Recipient of the 2023 Research Excellence Award from the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering, University of Calgary
Paper 'Benchmarking Motor Imagery Algorithms for Pediatric Users of Brain-Computer Interfaces' won Best Student Paper Award at EMBC 2024
Multiple papers accepted at top IEEE venues including IEEE JSAC, IEEE OJCOMS, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ICC, and IEEE SMC
Notable works include: 6G WAVESFM foundation model, Tiny Federated Wireless Foundation Models, ProtoBeam for unseen antenna generalization, Self-Supervised Radio Pre-training, and Safe and Accelerated DRL-based O-RAN Slicing
Organized tutorials at IEEE ICC 2025, IEEE GLOBECOM 2024, and IEEE ICMLCN 2025 on topics such as foundation models for 6G, trustworthy deep reinforcement learning, and RL for next-generation networks
Holds 20 patent filings
Background
Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering, University of Calgary
Schulich Industry Chair in AI for 6G
Director of the WAVES LAB
Research focuses on AI for 6G, wireless sensing, localization, communication, and Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs)
Pioneered generalizable foundation models, especially the first foundation model using raw IQ signals