Mojtaba Vaezi
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I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Villanova University, and the director of the Wireless Networking Lab. From 2015 to 2018, I held the positions Associate Research Scholar and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University. I obtained my Ph.D. from McGill University and completed my B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran.
My research interests span communications, signal processing, machine learning, and information theory, with a specific focus on the application areas of 6G wireless networks and medical imaging. I have received multiple awards for my research, including the 2020 IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize and the NSF CAREER Award. I have held editorial positions at various IEEE journals, currently serving as a Senior Editor for IEEE Communications Letters and IEEE Signal Processing Letters, along with my role as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications.
- Multiple Ph.D. Positions for Spring/Fall 2024
I am looking for self-motivated Ph.D. students with a strong mathematical and programming background to work on projects related to signal processing and machine learning for communications. If you are interested in joining my team, I invite you to review this document for comprehensive details.
08/23: Wireless Networking Lab is welcoming two new PhD students in the fall of 2023.
- Bogdan Iepure (The Pennsylvania State University)
- Shaghayegh Fereidounfar (University of Maryland Baltimore County)
07/23: Excited to receive the NSF CAREER Award. This award marks the first CAREER award at Villanova ECE.
07/23: I am appointed as a Senior Area Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters.
06/23: I am appointed as a Senior Editor of the IEEE Communications Letters.
05/23: I have been awarded a promotion to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure.
05/23: In an IEEE Communications Magazine paper, we are defining the challenges and potentials of reinforcement learning-based interference management in 3D networks arXiv.
04/23: I gave an invited talk on deep learning-based constellation design at Carleton University.
04/23: Former Ph.D. student, Yue Qi, received the 2023 College of Engineering Outstanding Doctoral Student Award. Congratulations Dr. Qi!
04/23: Master's student Ryan Szlosek received the 2023 College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Award. Congratulations Ryan!
04/23: I received the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters Exemplary Reviewer Award in 2022.
03/23: Our paper K-receiver wiretap channel: Optimal encoding order and signaling design is accepted in the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
01/23: The paper Multi-dimensional joint constellation and precoding design for MIMO systems will appear in the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.
01/23: The paper IRS-assisted physical layer security in MIMO-NOMA networks is accepted for publication in the IEEE Communications Letters.
11/22: Congratulations to Xinliang Zhang for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis. Xinliang is joining Samsung Research America.
11/22: Our work on Alamouti-NOMA for satellite-terrestrial networks will appear in the IEEE Internet of Things Journal. Link
09/22: I presented a half-day tutorial on NOMA at PIMRC 2022.
07/22: I gave an invited talk on deep learning for interference management at MIT.
06/22: Yue Qi successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis. She is joining Samsung Electronics. Congratulations Dr. Qi!
06/22: Our new submission K-receiver wiretap channel: Optimal encoding order and signaling design is available on arXiv.
04/22: Ph.D. student Yue Qi received IEEE ComSoc Student Travel Grant for the ICC 2022. Congratulations Yue!
04/22: Ph.D. student Xinliang Zhang received NSF Student Travel Grant for the ICC 2022. Congratulations Xinliang!
03/22: Delivered an invited talk on deep learning for end-to-end communication at Virginia Tech.
02/22: The paper Cellular, wide-area, and non-terrestrial IoT: A survey on 5G advances and the road towards 6G will appear in the IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. arXiv
02/22: I am serving as a TPC member for four Symposiums (CT, WC, MLC, and CRAEN) at GLOBECOM'22.
01/22: Received the College of Engineering career development award.
12/21: I gave an invited talk (virtual) on deep learning for communications at Ajou University, Korea.
12/21: Our recent work on MIMO-NOMA security is now available on arXiv. (to appear in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing)
11/21: Our new paper on deep autoencoder-based end-to-end MIMO is available on arXiv. (accepted in ICC 2022)
10/21: Congratulations to the undergrad research student Jordan Pauls for the publication of his work in the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.
09/21: Our work on over-the-air experimental NOMA will appear in the IEEE Access.
08/21: Madan Dahal has joined my Group as a Ph.D. student. Welcome, Madan!
07/21: Our survey paper on Cellular, wide-area, and non-terrestrial IoT features IoT road towards 6G. arXiv
05/21: All three undergraduate research students (Jordan Pauls, Anthony Etim, and Kaixuan Ji) earned their B.Sc. and were on the Dean's List for the class of 2021. Congratulations to all!
05/21: The paper Multi-objective DNN-based precoder for MIMO communications will appear in the IEEE Transactions on Communications. arXiv
04/21: I gave an invited talk (virtual) on deep learning-based precoding at Purdue University.
03/21: I was named the 2021 IEEE Philadelphia Section Delaware Valley Engineer of the Year Award.
02/21: I received the IEEE Transactions on Communications Exemplary Reviewer Award in 2020 (top < 2%).
02/21: I'm serving as a TPC member for four Symposiums (CT, WC, MLC, and CRAEN) at GLOBECOM'21.
12/20: Watch our lab's USRP-based experimental results on NOMA. video
11/20: Our project is funded by L3Harris Technologies. Thank you, L3Harris! Featured on Villanova Engineer
10/20: The paper A rotation-based method for precoding in Gaussian MIMOME channels is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Communications. arXiv
09/20: I'm serving as a TPC member for Machine Learning for Communications Symposiums at ICC'21.
08/20: The paper Secure transmission in MIMO-NOMA networks will appear in the IEEE Communications Letters. [pdf]
08/20: Sitting on the IEEE Senior Member Review Panel.
07/20: A new paper on machine learning for communications: Multi-objective DNN-based precoder for MIMO communications.
06/20: Keynote Talk at IEEE ICC'20 NOMA workshop: What role can deep learning play in NOMA?
05/20: Received the 2020 IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize for joint work with W. Shin, B. Lee, D. Love, J. Lee, and H. V. Poor.
05/20: Ph.D. student Yue Qi is selected to receive IEEE ComSoc Student Grant to attend the IEEE ICC'20. Congratulations, Yue!
04/20: Three recent publications of Dr. Vaezi are among the Best Readings of the IEEE Communications Society.
03/20: Co-authored the chapter ‘‘UAV-enabled Cellular Networks'' for a book titled 5G and Beyond: Fundamentals and Standards.
02/20: I'm serving as a TPC member for four Symposiums (CT, WC, CRAEN, and MLC) at GLOBECOM'20.
01/20: I will serve as a Guest Editor of the IEEE OJ-COMS special issue NOMA for 5G and Beyond. Please consider submitting your contributions.