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 an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
- Two Immediate Ph.D. Positions Available
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.
Due to the high volume of emails I receive, please note that I may not be able to respond to every message. However, I make sure to read all emails.
If you are interested in arranging an IEEE VTS Distinguished Lecturer talk at your institution, please fill out this form. A list of available talk topics can be found here.
Recent Talks
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December 2025, AI-Enabled Waveform and Constellation Design for ISAC, Korea University.
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December 2025, AI-Enabled Waveform and Constellation Design for ISAC, NYU Abu Dhabi.
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November 2025, Interference-Aware End-to-End Communications: A Road to AI-Native Air Interfaces, Temple University.
M. Vaezi, G. A. Baduge, E. Ollila, and S. Vorobyov, ‘‘AI-empowered integrated sensing and communications,’’ April 2025. arXiv (tutorial paper)
G. A. Baduge, M. Vaezi, J. K. Dassanayake, M. Z. Hameed, E. Ollila, and S. A. Vorobyov, ‘‘Frequency range 3 for ISAC in 6G: Potentials and challenges,’’ August 2025. arXiv
J. Dassanayake, R. Kulathunga, G. Baduge, and M. Vaezi, ‘‘Unsupervised learning-based ISAC waveforms,’’ IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 14, no. 9, pp. 2663–2667, September 2025. Link
M. Dahal and M. Vaezi, ‘‘Selective experience sharing in reinforcement learning enhances interference management,’’ IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 615–619, March 2025. Link
H. Jafarkhani, H. Maleki, and M. Vaezi, ‘‘Modulation and coding for NOMA and RSMA,’’ Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 112, No. 9, pp. 1179–1213, September 2024. Link arXiv (invited paper)
08/25: Stepan Gorelenkov successfully defended his master's thesis and will be starting his PhD at NYU this fall. Congratulations, Stepan!
08/25: Co-organizing a Special Session on ISAC at IEEE ICASSP 2026.
06/25: I have been appointed as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
05/25: Honored to receive the 2025 Villanova University Outstanding Faculty Mentor Teaching Award.
04/25: Check out our tutorial paper on ISAC: AI-Empowered Integrated Sensing and Communications.
03/25: I have been appointed as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS).
01/25: Congratulations to Madan Dahal, Ph.D. student, on starting an internship at Apple!
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10/24: Invited paper Modulation and Coding for NOMA and RSMA has been published in the Proceedings of the IEEE.
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09/24: I am co-editing a special issue on AI-Native RAN in the IEEE Communications Standards Magazine. Please submit your novel contributions.
08/24: Welcoming three new Ph.D. students to our Research Group this Fall.
- Selma Benouadah (The University of North Dakota)
- Amirhossein Keshavarz (Sharif University of Technology)
- Seyed Reza Razavi Pour (Sharif University of Technology)
07/24: Co-charing the Signal Processing for Communications Symposium at IEEE ICC 2025. You are encouraged to submit your novel contributions.
06/24: [Media Coverage] CNN Business quoted us on recent AT&T outages here and here.
05/24: [Media Coverage] Villanova Magazine featured my CAREER project in Mixed Signals.
05/24: Undergraduate research student Stepan Gorelenkov is joining the MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Congratulations, Stepan!
02/24: In an IEEE Communications Magazine paper, we define the challenges and potentials of reinforcement learning-based interference management in 3D networks.
01/24: I will present a tutorial on Modulation and Coding for NOMA at IEEE ICC 2024.
11/23: Co-organizing a workshop on Intelligent and Holographic Surfaces for 6G at IEEE WCNC 2024.
10/23: Listed in the top 2% most-cited scientists by Stanford University in 2023.
08/23: Wireless Networking Lab is welcoming a new Ph.D. students in the fall of 2023.
- Bogdan Iepure (The Pennsylvania State University)
08/23: New collaborative NSF grant on Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC).
07/23: Excited to receive the NSF CAREER Award. This award marks the first CAREER award at Villanova ECE.
07/23: Appointed as a Senior Area Editor of IEEE Signal Processing Letters.
06/23: Appointed as a Senior Editor of IEEE Communications Letters.
05/23: New NSF grant on Interference-Aware Constellation Design for NOMA.
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.