Research

  • Postdoctoral Research Award: “Impact of RF Impairments on 5G Wireless: From Full-Duplex Relaying to Massive MIMO”, $277,200.00 USD, 2015 – 2017.

 

  • Postdoctoral Research Award: “Design of Time-Based ADC for Software Defined Radio (SDR) Receivers”, $277,200.00 USD, 2016 – 2017.

 

  • Graduate Student Research Award: “DSP for Dirty RF Frontend in Full Duplex 5G System: From Theory to Implementation”, $491,400.00 USD, 2015 – 2018.

 

  • Qatar National Research Fund: “Integration of Power Conversion, Energy Management, and Communications Techniques for Electric Vehicles in the Smart Grid”, $800,000 USD, 2016 – 2018.

 

  • Qatar National Research Fund: “Exploiting Sparsity for Interference Management in Broadband Networks: Theory, Applications, and Testbeds”, $1,048,441.50 USD, 2014 – 2017.

 

  • Qatar National Research Fund: “Interconnection Networks for Massive Data Centers”, $946,266.63USD, 2014 – 2017.

 

  • Qatar National Research Fund: “Baseband DSP for Dirty RF-Fronts in 4G Systems: From Theory to Implementation”, 808,430.00 USD, 2010 – 2014.

 

  • Undergraduate Research Experience Program: UREP 14 – 123 – 2 – 042 “Wireless Smart Home Monitoring and Surveillance System”, $29,980.00 USD, 2013 – 2014.

 

  • Qatar University Grant: “Physical Layer Optimization of Unified Broadcasting and Mobile System: Studies and Performance Analysis”, 34.3k USD, 2012 – 2014.

 

  • Qatar University Grant: “Knowledge Management Framework for Mobile Services (MKM)”, 28k USD, 2011 – 2013.

 

  • Qatar University Grant: “MIMO-OFDM Solutions for Next Generation Wireless Communication Systems: Studies and Performance Analysis”, 41.2k USD, 2010 – 2012.

 

  • Qatar Telecom (Qtel) Project: Collaborative research into third generation (3G) networks, technologies and services: “Wireless Channel Characterization for Qatar”, 330k USD, 2010 – 2014.

 

  • European Union Project: Advanced Techniques for Mobile Positioning; Galileo Satellite System, MOT Project 600 k€, 2004-2009.

 

  • System Specialist at Nokia Research Center and Nokia Networks, Operator WLAN & Location Services, Product Development Office, IP Mobility Networks.

Project: Mobile Positioning for 3G System; Research and Developments, Specifications, 3GPP Standardizations, Assisted-GPS Interface Design for WCDMA System, Implementation and Testing.

Project: Location Measurement Units for 3G System.

 

  • Leader of the Project: “Advanced Techniques for Mobile Positioning; WCDMA, GPS”, Funded by Nokia Mobile Phones, 1999-2003 Tampere, about 4 person years.

 

  • Group Leader of the Project: “Digital and Analog Techniques for Flexible Radio”, 1998-2001, about 40 + 8 person years (TUT&HUT) funded by the National Technology Agency of Finland (Tekes) and industry.

 

  • Project Secretary: Analog and Digital Signal Processing for Highly Integrated Transceivers; Synchronization Techniques for Digital Receivers, Funded by the Academy of Finland and Industry, 1997-2000, about 20 person years.

 

  • Project Member: Advanced Transceiver Architectures and Implementations for Wireless Communications, Funded by Nokia and the Academy of Finland, 2001-2002, about 8 person years.

 

  • Project Member: Signal Processing for All-Digital Receivers, funded by the Academy of Finland, 1994-1996, about 4 person years.

 

  • Project member: Speech Signal Analysis and Recognition, Project Funded by Nokia Research Center and the Academy of Finland, 1992-1995, about 4 person years.

 

  • Project member: Signal & Image Processing, Project Funded by the Academy of Finland, 1992-1995, about 4 person years.