Networked Systems and Communications Research Lab

NETCORE Team

Tingnan Bao (PostDoc)
Research topic: AI-enabled reconfigurable surfaces and edge computing in 6G
Sara Mobarak  (PostDoc)
Research topic: AI-enabled Intelligent Radio Environment with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS)
Mohammadreza Amini (Research Associate - co-supervised with Dr. Burak Kantarci)
Research topic: Secure and Trusted 5G Network
Hind Mukhtar (PhD Student)
Thesis topic: Machine Learning Assisted In-flight Communications
Han Zhang (PhD Student)
Thesis topic: AI-enabled Open Virtualized RAN and Large Language Models
Fromer MASc Student in AAI concentration and Vector Institute Scholarship Winner
Arafat Habib (PhD Student)
Thesis topic: AI-enabled Traffic Steering
Shavbo Salehi (PhD Student)
Thesis topic: Transfer learning in 6G
Mohammad Farzanullah (PhD Student)
Thesis topic: Gen AI-based network optimization
Mohammad Ghassemi (PhD Student)
Thesis topic: Generative AI-based O-RAN rApps and xApps
Fatih Temiz (PhD Student)
Thesis topic: Federated Learning for Wireless Network Optimization
Mafuzal Hoque (MASc Student - co-supervised with Dr. Medhat Elsayed)

Thesis topic: AI-enabled Beam Management

Alumni

Luciana Nobrega (MASc Student - AAI concentration))

Thesis title: Task Offloading with Safe and Stable Machine Learning in Next Generation Wireless Networks (October 2024)
Pedro Iturria Rivera (PhD Student)
Thesis title: Advanced Reinforcement Learning-based Optimization Techniques for Wireless Access Networks (May 2024)
Anne Catherine Nguyen (MSc Student - AAI concentration)
Thesis title: Resource Management in Next Generation MEC-Enabled Wireless Networks Using Machine Learning (April 2024)
Atefe Termehchi  (PostDoc)
Research topic: Risk-aware and stable ML for UAV communications (April 2024)
Hao Zhu (PhD Student)
Thesis topic: ML-based Optimization of Large-scale Systems: Case Study in Smart Microgrids and 5G RAN (August 2023)
Winner of Faculty of Engineering, University of Ottawa PhD Thesis Prize and Winner of a Chinese Government Award
Ycaro Dantas (MASc Student - AAI concentration- Vector Institute Scholarship Winner))
Thesis topic: AI-Enabled and Integrated Sensing-Based Beam Management Strategies in Open RAN (August 2023)
Turgay Pamuklu (PostDoc)
Research topic: Advanced Architectures in 6G (May 2023)
Tiffany Nien Fang Cheng (MSc Student)
Thesis topic: Reinforcement Learning Based Resource Allocation for Network Slicing in O-RAN   (May 2023)
Fahime Khoramnejad (PhD Student)
Thesis topic: AI-enabled System Optimization for Carrier Aggregation and Task Offloading in 5G and 6G (April 2023)
Xiaoyang (Owen) Wang (BSc Student))
Research topic: AI-enbaled Resource Management in OpenWiFi (March 2023)
Marco Skocaj (Visiting PhD Student from University of Bologna)
Research topic: Federated learning in wireless networks (December 2022)
Mohammad Akbari (PostDoc)
Research topic: Safe and stable learning in wireless networks (September 2022)
Roghayeh Joda (Researcher)
Research topic: AI-enabled Multi-RAT Systems (June 2022)
Long Kong (PostDoc)
Research topic: AI and multi vendor environments (April 2022)
Omer Melih Gul (PostDoc)
Research topic: OpenWiFi (December 2022)
Yujie Yao (MASc Student)
Thesis topic: Vision-based mMIMO in 5G (June 2022)
Mohammad Sadeghi (PhD Student)
Thesis topic: Learning based co-optimized energy and communication systems (April 2022)
Mikhak Samadi (PhD Student – co-supervised with Henry Schriemer)
Thesis topic: Demand management in smart grid (May 2022)
David Chan (Undergraduate Student)
Project topic: Carrier Aggregation in 5G (April 2021-December2021)
Shahram Mollahasani (PostDoc)

Research topic: 6G and AI-enabled Networks (November 2021)
Medhat Elsayed (PhD)
Thesis title: Machine Learning-Enabled Radio Resource Management for Next-Generation Wireless Networks (June 2021)
Hind Mukhtar (MASc)
Thesis title: Machine Learning Enabled-Localization in 5G and LTE using Image Classification and Deep Learning (June 2021)
Kyle Jeffrey Quintal (MSc Student - co-supervised with Burak Kantarci)
Thesis title: Context-Awareness for Adversarial and Defensive Machine Learning Methods in Cybersecurity (July 2020)
Kevin Shimotakahara (MASc Student - co-supervised with Karin Hinzer)

Thesis title: D2D communications for smart grid (May 2020)
Recipient of NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Scholarship and the NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship
Thesis nominated to the 2020 Faculty of Engineering Thesis Prize
Anne Catherine Nguyen (Undergraduate student - Honors Project)
Project topic: Load Balancing in 5G with Reinforcement Learning (January 2020 - April 2020)
Inayat Irfan (Undergraduate)
Summer Intern – BSc student from McGill (May 2020 - August 2020)
Riqiang (Richard) Liu (MASc Student)
Thesis title: Dynamic Routing with Online Traffic Estimation for Video Streaming over Software Defined Networks (March 2020)
Muhammad Usama (Master's Student)
Project topic: Energy-efficient small cell wireless networks (September 2019)
Navjot Singh (MASc Student)

Thesis Title: Planning of Mobile Edge Computing Resources in 5G Based on Uplink Energy Efficiency (November 2018)
Meesam Haider (Undergraduate)



Work-study student, NSERC CREATE - TOPSET Trainee (January 2018)
Hazal Saygili (Undergraduate) Summer Intern – 3rd year UG at Bilkent University (July 2017)
Sukhmani Sukhmani (Master's) MEng - Project topic: Caching and computing in wireless networks (December 2017)
Sukhman Kaur (Master's) MEng - Project topic: Directional cells in 5G networks (June 2017)

Past Visiting Students and Faculty

Mahdi Sharara PhD Student, Université Paris-Saclay, France (February - May 2022)
Yonghun Kim PhD Student, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea (October 2018-March 2019)
Ting-Hui (Jerry) Chiang PhD Student, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan (March-May 2018)
Dr. Antonio Caruso Assistant Professor, University of Salento, Italy (June-September 2017) – Visit supported by Canada-Italy Innovation Award 2017
Dr. Hanife Apaydin Ozkan Assistant Professor, Anadolu University, Turkey (July 2016) – Visit supported by National Research Council of Turkey

Former Students at Clarkson University

Keivan Bahmani (PhD student)
Md Anwar Parvej (MSc student)
Andy Hoang (UG, July-August 2016)
Jayesh Bokhira (UG, September-December 2015)