing and Communication for 6G: Motivations, Challenges, and Recent Contributions”, at The 6G Wireless Networks and Applications Training School, Morocco in May 2023.

 

Marwa Chafii, Lab Director at the Wireless Research Lab, gives a talk on “Physical Layer Design for Integrated Sensing and Communication” at the 49th Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) in March 2023.

 

Ahmad Bazzi, Research Associate at the Wireless Research Lab, is recognized as an Exemplary Reviewer for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters in 2022.

 

Marwa Chafii, Lab Director at the Wireless Research Lab, receives the award for the Highest Number of Activities in 2022 by the IEEE UAE Section.

          

 

Mohamed-Slim Alouini, Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) visits NYU Abu Dhabi in February 2023 and gives an Institute Talk, hosted by the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, titled What Should 6G Be?

 

Monireh Vamegh, Senior Engineer, Huawei Technologies, Canada visits NYU Abu Dhabi in February 2023 and gives a seminar on Tips in Designing Good Multidimensional Constellations.

 

IEEE Communications Society Europe, Middle-East, and Africa (EMEA) Region 2022 Best Young Researcher Award.

Marwa Chafii, Director at the Wireless Research Lab, wins IEEE ComSoc Best Young Researcher Award for Europe, Middle-East, and Africa (EMEA) Region!

 

Theodore Rappaport, David Lee/Ernst Weber Professor at New York University (NYU) and founder and director of NYU Wireless, visits NYU Abu Dhabi in December 2022. A successful meeting and discussion about research opportunities with NYU Wireless.

 

Khaled B. Letaief, New Bright Professor of Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), visits NYU Abu Dhabi in December 2022.

 

Roberto Bomfin, Post-Doctoral Associate at the Wireless Research Lab, presents his work at the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM’22) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in December 2022.

 

IEEE 6G Training School at NYU Abu Dhabi in November 2022.

The Wireless Research Lab organized the IEEE 6G Training School at the NYU Abu Dhabi Campus on November 1-2, 2022. The event was a great success with over 74 attendees coming from 16 different countries!

 

Salmane Naoumi, PhD Student at the Wireless Research Lab, presents a poster at the Brooklyn 6G Summit in October 2022.

 

Akhileswar Chowdary Gaddam, PhD Student at the Wireless Research Lab, presents a poster at the Brooklyn 6G Summit in October 2022.

 

Marwa Chafii, Lab Director at the Wireless Research Lab, gives a talk at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in July 2022.

 

Konpal Ali, Post-Doctoral Associate at the Wireless Research Lab, gives a talk at the University of Toronto in June 2022.