Students

(Most of) the group in May 2010, graduation in May 2011, and in-vehicle PLC in March 2011



Current students
Zahra Ahmadian (Ph.D., NSERC scholar)
Mohamed Ahmed (Ph.D.)
Moyuan Chen (Ph.D.)
Roee Diamant (Ph.D., NSERC Vanier scholar)
Kyle Kotowick (M.A.Sc.) (with Prof. Rohling)
Azad Ravanshid (Ph.D.)(with Prof. Huber, at University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
Julien Renard (Ph.D.) (with Prof. Horlin, jointly at UBC and Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Ghasem Naddafzadeh Shirazi (Ph.D.)
Nikola Zlatanov (Ph.D.)(with Prof. Schober)
Nima Taherinejad (Ph.D.) (with Prof. Mirabbasi)

Visiting professors
Prof. Serhat Erkucuk (Kadir Has University, Turkey, August 2011)
Prof. Johannes Huber (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, Jun 2011 - Jul 2011)
Prof. Gerhard Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany, Oct 11-15, 2010) as a UBC Green College Visiting Professor
Prof. Mauro Biagi (University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy, Nov 2009 - Feb 2010)

Postdoctoral researchers
Dr. Trung Nguyen (April 2011 - August 2011)
Dr. Osama Amin (Jan 2011 - present)
Dr. Abolfazl Massoud Ghassemi (NSERC PDF, Sep 2009 - Aug 2010)
Dr. Sara Bavarian (NSERC PDF, MITACS Elevate PDF, Jul 2009 - present)
Dr. Michael Botros Shenouda (NSERC/Killam PDF, Apr 2009 - Mar 2010)
Dr. Serhat Erkucuk (NSERC PDF, 2007-2008)
Dr. Michael Riediger (NSERC PDF, 2006-2008)

Graduated students
Dana Hoffmann (M.A.Sc.) Multiuser Detection for Transmit-Only Active RFID
Mohammad Mohammadnia-Avval (Ph.D.) Analysis and design of OFDM systems: Loading and nonlinear distortion mitigation
Xiaolang Zhang (M.A.Sc.) A Programmable-Gain Amplifier and an Active Inductor for In-Vehicle Power Line Communications
Trung Thanh Nguyen (Ph.D.) Binary-Coded Modulation and Applications in Free-Space Optics
Kung-Chung Lee (M.A.Sc.) Localization Systems Using Signal Strength Fingerprinting
Jeebak Mitra (Ph.D.) Reliable communication in non-Gaussian environments: Receiver design and analytical aspects
Tariq Al-Khasib (Ph.D.) Resource allocation and optimization for multiple-user legacy and cognitive radio systems
Vlad Goldenberg (M.Eng.) IR-UWB Communication Testbed for Compressed Sensing Receiver
Alireza Kenarsari (M.A.Sc.) Rehashing Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation
Anand Oka (Ph.D.)Towards Vaulting the Hurdle of Short Lifetimes in Wireless Sensor Networks: Distributed Algorithms and UWB Impulse Radio
Rupinderjit Jhind (M.Eng.) Signal Reconstruction in Noisy Compressed Sensing
Anna-Marie Silvester (Ph.D.) Space-Time Continuous-Phase Modulation
Ali Abdul-Hussein (M.A.Sc.) Rateless Codes - Decoding and Applications
Christopher Snow (Ph.D.)Multiband OFDM for Ultra-Wideband Wireless Communication
Jingjun Li (M.A.Sc.) Detection, Channel Estimation, and Interference Suppression for DS-UWB
Zahra Ahmadian (M.A.Sc.)Performance Analysis for IEEE 802.15.4a UWB Systems
Volker Pauli (Ph.D.) Design and Analysis of Low-Complexity Noncoherent Detection Schemes
(with Prof. J. Huber, Germany)
Timothy Chua (B.A.Sc.) Channel Modeling in PLC Systems
Trung Thanh Nguyen (M.A.Sc.)PAR Reduction in OFDM Systems by Multiple Signal Representation
Siddharth Srinivasan (M.A.Sc.)Gallager's Random Coding Exponent for Differential Space-Time Modulation
Jeebak Mitra (M.A.Sc.)Serial Concatenation of Simple Codes with Differential Modulations
SPACENoha Ibrahim (M.A.Sc.)Bluetooth Receiver Design Based on Laurent's Decomposition
Ambuj Parihar (M.A.Sc.)Equalization for DS-UWB Systems
Jeff Liu (M.A.Sc.)Low-Complexity Iterative Decoding for Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation
SPACE Mani Jain (M.A.Sc.)Noncoherent Sequence Detection Receiver for Bluetooth Systems


Visiting students
SPACE Azad Ravanshid, University of Erlangen, Germany, Project: Rateless Codes for Relay Channels
SPACE Emmanuel Pollakis, University of Dresden, Germany, Project: RSSI based Localization and Tracking
SPACE Matthias Hesse, Universite de Nice, France, Project: Space-time Continuous-Phase Modulation
SPACE Paul van Veen, University of Groningen, Netherlands, Project Thesis: Power line communication system for the automotive industry
SPACE Alexander Kalb, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany, Master Thesis: Channel Coding and Detection for Differential Transmit Reference UWB Systems
SPACE Ehsan Bayaki, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, Master Thesis: Performance of Bluetooth Systems with the Modified LDI and Noncoherent Sequence Detection Receivers
SPACE Vincent Hag, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, Master Thesis: Non-Coherent Sphere Decoding for Space-Time Modulation
SPACE Volker Pauli, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany, Master Thesis: Low-Complexity Noncoherent Iterative Decoding